Kurlansky, Mark
Summary: Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art. It has created civilizations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilizing of regimes. Witness history's greatest press run, which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 676.09 KURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 KURKurlansky, Mark.
Summary: Kurlansky offers a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 KURBasbanes, Nicholas A.
Summary: A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers--by the admired cultural historian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013