Worlds of Reference by McArthur, Tom

Cambridge University Press, 1988. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions.

Cambridge University Press, 4/29/1988. Paperback. Good. Good Condition and Unread! Text is clean and unmarked! Cover is discolored from storage. Has a small black line or red dot on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

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Cambridge University Press, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. some handling wear to covers but clean and tight.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press. 1988, ix, 230pp. Paperback. In good condition. Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture - and particularly how the human race learned to store information beyond the brain. It looks at how our species moved from being able to communicate only orally and to store information only in the head (rote memorisation) to the evolution of technologies for external reference clay- and cunieform, reed-and-hieroglyph, bamboo-and-ideogram, parchment-and-alphabet, codices, books, pages, columns and so forth through the print revolution to the current electronic revolution. Along the way it looks at how this has affected languages like Latin, french, and English and people's attitudes to those languages - and to words and the listing of information about words. This intensely human subject is as… Read More

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture - and particularly how the human

Paperback / softback. New. Worlds of Reference is a history of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference materials, but it is also far more than that, because it is concerned with the growth of civilisation, education and culture - and particularly how the human race learned to store information beyond the brain.

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