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Author | : Judith Flanders |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1541675061 |
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
Author | : Michael Rosen |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848548877 |
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our seven lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things. His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games. So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on . . .
Author | : Tiphaine Samoyault |
Publisher | : Viking Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Discusses the development of alphabets and writing systems from ancient societies to American Indian societies.
Author | : Antonia Pesenti |
Publisher | : NewSouth |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781742233703 |
This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it, North to the south to the east and the west of it. Bats and cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo, This is our town. Let us share it with you.
Author | : Sheri Amsel |
Publisher | : North Country Books |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780925168337 |
Author | : Walter Abish |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811205337 |
"Walter Abish has dovetailed his novel within a Procrustean scheme that has the terrifying and irrefutable logic of the alphabet. Alphabetical Africa is in the line of writers such as Raymond Roussel, Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec and Harry Mathews, who have used constrictive forms to penetrate the space on the other side of poetry." -- John Ashbery
Author | : Free Public Library of Jersey City |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Roger Hargreaves |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0515157317 |
Albert the elephant teaches a little girl the letters of the alphabet with the aid of his unusual trunk.
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Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0300170920 |
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood companions. In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the photographs are Price's interviews with each author, which probe the relation of writing to reading, collecting, and arranging books. Each writer provides a list of top ten favorite titles, offering unique personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books features the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund White.