Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process.
Reveals the esoteric mysteries encoded in the order of the alphabet*; Explores the secrets hidden in our alphabet and how each letter represented a specific stage on the alchemical path toward enlightenment*; Divides our alphabet's sequence of letters into three distinct parts: the first representing Earth and the natural year, the second the Underworld and the hero's journey, and the third the Heavens and astronomical cycles*; Reveals how the ancient secrets encoded in the numerical order of the alphabet can be found in Mystery Traditions and divination systems throughout the worldOur alphabet hides a Mystery older than its magic of turning sound into shapes.
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space.
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts.
In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary.
Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on the Roman world from c.
Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents.
Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ.
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times.
This workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.
Die Bilanz: 833 Morde und Schwerverbrechen in 42 Jahren, über 80 Ermittlerteams in 17 Städten und eine allwöchentliche Zeugenschaft im mehrstelligen Millionenbereich: Äußerlich hat sich der Tatort seit Ausstrahlung der ersten Folge im Jahr 1970 kaum verändert.
Dieses Studienbuch bietet erstmals einen breiten Überblick über aktuelle Themen, Begriffe, Methoden und Ergebnisse der historischen Schreibsprachforschung (Graphematik).
On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world.
