Palaeography (history of writing) books

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Signs of Writing

Signs of Writing

Author: Roy Harris, Jr. ,  Roy Harris, Jr.
ISBN: 9780415100885
Format: Hardback
$315.00

By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use of spatial relations to connect events...  Read More >>

Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers

Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers

Author: Kathy Short ,  Jerome C. Harste
ISBN: 9780435088507
Format: Paperback
$145.20

In the first edition, the aim was to show teachers how to create the best possible literacy-learning environment....  Read More >>

Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy...

Author: Christina Haas
ISBN: 9780805819946
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume deals with the relationship of writing to its technologies. It uses history, theory and empirical research...  Read More >>

Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy...

Author: Christina Haas
ISBN: 9780805813067
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume deals with the relationship of writing to its technologies. It uses history, theory and empirical research...  Read More >>

The History and Power of Writing

The History and Power of Writing

Author: Henri-Jean Martin ,  Lydia G. Cochrane
ISBN: 9780226508368
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This study is the story of writing from its beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. The author...  Read More >>

Inner Meaning of the Hebrew Letters

Inner Meaning of the Hebrew Letters

Author: Robert M. Haralick
ISBN: 9781568213569
Format: Hardback
$84.95

This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish...  Read More >>

Acquisition of a Second Writing System

Acquisition of a Second Writing System

Author: Rosemary Sassoon
ISBN: 9781871516432
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Examines different writing systems, the attitudes to the act of writing in different cultures and the use and influence...  Read More >>

Literacy, Language and Community Publishing: Essays in Adult Education

Literacy, Language and Community Publishing: Essays...

Author: Jane Mace
ISBN: 9781853592799
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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Text

Text

Author: D. C. Greetham ,  W. Speed Hill
ISBN: 9780404625559
Format: Hardback
$133.26

Comprising the transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, this work covers such topics as the social approach...  Read More >>

World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 4: Supplement: Including indexes of Languages, Names and Titles of Collections of Volumes I-IV

World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 4: Supplement:...

Author: G. J. Roper ,  Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9781873992111
Format: Hardback
$411.84

An addition, due to the quantity of relevant material, to a three-volume bibliographic work, this text provides...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists...

Author: Adam Bulow–jacobsen
ISBN: 9788772892641
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Includes 79 articles in English, French, German and Italian from a congress held in Copenhagen from the 23th-29th...  Read More >>

Runische Schriftkultur in kontinental-skandinavischer und -angelsächsischer Wechselbeziehung

Runische Schriftkultur in kontinental-skandinavischer...

Author: Klaus Düwel ,  Hannelore Neumann
ISBN: 9783110143287
Format: Hardback
$325.95

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Runische Schriftkultur in kontinental-skandinavischer und -angelsächsischer...  Read More >>

Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge

Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge

Author: D. Gary Miller (University of Florida)
ISBN: 9789027236197
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Topics covered in this volume include: the linear B syllabary; the Cyprian syllabary; the Greek alphabet; the Runic...  Read More >>

Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture

Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient...

Author: Richard H. Wilkinson
ISBN: 9780500277515
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An introduction to the symbolic language of hieroglyphs which includes a directory of the 100 used most often in...  Read More >>

Developing Vocabulary Skills

Developing Vocabulary Skills

Author: Dennis Keen (Spokane Community College)
ISBN: 9780838446720
Format: Paperback
$145.07

Teaches students to analyze, understand, and remember vocabulary by developing word attack strategies.  Read More >>

Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying

Books of the Dead: Manuals for Living and Dying

Author: Stanislav Grof
ISBN: 9780500810415
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The art of dying and the posthumous journey of the soul have been the subject of extensive literature in many cultures....  Read More >>

Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of...

Author: Hans J. Nissen ,  Peter Damerow
ISBN: 9780226586595
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Brings together current scholarship on the earliest true writing system, the proto-cuneiform script, invented by...  Read More >>

Zeichen zwischen Klartext und Arabeske: Konferenz des Konstanzer Graduiertenkollegs «Theorie der Literatur». Veranstaltet im Oktober 1992

Zeichen zwischen Klartext und Arabeske: Konferenz des...

Author: Susi Kotzinger ,  Gabriele Rippl
ISBN: 9789051837285
Format: Paperback
$356.40

Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert das vom Konstanzer Graduiertenkolleg Theorie der Literatur im Oktober 1992 an...  Read More >>

World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts

World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts

Author: G.J. Roper ,  Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9781873992029
Format: Hardback
$306.24

Part of a three-volume bibliographic work which brings together the work of international manuscript scholars. It...  Read More >>

Public Lettering: Script, Power and Culture

Public Lettering: Script, Power and Culture

Author: Armando Petrucci ,  Linda Lappin
ISBN: 9780226663869
Format: Hardback
$155.76

Public lettering in all its forms--official inscriptions on buildings, commercial graphics, signs, epitaphs on tombstones,...  Read More >>

Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents: A Paleography Handbook

Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents: A Paleography...

Author: John M. Wasson
ISBN: 9781879288331
Format: Hardback
$39.47

Wasson here provides the basic tools necessary to transcribe documents, without regard for the historical development...  Read More >>

From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307

From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307

Author: Michael T. Clanchy
ISBN: 9780631168577
Format: Paperback
$166.19

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