A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders

'One of the many fascinations of Judith Flanders' book is that it reveals what a weird, unlikely creation the alphabet is. These thoughts come to mind while reading social historian Judith Flanders new book, A Place for Everything, in which she explores the development and. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the. Along the way, the reader encounters a wonderful cast of characters,from the great collector Robert Cotton, who catalogued his manuscripts by the names of the busts of the Roman emperors surmounting his book cases, to the unassuming sixteenth-century London bookseller who ushered in a revolution by listing his authors by 'sirname' first. Buy a cheap copy of A Place for Everything: The Curious. In A Place for Everything, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders fascinatingly lays out the gradual triumph of alphabetical order, from its use as a sorting tool in the Great Library of Alexandria to its current decline in prominence in the digital age. Read more Print length 368 pages Language English Publication date Dimensions 5.4 x 1.1 x 8.

Long before Google searches, this magical system of organization gave us the ability to sort through centuries of thought, knowledge and literature, allowing us to sift, file, and find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. With wry humor, historian Judith Flanders offers a fascinating history of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of. From school registers to electoral rolls, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to library shelves, our lives have been ordered from A to Z. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. And yet the order of the alphabet continues to play a major role in our adult lives. Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat the story of the alphabet suits her well.

A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders