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The Browser's Book of Beginnings (Paperback)

by Charles Panati (Author)

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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia; Reprint edition (1 Jan 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140276947
ISBN-13: 978-0140276947
Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.4 x 2.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Describes the origins of more than 1000 objects, ideas, movements, and concepts, including checkers, the computer, ragtime, Islam, ice cream, the abacus, Yiddish, and many other familiar and not-so-familiar things.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "A mighty oak of a book" - The New Yorker, 5 May 1999

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This is the first of Panati's series of six origins book and the most encyclopedic in scope. Newsday called it "The last word on the first of everything," and The New Yorker said "Panati is fearless, far-reaching, formidable, and, when it pleases him, frivolous." The Boston Globe states "The thing is fun...a weapon for stumping supercilious experts." These six origins books will soon be the basis for a TV series, "In The Beginning..." Panati will write the series and may serve as on-camera host.

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