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Communication : from hieroglyphs to hyperlink

Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Boston : Kingfisher, 2004.
Series: Kingfisher knowledge.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores the variety of ways in which humans communicate, including flags and fires, speech and writing, and through use of electronic media such as television and the internet.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Platt
ISBN: 0753457695 9780753457696
OCLC Number: 53091179
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 63 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents: Face-to-face: Animal communication --
Without words --
Language and speech --
Writing it down --
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From me to you: Alphabets --
Messengers --
Postal service --
Flags and fires --
Electric telegraph --
Telephone --
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Spreading the word: Printing --
Printed word --
Recording sound --
Cinema --
Radio --
Television --
Video and DVD --
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Global village: Satellites --
Internet --
Merging media --
Secrecy and censorship --
Advertising --
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Glossary --
Index --
Acknowledgments.
Series Title: Kingfisher knowledge.
Responsibility: Richard Platt ; foreword by Jonathan S. Adelstein.
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Explores the variety of ways in which humans communicate, including flags and fires, speech and writing, and through use of electronic media such as television and the internet.

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