{"id":509,"date":"2011-02-17T05:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-07-13T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:45:09","slug":"bibliography-on-alphabets-and-writing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Bibliography on Alphabets and Writing Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Please also see my comments on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/scriptology.html\">Scriptology<\/a>&#8220;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also sections near the bottom on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/scriprefs.htm#Codes\">codes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/scriprefs.htm#numbers\">the history of numbers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/scriprefs.htm#lettering\">lettering, typography, calligraphy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/scriprefs.htm#Literacy\">literacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/scriprefs.htm#Mayan\">Mayan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Adkins, Lesley &amp; Roy. (2000).\u00a0<em>The keys of Egypt: The obsession to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs<\/em>. New York: HarperCollins.<\/p>\n<p>Aguirre, Manuel. (1961).\u00a0<em>La escritura en el mundo<\/em>. Madrid: Libreria Reliex. (mongol, semphore, berber, p 123, lolo)<\/p>\n<p>Alexandre, Pierre. (1972).\u00a0<em>Languages and Language in Black Africa<\/em>. (Translat. by F.A. Leary). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, Julie D. et al. (2007).\u00a0The Unicode Standard 5.0. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alphabets &amp; Scripts of Ancient Times &amp; Other Lands<\/em>. (1969). Berlin: Bundesdruckeim.<\/p>\n<p>Astle, T. (1803).\u00a0<em>The origin and progress of writing<\/em>. London: Benley. (Reprinted in 1973 by the AMS Press in New York.)<\/p>\n<p>Baines, John; Bennet, Joh; &amp; Houston, Stephen. (2008).\u00a0The disappearance of writing systems: perspectives on literacy and communication.\u00a0London: Equinox Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Ballhorn, F. (1861).\u00a0<em>Grammatography: A manual of reference to the alphabets of ancient and modern languages<\/em>. London: Trubner &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Baurmann, J., G\u00fcnther, KB, &amp; Knoop, U. (1988).\u00a0<em>Aspekte von Schrift und Schriftlichkeit<\/em>. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag.<\/p>\n<p>Bazerman, Charles (Ed.). (2008).\u00a0<em>Handbook of research on writing: history, society, school, individual, text<\/em>. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates \/ Taylor &amp; Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Berlitz, Charles. (1982).\u00a0<em>Native Tongues<\/em>. New York: Grosset &amp; Dunlap.<\/p>\n<p>Bernal, Martin. (1990).\u00a0<em>Cadmean letters<\/em>. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.<\/p>\n<p>Blatner, Adam. (1989). Commentary: A call for &#8220;Scriptology.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Visible Language, 22<\/em>(4), 415.<\/p>\n<p>Bliss, C.K. (1965)\u00a0<em>Semantography (Blissymbolics): A logical writing for an illogical world<\/em>\u00a0(2nd Ed.). Sydney, Australia: Semantography Publications.<\/p>\n<p>Bodmer, Frederick. (1944).\u00a0<em>The loom of language<\/em>. New York: W.W. Norton &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Bonfante, Larissa. (1990).\u00a0<em>Etruscan<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, Michelle P. (1998).\u00a0The British Library guide to writing and scripts: history and technique. Toronto: University of Toronto Press\/ London: The British Library.<\/p>\n<p>Buhler-Oppenheim, Kristin. (1971).\u00a0<em>Signs, Brands, Marks<\/em>. New York: Communication Arts Books.<\/p>\n<p>Burns, Alfred. (1989).\u00a0<em>The power of the written word: The role of literacy in the history of Western civilization<\/em>. New York: Peter Lang.<\/p>\n<p>Canepari, Luciano. (1983).\u00a0<em>Phonetic notation<\/em>. Venice (&#8220;Venezia), Italy: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, M. L. &amp; Schoville, K. N. (Eds.) (1984).\u00a0<em>Sign, symbol, script: An exhibition on the origins of writing and the alphabet<\/em>. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.<\/p>\n<p>Casson, Lionel. (October, 1988). howandwhypunctuationevercametobeinvented.\u00a0<em>Smithsonian, 19<\/em>(7), 216.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo-Gomez, Antonio. (2006).\u00a0Entre la pluma y la pared: historia social de la escritura. Madrid: Ediciones Akal. (in Spanish, mainly about the history of Writing in Spain, focusing on the medieval through around the 17th century)<\/p>\n<p>Chadwick, John. (1990a).\u00a0<em>Linear B and related scripts<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>Chadwick, John. (1990b).\u00a0<em>The decipherment of Linear B<\/em>. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell, Warren. (1975). T<em>he living alphabet<\/em>. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Chiera, Edward (1938).\u00a0<em>They wrote on clay<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Christin, Anne-Marie (Ed.). (2002).\u00a0A history of writing: from hieroglyph to multi-media. Paris?: Flammarion.<br \/>\nThis new large anthology has many interesting articles. Translated from the French (Histoire de l&#8217;ecriture), first published in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Claiborne, Robert (1974).\u00a0<em>The birth of writing<\/em>. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books.<\/p>\n<p>Cleator, P.E. (1961).\u00a0<em>Lost languages<\/em>. New York: John Day.<\/p>\n<p>Clodd, Edward. (1904).\u00a0<em>The story of the alphabet<\/em>. New York: McClure, Phillips &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, Marcel. (1958).\u00a0<em>La grande invention de l&#8217;ecriture et son evolution<\/em>. Paris: Imprimiere Nationale.<\/p>\n<p>Coulmas, F. &amp; Ehlich, K. (1983)\u00a0<em>Writing in focus<\/em>. (Trends in Linguistics&#8211;Monograph 24), ed. by W.Winter. Berlin\/New York: Mouton.<\/p>\n<p>Coulmas, Florian. (1989).\u00a0<em>The writing systems of the world<\/em>. Oxford &amp; New York: Basil Blackwell.<\/p>\n<p>Coulmas, Florian. (2003).\u00a0Writing systems: an introduction to their linguistic analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Dahlberg, Wolfgang. (1984). The alphabet: Pattern, history and perspective of the earliest classification system.\u00a0<em>International Classification, 11<\/em>(1), 13-20.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels, Peter T. (2001). Writing systems (Chapter 3, pp 43-80). In Mark Aronoff &amp; Janie Rees-Miller (Eds.),\u00a0Handbook of linguistics. Malden, MA:\u00a0 Blackwell Publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels, Peter T. &amp; Bright, William (Eds.). (1996).\u00a0<em>The World&#8217;s Writing Systems<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press. (<strong>Clearly the most comprehensive book on the subject<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Davies, W.V. (1988).\u00a0<em>Egyptian hieroglyphs<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>Dean, J.L. (1991).\u00a0<em>Alphabet Chart<\/em>. Bradford, NH: Author.<\/p>\n<p>DeFrancis, John. (1989).\u00a0<em>Visible speech: The diverse oneness of writing systems<\/em>. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.<\/p>\n<p>Delpire, Robert (Ed.). (1961).\u00a0<em>L&#8217;ecriture<\/em>. Paris: Encyclopedie Essentielle.<\/p>\n<p>DeKerckhove, Derrick &amp; Lumsden, Charles J. (Eds.) (1988).\u00a0<em>The alphabet and the brain: The lateralization of writing<\/em>. Berlin:Springer-Verlag<\/p>\n<p>Diringer, David. (1968).\u00a0<em>The Alphabet: A key to the history of mankind<\/em>.<em>\u00a0(Vols. 1 &amp; 2)<\/em>\u00a0(3rd Ed.). New York: Funk &amp; Wagnalls. (or, London: Hutchinson).<\/p>\n<p>Diringer, David. (1977).\u00a0<em>A history of the alphabet<\/em>. Old Woking, Surrey, England: Unwin Brothers, Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Doblehofer, Ernst. (1961).\u00a0<em>Voices in stone: The decipherment of ancient scripts and writings<\/em>. New York: Viking.<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson, Timothy. (2008).\u00a0Shapes for sounds: why alphabets look like they do&#8230;\u00a0 New York: Mary Batty Publisher.\u00a0 (A beautiful book!!)<\/p>\n<p>Driver, Godfrey Rolles.. (1976).\u00a0<em>Semitic writing: From pictograph to alphabet<\/em>. (Revised ed.) London: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Drucker, Johanna. (1995).\u00a0<em>The alphabetic labyrinth: The letters in history and imagination<\/em>. London: Thames &amp; Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Drucker, Johanna. (1998).\u00a0<em>Figuring the word: Essays on books, writing, and visual poetics<\/em>. New York: Granary Books.<\/p>\n<p>Fabre, Maurice. (1963).\u00a0<em>A history of communication<\/em>. New York: Hawthorne. (Vol.9 of series, History of Science &amp; Invention)<\/p>\n<p>Fairbank, Alfred. (1970).\u00a0<em>The story of handwriting: Origins and development<\/em>. New York: Watson-Guptill.<\/p>\n<p>Firmage, Richard A. (1993).\u00a0<em>The alphabet abecedarium: Some notes on letters<\/em>. Boston: David R. Godine.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer, Steven Roger. (2001).\u00a0<em>A history of writing<\/em>. London: Reaktion Books.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher, Leonard E. (197?).\u00a0<em>Letter Art<\/em>. New York: Four Winds Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher, Leonard E. (1982).\u00a0<em>Number Art<\/em>. New York: Four Winds Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher, Leonard E. (1985).\u00a0<em>Symbol Art<\/em>. New York: Four Winds Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fishman, Joshua (Ed.) (1977).\u00a0<em>Advances in the creation and revision of writing systems<\/em>. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Foreman, Grant. (1938)\u00a0<em>Sequoyah<\/em>. (Vol.16, The Civilization of the American Indian Series.) Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fraenkel, Gerd. (1965).\u00a0<em>Writing systems<\/em>. Boston: Ginn &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Friedrich, Johannes. (1966).\u00a0<em>Geschichte der Schrift<\/em>. Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Winter\/Universitats Verlag.<\/p>\n<p>Frutiger, Adrian. (1989).\u00a0<em>Signs and Symbols: Their design and meaning<\/em>. (Transl. by Andrew Bluhm.) New York:Van Nostrand Reinhold.<\/p>\n<p>Fry, Edmund. (1970).\u00a0<em>Pantographia<\/em>. Los Angeles: Sherwin &amp; Freutel. (A facsimile of a book first published in 1799.)<\/p>\n<p>Gabrial, Brian (2008). History of writing technologies (Chapter 2, pp. 23-33). In Bazerman anthology, see above.<\/p>\n<p>Ganguly, Subrata. (2004).\u00a0Symbol, script and writing: from petrogram to printing and further&#8230; Dehli: Sharada. (ISBN 81-85934-07-0). (At end, an appeal for the conversion of the many different scripts in India to a Roman script.)<\/p>\n<p>Gaur, Albertine. (1984).\u00a0<em>A history of writing<\/em>. New York: Charles Scribner&#8217;s Sons.<\/p>\n<p>Gaur, Alberine. (2000).\u00a0Literacy and the politics of writing. Bristol, UK; Portland, OR: Intellect Books.<\/p>\n<p>Gelb, I.J. (1963, 1974).\u00a0<em>A study of writing<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Gerstner, Karl. (1974).\u00a0<em>Compendium for literates<\/em>. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.<\/p>\n<p>Gilyarevsky, R.S. &amp; Grivnin, VS (1970).\u00a0<em>Languages identification guide<\/em>. Moscow: Nauka Publishing<\/p>\n<p>Glassner, Jean-Jacques. (2003).\u00a0The invention of cuneiform: writing in Sumer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Gl\u00fcck, Helmut. (1987).\u00a0<em>Schrift und Schriftlichkeit: Eine Sprach-und Kulturwissenschaftlich Studie<\/em>. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung.<\/p>\n<p>Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. (2009).\u00a0The writing revolution: cuneiform to the internet. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.<\/p>\n<p>Godin, Seth (1993).\u00a0<em>The smiley dictionary: Cool things to do with your keyboard<\/em>. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.<\/p>\n<p>Goody, Jack. (See books on\u00a0<a href=\"#Literacy\">Literacy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, Cyrus H. (1982).\u00a0<em>Forgotten scripts: Their ongoing discovery and decipherment\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(Revised and enlarged from earlier 1982 edition). New York: Basic Books.<\/p>\n<p>Gunther, Hartmut &amp; Ludwig, Otto (Eds). (1994).\u00a0<em>Writing and its use: An interdisciplin-ary handbook of international research<\/em>. Berlin &amp; New York: Walter de Gruyter.<\/p>\n<p>Haarmann, Harald. (1998).\u00a0<em>Universal-geschichte der Schrift<\/em>. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.<\/p>\n<p>Haas, W. (Ed.) (1969).\u00a0<em>Alphabets for English<\/em>. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Haas, W. (Ed.) (1976).\u00a0<em>Writing without letters<\/em>. Totowa, NJ: Rowman &amp; Littlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, Roy. (1986).\u00a0<em>The origin of writing<\/em>. London: Gerald Duckworth &amp; Co., Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Havelock, Eric A. (1976).\u00a0<em>Origins of western literacy<\/em>. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.<\/p>\n<p>Healy, John F. (1991).\u00a0<em>The early alphabet<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>Helfman, Elizabeth S. (1981).<em>\u00a0Blissymbolics: Speaking without speech<\/em>. New York: Elsevier\/Nelson Books.<\/p>\n<p>Helfman, Elizabeth S. (197?).\u00a0<em>Signs &amp; Symbols around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Holmes, Ruth B. &amp; Smith, Betty S. (1978).\u00a0<em>Beginning Cherokee<\/em>. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.<\/p>\n<p>Hofsinde, Robert. (196?).\u00a0<em>Indian picture writing<\/em>. New York: William Morrow &amp; Co. (p90, The Cree Alphabet).<\/p>\n<p>Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1985).\u00a0<em>Metamagical themas: Questing for the essence of mind and pattern<\/em>. New York: Basic Books.<\/p>\n<p>Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1988). Doughalese &amp; the Semiotic Mystery.\u00a0<em>Eureka, 48<\/em>, 57-64. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Mathematical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Hofstadter, Douglas. (1995).\u00a0<em>Letter spirit, in fluid concepts and creative analogies: Computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought<\/em>. New York: Basic Books\/HarperCollins. pp 401-466<\/p>\n<p>Hooker, J.T. (Ed.). (1990).\u00a0<em>Reading the past: Ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>Hoskins, R.F. &amp; Meredith-Owens, G.M. (1966).\u00a0<em>A handbook of Asian scripts<\/em>. London: The Trustees of the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Houston, Stephen D. (Ed.). (2004).\u00a0The first writing: Script invention as history and process. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Humez, Alexander &amp; Nicholas. (1981).\u00a0<em>Alpha to Omega: The life and times of the Greek alphabet<\/em>. Boston: David R. Godine.<\/p>\n<p>Humez, Alexander &amp; Nicholas. (1985).\u00a0<em>A B C et cetera: The life and times of the Roman alphabet<\/em>. Boston: David R. Godine.<\/p>\n<p>Humez, Alexander &amp; Nicholas. (2008).\u00a0<em>On the dot: the speck that changed the world<\/em>. Oxford &amp; New York: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson, James. (1983).\u00a0<em>Letters<\/em>. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.<\/p>\n<p>Illich, Ivan &amp; Sanders, Barry. (1988).\u00a0<em>The alphabetization of the popular mind<\/em>. San Francisco: North Point Press.<\/p>\n<p>International Phonetic Association. (1999).\u00a0\u00a0<em>Handbook of the IPA: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet<\/em>. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Irwin, Keith Gordon. (1961).\u00a0<em>The romance of writing<\/em>. New York: Viking.<\/p>\n<p>Jean, Georges. (1992&#8211;English translation).\u00a0<em>Writing: The story of alphabets and scripts<\/em>. New York: Discoveries\/Harry N. Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, Donald. (1981).\u00a0<em>The story of writing<\/em>. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co. (parker pen co.)<\/p>\n<p>Jensen, Hans. (1969).\u00a0<em>Sign, symbol, &amp; script: An account of man&#8217;s efforts to write (3rd Ed.)<\/em>. New York: G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons.<\/p>\n<p>Kannaiyan, I. (1956).\u00a0<em>Scripts in and around India<\/em>. Madras: Madras Government Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Katzner, Kenneth. (1986).\u00a0<em>The languages of the world<\/em>\u00a0(Revised). London: Routledge &amp; Kegan Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg, Rhoda. (1970).\u00a0<em>Analyzing children&#8217;s ar<\/em>t. Palo Alto: National Press Books.<\/p>\n<p>Kim-Renaud, Young-Key. (2009).\u00a0\u00a0<em>Korean: An Essential Grammar<\/em>. London: Routledge. (She is also the author of other books.),<\/p>\n<p>Kim-Renaud, Young-Key. (Ed.) (1997)\u00a0<em>The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure<\/em>. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (The editor herself wrote the Introduction and\u00a0 some chapters.)<\/p>\n<p>Klausner, Janet. (1993).\u00a0<em>Sequoyah&#8217;s gift: A portrait of the Cherokee leader<\/em>. New York: HarperCollins.<\/p>\n<p>Kluh, J.M. (1922).\u00a0<em>The etymologic cipher alphabet<\/em>. Chicago: J.M. Kluh. (in Perry Castaneda Library at U.T.Austin)<\/p>\n<p>LeGuin, Ursula. (1985).\u00a0<em>Always coming home<\/em>. New York: Harper &amp; Row. (Invented the &#8220;Kesh&#8221; alphabet, in Appendix of the novel.)<\/p>\n<p>Logan, Robert K. (1986).\u00a0<em>The alphabet effect<\/em>. New York: William Morrow &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Machet, Anne (Ed.). (1982).\u00a0<em>Ecriture, typographie, pedagogie: Proceedings of the International Center for Applied Linguistics<\/em>. Besancon, France: L&#8217;Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Besancon.<\/p>\n<p>Man, John. (2000).\u00a0<em>Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World<\/em>. New York: John Wiley &amp; Sons.<\/p>\n<p>Manguel, Alberto. (1996).\u00a0<em>A history of reading<\/em>. New York: Viking\/Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, Henri-Jean. (1999).\u00a0<em>The history and power of writing<\/em>. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. (First published in France in 1988.)<\/p>\n<p>Martlew, Margaret. (1983).\u00a0<em>The psychology of written language: Developmental and educational perspectives<\/em>. New York: John Wiley &amp; Sons.<\/p>\n<p>Mason, William. (1920).\u00a0<em>History of the art of writing<\/em>. New York: The McMillan Co.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath, Alister. (2001).\u00a0<em>In the beginning: The story of the King James Bible<\/em>. New York: Doubleday\/Random House.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer, Samuel A.B. (1951).\u00a0<em>The origin of writing and our alphabet<\/em>. London: Luzac &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer, Samuel A. (1961).\u00a0<em>Assyrian grammar<\/em>. New York: Frederick Ungar.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, Jonathan. (1971).\u00a0<em>Marshall McLuhan.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Viking.<\/p>\n<p>Moore, Hyatt (Ed). (1991).\u00a0<em>The alphabet makers<\/em>. Huntington Beach, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>Moorhouse, A.C. (1953).\u00a0<em>The triumph of the alphabet: A history of writing<\/em>. New York: Henry Schuman.<\/p>\n<p>Moran, Hugh A. &amp; Kelley, David H. (1969).\u00a0<em>The alphabet &amp; the ancient calendar signs<\/em>. Palo Alto, CA: Daily Press.<\/p>\n<p>Morison, Stanley. (1972).\u00a0<em>Politics and script: Aspects of authority and freedom<\/em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press.<\/p>\n<p>Moss, Miriam. (1988).\u00a0<em>Language and writing<\/em>. New York: The Bookwright Press. (Children&#8217;s book)<\/p>\n<p>Myller, Rolf. (1980).\u00a0<em>Symbols and their meaning<\/em>. New York: Atheneum.<\/p>\n<p>Nakanishi, Akira. (1980).<em>Writing systems of the world: Alphabets, syllabaries, pictograms<\/em>. Rutland, VT: Chas. E. Tuttle.<\/p>\n<p>Nasr, Seyyed H. (1987).\u00a0<em>The spritual message of Islamic calligraphy<\/em>. Albany: SUNY Press.<\/p>\n<p>Naveh, Joseph. (1982).\u00a0<em>Early history of the alphabet<\/em>. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press\/ Hebrew University.<\/p>\n<p>Nilsen, Don L. &amp; A.P. (1978).<em>\u00a0Language play<\/em>. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.<\/p>\n<p>Noel, Ruth S. (1974, 1980).\u00a0<em>The languages of Tolkien&#8217;s Middle-Earth<\/em>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.<\/p>\n<p>Norman, James. (1975).\u00a0<em>Ancestral Voices: Decoding ancient languages<\/em>. New York: Four Winds Press.<\/p>\n<p>Ogg, Oscar. (1940).\u00a0<em>An alphabet sourcebook<\/em>. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Ogg, Oscar. (1971).\u00a0<em>The 26 letters<\/em>. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.<\/p>\n<p>Ong, Walter J. (1986). (see literacy)<\/p>\n<p>Olson, David R. (1994).\u00a0<em>The world on paper. The conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading<\/em>. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Oppenheim, Joanne. (1979).\u00a0<em>Sequoyah: Cherokee hero<\/em>. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates.<\/p>\n<p>Ouaknin, Marc-Alain. (1999).\u00a0<em>Mysteries of the alphabet: The origins of writing<\/em>. New York: Abbeville Press.<\/p>\n<p>Page, R.I. (1987).\u00a0<em>Runes: Reading the past (Vol.4)<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press\/ The Trustees of the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Petrucci, Armand. 1993.\u00a0<em>Public Lettering: Script, Power &amp; culture<\/em>. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Poortvliet, Rien &amp; Huygen, Wil. (1982).\u00a0<em>Secrets of the Gnomes<\/em>. New York: Harry N. Abrams\/ Ballantine. (Suggests a gnomes&#8217; &#8220;red hat&#8221; alphabet that was the basis for cuneiform.)<\/p>\n<p>Pope, Maurice. (1975).\u00a0<em>The story of archaeological decipherment<\/em>. New York: Charles Scribner&#8217;s Sons.<\/p>\n<p>Powell, Barry B. (2009).\u00a0Writing: theory and history of the technology of civilization.\u00a0 Chichester UK: Wiley-Blackwell<\/p>\n<p>Pullum, Geoffrey K. &amp; Ladusaw, William A. (1986).\u00a0<em>Phonetic symbol guide<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Rahi, Ishwar Chandra. (1977).\u00a0<em>World alphabets: Their origin &amp; development<\/em>. Katra, Allahabad, India: Bharagava Printing.<\/p>\n<p>Rees, Ennis. (1968).\u00a0<em>The little Greek alphabet book<\/em>. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Reisner, R. (1971).\u00a0<em>Graffiti: Two thousand years of wall writing<\/em>. New York: Cowles Books.<\/p>\n<p>Rendell, D.&amp; K. (1979).\u00a0<em>The ancient world: Early writing from Mesopotamia and Egypt, 3100 B.C.&#8211;800 A.D. (a catalog)<\/em>. Newton, MA: D. &amp; K. Rendell.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds, Henry J. (1938).\u00a0<em>The world&#8217;s oldest writings<\/em>. Chicago: The Antiquitas Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds, Lloyd J. (1979).\u00a0<em>Straight impressions.<\/em>\u00a0Woolwich, ME: TBW Books.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, Andrew. (1995).\u00a0<em>The story of writing<\/em>. London: Thames &amp; Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, Andrew. (2002).\u00a0<em>Lost languages: The enigma of the world&#8217;s undeciphered scripts<\/em>. New York: Nevraumont\/McGraw-Hill.\u00a0 (Nice references!)<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers, Carl T. (1965?)\u00a0<em>Braille<\/em>. New York: American Foundation for the Blind.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers, Henry. (2005).\u00a0Writing systems: a linguistic approach. Oxford, UK, &amp; Malden, MA: Blackwell<\/p>\n<p>R\u00f6hr, Heinz Markus. (1994).\u00a0<em>Writing: Its evolution and relation to speech<\/em>. Bochum, Germany: Universit\u00e4tsverlag<\/p>\n<p>Rovin, Jeff. (1981).\u00a0<em>Transgalactic guide to solar system M-17<\/em>. New York: Perigee\/G.P. Putnam&#8217;s.\u00a0 (Some imagined alphabets from other planets)<\/p>\n<p>Sacks, David. (2003).\u00a0Language visible: unraveling the mystery of the alphabet from a to z. New York: Broadway Books.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (A very nice and current review!)<\/p>\n<p>Saljo, Roger (Ed.). (1988).\u00a0<em>The written word: Studies in literate thought and action<\/em>. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.<\/p>\n<p>Samoyault, Tiphaine. (1998).\u00a0<em>Alphabetical order: How the alphabet began<\/em>. New York: Viking\/Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Sampson, Geoffrey. (1985).\u00a0<em>Writing systems: A linguistic introduction<\/em>. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Sass, Benjamin (2005).\u00a0<em>The alphabet at the turn of the millennium: The west semitic alphabet ca. 1150 &#8211; 805 BCE<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;the antiquity of the Arabian, Greek, and Phrygian alphabets. Tel Aviv: ? press.<\/p>\n<p>Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. (1992).\u00a0<em>Before writing<\/em>. Austin: University of Texas Press.<\/p>\n<p>Shmandt-Besserat, D. &amp; Erard, Michael (2008). Origins and forms of writing (Chapter 1, pp 7-22). In Bazerman\u2019s anthology (see above).<\/p>\n<p>Scinto, Leonard F.M. (1986).\u00a0<em>Written language and psychological development<\/em>. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, Kim (Ed.). (1981).\u00a0<em>Inversions: A catalog of calligraphic cartwheels<\/em>. 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New York: Frederick Ungar.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer, Herbert. (1968).\u00a0<em>The visible word<\/em>. New York: Visual Communications Books\/Hastings House.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer, Herbert. (1969).\u00a0<em>Pioneers of modern typography<\/em>. New York: Hastings House\/ Visual Communications Books.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens, John. (1981).\u00a0<em>Sacred calligraphy of the Eas<\/em>t. Boulder, CO: Shambhala.<\/p>\n<p>Stiebner, Erhardt D. &amp; Leonhard, Walter. (1977).\u00a0<em>Bruckmann&#8217;s handbuch der schrift<\/em>. Munich (Munchen), Germany: F. Bruckmann<\/p>\n<p>Stryker-Rodda, Harriet. (1986).\u00a0<em>Understanding colonial handwriting<\/em>. Baltimore: Geneological Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Swann, Donald, &amp; Tolkien, J.R.R. (1978).\u00a0<em>The road goes ever on: A song cycle<\/em>\u00a0(2nd ed., revised). New York: Houghton-Mifflin.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton, Tamara Plakins. (1996).\u00a0<em>Handwriting in America: A cultural history.<\/em>\u00a0New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Top, Alsexander. (1603\/1971?).\u00a0<em>The olive leaf.<\/em>\u00a0(A facsimile) Menston, England: The Scolar Press, Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Tschichold, Jan. (1948).\u00a0<em>An illustrated history of writing and lettering<\/em>. New York: Columbia University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Tsuen-Hsuin, Tsien. (1962).\u00a0<em>Written on bamboo and silk: The beginnings of chinese books and inscriptions<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Turbayne, C.M. (1983?).\u00a0<em>Metaphors for the mind<\/em>. In R. Rudner &amp; I. Scheffler (Eds.), Logic &amp; art: Essays in honor of Nelson Goodman. ? Publisher<\/p>\n<p>Ullman, B.L. (1963).\u00a0<em>Ancient writing and its influence<\/em>. New York: Cooper Square Publishers.<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO. (1965).\u00a0<em>The art of writing<\/em>. Germany: United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Vachek, Josef. (1989).\u00a0<em>Written language revisited<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (functional linguistics Prague school.<\/p>\n<p>Vandendorpe, Christian. (2009).\u00a0From papyrus to hypertext: toward the universal digital library. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (Translated from the French by Phyllis Aronoff &amp; Howard Scott.)<\/p>\n<p>Walker, C.B.F. (1987).\u00a0<em>Cuneiform: Reading the past (Vol.3)<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press\/ The Trustees of the British Museum<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWatt, W.C. (Ed.). (1994).\u00a0<em>Writing systems and cognition: Perspectives from psychology, physiology, linguistics, and semiotics<\/em>. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Welman, William S. (1973).\u00a0<em>African language structure<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n<p>Wemyss, Stanley. (1950).\u00a0<em>The languages of the world<\/em>. Philadelphia: Author.<\/p>\n<p>Whiteman, M.F. (Ed.) (1981).\u00a0<em>Writing: The nature, development, and teaching of written communication<\/em>. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum.<\/p>\n<p>Whittick, Arnold. (1961).\u00a0<em>Symbols, signs, and their meaning<\/em>. Newton, MA. Charles T. Branford Co.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf, Maryanne. (2007).\u00a0Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain. New York: HarperCollins.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Written Language &amp; Literacy<\/em><\/strong>. A journal begun around 1998. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Editor: William Bright.<\/p>\n<p>Zapf, Hermann (1970).\u00a0<em>About alphabets: Some marginal notes on type design<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<h3><a name=\"Codes\"><\/a>Codes:<\/h3>\n<p>Bielewicz, Julian A. (1976).\u00a0<em>Secret languages: Communicating in codes and ciphers<\/em>. New York: Elsevier\/Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Brumbaugh, Robert S. (Ed.) (1978).\u00a0<em>The most mysterious manuscript: The Voynich &#8220;Roger Bacon&#8221; cipher manuscript<\/em>. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. 1500s, 200 pages magic &amp; scientific allusions.<\/p>\n<p>Butler, William S. &amp; Keeny, L. Douglas. (2001).\u00a0<em>Secret messages: Concealment, codes, and other types of ingenious communication<\/em>. New York: Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman, W.F. (ed.) (1976).\u00a0<em>Cryptography and cryptanalysis<\/em>. (Articles from journal, 1925-1940s). Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press. (po box 3837, zip 92653<\/p>\n<p>Garden, Nancy. (1981).\u00a0The kids&#8217; code and cipher book. New York: Holt, Rinehart &amp; Winston.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner, Martin. (1972).\u00a0Codes, ciphers and secret writing. New York? Dover)<\/p>\n<p>Haldane, R.A. (1976).\u00a0<em>The hidden world<\/em>. New York: St. Martin&#8217;s Press.<\/p>\n<p>Janeczko, Paul B. (1984).\u00a0<em>Loads of codes and secret ciphers.<\/em>\u00a0New York: MacMillan.<\/p>\n<p>Kahn, David. (1967).\u00a0<em>The codebreakers: The story of secret writing.<\/em>\u00a0New York: MacMillan. (thick book.)<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hare, Jeffrey A. (1997).\u00a0Secret codes and hidden messages. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press. (Kid\u2019s book).<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, John. (1966).\u00a0<em>How to write codes and send secret messages<\/em>. New York: Scholastic Book Services.<\/p>\n<p>Pickover, Clifford A. (2000).\u00a0Cryptorunes : codes and secret writing. Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate.<\/p>\n<p>Way, Peter. (1977).\u00a0<em>Codes and ciphers<\/em>. London: Aldus Books.<\/p>\n<p>Wrixon, Fred B. (1989).\u00a0<em>Codes, ciphers, and secret languages<\/em>. London: Harrap Books.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a name=\"Decipherment\"><\/a>Decipherment<\/h3>\n<p>Ray, John. (2007).\u00a0The Rosetta Stone and the rebirth of ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<h3><a name=\"numbers\"><\/a>Numbers<\/h3>\n<p>Gullberg, Jan. (1997).\u00a0<em>Mathematics from the birth of numbers.<\/em>\u00a0New York: W.W. Norton.<\/p>\n<p>Ifrah, Georges. (1985).\u00a0<em>From one to zero: A universal history of numbers.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Viking\/Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Ifrah, Georges. (2000).\u00a0<em>The universal history of numbers: From prehistory to the invention of the computer<\/em>. (Translated from the French by D. Bellos et al.). New York: John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Menninger, Karl. (1977).\u00a0<em>Number words and number symbols: A cultural history of numbers<\/em>\u00a0(Revised Ed.) Cambridge, MA: M.I.T.Press.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<h3><a name=\"Literacy\"><\/a>Literacy<\/h3>\n<p>Baron, Naomi S. (1981).\u00a0<em>Speech, writing, &amp; sign: A functional view of linguistic representation<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Baumann, Gerd (Ed.). (1986).\u00a0<em>The written word: Literacy in transition<\/em>. Oxford: Clarendon.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman, Alan K. &amp; Woolf. (1994).\u00a0<em>Literacy and power in the ancient world<\/em>. Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Finnegan, Ruth. (1988).\u00a0<em>Literacy and orality: Studies in the technology of communication<\/em>. New York: Basil Blackwell.<\/p>\n<p>Goody, Jack. (1977).\u00a0<em>The domestication of the savage mind<\/em>. Cambridge, Enland: Cambridge University Press. (Note esp, chap 5, &#8220;What is in a list?&#8221;, pp 74-111.)<\/p>\n<p>Goody, Jack. (1986).\u00a0<em>The logic of writing and the organization of society<\/em>. Cambridge (Great Britain): Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Goody, Jack. (1987).\u00a0<em>The interface between the written and the oral<\/em>. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Goody, Jack. (2000).\u00a0<em>The power of the written tradition<\/em>. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.<\/p>\n<p>Ong, Walter J. (1982).\u00a0<em>Orality and literacy.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Methuen.<\/p>\n<p>Olson, David R. (1994).\u00a0<em>The world on paper<\/em>. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens, Mitchell. (1998).\u00a0<em>The rise of the image, the fall of the word<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Ave. Ny 10016.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<h3><a name=\"lettering\"><\/a>Lettering, Typography, Calligraphy:<\/h3>\n<p>Anderson, Donald M. (1969\/1992).\u00a0<em>Calligraphy: The art of written forms<\/em>. New York: Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Baker, Arthur. (1975).\u00a0<em>Calligraphy<\/em>. New York: Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Biegeleisen, J. I. (1982).\u00a0<em>Handbook of typefaces and lettering<\/em>. New York: Arco<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal, Joseph. (1982).\u00a0<em>Typographic years: A printer\u2019s journey through a half century 1925-1975<\/em>. New York: Frederic C. Beil<\/p>\n<p>Folsom, Rose. (1990).\u00a0The calligrapher\u2019s dictionary. London: Thames &amp; Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Gaur, Albertine. (1994).\u00a0<em>A history of calligraphy<\/em>. New York: Cross River Press.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, Maggie. (1974).\u00a0<em>Alphabets &amp; Images: Inspiration from letterforms<\/em>. London: B.T. Batsford.<\/p>\n<p>Goudy, Frederic W. (1942).\u00a0<em>The alphabet and elements of lettering<\/em>. (Revised Ed.) Berkely, CA: University of California Press. (1st in 1918)<\/p>\n<p>Grafton, Carol B.(Ed.) (1982?).\u00a0<em>Bizarre and ornamental alphabets<\/em>. New York: Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Gray, E.? (1982).\u00a0Lettering as drawing. New York: Taplinger\/ Pentalic. Calligraphy Review<br \/>\nGray, Nicolete. (1986).\u00a0<em>A history of lettering<\/em>. Boston: David R. Godine.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, Allan. (1995),. Alphabet: The history, evolution, and design of the lettes we use today. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications\/ BPI.<\/p>\n<p>Hornung, Clarence. (?197?). Lettering from A to Z. New York: Wm. Penn Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Larcher, Jean. (1976).\u00a0Fantastic alphabets: 24 original alphabets. New York: Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Jury, David. (2008). History of typography (Chapter 3, pp. 35-63). In Bazerman\u2019s anthology, see above.<\/p>\n<p>Lai, T.C. (1973).\u00a0<em>Chinese calligraphy: An introduction<\/em>. Seattle: University of Washington Press.<\/p>\n<p>Larcher, Jean. (1976).\u00a0<em>Fantastic alphabets: 24 original alphabets<\/em>. New York: Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Lawther, Gail &amp; Christopher. (1987).\u00a0<em>You can learn lettering and calligraphy<\/em>. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books.<\/p>\n<p>Long, Jean. (1987).\u00a0<em>The art of Chinese calligraphy<\/em>. Dorset, NY: Blandford\/Sterling.<\/p>\n<p>Meggs, Philip B. (1983).\u00a0<em>A history of typography<\/em>. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.<\/p>\n<p>Mote, Frederick W. &amp; Chu, Hung-lam. (1989).\u00a0<em>Calligraphy and the East Asian book<\/em>. Boston: Shambhala.<\/p>\n<p>Nasr, Seyyed H. (1987).\u00a0The spritual message of Islamic calligraphy. Albany: SUNY Press.<\/p>\n<p>Nesbitt, Alexander. (1957).\u00a0<em>The history &amp; technique of lettering<\/em>. New York: Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Potter, Tony. (1987).\u00a0<em>Lettering &amp; Typography<\/em>. London: Usborne.<\/p>\n<p>Schimmel, Anne Marie. (1983).\u00a0<em>Calligraphy and Islamic culture<\/em>. New York: N.Y.U. Press.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd, Margaret. (1984).\u00a0<em>Calligraphy now: New light on traditional letters<\/em>. New York: G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon, Martin. (1994).\u00a0<em>The art of typography: An introduction to Typo.icon.ography<\/em>. New York: Art Direction Book Co.<\/p>\n<p>Wong, Frederick. (1980).\u00a0<em>The complete calligrapher<\/em>. New York: Watson-Guptill.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<h3><a name=\"Mayan\"><\/a>Mayan:<\/h3>\n<p>Benson, Elizabeth B. &amp; Griffin, Billet. (1988).\u00a0<em>Maya Iconography<\/em>. Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Coe, Michael D. &amp; Van Stone, Mark. (2001).\u00a0<em>Reading the Maya glyphs.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Thames &amp; Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter, Laurie. (2001 ).\u00a0<em>Secrets in stone: All about Maya hieroglyphs.<\/em>\u00a0 Boston: Little, Brown &amp; Co.\/ Madison Press.<\/p>\n<p>Houston, S.D. (1989).\u00a0<em>Maya glyphs<\/em>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press\/British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, Joyce. (February, 1980).\u00a0<em>Zapotec writing<\/em>. Scientific American, 242(2), 50-64.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart, David, &amp; Houston, Stephen D. (August, 1989).\u00a0<em>The Mayan Writing. Scientific American, 261<\/em>(2), 82-89.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, J.E.S. (1971).\u00a0<em>Maya hieroglyphic writing: An introduction<\/em>. Tulsa?: University of Oklahoma Press.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<h3>Miscellaneous Notes:<\/h3>\n<p>Conkey, Margaret W. &amp; Hastorf, Christine A. (1990).\u00a0The use of style in archaeology. Cambridge U. Press.<\/p>\n<p>Deely, John. (1990).\u00a0Basics of semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Cherry, Colin. (1957). On human communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n<p>ref Wilson, Tom. (1984). Ziggy Cartoon about pet from foreign country has pet speaking in symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Geisel, Theo. On Beyond Zebra.<\/p>\n<p>Rockwell, Gail (illustrator). (1974). Sgt. Buck Slasher: Action Packed Battle Comic. In Tom Rockwell, The\u00a0Portmanteau Book.<\/p>\n<p>In Russian:<br \/>\nLoukotka, Chestmir, (1950) &#8220;Razvitiye Pusima.&#8221; Moscow. Univ. of Washington Library<\/p>\n<p>Find full reference&#8230;<br \/>\nFairservis, Walter A., Jr. (197?). The script of the Indus Valley civilization. Scientific American.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace, A., Wallechinsky, D., &amp; Wallace, I. (1983). The Book of lists #3. New York: Wm. Morrow &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Wallechinsky, D. &amp; Wallace, I. (1981). The People&#8217;s almanac #3. New York: Wm. Morrow &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, William S-Y. (1982?). The Chinese language. Scientific American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please also see my comments on &#8220;Scriptology&#8220;) Also sections near the bottom on: codes the history of numbers lettering, typography, calligraphy literacy Mayan Adkins, Lesley &amp; Roy. (2000).\u00a0The keys of Egypt: The obsession to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. New York: HarperCollins. Aguirre, Manuel. (1961).\u00a0La escritura en el mundo. Madrid: Libreria Reliex. 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