"All books by Keith Houston"
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Paperback, 2025
“Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death...
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Paperback, 2014
“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics—highly recommended.”—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
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
E Book, 2013
“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics—highly recommended.”—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
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
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
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...
Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
Paperback, 2025
A vibrant exploration of the world's newest language—where it came from, how it works and where it's going
Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
E Book
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
A vibrant exploration of the world’s newest language—where it came from, how it works, and where it’s going.
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Paperback, 2025
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...