The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized...into Hierarchies, Structures, & Pecking Orders - Hardcover

Kipfer, Barbara Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679444785 ISBN 13: 9780679444787

Publisher: Random House Reference &, 1996

Synopsis

An illustrated, entertaining guide to the organization of everything under the sun--from film crews to India's caste system--explains more than three hundred hierarchies in the arts, business, history, religion, science, sports, and more. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Ann Kipfer has prepared classification systems for the Yellow Pages of three major corporations and for two major encyclopedia companies, Grolier and Columbia University Press. Her publications include 14,000 Things To Be Happy About, Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Sisson's World and Expression Locator, 1,400 Things for Kids To Be Happy About, and Workbook on Lexicography. Kipfer received her Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Linguistics from the University of Exeter.

From the Inside Flap:

facts, The Order of Things organizes all knowledge in an interesting and visual way, offering the reader a comprehensive scheme or storyboard of the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Reference &
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679444785
• ISBN 13: 9780679444787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 389
• Editor: Levine C., Giangiordano P.