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|a Ferrara, Silvia,
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|a Grande invenzione.
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|a The greatest invention :
|b a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts /
|c Silvia Ferrara ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz.
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|a First American edition.
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|a "Originally published in Italian in 2019 ... as La grande invenzione ... English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First American edition 2022" -- verso.
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|a Behind the scenes. Stories ; Nature -- Undeciphered scripts. Islands. Crete ; Cyprus ; Easter Island -- Invented scripts. Cities ; Before the Pharaohs ; Between two rivers ; Chinese turtles ; Across the ocean ; End of story -- Experiments. Tradition ; Solitary inventors ; Isolated branches ; Social inventors -- Discoveries. Where to begin ; How to decipher -- The great vision. First ; Afterward ; Tomorrow ; Postscriptum.
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|a "Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention--the art of writing"--
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|a Ferrara takes a profound look at how-- and how many times-- human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language around the world. Readers will examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts; study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions, and venture to the cutting edge as high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eyes. Ferrara chronicles a journey filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint glimpse of writing's future -- adapted from jacket.
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|a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing SystemŝLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativêLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General.
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