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" Alpha Beta : "
John Man
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BL
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784527
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b604541
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John Man
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Alpha Beta : : How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World.\ John Man
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| Publication Statement
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Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2006
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(1 page)
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| ISBN
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0471211699
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: 9780471211693
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| Abstract
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Praise for Alpha Beta. "This book comes at the perfect moment as we rediscover the importance in early reading of cracking the alphabetic code. The story of how that code came into being is a fascinating one, and Man is the ideal writer to tell it." Times Educational Supplement. "A richly absorbing exploration, from B.C. to PCs, of the evolution of the most fundamental characters of our cultural history, the alphabet we so much take for granted. John Man writes with a compellingly restless curiosity and immediacy. The ever surprising, exotically detailed narrative in his informa.
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Language and languages.
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P211.J646 2006
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John Man
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