The A to Z of Everyday Things

The A to Z of Everyday Things

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    From Slave Ship to Freedom Road. Whom the Gods Would Destroy. Teresa Radice and Disney. Not everyone jumped right on the Gregorian calendar bandwagon, however. There's always great resistance whenever someone starts messing with time itself especially when that someone is a religious leader, not a scientist or even an elected official and many countries that were using the Julian calendar took hundreds of years to accept Pope Gregory's reforms.

    In Britain and her colonies, the Gregorian calendar was adopted only in By then, eleven days had to be dropped to bring everything back in line. People went to bed on September 2 that year and woke up the next morning on September 14, with many convinced that their lives had somehow been shortened by eleven days. Others took it all in stride, with one man jokingly complaining to the newspaper that though he seemed to have been dozing for more than a week, he felt he wasn't "any more refreshed than after a common night's sleep.

    With exuberance and humor, Weaver traces the origins of twenty-six everyday things and shares how they have evolved over time. Accessorizing Weaver's fall line-up are the smart illustrations of Francis Blake. Capping it off is the beautiful cover design which sets varnished images against a matte background. In the introduction, Weaver claims to have "filled this book with stories" about "extraordinary ordinary things.

    The author offers not stiff and starchy "explications" or "analyses," but the more relaxed "stories. By dressing down technology, Weaver renders it accessible to the young people who might not otherwise relate to it in its formal garb.

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    Since Weaver esteems the alphabet as the most important invention ever, because by it we transmit vast quantities of knowledge across time and space, she patterns her book on it. That is, she devises one entry for each of the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet.

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    Naturally, "A" is for "Alphabet. Whereas the average chapter length is four pages, those covering weightier topics the alphabet, calendars, money, and zero are one-and-a- half times as long. The author trims her book with an index and an extensive bibliographical list of print and online resources.

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    Through these sidebars, readers learn facts such as that the Chinese word for computer comprises the symbols for "electric" and "brain," and that tulips, rather than necklaces, were choice adornments in s Holland. Webster marked it as to-read Jun 07, The Case of the Missing Marquess. Adam Gidwitz and Joseph Bruchac. Second, the yawning character expresses what many people think that opera is a drag but refrain from saying for fear of being thought unsophisticated. Yet along with the humor, Weaver also conveys a sense of reverence for the rituals and traditions of the past that inform so many of our everyday things.

    From calendars and kissing to oaths and underwear, Weaver's catalogue includes an unusual and seemingly random assortment of items. Yet, the author has a knack for mixing and matching them in her fluid, non-linear style.

    All sorts of connections and cross-references exist within entries, the most obvious being "Black" which invokes comparisons to its binary opposite, "White" in chapter "W. Then, too, the first chapter links not only to "Numbers" in the middle of the book but also to the final chapter on "Zero": Book was a little boring but ok overall. Nothing in it that can't be found by researching on the internet. Get to Know Us. Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies thinking of returning an item?

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