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  • Languages of the USSR
    W. K. Matthews / WKMatthews
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    55,81 €

  • An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting
    An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despi...
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    19,46 €

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    Doug Ewell devised the Ewellic alphabet in 1980, as a form of secret writing. A decade later, after Ewell had become a supporter of the Unicode Standard, he worked to improve his alphabet’s character repertoire and encoding. Ewellic is a phonemic alphabet, like Shavian, Unifon, and shorthands such as Pitman and Gregg. With fonts specially designed by Michael Everson, this editi...
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    17,79 €

  • Gender Matters
    Sara Mills / Sarah Mills
    Gender Matters presents a feminist linguistic analysis of texts – literature, media and lyrics – and conversation. It explores how gender relates to and shapes our understanding of sexism, reading and writing, politeness and public speaking.The essays in the book examine a range of questions: why is it necessary for feminists to analyse or comment on sexism when sexism is widel...
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    121,46 €

  • Origin of Writing
    Roy Harris
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    33,12 €

  • Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context
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    136,66 €

  • Sacred Calligraphy of the East
    John Stevens
    Throughout the East, writing is held to be a gift from the gods, and the divinely inspired letters and characters are objects of the highest veneration. The religious significance of calligraphy has thus led to a unique development of the art of brush and ink in Japan, China, India, and Tibet. This beautifully illustrated book covers such topics as the history and spirit of Eas...
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    28,87 €

  • Gender Matters
    Sara Mills / Sarah Mills
    Gender Matters presents a feminist linguistic analysis of texts – literature, media and lyrics – and conversation. It explores how gender relates to and shapes our understanding of sexism, reading and writing, politeness and public speaking.The essays in the book examine a range of questions: why is it necessary for feminists to analyse or comment on sexism when sexism is widel...
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    44,37 €

  • From Philology to English Studies
    Haruko Momma
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    127,89 €

  • Meaningless Platter Dudes
    Carolyn Bishop
    From the inventive mind of author Carolyn Bishop, Meaningless Platter Dudes: Language Transformed on a Platter of Fun is a joyous exploration of fun with language. This book of puns is a must read for those who enjoy a light-hearted and intelligent play on words. It’s a great afternoon read that will compel any reader to solve Carolyn’s wonderfully written word puzzles. 3 ...
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    9,62 €

  • The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy
    Alison Cooley
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    154,70 €

  • South Asian Languages
    Kārumūri V. Subbārāo / Kārumūri VSubbārāo
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    156,70 €

  • S Is for Mola Art
    Susan Striker
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    18,08 €

  • Writing European Languages in a Vertical Ladder Layout to Maximize Visual Intake
    Isamu Ashida
    This book attempts to explore 'Umami' in reading alphabetic languages. In this exploration each European language will reappear as 'Umami English (UE),' 'Umami German (UG),' 'Umami French (UF),' 'Umami Italian UI),' and so forth. What exactly is Umami? It is a loanword from Japanese. It means a primary taste in food, so pleasant and savory that it makes those taste-sensitive pe...
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    21,55 €

  • Arabic Calligraphy Made Easy for the Madinah [Medinah] Arabic Course for Children
    Muhammed Taha Abdullah
    ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY MADE EASY 'Arabic Calligraphy Made Easy' is the first of the 7-book children’s series 'Medinah Arabic Course for Children'. The others being three textbooks, and three workbooks. It has been developed, modified, improved and tested over a period of several years to make it as suitable as possible for elementary school children. 'Arabic Calligraphy Made Easy',...
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    15,74 €

  • Speed Writing Skills Training Course
    Heather Baker
    Speed Writing Skills Training Course: Speedwriting, a guide to faster note taking, an easy to learn alternative to shorthand. Over 40 000 copies sold worldwide. Most people need a note taking system for work or study but few people have the time or inclination to spend a year or two learning shorthand. BakerWrite Speed Writing enables you to learn a new system in a matter of ho...
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    21,64 €

  • Spelling and Society
    Mark Sebba
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    58,06 €

  • On the Blunt Edge
    Shane Borrowman
    When modern discussions of technology arise in rhetoric and composition studies, the topic is almost always related to computers-despite their comparatively recent development and deployment in this millennia-old profession. Computers themselves are new; composition’s rush to emergent technologies is not. New teachers face expectations that they will master everything from word...
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    38,43 €

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    John Tenniel / Lewis Carroll
    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a Lewis Carroll, invented a special writing instrument he called 'the Nyctograph' on 24 September 1891, in frustration at the process of 'getting out of bed at 2 a.m. in a winter night, lighting a candle, and recording some happy thought which would probably be otherwise forgotten'. This edition of 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland' is written enti...
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    17,73 €

  • Secret Language
    Barry J Blake
    This title is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. It explores the history and uses of the slangs and argots of schools and trades such as Polari and the languages of ancient cults. ...
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    19,27 €

  • The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet - Disclosing the Sumero-Phoenician Parentage of Our Letters Ancient and Modern
    L. A. Waddell / LAWaddell
    This book contain is a comprehensive guide to the origins of the alphabet, exploring its existence in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Samaria. Laurence Austine Waddell (1899 - 1938) was a British Explorer, professor of Tibetan, and Indian army surgeon. Other notable works by this author include: 'Among the Himalayas', 'The Birds of Sikkim' (1893), and 'Some Ancient Indians Charms fr...
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    22,63 €

  • Teaching Spelling to English Language Learners
    Johanna Stirling
    A book for anyone teaching English spelling, particularly those working with English language learners. This essential manual answers three challenging questions about teaching spelling: Why is there a problem with teaching and learning spelling? What can be done about it? How can this be accomplished? The first part of the book helps teachers understand the systems of English ...
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    50,45 €

  • Researches in Greece
    Leake William Martin / William Martin Leake
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    60,36 €

  • The Infinite Gift
    Charles Yang
    A child’s very first word is a miraculous sound, the opening note in a lifelong symphony. Most parents never forget the moment. But that first word is soon followed by a second and a third, and by the age of three, children are typically learning ten new words every day and speaking in complete sentences. The process seems effortless, and for children, it is. But how exactly do...
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    16,39 €

  • The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet
    Laurence Austine Waddell
    2010 Reprint of 1927 First Edition. Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Austine Waddell (1854 - 1938) was a British explorer, collector in Tibet, and author. He traveled in India throughout the 1890s (including Sikkim and areas on the borders of Nepal and Tibet) and wrote about the Tibetan Buddhist religious practices he observed there. In his later works he tried to synthesize Weste...
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    18,53 €

  • The Disappearance of Writing Systems
    This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is so important in many cultures and civilizations, its disappearance – followed b...
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    43,84 €

  • Brevis
    Edward J. Mallett / Edward JMallett
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,19 €

  • The Concords Of The Congo Language As Spoken At Palaballa
    John Barfield
    The book ''The Concords of the Congo Language as Spoken at Palaballa'' is a scholarly work by John Barfield, published in 1884. The book is a contribution to the syntax of the Congo tongue, specifically the dialect spoken in Palaballa. The author focuses on the concords of the language, which are the grammatical agreements between different parts of a sentence, such as subject-...
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    28,02 €

  • Thought And Expression
    Samuel Stillman Greene
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    14,87 €

  • Through The Great Campaign
    George Nox McCain
    Through The Great Campaign: With Hastings And His Spellbinders (1895) is a historical account written by George Nox McCain. The book delves into the political campaign of William Henry Harrison and his running mate, Theodore Frelinghuysen, during the 1840 United States presidential election. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the campaign strategies employed by Harriso...
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    27,96 €