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A Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
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by Simon Garfield
Published Dec 2018
Read ReviewsAs managing time becomes the greatest challenge we face in our lives, this multi-layered history helps us tackle it in a sparkling new light.
by Michael Rosen
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsMichael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts
by Mary Roach
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsThe irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
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 Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsA scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the Oxford English Dictionary. Browse an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse.
by David Sacks
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet, and into cultural history with twenty-six fact-filled "biographies" of letters A through Z.
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