Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols and Other Typographical Marks

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Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols and Other Typographical Marks

Author	: Keith Houston
File Size	: 52,9 Mb
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Language	: English
Release Date	: 24 September 2013
ISBN	: 9780393064421
Pages	: 353 pages

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Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation Symbols and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston Book PDF Summary

Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this delightful tour of 2,000 years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.

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