Young, spirited, talented src joins St William vanesan’s college, one of the most reputed in India, to make a meaningful and honest contribution to higher academics. But her hitherto cloistered life is deeply shaken as she discovers the secrets of her workplace and grows through all her struggles, heartbreaks and encounters. She matures to finally discover a new life in which she is firmly in control of the script of her life and all is perfect, until she meets father Abe whose mission in life is to pen a script which is unknown to src, and to all others….

Without writing, there would be no records, no history, no books, and no emails. Writing is an integral and essential part of our lives; but when did it start? Why do we all write differently and how did writing develop into what we use today? All of these questions are answered in this Very Short Introduction. Starting with the origins of writing five thousand years ago, with cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, Andrew Robinson explains how these early forms of writing developed into hundreds of scripts including the Roman alphabet and the Chinese characters. He reveals how the modern writing symbols and abbreviations we take for granted today - including airport signage and text messaging - resemble ancient ones much more closely than we might think. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Everyone has a story, and that story has an author—God. He is the author of our lives, the scriptwriter of our days—the one who has written a great purpose for us. When we fall off the rails and do not follow the script God has written, that is when things go haywire. Our plans fall apart, things do not go as we plan, and we hit rock bottom. This book is about acknowledging God as your guiding light, leading you to uncover your life’s purpose. Life is a series of unforeseeable events, and it is crucial to learn how to respond to them.-Act the Script of your life. It’s about learning to live a quality life that is fulfilling and purposeful. But how can you tap into your purpose when distracted by the world’s matters? Allow this book to serve as a beacon of hope and direction. If you find yourself at a point in your life where you feel lost, on the verge of quitting, and in need of encouragement, this is it. The moment you realize that your steps to success have already been written is the day that you will pursue the one who wrote those steps. We all want success and sometimes follow the wrong path to attain it, not realizing the high cost we pay long-term. There is good news! You can turn your life around, gain heavenly wisdom, and get back on track by the hand of God. All you have to do is turn your life to Jesus Christ, surrender to God’s plans, and uncover the book He has written for your life. Once you discover what you are destined to do and whom you are destined to be, the sky is the limit! Nothing will have the power to hold you back. With God on your side and your mind consecrated to the Lord, you can overcome anything and achieve unimaginable feats.

After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one but two ancient scripts. Both of these scripts yield clues of great historical importance. Fischers previous decipherment, of a Cretan artefact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek. Fischer's decipherment of Rongorongo shows that it was not merely a mnemonic device for recalling memorised texts, but was actually read and used for creative composition. This is the exciting story of these two decipherments, by the man who now must rank as the greatest glyphbreaker of all time.

A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.

By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.