Donoughue, Carol.

Summary: Provides the story of how writing was invented, how it developed over the centuries, how it has changed people's lives over time, and what it means in today's cultures.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2007

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Summary: The First Alphabet: Follow the evolution of the written word, from millennia-old carvings in an Egyptian turquoise mine to modern-day alphabets. How Writing Changed the World: The printing press transformed the spread of information, igniting the Industrial Revolution. How did technologies, from pen to paper to printing press, make it all possible?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Battles, Matthew.

Summary: "Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015

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Jean, Georges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1992

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Summary: In this course, you'll trace the remarkable saga of the invention and evolution of "visible speech," from its earliest origins to its future in the digital age. Professor Marc Zender--Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and an accomplished epigrapher--whisks you around the globe on a thrilling journey to explore how an array of sophisticated writing systems...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2013

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Sankovitch, Nina.

Summary: "Sankovitch goes on a quest through the history of letters to discover and celebrate what is special about the handwritten letter, examining not only historical letters but also the letters in epistolary novels, her husband's love letters, and dozens more sources. Sankovitch reminds us that the letters we write are as important as the ones we wait for"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Houston, Keith

Summary: Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Sankovitch, Nina.

Summary: "Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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Ferrara, Silvia

Summary: "Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention-the art of writing"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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Tsu, Jing

Summary: "After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire, with literacy reserved for the elite few. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's greatest and most daunting challenge was a linguistic one. Just as important as China's technological and industrial advances and political maneuvers was the century-long...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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Gorra, Michael

Summary: "Michael Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and enlists W.G. Sebald as a guide to the place of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004

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Robinson, Andrew

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1995

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Sperry, Kip.

Summary: This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents; provides samples of alphabets and letter forms; defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records; and, furthermore, presents numerous...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1998

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Hass, Robert

Summary: "Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2017

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Ray, J. D.

Contents: The fading of the light -- The pot and the kettle -- The man of science -- The man of art -- "To make them live again" -- The return of the light -- The heirs of Jean-François -- The words of the stone -- Whose loot is it anyway?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2007

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Casey, John

Summary: "For students and writers alike, a brilliant guide to the craft of writing by the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina. National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original insights into the art of writing-and rewriting-fiction. Through anecdotes about other writers'...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

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Keller, Shana

Summary: "Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2020

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Dylan, Bob

Summary: "The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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Schlink, Bernhard

Summary: "Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Contents: This monkey, my back / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- View of writing fiction from the rear window / Doris Grumbach -- Smallness and invention; or, what I learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop / Ethan Canin -- Ralston / Stuart Dybek -- Widow speaks / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Not knowing / Fred G. Leebron -- If I could be like Mike / Tom Grimes -- Mr. brain, he want a song / Barry Hannah -- Wise fool /...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999

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Colby, Jennifer

Summary: The 21st Century Junior Library introduces young readers to important core content. Simple activities encourage students to look, think, make a guess, ask questions, and create. The combination of reading and inquiring helps them develop the skills needed to master content and learn and succeed in the 21st century. -- back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Alabed, Bana

Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021

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Gregory, Philippa

Summary: "The story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII's stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. Regarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VIII's claim to the throne, Margaret Pole, cousin to Elizabeth of York (known as the White Princess) and daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, is married off to a steady and kind Lancaster supporter--Sir...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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