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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
by Judith Flanders
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 154167507X
- ISBN 13
- 9781541675070
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Basic Books, 2020. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes timeline, bibliography, index, and full color photo plates. 352 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2581
- Title
- A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- Author
- Judith Flanders
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 154167507X
- ISBN 13
- 9781541675070
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- Alphabet, Alphabetical order, Organization, Alphabetization, Samuel Pepys, Denis Diderot, Classification,
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