A History Of The Alphabet
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The History of the Alphabet
Author | : Isaac Taylor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Alphabets |
ISBN | : IOWA:31858002241416 |
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History of the Alphabet
Author | : Teresa Wald |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2016-05-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1944410058 |
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This fascinating book offers a complete visual of the Egyptian, Semite, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Cursive alphabets. In the easy-to-follow format of this book, you will witness the emergence of the alphabet and visually see its evolution all the way to the letters used to write today, in both print and cursive throughout the ages!
Inventing the Alphabet
Author | : Johanna Drucker |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2022-08-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226815800 |
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The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.
Ox House Stick
Author | : Don Robb |
Publsiher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781570916090 |
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See how the Roman alphabet began and how it has changed through the years.
Letter Perfect
Author | : David Sacks |
Publsiher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2010-08-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780307371034 |
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Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions -- the alphabet. The heart of the book is the 26 fact-filled “biographies” of letters A through Z, each one identifying the letter’s particular significance for modern readers, tracing its development from ancient forms, and discussing its noteworthy role in literature and other media. We learn, for example, why the letter X has a sinister and sexual aura, how B came to signify second best, why the word “mother” in many languages starts with M, and what is the story of O. Packed with information and lavishly illustrated, Letter Perfect is not only accessible and entertaining, but essential to the appreciation of our own language.
A History of the Alphabet
Author | : Staples Press, ltd., London,David Diringer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038320508 |
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Alphabet
Author | : Allan Haley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105017605390 |
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"In Alphabet, noted author and typographer Allan Haley presents a lively overview of the history and graphic evolution of the Latin alphabet. Within the context of how ancient writing systems dramatically influenced the societies that conceived and adopted them, Haley examines the development of each character from a simple image representing a word or concept to an elegant graphic symbol signifying an individual sound. Haley then explores how the expressive wealth of contemporary type design reflects the complex history of each letterform. Fascinating accounts of the design development of the ampersand, the Arabic numerals, and punctuation are also included."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
An Alphabet Of History
Author | : Wilbur Dick Nesbit |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2020-01-23 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9389560152 |
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An Alphabet Of History This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!