Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0393064425 | ISBN-13: 9780393064421 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3,6 MB
From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation.
A 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.