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02563aam a2200337 i 4500 001 EF0BB6920FF811EEB73DD90627ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230621010022 008 230428t20232022nyua e b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 125086299X 020 $a 9781250862990 035 $a (OCoLC)1377731202 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 100 1 $a Ferrara, Silvia, $e author. 240 10 $a Grande invenzione. $l English 245 14 $a The greatest invention : $b a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts / $c Silvia Ferrara ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz. 250 $a First paperback edition. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2023. 300 $a viii, 289 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Originally published in Italian in 2019 ... as La grande invenzione ... English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First American edition 2022" -- verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t Postscriptum. $t Stories ; $t Nature -- $t Undeciphered scripts. $t Islands. $t Crete ; $t Cyprus ; $t Easter Island -- $t Invented scripts. $t Cities ; $t Before the Pharaohs ; $t Between two rivers ; $t Chinese turtles ; $t Across the ocean ; $t End of story -- $t Experiments. $t Tradition ; $t Solitary inventors ; $t Isolated branches ; $t Social inventors -- $t Discoveries. $t Where to begin ; $t How to decipher -- $t The great vision. $t First ; $t Afterward ; $t Tomorrow ; $t Postscriptum. 520 $a "Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention--the art of writing"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a Ferrara takes a profound look at how--and how many times--human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language around the world. Readers will examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts; study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions, and venture to the cutting edge as high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eyes. Ferrara chronicles a journey filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint glimpse of writing's future -- adapted from jacket. 700 1 $a Portnowitz, Todd, $d 1986- $e translator. 700 1 $i Translation of: $a Ferrara, Silvia. $t Grande invenzione. 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230621011132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF0BB6920FF811EEB73DD90627ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search