Overview :Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven ... Read More
Overview :It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpre... Read More
Overview :Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the elec... Read More
Overview :When Lost's Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe's novel, Robinson C... Read More
Overview :From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation i... Read More
Overview :This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communication from a time before human language was con... Read More
Overview :A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history ... Read More
Overview :On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, ... Read More