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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used...
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London
Atlantic Books
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Roman foundations
- Convenience of the codex
- Speaking through the senses
- New world: script and print
- Turning the page: reformation and renewal
- Handwriting returns
- Putting the world of the written word in order
- Coming of industry
- Industiral age
- Revolutions, in art and print
- Alternative dreams
- Material artefact.