Around the world, the document establishes legal, social, and economic legitimacy. But it also makes compromises. An Object Lesson. Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in ...

Have you ever wondered who invented the pencil? Or what led to the creation of the swimming pool? Object Lessons is a beautifully designed book series—published by Bloomsbury Academic—that explores ...

Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. Millions of publications—not to mention spy documents ...