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Writing is one of humanity’s greatest inventions.Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated text, Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan. An invaluable guide to the world’s major writing systems, The Story of Writing is a book to read for both pleasure and enlightenment.
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I. How Writing Works 1. Reading the Rosetta Stone · 2. Sound, Symbol and Script · 3. Proto-Writing II. Extinct Writing · 4. Cuneiform · 5. Egyptian Hieroglyphs · 6. Linear B · 7. Mayan Glyphs · 8. Undeciphered Scripts III. Living Writing 9. The First Alphabet · 10. New Alphabets from Old · 11. Chinese Writing · 12. Japanese Writing · 13. From Hieroglyphs to Alphabets – and Back? · Postscript in the New Millennium
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I. How Writing Works 1. Reading the Rosetta Stone · 2. Sound, Symbol and Script · 3. Proto-Writing II. Extinct Writing · 4. Cuneiform · 5. Egyptian Hieroglyphs · 6. Linear B · 7. Mayan Glyphs · 8. Undeciphered Scripts III. Living Writing 9. The First Alphabet · 10. New Alphabets from Old · 11. Chinese Writing · 12. Japanese Writing · 13. From Hieroglyphs to Alphabets – and Back? · Postscript in the New Millennium
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'Succinct and absorbing' --Education Today
'Excellent. Robinson covers so much ground in such short order that you feel he must have got something wrong or left out something important. He hasn't'
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'Excellent. Robinson covers so much ground in such short order that you feel he must have got something wrong or left out something important. He hasn't'
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Andrew Robinson has written more than 25 books on the arts and sciences. They include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, India: A Short History and Earthshock, which won the Association of Earth Science Editors Outstanding Publication Award, plus Earth-Shattering Events . A regular contributor to such magazines as Current World Archaeology, History Today, The Lancet, Nature and Science, he has also been literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.
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