Writing Systems, Alphabets

This book is a quick and easy way to learn the second 100 basic Chinese traditional characters.The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese lang...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores,...

Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary s...

Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq...

Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragme...

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest ...

Learn and practice how to write Chinese characters with this handy workbook!This essential workbook is designed for beginners to learn to write Chi...

Basic Tagalog is a friendly and accessible resource, providing beginning language learners with support, structure and thorough explanations.This i...

Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuali...

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes some new theoretical contributi...

Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and a...

Reveals the esoteric mysteries encoded in the order of the alphabet. Our alphabet hides a Mystery older than its magic of turning sound into shapes...