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The story of writing

Andrew Robinson 1957-

London Thames & Hudson New York 1999

Localização: FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária  ACERVO DELFIM NETTO  (B7.36.10 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The story of writing
  • Autor: Andrew Robinson 1957-
  • Assuntos: Writing -- History; Alphabet; Symbolism in communication -- History; ESCRITA (HISTÓRIA); SIMBOLISMO (HISTÓRIA); INSCRIÇÕES HIEROGLÍFICAS; PICTOGRAFIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-219) and index
  • Descrição: I. How Writing Works. Ch. 1. Reading the Rosetta Stone. Ch. 2. Sound, Symbol and Script. Ch. 3. Proto-Writing -- II. Extinct Writing. Ch. 4. Cuneiform. Ch. 5. Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Ch. 6. Linear B. Ch. 7. Mayan Glyphs. Ch. 8. Undeciphered Scripts -- III. Living Writing. Ch. 9. The First Alphabet. Ch. 10. New Alphabets From Old. Ch. 11. Chinese Writing. Ch. 12. Japanese Writing. Ch. 13. From Hieroglyphs to Alphabets - and Back
    Writing is perhaps humanity's greatest invention. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. The Story of Writing is the first book to demystify writing for the general reader. In a succinct and absorbing text, Andrew Robinson explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script, and goes on to discuss each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan today. He explores "proto-writing," including Ice Age symbols, tallies and Amerindian pictograms, and surveys the astonishing multiplicity of alphabets - not only Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Arabic and Indian scripts, but also the Cherokee "alphabet" and the writing of runes
    Full coverage is given to the story of decipherment, and how the words of past ages have been brought back to life through the efforts of Champollion, Ventris and others. And in a provocative chapter devoted to as yet undeciphered scripts, Andrew Robinson challenges the reader: can the code of the Indus script, Cretan Linear A, the Phaistos Disc or Easter Island ever be broken? Armchair decipherers who read this book will be well placed to make discoveries that herald the next breakthrough
  • Editor: London Thames & Hudson New York
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1999
  • Formato: 224 p ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 26 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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