From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a format that everyone can follow. Steven Roger Fischer also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a useful reference for students and specialists as well as a delightful read for lovers of the written word everywhere.
"Steven Roger Fischer's book charts the history of communication from the time before human language was conceived through to the media explosion of the present day. Describing modes of communication between whales, birds, insects and primates and suggesting the first contexts in which the concept of 'language' might be applied, Fischer moves from the early abilities of Homo erectus to the spread of languages worldwide, analyzing the effect of the development of writing along the way. Finally, touching on the effects of radio, television, propaganda and advertising, Fischer looks to the future, asking how electronic media are daily reshaping the world's languages and suggesting a radical reinterpretation of what language really is."--Jacket
Takes in a wonderful diversity of things."-Nature. Now available in paperback, this final volume in the trilogy Language/Writing/Reading traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbols first acquired meaning through to the electronic texts of the digital age.
Delve in to the Scholastica Psykana in this great novel from Black Library Suffer not the witch to live, unless by their service they might earn redemption. This is the creed of the scholastica psykana, a brutal foundry in which those with psychic power might be taught to serve. On the eve of her sanctioning as a primaris psyker within these very halls, Glavia Aerand, former captain of the Cadian 900th Regiment, receives a startling premonition – one concerning her old unit and a dangerous psychic artefact hidden on the planet where they are deployed. After a reunion she never expected – or wanted – Aerand finds herself mired in a vicious campaign on the psychically active world of Visage, where the shallow seas and endless fogs are rumoured to swallow the souls of the dead. Haunted by growing suspicions of her new commander and the manifestations of the sinister relic, Aerand must trust in her new-found abilities to keep her former comrades alive, and confront an ancient threat that could consume Visage entirely.
EINE PSIONIKERIN ZWISCHEN LOYALITÄT UND ÜBERLEBEN Dulde nicht die Existenz der Hexe, es sei denn ihre Dienste bringen dir die Erlösung. Dies ist das Credo der Scholastica Psikana, eine brutale Seelenschmiede, in der Menschen mit psionischen Fähigkeiten auf einen Dienst im Imperium vorbereitet werden. Am Vorabend ihrer Sanktionierung als Primaris-Psionikerin hat Glavia Aerand, ehemals Hauptmann des 900. Regiments von Cadia, eine überraschende Vorahnung – eine, die ihre ehemalige Einheit und ein gefährliches psionisches Artefakt auf dem Planeten betrifft, wo das Regiment derzeit stationiert ist. Nach einem Wiedersehen, das Aerand weder erwartete noch wollte, findet sie sich in einem brutalen Feldzug auf der psionisch aktiven Welt Visus wieder, wo man sich sagt, dass die seichten Meere und endlosen Nebelbänke die Seelen der Toten verschlängen. Heimgesucht von einem wachsenden Misstrauen gegenüber ihrem neuen Kommandeur und den Manifestationen eines unheimlichen Relikts, muss Aerand sich auf ihre neuen Fähigkeiten verlassen, um ihre ehemaligen Kameraden am Leben zu halten und sich einer uralten Bedrohung zu stellen, die Visus komplett zu verschlingen droht. Ein ASTRA MILITARUM Roman
