Catálogo de libros: Paleografía (historia de la escritura)

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  • Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300
    This volume explores the creation of ’written spaces’ through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial ...
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    63,84 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages
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    56,32 €

  • Kanji Alchemy III
    Harry Nap
    Kanji Alchemy is a reallocation of Japanese characters with an emphasis on 490 singular characters that provide a meaningful context for learning 2136 General Use (Kanji Alchemy I), 861 Jinmei (Kanji Alchemy II) and 3463 Non General Use kanji (Kanji Alchemy III). The 490 'signature' characters cover in total 6460 kanji thatare extensively cross-referenced.There are 10 chapters ...
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    19,44 €

  • Kanji Alchemy II
    Harry Nap
    Kanji Alchemy is a reallocation of Japanese characters with an emphasis on 490 singular characters that provide a meaningful context for learning 2136 General Use (Kanji Alchemy I), 861 Jinmei (Kanji Alchemy II) and 3463 Non General Use kanji (Kanji Alchemy III). The 490 'signature' characters cover in total 6460 kanji that are extensively cross-referenced. There are 10 chapter...
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    14,18 €

  • Professor Bloomers No-Nonsense Spelling Program
    Richard Bloomer EdD DABPS FACAPP FACFEI
    Spelling and Reading go hand in hand. Teaching spelling guarantees improved reading skills. Professor Bloomer’s Spelling Program for young learners teaches children 'how' to learn new words. It provides your learner with correct spelling of nearly twenty five hundred of the most useful words in the English language and builds vocabulary. Learning to spell develops children’s me...
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    22,04 €

  • Writing Systems 2/e
    Sampson
    The cultures of the world have chosen different ways to make spoken language visible and permanent. The original edition of Writing Systems represented the first time that modern linguistic principles were brought to bear on a study of this. Now this new edition brings the story up to date; it incorporates topics which have emerged since the first edition (such as electronic te...
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    37,79 €

  • Writing Systems /2E
    Sampson
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    127,96 €

  • In Defence of the Letter Double-U
    W. Whoolery White
    W. Whoolery White never suspected that the letter Double-U - also known as 'W' and 'dubya'-would be the most interesting letter in the English language. But by virtue of his name, he always felt a connection to the letter, and his experiences as an English teacher, library administrator, and newspaper reporter instilled in him a deep appreciation for the misunderstood letter. H...
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    17,45 €

  • Genesis in Ancient China
    Ginger Tong Chock
    'Genesis in Ancient China: The Creation Story in China’s Earliest Script' reveals how the Creation account, as written in the Book of Genesis, is embedded in China’s 3500 year old pictographic characters. By way of their pictographic formations, these ancient character graphs utilized similar Creation images and concepts in depicting the God of China as Creator of heaven and ea...
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    11,79 €

  • What is Information?
    Robert K. Logan
    What is information? A fitting question given the importance of information and the central role it plays in the economic and cultural life at the beginning of the 21st Century. It is said that we live in the Information Age, a claim that is hard to dispute given the ubiquity of the vast array of information technology (IT) at our disposal to generate, communicate, interpret an...
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    25,48 €

  • The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 2
    S. W. Well / SWWell
    The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses.  This series of books is the...
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    109,18 €

  • The Arabic Book
    Johannes Pedersen / Geoffrey French
    This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen’s Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medieval Islam, and outlines the role of literature and scholarship in Islamic society.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print bo...
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    50,16 €

  • Mastering Core TOEFL Ibt/Toeic Words
    William H. Shin
    This book contains as many as 1,650 core TOEFL iBT/ TOEIC words along withsynonyms, definitions, example sentences, and 29 different reviews provided by mycolleagues and students. In order to help students preparing for the TOEFL iBT/TOEIC to memorize the words more effectively, certain words have stars (*), whichindicate the degrees of diffculty of memorizing them. Based on my...
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    38,03 €

  • Modern Language Review (109
    The April 2014 issue of The Modern Language Review. ...
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    66,31 €

  • The Colourful Biography of Chinese Characters, Volume 1
    S. W. Well / SWWell
    The complete book of Chinese characters that covers every aspect of, and therefore answers all the questions one might have for, these fascinating ancient language symbols from script evolution to colour-illustrated biographies including proper Stroke sequences and from the complete Compound anatomy to the trinity of Sounds, Semantics, and Synopses.  This series of books is the...
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    110,07 €

  • The Languages of the Jews
    Bernard Spolsky
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    135,87 €

  • I’m Bilingual - Yo Soy Bilingue
    Fred Loewenthal
    I’m Bilingual-Yo Soy Bilingüe®As the world becomes more globalized, we and our children have an increasing need to communicate in more than one language. As a multilingual speaker, educator, and author of I’m Bilingual-Yo Soy Bilingüe, ® Fred Loewenthal has recognized the need of becoming increasingly compelled to communicate in more than one language. Neither solely a dictiona...
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    23,88 €

  • Multilingual Aspects of Signed Language Communication and Disorder
    David Quinto-Pozos
    This book brings together work on communication disorders of child and adult users of signed languages. The chapters investigate linguistic impairments caused by deficits in visual processing and motor movements, as well as neurological decline. It also contains suggestions about how signed languages might guard against communication disorder. ...
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    47,83 €

  • Multilingual Aspects of Signed Language Communication and Disorder
    David Quinto-Pozos
    This book brings together work on communication disorders of child and adult users of signed languages. The chapters investigate linguistic impairments caused by deficits in visual processing and motor movements, as well as neurological decline. It also contains suggestions about how signed languages might guard against communication disorder. ...
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    181,74 €

  • Roles for Men and Women in Roman Epigraphic Culture and Beyond
    Peter Keegan
    Previous studies of tombstones and inscriptions dedicated to divinities have focused on methods of assigning names in Roman society, the age at marriage and death of demographic populations across the Roman Empire, relations of kinship, marriage, amity and dependence among elite and sub-altern families and communities, and the performance of acts in accordance with traditional ...
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    90,86 €

  • Developing Orthographies for Unwritten Languages
    While investigating endangered languages, many researchers become interested in developing literacy for these languages. However, often their linguistic training has not provided practical guidance in this area. This book, with contributions by experienced practitioners, helps fill this gap. Both foundational theory and specific case studies are addressed in this work. Non-ling...
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    31,67 €

  • Modern Language Review (109
    The January 2014 issue of The Modern Language Review. ...
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    66,15 €

  • Writing as Material Practice
    Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing - the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects...
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    78,72 €

  • I Is an Other
    James Geary
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    18,34 €

  • Writing Journals for the Speedy Writer
    Colin Scott / Speedy Publishing LLC
    Every writer gets a flood of ideas from time to time and it is best to have some way to make a note of all those ideas for use later on when the actual writing starts. The 'Writing Journal for the Speedy Writer' is perfect. It allows the budding author to keep a track of all the great ideas that come out of a brainstorming session or those thoughts that come up throughout the d...
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    12,04 €

  • Workbook - English Phonetic Alphabet
    Judy Thompson / Noreeen Brigden / Noreen Brigden
    Companion to Chapter One of English is Crazy, a revolutionary pronunciation manual for both teachers and students of English as a second Language. No one can learn to speak English from reading it. The English Phonetic Alphabet (EPA) is a simple, logical pronunciation tool designed to bridge written to spoken English for English language learners, suitable for every level of ES...
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    25,57 €

  • The Gambler
    Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
    Written by a man with his own gaming addiction, The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions--and devastating costs--of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky paints a fascinating picture of casino life in the fictious town of Roulettenburg, Germany. This classic, probing psychological novel explores the tangled love affairs and complicated lives of a yo...
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    14,97 €

  • Sir John Edwin Sandys
    N. G. L. Hammond / NGLHammond
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    37,60 €

  • McGuffey's New First Eclectic Reader
    William Holmes McGuffey
    McGuffey's First Reader: This charming little reader begins with the alphabet, presented in upper- and lower-case formats. Carefully chosen engravings provide memorable clues to letter sounds, making the illustrated alphabet useful for quick reference. From the very first lesson, students practice spelling short words, then reading the resulting sentences. These simple first s...
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    11,52 €

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    In his will, George Bernard Shaw left instructions (and some funds) for the development of a new regular alphabet for the English language. A design by Ronald Kingsley Read was chosen. In 1962, Shaw’s play “Androcles and the Lion” was printed in what became known as the Shaw Alphabet, or Shavian. This edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is written entirely in that sam...
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    17,92 €


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