Judith Flanders

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-07-23 Pages: 576 Language: English Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Murder in the nineteenth century was rare.But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous. with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels. broadsides. ballads . opera. and melodrama-even into puppet shows and …

From a New York Times bestselling historian, the "truly revelatory" (Wall Street Journal) story of how the alphabet ordered our world A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. Once we've learned our ABCs as children, few of us ever think of them …