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8 produkter
Shady Characters
The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Häftad, 2014
190 kr
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A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the …
Empire of the Sum
The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Inbunden, 2023
329 kr
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Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until …
Shady Characters
Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this delightfully entertaining book.From the pilcrow ¶ to the ampersand, the entire cast of Shady Characters reflects the changes in written communication …
Face with Tears of Joy
A Natural History of Emoji
Häftad, 2025
194 kr
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We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. Named for the world’s most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.In this rollicking tech and pop …
Book
A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Häftad, 2025
264 kr
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilisations, empires, human ingenuity and madness. In an invitingly tactile history …
Empire of the Sum
The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Häftad, 2025
233 kr
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Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until …
Shady Characters
Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities
E-bok, 2013
108 kr
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Keith Houston's entertaining book, inspired by his popular blog shadycharacters.co.uk, tells the unexpected stories of some unusual, and familiar, typographical marks and reveals a fascinating history of writing.Every character we write or type is a link to the past, and in today's printed, …
Book
A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Inbunden, 2016
246 kr
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In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilisations, empires, human ingenuity and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000 year-old medium, Houston follows the …
