Understanding Relations Between Scripts Ii

Author : Philippa M. Steele,Philip J. Boyes
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789250954

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Understanding Relations Between Scripts II by Philippa M. Steele,Philip J. Boyes Pdf

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

Author : Philippa M. Steele,Philip J. Boyes
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789250930

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Understanding Relations Between Scripts II by Philippa M. Steele,Philip J. Boyes Pdf

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

Author : Philippa Steele
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785706479

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Understanding Relations Between Scripts by Philippa Steele Pdf

Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of their relationships with each other have remained poorly understood and this will be the first volume dedicated solely to this issue. Nine papers aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account of both features of the writing systems and the contextual factors affecting the way in which writing was passed on. Each individual contribution furthers this aim by presenting the latest research on the Aegean scripts, demonstrating the great advances in our understanding of script relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies.

Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789258523

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Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean by Philippa M. Steele Pdf

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.

Author : Ben Haring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009400787

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Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets by Ben Haring Pdf

Introduces the workings and uses of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the various degrees of cultural knowledge of their makers and – most importantly – the influence hieroglyphs had on other scripts and notations in antiquity.

Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226815800

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Inventing the Alphabet by Johanna Drucker Pdf

The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691255477

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After 1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline Pdf

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever “A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. . . . You cannot understand human civilization and self-organization without studying what happened on, before, and after 1177 B.C.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration. After 1177 B.C. tells how the collapse of powerful Late Bronze Age civilizations created new circumstances to which people and societies had to adapt. Those that failed to adjust disappeared from the world stage, while others transformed themselves, resulting in a new world order that included Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites, Neo-Assyrians, and Neo-Babylonians. Taking the story up to the resurgence of Greece marked by the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., the book also describes how world-changing innovations such as the use of iron and the alphabet emerged amid the chaos. Filled with lessons for today's world about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities.

Author : Ester Salgarella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108479387

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Aegean Linear Script(s) by Ester Salgarella Pdf

Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.

Author : Philip P. Betancourt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
ISBN : UOM:39015049637831

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Meletemata by Philip P. Betancourt Pdf

Author : Klaus Segbers,Kerstin Imbusch
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110278087

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The Globalization of Eastern Europe by Klaus Segbers,Kerstin Imbusch Pdf

Globalization and fragmentation, weakly controlled flows of information and knowledge, increasing cleavages in societies undergoing rapid change, flows of migrants, services and capital, bypassing the control of national governments, life styles and consumption patterns produced by electronic media and advertising - all these developments already have a significant impact on post-Soviet regions. And all kind of actors - decision makers, journalists, experts, students - perceive the environment beyond their respective national borders increasingly as the "playground" they have to take into account, and as a framework for action. The chapters in this volume are produced by experts in the so called transformation countries in Eastern Europe. They address various questions on inter- and transnational relations, thereby offering a framework for reflection and for analysis of macro-trends around policy fields relevant for the countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The product certainly mirrows the specific environment of researchers, teachers and students in these countries. At the same time, it reflects a process of intensive discussion on the state of IR literature worldwide. Furthermore, this book demonstrates how useful teaching tools for universities and institutes not only in Eastern and Central Europe can be produced.

Author : Beatriz P. Lorente
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783099016

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Scripts of Servitude by Beatriz P. Lorente Pdf

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their linguistic repertoires, and in particular on English, as they cross geographical and social spaces. By showing how the transnational mobility of labor is dependent on the selection and performance of particular assemblages of linguistic resources that index migrants as labor and not as people, the book provides a powerful lens with which to examine how migration contributes to relationships of inequality and how such inequalities are produced and challenged on the terrain of language.

Author : Goparaju Sambasiva Rao,Central Institute of Indian Languages,India. Directorate of Adult Education
Publisher : Mysore : Central Institute of Indian Languages
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Adult education
ISBN : UOM:39015070547222

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Literacy Methodology by Goparaju Sambasiva Rao,Central Institute of Indian Languages,India. Directorate of Adult Education Pdf

Author : Javier Urcid
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000609506

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Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing by Javier Urcid Pdf

Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169678

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Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus by Philippa M. Steele Pdf

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Author : Hadley Wickham,Garrett Grolemund
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491910368

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R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham,Garrett Grolemund Pdf

Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible. Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You'll get a complete, big-picture understanding of the data science cycle, along with basic tools you need to manage the details. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you've learned along the way. You'll learn how to: Wrangle—transform your datasets into a form convenient for analysis Program—learn powerful R tools for solving data problems with greater clarity and ease Explore—examine your data, generate hypotheses, and quickly test them Model—provide a low-dimensional summary that captures true "signals" in your dataset Communicate—learn R Markdown for integrating prose, code, and results