num_pages: 448
description: 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
language: English
title: The Browser's Book of Beginnings: Origins of Everything Under, and Including, the Sun
titlecomplete: The Browser's Book of Beginnings: Origins of Everything Under, and Including, the Sun
genres: History, Reference, Trivia, Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 93
publisher: Penguin Books