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| Introduction: From Image to Writing | |
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| Origins and Reinventions | |
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| The Precursors of the Written Word in the Danube River Basin | |
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| Cuneiform Script | |
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| How Cuneiform Script was Deciphered | |
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| The Mesopotamian Scribes | |
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| The Scripts of Ancient Egypt | |
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| Adaptation of Script of Monuments | |
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| Writing in China | |
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| The Practice of Chinese Calligraphy | |
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| From Pyroscapulimancy to Writing | |
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| The Scripts of Continental India | |
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| Writing in Japan | |
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| The Writing in the Picture | |
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| Pictures in Writing | |
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| Buddhist Writings in Southeast Asia | |
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| The Korean Alphabet | |
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| Vietnamese Script and Society | |
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| Printing and the Reproduction of the Written Word in the Far East | |
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| The Japanese Press | |
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| Mayan Script and Society from the Second Through the Tenth Centuries | |
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| Nahuatl Script | |
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| A Mixtec Manuscript | |
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| The Peruvian Quipus | |
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| Rongo-Rongo: The Easter Island Script | |
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| Alphabets and Derived Scripts | |
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| Aegean Scripts of the Second Millennium B.C.E | |
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| The Origin of the Western Semitic Alphabet and Scripts | |
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| The Aleph of the Kabalists | |
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| Arabic Script | |
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| Writings in the Margins of Arabic Manuscripts | |
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| The Greek Alphabets | |
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| Inscriptions on Greek Vases | |
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| The Script of Ancient Italy | |
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| Inscriptions on Coinage | |
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| Christian Alphabets of the Caucasus | |
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| Cyrillic Script | |
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| Runic Script | |
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| Ogamic Script | |
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| The Scripts of Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The Image in Western Writing | |
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| Writing in the Middle Ages | |
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| The Book of Kells | |
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| A Medieval State Managing Book | |
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| Forms and History of Writing in Italy | |
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| Spelling in France: Texts and Style | |
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| Signatures | |
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| Urban Forms of Writing in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Letter Writing in France in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Letter Writing in France in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| French and English Primers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Literacy in Western Societies | |
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| The Material Surface of Modern Literary Manuscripts | |
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| Flaubert: The Labor of Writing | |
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| Raymond Queneau: The Form and Meaning of a Manuscript | |
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| The Rise of Printing in the West | |
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| The History of Typographic Forms in Europe | |
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| Typographies for Children | |
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| Lettering on Posters | |
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| Visual Poetry, Painters' Books | |
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| Digital Forms of Typography | |
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| Writing and Multimedia | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Photographic Credits | |
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| Acknowledgments | |