Published by John Robert Gregg in 1916, this Book is the 5th Edition of the Gregg Shorthand Manuals. This Manual Includes A Detailed Biography About John Robert Gregg and 50 Blank Gregg Shorthand/Steno Practice Pages at the End. This is Great Shorthand Book for Beginners and this is a Self-Taught Course You Can Do at Home! Gregg Shorthand Is A Form of Shorthand Writing Invented by Gregg Shorthand in 1888, and the Most Popular Form of Shorthand in the USA (Pittman Shorthand is Most Popular in the UK). An Abbreviated Form of Longhand Writing, Gregg Shorthand Increases Writing Speed, By Using a Phonetic System of Symbols Which Are Written as They Sound. Efficient Shorthand Writing, A Form of Stenography, Happens with Practice and Time. This Shorthand Practice Writing Notebook Will Help You Get Better with Your Shorthand Writing. Shorthand Can Benefit Journalists, Court Reporters, High School and College Students, and Especially, Stenographers. More About This Shorthand Practice Journal: Size: 6x9 Inches 229 Pages Perfect Bound Softcover Notebook Beautiful Matte Finish on Cover

A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs, tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding of why voices mattered then and why they have mattered since. With later examples that range from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice—as an anatomical presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of ancient material available for the first time. The Ancient Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists and to voice theorists but to anyone with an interest in the verbal arts—literature, oratory, song—and the nature of aesthetic experience.

"A new and easier version of Gregg shorthand--the world's most widely used shorthand system"--Jacket.