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008			140425s2009 enk g 000 0 eng d
020			_a9781405162562 _c211.50 EG. p
040			_aMPL _cMPL _erda
041	0		_aara
082	0	4	_a411.09 _222
100	1		_aPowell, Barry B
245	1	0	_aWriting _btheory and history of the technology of civilization _cBarry B. Powell
264		0	_aOxford _bWiley-Blackwell _c2009
300			_axx, 276 pages _billustrations., maps, music _c24 سم
336			_aنص
337			_aبدون وسيط
338			_aكتاب
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index
505	0		_aIntroduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions
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650	0	0	_aAlphabet _xHistory
650	0	0	_aWriting _xHistory
650	0	0	_aWriting _xSocial aspects
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