320 résultats
201088405Prestel USA. New. 2010. Hardcover. 379135079X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 224 pp. ; 175 illus. -- with a bonus offer-- . Prestel USA hardcover
2025x-069126449XPrinceton Univ Pr 2025. Hardcover. New. concise edition. 185 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2012x-9400726260Springer Verlag 2012. Hardcover. New. 2012 edition. 458 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
2014x-9400792263Springer Verlag 2014. Paperback. New. 2012 edition. 440 pages. 9.10x6.10x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
2020__0691194548Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
20042-0262524252Mit Pr 2004. Paperback. New. 374 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. Mit Pr paperback
2012x-0691154783Princeton Univ Pr 2012. Hardcover. New. 544 pages. 10.10x1.90x7.50 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
20120691154783_usedPrinceton University Press 2012-11-11. Hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Princeton University Press hardcover
20120691154783_newPrinceton University Press 2012-11-11. Hardcover. New. 0x0x0. Princeton University Press hardcover
2012DADAX0691154783Princeton University Press 2012-11-11. 1. hardcover. New. 0.10x0.10x0.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Princeton University Press hardcover
20141-019969625XOxford Univ Pr 2014. Hardcover. New. 945 pages. 9.00x6.00x2.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
2017x-0198805322Oxford Univ Pr 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 945 pages. 9.50x6.50x3.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
2020009317Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xi 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780691200903 9780691233963 0691200904 0691233969 ; OCLC 1110656207 ; dark grey cloth in dustjacket; dustjacket attached to endpapers ; Contents: A Quaker's Odyssey. Dinner at Longman's -- In the classroom of nature -- An errand in the city -- The vocal circle -- Lecturer and physician -- The Herculaneum papyri -- Antiquity Embraced. Words from Egypt's past -- The sounds of an ancient language -- Paris atmospheres -- Rooted in place -- Hier pour demain -- L'Affaire Polycarpe -- An Egyptian geography of Egypt -- Indications -- Scripts and Bones. Summer at Worthing -- Letters from Paris -- The papyri of the Description de l'Egypte -- Seeking uxellodunum -- The master of conditions -- Abandoning the alphabet at Grenoble --Demonstrations -- Iconoclasm at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres -- Reading the Past. The obelisk from Philae -- A singular and puzzling artifact -- A momentous change -- Words and sounds -- Parisian reactions -- Words across the Channel -- Antique Letters. Grey's box -- An opportune encounter -- The "true key" to Egyptian hieroglyphs -- The semantic trap avoided -- The reception of the Precis -- "Hold your laughter friends!" ; "In 1799 a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek hieroglyphic and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment. More than a puzzle-solving exercise based on a single artifact the decipherment engaged with the era's social cultural and intellectual contexts. It grew in the midst of heated disputes about language historical evidence the status of the Bible the nature of polytheism and the importance of classical learning. Jean-Francois Champollion in France and his British rival the medical doctor and polymath Thomas Young approached the decipherment from different standpoints derived from their contrasting temperaments educational experiences and attitudes to antiquity. Imbued with reverence for Greek culture and raised a Quaker Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing principally as a way to uncover new knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. To him the decipherment was akin to a challenge posed by a problem in mathematics or science. Champollion's altogether different motivations and attitude unfolded amidst the political chaos of Restoration France in fierce response to the intrigues of opposing scholars aligned with throne and altar. Unlike Young Champollion admired ancient Egypt and this sympathy coupled with his willingness to upend conventional wisdom about the enigmatic Egyptian signs freed him to travel a path down which Young refused to go. A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity" ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020 hardcover
2020x-0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2020__0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2009DADAX0691200904Princeton University Press 2020-09-15. hardcover. New. 6.25x1.75x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Princeton University Press hardcover
2017x-3319584359Springer Verlag 2017. Hardcover. New. 310 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
2018x-3319864084Springer 2018. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.73 inches. Springer paperback
20100691145768_newPrinceton University Press 2010-05-09. Hardcover. New. 9x6x2. Princeton University Press hardcover
2010__0691145768Princeton Univ Pr 2010. Hardcover. New. 376 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2005x-9048167779Springer Netherlands 2005. Paperback. New. 238 pages. 9.45x6.30x0.55 inches. Springer Netherlands paperback
2005DADAX1402030479Springer 2005-04-27. 2005. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.56x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
2011x-0470907215Jossey-Bass Inc Pub 2011. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 336 pages. 9.10x6.20x1.20 inches. Jossey-Bass Inc Pub hardcover
2004Q-0231130066Columbia University Press 2004-04-07. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Columbia University Press hardcover
2007Q-0231130074Columbia University Press 2007-02-13. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Columbia University Press paperback
