TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gnanadesikan,Amalia E.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The writing revolution: cuneiform to the Internet 
T2  - The language library
AV  - P211 .G58 2009eb
U1  - 411.09 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10298100
ER  -