Book Review: Flanders, J. (2020). A Place for Everything. The Curious History of Alphabetical Order. New York: Basic Books
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Have you ever wondered what Table of Contents, Times Tables (for multiplication), and the Periodic have in common? Or how knowledge alphabetical order spread out Egypt into Greek world, Roman Empire, eventually rest world? How about organizing principles from subject categories to a widely accepted concept today: order? Judith Flanders’s A Place for Everything. The Curious History Alphabetical Order will answer all these questions (plus lots other similar inquiries) take reader on an enchanting journey discovery that might clarify multiple concepts storing, registering, filing information.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of critical studies in language and literature
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2732-4605']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v2i5.80