rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: golden thread
    sub title: the story of writing
  title info:
    title: Story of writing
  name:
    name part: Clayton, Ewan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and animals in ancient Egypt, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century computer user, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Ewan Clayton marks each step in the historical development of writing, and explores the social and cultural impact of every stage: the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century - and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief amongst these is the fundamental question: 'What does it mean to be literate in the world of the early twenty-first century?' The Golden Thread belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future.
  table of contents: 1 Roman Foundations; 2 The Convenience of the Codex; 3 Speaking through the Senses; 4 The New World: Script and Print; 5 Turning the Page: Reformation and Renewal; 6 Handwriting Returns; 7 Putting the World of the Written Word in Order; 8 The Coming of Industry; 9 The Industrial Age; 10 Revolutions -- in Art and Print; 11 Alternative Dreams; 12 The Material Artefact; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Index; Note on the Author
  note: Ewan Clayton.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Writing
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Writing
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Written communication
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Written communication
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Writing materials and instruments
  subject:
    topic: Literacy
  classification: P211 .C384 2013
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Golden Thread : The Story of Writing
    name:
      name part: Clayton, Ewan
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Atlantic Books Ltd,c2013
  identifier: 9781782390343
  identifier: 1782390340
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130817
    record change date: 20250816213115.3
    record identifier: in00003433513
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng