{"product_id":"on-the-dot-the-speck-that-changed-the-world","title":"On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World","description":"In On the Dot, Alexander and Nicholas Humez offer a wide ranging, entertaining account of this much overlooked and minuscule linguistic sign. The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms. As a mark of punctuation, they show, it plays many roles--as sentence stopper, a constituent of the colon, and the ellipsis (dot dot dot). In musical notation, it denotes \"and a half.\" In computerese, it has several different functions (as in dot com and the marker between a file name and its extension). The dot also plays a number of roles in mathematics, in Morse code (dots and dashes), and in the raised dots of Braille.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0195324994\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0195324994.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Humez, Alexander|Humez, Nicholas\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43577397805117,"sku":"BVV.0195324994.VG","price":8.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0195324994-0.jpg?v=1788644275","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/on-the-dot-the-speck-that-changed-the-world","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}