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020 $a9781541675070$q(hardcover)
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035 $a(OCoLC)1143631587
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100 1 $aFlanders, Judith,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA place for everything :$bthe curious history of alphabetical order /$cJudith Flanders.
246 30 $aCurious history of alphabetical order
250 $aFirst US edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c2020.
300 $axxviii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 270-291) and index.
520 $aFew of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. This magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. In this entirely original new book, Judith Flanders draws our attention both to the neglected ubiquity of the alphabet and the long and complex history of its rise to prominence.
650 0 $aAlphabetizing$xHistory.
650 0 $aInformation organization$xHistory.
650 7 $aAlphabetizing$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00805968
650 7 $aInformation organization$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00972595
655 7 $aHistory$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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