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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moorhouse, A.C. (Alfred Charles) Triumph of the alphabet. New York, H. Schuman [1953] (OCoLC)579736686 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
A C Moorhouse |
| OCLC Number: | 1572199 |
| Notes: | "An enlarged version of ... [the author's] Writing and the alphabet." Includes index. |
| Description: | 223 p. : illus., port., plates ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The development of writing -- The work of decipherment -- Pre-alphabetic scripts -- The Semitic alphabet and its origin -- The extension of the alphabet -- The functioning of writing -- The historical influence of writing -- Writing and the spread of literacy. |
| Series Title: | Life of science library, no. 28. |
| Responsibility: | by A. C. Moorhouse. |
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