Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. <br/><br/>
The writing revolution  cuneiform to the Internet /  [electronic resource] : 
Amalia E. Gnanadesikan. 
 - Chichester, U.K. ;  Malden, MA :  Wiley-Blackwell,  2009. 
 - xii, 310 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), maps. 
 - The language library .
 - Language library. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index. 
<br/><br/>The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one -- Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers -- The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years -- The empire of Sanskrit -- King Sejong's one-man renaissance -- Greek serendipity -- The age of Latin -- The alphabet meets the machine. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Writing--History.<br/>Alphabet--History.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P211  / .G58 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>411.09