A Radical Technology Sourcebook, by Lori Emerson, is a new book that looks at alternative communication systems that existed ...

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I have never read a word of Dan Brown, but that does not mean that I can't give Brown’s latest bestseller, “The Lost Symbol,” a thorough review based on the cover. The book appears to be the ...

There’s been much fulminating in the books world lately that The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, is bad for publishing. This week, former Publisher ...

Aboriginal message sticks, traditional tools of communication ... symbols, lines, dots and shapes carefully crafted to convey specific meanings. They aren’t standalone texts, like books or ...

Although the first documented use of @ was in 1536, the symbol did not rise from modern ... is the sine qua non of electronic communication, thanks to e-mail addresses and Twitter handles.