The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image / Leonard Shlain.
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TextPublisher: New York : Penguin/Compass, 1999Description: xiv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0713992972
- 9780713992977
- 0140196013
- 9780140196016
- 0670878839
- 9780670878833
- 302.2244
- P211.7 .S57 1999
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 302.2244 SHL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Missing | A280477B |
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"Readers guide inside, Penguin"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Image/Word -- Hunters/Gatherers -- Right Brain/Left Brain -- Males: Death/Females: Life -- Nonverbal/Verbal -- Cuneiform/Marduk -- Hieroglyphs/Isis -- Aleph/Bet -- Hebrews/Israelites -- Abraham/Moses -- Thera/Matzah -- Adam/Eve -- Cadmus/Alpha -- Sappho/Ganymede -- Dionysus/Apollo -- Athens/Sparta -- Lingam/Yoni -- Birth/Death -- Yin/Yang -- Taoism/Confucianism -- B.C./A.D. -- Jesus/Christ -- Death/Rebirth -- Patriarchs/Heretics -- Reason/Madness -- Illiteracy/Celibacy, 500-1000 -- Muslin Veils/Muslim Words -- Mystic/Scholastic, 1000-1300 -- Humanist/Egoist, 1300-1500 -- Protestant/Catholic -- Faith/Hate -- Sorcery/Science -- Positive/Negative, 1648-1899 -- Id/Superego, 1900-1945 -- Page/Screen, 1945-2000.
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