Barcode\nby Jordan Frith\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jordan Frith\nTitle: Barcode\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Semiotics / semiology\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc\nISBN-13: 9781501399916\nISBN-10: 1501399918\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\nBarcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its succe.