The Order of Things: Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders »

Barbara Ann Kipfer is the author of more than 45 books, ranging from 14,000 Things to Be happy About to Roget’s International Thesaurus, 6th Edition. She holds numerous degrees, including a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in linguistics, a Ph.D. in archaeology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Buddhist studies. She is a lexicographer and ethnographist and lives in New England.

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.

Preface The Earth The Natural World Transportation & Technology Mathematics & Measurements Religion World Rulers Government & Military Society & Social Institutions The Arts Business & Economics Home Life Sports & Recreation General Knowledge & Philosophy Index