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The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
by David Sacks
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by Simon Garfield
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you?
by Margaret Drabble
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsAn original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.
by Lynne Truss
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews'Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Truss serves up a delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation.'
by A. J. Jacobs
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
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