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Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
David Sacks
Broadway
Broadway
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,...
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The World's Writing Systems
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing...
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
John Man
Wiley
Wiley
In the tradition of small books that try to explain a lot (think How the Irish Saved Civilization ), John Man's Alpha Beta is an excellent survey on the history of letters. They may have played a more dramatic role in the advancement of...
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The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script
Maurice Pope
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
Speculation about Egyptian hieroglyphs began in the Renaissance; though sometimes fantastic, much of it was fascinating and fruitful. During the next two centuries European travelers in the Near East came home with increasingly accurate copies of...
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Celtic Alphabets (Celtic Design)
Aidan Meehan
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
Of all the ornamental applications of Celtic art, the decorated letter is perhaps the richest. Aidan Meehan's brilliantly creative study of the great Celtic manuscripts underpins this wonderful collection of sixteen alphabets. From sixth-century...
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The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination
Johanna Drucker
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
The alphabet is at once familiar and mysterious. Its letters have been the object of speculation since their invention almost four thousand years ago; the symbols represent sounds, yet they exist in their own right, often invested with quasi-magical...
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