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Visible Speech is an attempt to set the record straight about the nature of writing. John DeFrancis, a noted specialist
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This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore th
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Discussions on any narrative focusing on the experiences of, about and by women have always had differences as well as s
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Visual technology now saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual - now key to debates across cultural studies, soci
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Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique
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The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in m
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There has been a longstanding bias in the study of spoken language towards using writing to analyse speech. This approac
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