Writing and script
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Andrew Robinson
Series: Very short introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780199567782
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing and its emergence; title: Development and diffusion of wrtiting; title: Disappearance of scripts; title: Decipherment and undeciphered scripts; title: How writing systems work; title: Alphabets; title: Chinese and Japanese writing; title: Scribes and materials; title: Writing goes electronic.