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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

By Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz (Translator)
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By Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz (Translator)
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In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing.

The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The ...

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