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| #2421358 in Books | 2001-06-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.23 x1.11 x5.35l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ISBN13: 9780471415749 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The adventures of the alphabet and how it grew|By C. L. Fluty|John Man has written an informative and imaginative history of how the alphabet originated, developed and was disseminated worldwide. He traces how the earliest prototype of a sound-symbol system developed in Egypt via symbols extracted from hieratic to form the "proto-Sinaitic" script around 2000 BC, through its des|.com |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 Weste
Praise for Alpha Beta "This book comes at the perfect moment as we rediscover the importance in early reading of cracking the alphabetic code. The story of how that code came into being is a fascinating one, and Man is the ideal writer to tell it." Times Educational Supplement
"A richly absorbing exploration, from B.C. to PCs, of the evolution of the most fundamental characters of our cultural history, the alphabet we so much take for granted. John Man...
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