A Place for Everything
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Julia Wincott,
Julia Winwood
Release:
10/20/2020
Runtime:
10h 32m
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“This is an utterly charming book, packed with engrossing details.”
The Times (London)
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
A London Times Pick of Best Books of the Year
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
A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020
Release:
2020-10-20
Runtime:
10h 32m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781549104800
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
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