A Is for Ox
Subtitle: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: September 26, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780679742852
Subjects: Literacy; Social issues; Education / Teaching; Sociology; General; Education / General
First sentence: Humans speak. Humans listen. But very few oral peoples in the world-that vast assembly of speakers and listeners-ever make the radically disruptive move into literacy.