Writing systems, alphabets, scripts Books
Independently Published Domina el alfabeto coreano, un cuaderno de ejercicios de caligrafía: Perfecciona tus habilidades de escritura y aprende a escribir las letras del hangul como un experto
£10.66
Independently Published HSK1 Writing Practice Book (MI ZI GE): 150 pages Chinese characters exercise book for beginners
£9.79
Independently Published Korean Hangul Writing Workbook: Korean Alphabet for Beginners: Hangul Crash Course, Syllables and Words Writing Practice and Cut-out Flash Cards
£10.66
Independently Published Alphabet Coloring Book for Kids Ages 2-4: Color
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£9.59
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Writing Korean in 6 steps
£14.04
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Case for Ontolophemes
£37.44
Tuttle Publishing Continuing Mandarin Chinese Textbook
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£23.74
The University of Chicago Press Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida
Book SynopsisCultural Graphology could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertook the project himself, but he did leave two brief sketches of how he thought cultural graphology might proceed. In this book, Juliet Fleming picks up where Derrida left off. Using his early thought and the psychoanalytic texts to which it is addressed to examine the print culture of early modern England, she drastically unsettles our knowledge of the key vehicle of modern writing: the book. Fleming shows that the single most important lesson to survive from Derrida's early work is that we do not know what writing is. Channeling Derrida's thought into places it has not been seen before, she takes on topics such as errors, spaces, and print ornaments that have hitherto been marginal to our accounts of print culture and excavates the long-forgot
£76.00
Tuttle Publishing Beginning Japanese Kanji Language Practice Pad
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£14.39
Tuttle Publishing Elementary Mandarin Chinese Workbook
Book SynopsisThis workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes extensive interactive drills, exercises and other practice materials.
£13.49
Tuttle Publishing Korean Conversations and Debating
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£13.49
West Margin Press Sharkabet
Book SynopsisSwim through an ocean of facts and fun in Sharkabet, 2nd Edition, newly revised with updated facts and 9 brand new images that kids (and adults!) can sink their teeth into! Featuring Ray Troll''s spectacular art, Sharkabet, 2nd Edition takes you through the ABCs of different shark varieties, both living and extinct, sharing fascinating and bizarre facts along the way. Colorful, eye-popping images accompany the catchy factoids, making this book a swimmingly good read. So dive in and learn more about these cartilaginous creatures swimming all around the world!
£17.99
Tuttle Publishing Japanese Made Easy: A situation-based guide
Book SynopsisJapanese Made Easy is a complete self-study guide that allows readers to begin using simple, everyday Japanese vocabulary and sentences from the first day!This handy resource features: Practical exercises to teach you the 30 most common Japanese sentence patterns Notes on the key points of Japanese grammar, sentence structure and vocabulary A detailed glossary of Japanese words and an index of vocabulary and grammar Sentences for everyday social situations encountered by visitors to Japan In this completely revised edition, vocabulary and sentences are shown in Japanese script, as well as romanized Japanese and English. This book includes many new dialogues, cultural notes, illustrations and updated vocabulary.
£11.69
North Star Editions Opposites: Near and Far
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of near and far. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.
£22.94
North Star Editions Opposites: Wet and Dry
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of wet and dry. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.
£22.94
Tuttle Publishing Concise EnglishKorean Dictionary
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£7.37
Columbia University Press The Korean Vernacular Story
Book SynopsisSi Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular literary form (yadam), anonymously and unofficially circulating tales. She focuses on the collection Repeatedly Recited Stories of the East, which was written in a new medium in which Literary Sinitic is hybridized with the vernacular realities of Chosŏn society.Trade ReviewPark’s research into No’s linguistic-literary experimentation opens a new path for understanding the multilayered diglossia in Chosŏn literature. It also helps us reflect on issues in Korea today, such as Seoul-centrism, social mobility, and wealth and status. I feel that this, the first monographic work on yadam in a Western language, will appeal not only to specialists of premodern Korea, but to a wide range of readers as well. -- Jeongsoo Shin * Journal of Asian Studies *Si Nae Park’s The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Choson in Sinographic Writing offers a new look at the intriguing classical literary genre of yadam. Her thorough study of the late eighteenth-century collection known as Dongpae naksong, or Repeatedly Recited Stories of the East, compiled by No Myeongheum, casts light on the formation and significance of the yadam genre in the literary history of the Joseon period. -- Charles La Shure * Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *[An] impressively-researched book . . . The Korean Vernacular Story will not only appeal to scholars (there is much here that is analytical and scholarly) but to anyone interested in finding out about Asian writing which is not Chinese or Japanese. * Asian Review of Books *In The Korean Vernacular Story, Park unfurls a sparkling canvas of eighteenth-century Chosŏn Korea, where new forms of the written vernacular, social mobility, literary sociability—both Seoul- and Beijing-centered metageographies—and vernacular temporalities intersect. A remarkable intervention in Korean studies with crucial implications for the study of East Asia’s Sinographic literatures. -- Wiebke Denecke, author of Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman ComparisonsThe major project in Korean cultural history is to recapture Korea’s hidden vernacular past in the forest of “Chinese” writing by Koreans. Si Nae Park’s reading of the hitherto neglected yadam genre does exactly this, bringing these voices from Chosŏn Korea to life in their original earthy splendor. -- John Whitman, author of Korean: A Linguistic IntroductionIn this valuable study of yadam, Si Nae Park deftly handles the tensions between the oral and contemporary origins of the tales and the Sinitic script in which they are inscribed. Park has made a subtle, significant, and lasting contribution to an emerging but important field—the study of vernacularization in East Asia. -- Peter Kornicki, University of CambridgeThe Korean Vernacular Story is a meticulous and compelling reassessment of the emergence of yadam, elaborated through No Myŏnghŭm’s compilation of real-world stories in highly vernacularized Sinitic. This insightful study demonstrates how premodern Korea, its culture increasing influenced by women, came to appreciate and readily circulate stories about itself. -- Sunglim Kim, author of Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets:The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean ArtThe first full-length examination of the yadam genre, The Korean Vernacular Story examines the literary and social milieu in late Chosŏn Seoul. Using meticulous research, Park forms arguments that will certainly serve as the foundation for further research. -- Michael J. Pettid, coeditor of Premodern Korean Literary ProseA rethinking of vernacularity in late Chosŏn, free from modernist assumptions about the relationship between language and text. -- Sixiang Wang * Journal of Korean Studies *Park’s achievement does not lie merely in her nuanced historicization of the rise of the literary vernacular in eighteenth-century Chosŏn Korea. Her book also powerfully foregrounds the intricacy of the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in a larger sinographic world. . . This is a must-read book for anyone who is interested in Chosŏn literary history and manuscript culture, early modern East Asian literature, and literary Sinitic and local vernaculars in the sinographic world. -- Suyoung Son * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *The Korean Vernacular Story is indispensable for all scholars dealing with questions of Korean language, literature, or pre-modern societal structures. Furthermore, this book about the telling of stories is itself a wonderful story and, in fact, a delightful read. -- Vladimir Glomb * Acta Koreana *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note to the ReaderIntroduction1. The Compiler: A Marginalized Yangban at the Center of the Chosŏn Cultural Scene2. The Narrative World: A Window Into the Zeitgeist of Contemporary Chosŏn at Large3. The Language: Articulating in the Language of the Here and Now4. The Text in Motion: The Circulation of the Tongp’ae naksong and the Rise of Yadam in the Chosŏn Manuscript ContextCodaAppendix A: The Original Text and Translation of “The Biography of No, the Clumsy Old Man”Appendix B: A Translation of “The Story of a Slave Girl from Chirye”NotesBibliographyIndex
£46.75
Alphabet Legends Pty Ltd Dog Alphabet
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£14.24
Tuttle Publishing Intermediate Japanese Workbook
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£14.24
Tuttle Publishing Continuing Mandarin Chinese Workbook
Book SynopsisIt includes copious drills, exercises, and other practice materials. Online audio and video files are available for use in the relevant exercises. The lessons in this workbook correspond to the 24 lessons in the Continuing Mandarin Chinese Textbook.
£14.99
North Star Editions Opposites: Wet and Dry
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of wet and dry. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.
£8.54
Harvard University Press Reading and Writing in Babylon
Book SynopsisShows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly through letters to gods, insightful commentary, and sales receipts. This book includes many passages, offered in translation, that allow readers an illuminating glimpse into the lives of Babylonians.Trade ReviewMany books have been written on the origins of the cuneiform script and the role of reading and writing in Mesopotamia. But Charpin's book has no rival that could even stand in its shade. -- Karel van der Toorn, President, University of Amsterdam, and author of Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew BibleCharpin takes up a subject that's been debated by Assyriologists for many years: Did scribes alone have the knowledge to read and write cuneiform, the earliest writing, invented by the Sumerians around 3200 B.C.E.? Charpin focuses on what may be called the 'classical' period of Mesopotamian civilization, the period between the Babylonian rulers Hammurabi (1792–1750 B.C.E.) to Nebuchadnezzar (604–562 B.C.E.). Charpin's work at Ur some 20 years ago convinced him that what was thought to be a school was in fact a residence for clergy who home trained their children and apprentices to read and write cuneiform. His research has convinced him that literacy was not limited to professional scribes. The depth and range of material Charpin includes is indeed impressive. In sections that will be of particular interest to lay readers and students, Charpin goes into detail about reading a cuneiform tablet and the apprenticeship of a scribe. He informs the reader that the oral, spoken word—Sumerian or Akkadian—was most important in Mesopotamian society, and it was the survival of the written over the spoken word that produced the expansion of writing. Required reading for scholars in the field and their students. -- Joan W. Gartland * Library Journal *This introduction to the birth of cuneiform writing in the Babylonian empire is an engaging primer on the lexicon of linguistics… Charpin has written a scholarly work of incredible breadth. * Publishers Weekly *[Reading and Writing in Babylon] is a groundbreaking and fascinating contribution to the study of ancient literacy, readable by all-comers. -- Eleanor Robson * Times Literary Supplement *Charpin has written a book that is accessible to those outside the small academic field of Assyriology. The work is remarkable for its level of detail and the breadth of its concern. Charpin is able to keep one eye on the specifics of numerous texts and their archaeological contexts. At the same time, he is able to situate the written legacy of these ancient cultures in a broad sociological context, while arguing in some places for a generally new approach to reading and integrating the wealth of material into cognate fields. -- Phillip Michael Sherman * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£35.66
Tuttle Publishing Mandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder
Book SynopsisMandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder is an entirely new study aid that lets you look up Chinese characters quickly and intuitively from their appearance alone, without knowing their pronunciation, radical or stroke count. This reference book has been designed for dedicated learners of Chinese, as well as general readers with interest in the written Chinese language. Mandarin Chinese Characters Fast Finder features: A thumb-index allowing rapid access to all of the characters by shape rather than etymological radical Clear and easy-to-read layout to facilitate speedy scanning Covers 3,200 characters, including those prescribed for all levels of the HSK Proficiency test Comprehensive information for each character, including: traditional forms, pronunciation, core English meaning, radical, stroke count, HSK grade
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Scribbling through History Graffiti Places and People from Antiquity to Modernity
Book SynopsisChloé Ragazzoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the History Faculty of University Paris Sorbonne, France. She is the author of Eloge de la Ville. Histoire et Littérature (2008) and La grotte des scribes à Deir el-Bahari. La tombe MMA 504 et ses graffiti (forthcoming).Ömür Harmansah is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His work focuses on the art and material culture of the ancient Near Eastern world, with particular emphasis on Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia. He is the author of Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East (2013) and Place, Memory and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments (2015). Chiara Salvador is reading for a doctorate in Egyptology at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research treats a corpus of hieratic, hieroglyphic and figural graffiti from the temple complex of Karnak, in modern Luxor with the support of the Centre Franco-Égyptien d'ÉtuTrade ReviewThis volume highlights the enormous value of using ancient graffiti to understand the ancient environment, social interactions, and, ultimately, the human experience. * American Journal of Archaeology *Though historical specificities and differences are made clear in the essays, a shared quality does emerge over this collection. Various approaches are tapped to explain this, most compellingly the idea of marginality discussed in Janine Rogers's "Graffiti and the Medieval Margin". * Times Literary Supplement *Fascinating ... All-in-all this is a nice book which provides a different way of thinking about graffiti. * Graffiti Review *This volume actualizes a unique meeting of different corpora of graffiti, treating graffiti making as a “practice” that is well-embedded in its immediate physical and socio-cultural context. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *These fascinating local studies demonstrate the importance of graffiti as an archival resource and as a topic of rising conceptual significance. * Juliet Fleming, Professor of English, NYU, USA *Offers an excellent introduction to, and many astute observations on, the issues and methodologies involved in studying ancient (and modern) graffiti and is thus recommended to anyone working on this fascinating category of evidence. * Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists *Table of ContentsPreface (C. Ragazzoli, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Introduction (C. Ragazzoli, O. Harmansah, C. Salvador) Part 1: Graffiti and the Landscape (with an introduction by O. Harmansah) Chapter 1: The Scribes’ Cave: Graffiti and the Production of Social Space in Ancient Egypt circa 1500 BC (C. Ragazzoli, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Chapter 2: Christian Graffiti in Egypt: Case Studies on the Theban Mountain (A. Delattre, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Belgium) Chapter 3: Graffiti or Monument? Inscription of Place at Anatolian Rock Reliefs (Ö. Harmansah, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Chapter 4: Tweets from Antiquity: Literacy, Graffiti, and Their Uses in the Towns and Deserts of Ancient Arabia (M. Macdonald, University of Oxford, UK) Chapter 5: Gezi Graffiti: Shout-Outs to Resistance and Rebellion in Contemporary Turkey (C. Gruber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Part 2: Graffiti and the Wall (with an introduction by C. Salvador) Chapter 6: Gladiators, Greetings, and Poetry: Graffiti in First Century Pompeii (R. Benefiel, Washington and Lee University, USA) Chapter 7: A New Look at Maya Graffiti from Tikal (E. Olton, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) Chapter 8: Visitors' Inscriptions in the Memphite Pyramid Complexes in Ancient Egypt (c. 1543-1292 BC) (H. Navratilova, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition) Chapter 9: Carving Lines and Shaping Monuments: Mortuary Graffiti and Jews in the Ancient Mediterranean (K. Stern, Brooklyn College, USA) Part 3: Graffiti and the Written Page (with an introduction by C. Ragazzoli) Chapter 10: Verses on Walls in Medieval China (G. Dudbridge, University of Oxford, UK) Chapter 11: Graffiti and the Medieval Margin (J. Rogers, Mount Allison University, Canada) Chapter 12: Graffiti under Control: Annotation Practices in Social Book Platforms (M. Jahjah, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Bibliography Index
£114.00
Cornell University Press More Than Words
Book SynopsisGrounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of the living letter may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writinglinked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politicswhiTrade ReviewIn eight carefully focused and crafted chapters—each of which could stand alone—Fox explores the what, when, where, and why of writing on Bali. Fox more than delivers on his promise to add to an understanding of the local belief that the inscription itself is animated and as such venerated.... Fox more than surpasses his two stated goals: to make a "modest" contribution to the study of the Balinese system of beliefs, and to rethink human writing itself. This important work is a must for those interested in Asian religions and recommended for those interested in humanity's unique abilities. * Choice *Richard Fox has written the present book to elucidate what is going on in Bali and he has managed to do so in an attractive and readable way...The book is a breath of fresh air because of its admirable lucidity. It has been written in an accessible way and does not run away with theoretical language and thus does not alienate non-experts. This is crucial because it can now be read by non-specialists but also by specialists in other fields. It would be extremely useful if this book would be seen as an example of how indeed to study this kind of subject. -- Dick van der Meij, DREAMSEA * Archipel *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Related Conventions 1. Manuscripts, Madness 2. Writing and the Idea of Ecology 3. The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters 4. Practice and the Problem of Complexity 5. Maintaining a Houseyard as a Practice 6. Tradition as Argument 7. Translational Indeterminacy 8. Wagging the Dog Notes Works Cited Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press More Than Words
Book SynopsisGrounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of the living letter may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writinglinked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politicswhiTrade ReviewIn eight carefully focused and crafted chapters—each of which could stand alone—Fox explores the what, when, where, and why of writing on Bali. Fox more than delivers on his promise to add to an understanding of the local belief that the inscription itself is animated and as such venerated.... Fox more than surpasses his two stated goals: to make a "modest" contribution to the study of the Balinese system of beliefs, and to rethink human writing itself. This important work is a must for those interested in Asian religions and recommended for those interested in humanity's unique abilities. * Choice *Richard Fox has written the present book to elucidate what is going on in Bali and he has managed to do so in an attractive and readable way...The book is a breath of fresh air because of its admirable lucidity. It has been written in an accessible way and does not run away with theoretical language and thus does not alienate non-experts. This is crucial because it can now be read by non-specialists but also by specialists in other fields. It would be extremely useful if this book would be seen as an example of how indeed to study this kind of subject. -- Dick van der Meij, DREAMSEA * Archipel *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Related Conventions 1. Manuscripts, Madness 2. Writing and the Idea of Ecology 3. The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters 4. Practice and the Problem of Complexity 5. Maintaining a Houseyard as a Practice 6. Tradition as Argument 7. Translational Indeterminacy 8. Wagging the Dog Notes Works Cited Index
£26.59
Fordham University Press The K-Effect: Romanization, Modernism, and the
Book SynopsisThe K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. The book explores the ambiguous effect of romanized transliteration both in the service of colonization and as an instrument of decolonization. This simultaneously standardizing and destabilizing effect is abbreviated in the way the letter K indexes changing hierarchies in the relation between languages and scripts. The book traces this K-effect through the linguistic work of transliteration and its aesthetic organization in transnational modernism. The book examines a variety of different cases of romanization: the historical shift from Arabic script to romanized print form in writing Malay; the politicization of language and script reforms across Russia and Central Europe; the role of Chinese debates about romanization in shaping global transformations in print media; and the place of romanization between ancient Sanskrit models of language and script and contemporary digital forms of coding. Each case study develops an analysis of Conrad’s fiction read in comparison with such other writers as James Joyce, Lu Xun, Franz Kafka, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The first sustained cultural study of romanization, The K-Effect proposes an important new way to assess the multi-lingual and multi-script coordinates of modern print culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Conrad’s “timely appearance in English” 1 The K-effect, 6 • Conrad’s “timely appearance in English,” 13 • The K-effect circa 1911, 21 • Overview of the Book, 25 1 The English Case of Romanization: From Conrad’s “blank space” to Joyce’s “iSpace” 31 Defining Romanization: The Oxford English Dictionary and Joseph Conrad, 32 • Conrad’s Accusative Case: Lord Jim and Nostromo, 51 • Joycean “iSpace” and the Conradian “blank space,” 59 2 The Russian Face of Romanization: The K in Conrad and Kafka 72 Language, Script, and Reform in the Russian Empire, 77 • Under Western Eyes, A Personal Record, and “Prince Roman,” 83 • Kafka and Conrad: The Character and Function of K in Central Europe, 102 3 The Chinese Character of Romanization: Conrad and Lu Xun 117 The Chinese Script Revolution and Romanization, 118 • Conrad’s Chinese Characters: Almayer’s Folly to Victory, 127 • Conrad and Lu Xun: The Interface of Chinese and Roman Characters, 144 4 Sanskritization, Romanization, Digitization 157 Sanskritization, 165 • Sanskritization and Romanization in the OED and in Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 174 • Digitization, 179 Acknowledgments 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 217 Index 227
£79.90
J. Paul Getty Museum Latin Inscriptions Ancient Scripts
£18.95
University of Utah Press,U.S. An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the
Book SynopsisIn 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, ""reduce their dialect to a written language,"" and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of the traditional Latin alphabet. While the Deseret alphabet faded out of use in just over twenty years, the manuscript penned by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in the archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints - a mystery document having no title, author, or date. But authors Beesley and Elzinga have now traced the manuscript's origin to the missioaries of 1859-1860 and decoded its Hopi-English vocabularly written in the short-lived Deseret alphabet. The resulting book offers a fascinating mix of linguistics, Mormon history, and Native American studies.The volume reproduces all 48 vocabularly entries of the original manuscript, presenting the Deseret and the modern English and Hopi translations. It explains the history of the Deseret alphabet as well as that of the Mormon missions to the Hopi, while fleshing out the background of the two missionaries, Marion Jackson Shelton, who wrote the manuscript, and his companion, Thales Hastings Haskell. The book will be of interest to linguists, historians, ethnographers, and others who are curious about the unique combination of topics this work connects.Trade ReviewUseful and interesting to all those interested in Hopi language, Hopi culture, and Hopi history."" - Peter Whiteley, American Museum of Natural History
£17.56
North Star Editions Opposites: Near and Far
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the concept of opposites through the pairing of near and far. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on a common pair of opposites.
£8.54
Medieval Institute Publications Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents: A
Book SynopsisThere are few experiences as discouraging to a researcher trained in art history, drama, music, folk arts, or social history as the first encounter with an original medieval or Renaissance document. Despite Satan's claim, there is little comfort in the company of others who are miserable, but it may be comforting to know that many untrained researchers have learned to read original documents without formal instruction or years of practice. While some of the skills of a professional paleographer—the ability to identify various transitional hands, localize regional variations, or date documents by their handwriting, for instance—do require considerable training, a researcher can learn on his or her own to make some sense of a manuscript with little help on the way letters were formed, on standard abbreviations and formulaic constructions, and on the sheer need to practice transcription. Wasson here provides the basic tools necessary to transcribe documents, without regard for the historical development of alphabets, letter forms, and the like. This manual will be of great interest to scholars of the arts in need of a guide for their journeys into the archives.Table of ContentsIntroductionDocuments and TranscriptsTranslations
£15.80
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Grammatical Case in the Languages of the Middle
Book SynopsisThe volume contains twenty-eight studies of various aspects of the case systems of Sumerian, Hurrian, Elamite, Eblaite, Ugaritic, Old Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Indo-European, the languages of the Bisitun inscription, Hittite, Armenian, Sabellic, Gothic, Latin, Icelandic, Slavic, Russian, Ouralien, Tokharian and Etruscan. The volume concludes with a paper on future directions.
£21.24
Walter de Gruyter Kinder Können Nicht Mehr Richtig Schreiben
£98.96
Kapon Editions Transcribing the Linear B and Linear A Signs: Not
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Kapon Editions Linear B Glossary: Not Sold Separately (See
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Kapon Editions Linear B: A New Outlook: Not Sold Separately (See
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£34.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Riddle of the Labyrinth
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece?s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe?s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox''s riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean?the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen?to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
£16.14
Oxford University Press Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt Oxford Classical Monographs
Book SynopsisA detailed analysis of the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt that traces the bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames.Table of ContentsI. Setting the scene 1: Introduction 2: Concepts, contexts, corpora 3: The basics of Coptic grammar 4: The grammar of the corpus (standard & variation) II. Analysis 5: Verb prases: the syntax of arguments 6: Adverbial phrases: the syntax of adjuncts 7: Discourse markers: The syntax of clause-linkage 8: Formulaic language: the syntax of the epistolary frame 9: Semi-formulaic phrases: the syntax of signposts and hedges III. Contextualising Deviations 10: Summary and Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Appendix: corpus of texts
£129.99
Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System
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£209.00
University of California Press Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs A Guide to Nahuatl Writing
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers The King Who Rained
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Hamilton Books ETYMA Two
Book SynopsisETYMA II is an undergraduate or advanced high school textbook for English vocabulary-building. It is divided into three parts, beginning with a brief history of foreign words in English, including information on families of languages, the Indo-European relations of English, and the development of the language.Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Symbols Foreword SECTION ONE: HISTORY IN WORDS Chapter One: Families of Languages Chapter Two: The Indo-European Family of Languages Chapter Three: Some Definitions Chapter Four: The Beginnings of English Chapter Five: The Anglo-Saxons in England Chapter Six: The Normans in England Afterword: Modern English SECTION TWO: LATIN WORDS IN ENGLISH Chapter One: Vade Mecum A. Latin Nouns and Adjectives Chapter Two: Direct Entries & Simple Changes Chapter Three: Adjective-Forming Suffixes Chapter Four: Noun-Forming Suffixes Interlude 1: Review of Latin Nouns and Adjectives B. Latin Verbs Chapter Five: Latin Verbs Become English Chapter Six: Prefixes Interlude 2: Review of Latin Verbs and Prefixes Chapter Seven: The Present Base of Latin Verbs, Suffixes Chapter Eight: The Participial Base of Latin Verbs, Suffixes Interlude 3: Review of Latin Verbs, Prefixes, and Suffixes SECTION THREE: GREEK WORDS IN ENGLISH Chapter Nine: Greek Words—Simple Changes Chapter Ten: Compounds from Two Noun Bases Chapter Eleven: Greek Adjectives Used in English Chapter Twelve: Greek Suffixes Chapter Thirteen: Greek Prefixes Chapter Fourteen: Greek Verbs Postlude: Review of Greek (Nine to Fourteen) Appendix I: Latin Noun Declensions Appendix II: Summary of Latin Plurals Glossary I: Latin Base Words Glossary II: English to Latin Glossary III: Greek Words, Bases, Combining Forms Glossary IV: English to Greek Index
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Tuttle Publishing Intermediate Chinese Characters
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Tuttle Publishing Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials
Book SynopsisPart of the widely-used and highly acclaimed Kubler series, The Basic Chinese and Intermediate Chinese books provide separate but integrated tracks to help you learn to read, write and speak Chinese efficiently, at your own pace. Some students and teachers wish to emphasize speaking ability first, whereas others want to focus on learning to read and write Chinese at the same time. These Chinese language study books allow you the flexibility to acquire the spoken language and the written language with the method that best fits your needs. With the internationally-recognized Kubler system and accompanying CD-ROM, you will: Learn to use 288 high-frequency Chinese characters, and over 700 popular words written with them Find yourself quickly reading and writing sentences with the correct Chinese grammar Be taught both simplified and traditional characters; you may choose to learn one or both Recognize a variety of fonts in bot
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Tuttle Publishing Easy Thai
Book SynopsisThis invaluable guide introduces all the basics of the language, as well as vocabulary and tips for typical daily conversation. All dialogues are highly practical, authentic and illustrated with manga for easy memorisation.
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Tuttle Publishing Beginning Japanese Phrases Writing Practice Pad
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Tuttle Publishing Contemporary Japanese Textbook Volume 2
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