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Keith Houston
Keith Houston is the author of Shady Characters and The Book. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Mental Floss, BBC Culture, and on Time.com. He lives in Birmingham, England.
Books by Keith Houston
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Keith Houston
Paperback, 2014
“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics—highly recommended.”—Maria Popova, Brain PickingsThe Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Keith Houston
Hardback, 2016
We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them?Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Keith Houston
E Book, 2013
“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics—highly recommended.”—Maria Popova, Brain PickingsThe Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Keith Houston
E Book, 2016
We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them?Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Keith Houston
Hardback, 2023
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers and inventors...Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Keith Houston
E Book
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers and inventors...