9780099436829-0099436825-The Alphabet

The Alphabet

ISBN-13: 9780099436829
ISBN-10: 0099436825
Edition: New Ed
Author: David Sacks
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Random House
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780099436829
ISBN-10: 0099436825
Edition: New Ed
Author: David Sacks
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Random House
Format: Paperback 400 pages

Summary

The Alphabet (ISBN-13: 9780099436829 and ISBN-10: 0099436825), written by authors David Sacks, was published by Random House in 2004. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Alphabet (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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There is a story behind each letter of the alphabet. Why is X the Unknown or shorthand for a kiss? Which letter came last, historically, in the alphabet? (J). How did a few squiggles, invented a thousand years ago to denote sounds of a now vanished Semitic language, survive to become our letters today? While China and Japan rely mainly on scripts of ideograms, three-quarters of humanity uses some kind of alphabet. Chinese writing requires 2000 basic symbols (but there's no language barrier), where an alphabet needs typically less than 30. From A-Z, David Sacks provides answers to the most fascinating questions about the way we talk, write and think in a book which will also be illustrated graphically throughout - not just with variations of individual letters but with maps, charts and general narrative images.

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