The Resource A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order, Judith Flanders
A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order, Judith Flanders
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The item A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order, Judith Flanders represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Billerica Public Library.
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- Summary
- Few 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- xxviii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781541675070
- Label
- A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order
- Title
- A place for everything
- Title remainder
- the curious history of alphabetical order
- Statement of responsibility
- Judith Flanders
- Title variation
- Curious history of alphabetical order
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Few 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
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Flanders, Judith
- Dewey number
- 025
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Z695.95
- LC item number
- .F53 2020b
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Alphabetizing
- Information organization
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order, Judith Flanders
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-291) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1143631587
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- xxviii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781541675070
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1143631587
- Label
- A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order, Judith Flanders
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-291) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1143631587
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Extent
- xxviii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781541675070
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1143631587
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