The greatest invention
a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts
The greatest invention
a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts
Book - 2022
"Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention--the art of writing"--
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| 37413318357086 | 可用 | Non-fiction | 411.09 FERRARA |
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| 格式: | 圖書 |
| 語言: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2022.
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| 版: | First American edition. |
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MARC
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| 100 | 1 | |a Ferrara, Silvia, |e author. | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Grande invenzione. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The greatest invention : |b a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts / |c Silvia Ferrara ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2022. | |
| 300 | |a viii, 289 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 22 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-289). | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in Italian in 2019 ... as La grande invenzione ... English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First American edition 2022" -- verso. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Behind the scenes. Stories ; Nature -- Undeciphered scripts. Islands. Crete ; Cyprus ; Easter Island -- Invented scripts. Cities ; Before the Pharaohs ; Between two rivers ; Chinese turtles ; Across the ocean ; End of story -- Experiments. Tradition ; Solitary inventors ; Isolated branches ; Social inventors -- Discoveries. Where to begin ; How to decipher -- The great vision. First ; Afterward ; Tomorrow ; Postscriptum. | |
| 520 | |a "Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention--the art of writing"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a Ferrara takes a profound look at how-- and how many times-- human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language around the world. Readers will examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts; study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions, and venture to the cutting edge as high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eyes. Ferrara chronicles a journey filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint glimpse of writing's future -- adapted from jacket. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Writing |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Inscriptions |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Extinct languages. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Portnowitz, Todd, |d 1986- |e translator. | |
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