Keith Houston
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Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
$19.99 Add to cartWe are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, K
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075147
- Language: English
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The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086351
- Language: English
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
$18.95 Add to cartA charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.
Whether investigating
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349721
- Language: English
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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
$32.50 Add to cartStarting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0393882144
- Language: English
