Pre-order Releases Apr 20, 2027
Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand
by Andrew Hill
$15.76 / copy at 25+ copies As low as $13.97 at 1,000+Your best volume price
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Take Note
A wide-ranging history of the uses and evolution of shorthand, and its place in the world today.
Cicero's scribe invented it. Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and even Astrid Lindgren used it. Rivalries, adulteries and actual martyrdoms arose from it. Spycraft was reliant on it, courtroom dramas were changed by it, and feminism has an uneasy debt to it. But today, its continuing existence is at risk. So, what exactly is shorthand? What has it given us? And what would we lose if this world-changing technology disappeared?
Andrew Hill follows the story from the scribes of Ancient Rome to today's takeover of AI, revealing how a system of symbols invented to speedily transcribe speech shaped the modern world and can still offer a valuable way to record, store, and recall our brightest ideas today.
The book, Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781771967785 in Paperback by Andrew Hill may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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Details
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Author
- Andrew Hill
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Apr 20, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781771967785
- ISBN-10
- 1771967781
- Pages
- 280
- Carton quantity
- 3 copies
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Take Note in bulk: pricing
Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $15.76 | 21% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $15.16 | 24% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $14.96 | 25% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $14.36 | 28% off list |
| 1,000+ | $13.97 | 30% off list |
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