Inventing the Alphabet by Johanna Drucker review
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker explores the birth of the alphabet before the Greeks.
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker explores the birth of the alphabet before the Greeks.
Is there a trend of ‘reverse Darwinism’ in Russian history?
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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its effect on the international politics of the late Cold War era.
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