"All books by Keith Houston"
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...