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Alpha Beta by John Man

Alpha Beta

John Man

336 pages first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The idea behind the alphabet—that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs—is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred only once in human history: in Egypt about 4000 years a...

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