Everything is its place. An extraordinary story of an alphabetical order. Flanders J.

The book of historian Judith Flanders is devoted to how the alphabet streamlined the world around us: combining the features of academic research and fascinating fiction, it talks about ways to organize our ideas about the surrounding reality with the help of various symbolic systems related to the alphabet. The reader will have to make a real journey from the origins of human civilization until the 21st century to find out how, thanks to people like Samuel Pips or Denis Didro, the ability to capture information and systematize accumulated knowledge through the order in which the letters of human writing were formed. The name of the book reflects the versatility of the author’s approach: the reader will find in it a tour into the history of linguistics, and a study of catalogs, and an overview of the history of book publishing from the Alexandria library to Wikipedia. In a word, in front of you, without exaggeration, the treasury of knowledge from A to Z (or from A to Z).