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001			933590390
003			OCoLC
005			20190729110431.0
008			160101s2016 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781620402153 _q(HB) :
020			_a1620402157 _q(HB)
020			_z9781620402160 _q(ePub)
035			_a(OCoLC)933590390
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050		4	_aZ43 _b.T785 2016
082	0	4	_a652.1 _223
100	1		_aTrubek, Anne, _d1966-
245	1	4	_aThe history and uncertain future of handwriting / _cAnne Trubek
264		1	_aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2016
300			_axiv, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index
505	0		_aHandwriting is history -- The strangely familiar very far past -- The problem with very beautiful writing -- The long tail of Greece and Rome -- Human Xerox machines -- The politics of script -- Handwriting as distinction -- Righteous, manly hands -- A devilish contrivance -- Long descenders -- Questioned documents -- Digital handwriting -- The continual revival of fancy letters -- The science of handwriting -- Our John Hancocks
520			_aThis book uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today
650		0	_aPenmanship _xHistory
650		0	_aWriting _xHistory
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