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Author | : L. Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : Galaxy Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1995-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1592121365 |
Modern man Mike de Wolf gets stranded in a pirate adventure being written by his friend Horace Hackett and finds himself fighting for his life as the villainous Miguel de Lobo, while trying to figure out how to extricate himself from Horace's fatal plot.
Author | : La Fayette Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 9781619866447 |
Author | : La Fayette Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Science fiction, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : La Fayette Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : La Fayette Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, American |
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Author | : Thomas S. Mullaney |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262536102 |
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters—in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for “Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained “typewriter girls” and “typewriter boys.” Still later was the “Double Pigeon” typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an input method that was the first instance of “predictive text.” Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an “object history” but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Author | : La Fayette Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Horror tales, American |
ISBN | : 9780445040069 |
Author | : Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547572549 |
A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.
Author | : La Fayette Ron Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1951 |
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Author | : Alexander McCall Smith |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400079411 |
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties (“the finest age to be”) she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiancé. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has not set the date for their marriage. Her able assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband. And worse, a rival detective agency has opened in town—an agency that does not have the gentle approach to business that Mma Ramotswe’s does. But, of course, Precious will manage these things, as she always does, with her uncanny insight and her good heart.