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Author: Richard A. Firmage Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks ISBN: 9780747552994 Category : Alphabet Languages : en Pages : 320
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If you think you know your alphabet, think again. Drawing from mythology, cosmology, history, the Bible and literature, this book takes the reader on a tour of each of the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet. It shows the history and development of each letter and how its shape evolved.
Author: Richard A. Firmage Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks ISBN: 9780747552994 Category : Alphabet Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
If you think you know your alphabet, think again. Drawing from mythology, cosmology, history, the Bible and literature, this book takes the reader on a tour of each of the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet. It shows the history and development of each letter and how its shape evolved.
Author: Lee Hendrix Publisher: Heinemann International Incorporated ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 72
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Included in the magnificent pages of the Mira calligraphiae monumenta are two alphabets. Executed by an unknown hand, the first consists of Roman capital letters; the other is Gothic lower-case letters. As with the calligraphy of Bocskay described above, these alphabets were embellished by Joris Hoefnagel, a painter at the court of Rudolf II. In embellishing the alphabets, Hoefnagel employed symbols and heraldic objects--masks, animals, plants, obelisks--to convey the power and greatness of the emperor. An Abecedarium contains the thirty-eight pages from the Mira codex that display Hoefnagel's virtuosity in decorating the alphabets. Calligraphers, graphic artists, and all lovers of beautiful books will delight in Hoefnagel's artistry.
Author: Ornan Rotem Publisher: ISBN: 9781909631007 Category : Alphabet books Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this abecedarium, each letter of the English version of the Roman alphabet is looked at from four different vantage points that correspond to the four dimensions of space-time.
Author: Marion Bataille Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books ISBN: 9780747595793 Category : Alphabet Languages : en Pages : 0
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'S' spins, 'V' becomes 'W' via a mirrored page and other letters reveal themselves in pop-ups and sliding panels. All in simple black, white and red tones.
Author: Natalia Elvira Astoreca Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1789257468 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. The research concerning the so-called epichoric scripts was introduced by Kirchhoff in the 19th century and saw its highest point in the 1960s with the works of Jeffery and Guarducci. Nevertheless, recent epigraphical finds and new possibilities offered by digital tools call for a revised, comprehensive study of these alphabets. Unlike previous research, which was mostly concerned with palaeography, this book presents a linguistic analysis of the epichoric alphabets that follows the latest trends in grapholinguistics and the methodology of comparative graphematics. The latter is a branch of writing systems research focused on the relationship between graphemes and the values that they represent and compares them across writing systems. This study compares the different Greek alphabets in their earliest stages, i.e. 8th and 7th centuries BC, also taking into account other contemporaneous alphabets, like those for Phrygian, Eteocretan and the Italic languages. Through the analysis of the data provided by the epigraphic texts dated within the chronological framework of this thesis, it is possible to identify the different notation systems that Greek-speakers devised to represent their dialects in writing. This brings new insights on the innovations created by these communities and the different alphabetic traditions present in Greece and across the Mediterranean. The conclusion of the book emphasizes the need to study these regional alphabets independently, rather than considering them as part of a unified entity - 'the Greek alphabet' - which did not exist at the time, and creates a new line for future research that intends to frame them individually within the ecology of ancient Mediterranean alphabets.
Author: Françoise Kirkland Publisher: ISBN: 9781909631298 Category : Alphabet books Languages : en Pages : 0
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Physical Poetry Alphabet is a photography book, a celebration of design, and a movie-all rolled into one and presented in an exuberant and lush book. One of the doyens of portrait photography in Hollywood, Douglas Kirkland works together with Françoise Kirkland to create a modern-day abecedarium: the inimitable acrobatic sky dancer Erika Lemay, Milanese fashion director Simone Guidarelli, and designer William Thoren. Their playful creation harks back to the corporeal origins of the alphabet, echoing similar exercises in Western culture from the Renaissance to the great works of Art Deco. Besides Douglas Kirkland's impeccable photography, we get a backstage peek at the making of these images, alongside essays by Lemay and the creative team. The book also contains an introduction by book designer and typographer Ornan Rotem on the development of the alphabet and the relationship between the human body and letters. Beautifully produced with stunning illustrations, Physical Poetry Alphabet will appeal to anyone interested in design and photography.
Author: Mary Catherine Schumacher Publisher: MCS Publications ISBN: 9781098330392 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 56
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An Ostentation of Peacocks is a children's ABC book designed for ages 2-10. The goal of the book is to delight the eyes of young children while exciting the minds of older children. It introduces to all readers the beauty of collective nouns as part of the English language.
Author: Roger D. Woodard Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107028116 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 389
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This book argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon.
Author: Kevin M. Hoffman Publisher: Rosenfeld Media ISBN: 1933820373 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 241
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Meetings don’t have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests—if you design them. Meeting Design will teach you the design principles and innovative approaches you’ll need to transform meetings from boring to creative, from wasteful to productive. Meetings can and should be indispensable to your organization; Kevin Hoffman will show you how to design them for success.
Author: Richard A. Firmage
Author: Richard A. Firmage
Author: Lee Hendrix
Author: Ornan Rotem
Author: Marion Bataille
Author: Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Author: Françoise Kirkland
Author: John Cotton
Author: Mary Catherine Schumacher
Author: Roger D. Woodard
Author: Kevin M. Hoffman