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    The Order of Things: Hierarchies, Structures and Pecking Orders for the Voraciously Curious (Paperback) By (author) Barbara Ann Kipfer

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    Short Description for The Order of Things Collects and organizes the world into lists of sets and subsets, such as atmospheric layers, climate zones, Jupiter's satellites, Dante's levels of Hell, the Braille alphabet, US Army and Navy rankings, and even what all those numbers mean at the bottom of bank checks.
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    Title
    The Order of Things
    Subtitle
    Hierarchies, Structures and Pecking Orders for the Voraciously Curious
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Barbara Ann Kipfer
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 720
    Width: 102 mm
    Height: 152 mm
    Thickness: 39 mm
    Weight: 336 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780761150442
    ISBN 10: 0761150447
    Classifications
    Dewey: 030
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S3.7
    Dewey: 902
    BISAC category code: REF023000
    Illustrations note
    line drawings
    Publisher
    Workman Publishing
    Imprint name
    Workman Publishing
    Publication date
    06 December 2008
    Publication City/Country
    New York/US
    Main description
    Utterly compelling! Barbara Ann Kipfer has elevated the list to high art and bestselling pleasure. A foremost expert of classification, in The Order of Things, she does for life what her previous books do for happiness and wisdom—organize it in a way that is brilliantly conceived. The The Order of Things is practical, entertaining, eclectic, and impossible to put down. Beginning with Earth—Smog Alert States, Rain Forest Layers, Coal Sizes— and ending with General Knowledge and Philosophy (the I Ching's 64 "chapters," Ludwig Wittgenstein's four-step Method of Overcoming Puzzlement), it is a 14-chapter taxonomy of the world as we know it: • The Seven Hills of Rome, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Seven Dwarfs—check. • The belt degrees of karate and judo, weight classes of professional and amateur boxing, flower names of the golf holes at Augusta—check. • The hierarchy of the FBI, publication order of Shakespeare's plays, cuts of beef, Freud's divisions of the human psyche, order of rank in world armies and navies, Jupiter's satellites, ships' bells, traditional and modern wine measures, blood-pressure levels, fastest animals—check. A completely indispensable reference—check.
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    An eclectic, surprising, and utterly entertaining compendium, "The Order of Things" compiles a very astonishing diversity of information the natural, the social, the mathematical, the mystical into hundreds of charts, systems, lists, and hierarchies. From Barbara Ann Kipfer, who mastered the art of the list with her bestselling "14,000 Things to Be Happy About," this is a book for browsing, for research, and for the sheer pleasure of learning new things.