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Picador, 2021. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Picador, 2021-02-04. Paperback. Used: Good.

Picador, 2020. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we?fve learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. This magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. In this… Read More

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

Picador, 2021-02-04. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.