Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780393064421
ISBN-13 : 0393064425
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by : Keith Houston

Download or read book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks written by Keith Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.


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