Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things--and what small things tell us about our larger world. " Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid." --Sunday Times (London) Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charms...