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Language
English
Description
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 formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has only to look at history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Quotations from...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The age of paper dollars and metal coins is coming to a close. In The End of Money, David Wolman introduces the people, technologies, and trends powering this shakeup, taking us to hotspots of the cashless revolution. He zooms from the cash-strapped slums of Delhi, to the tech-obsessed streets of Tokyo, to London to hobnob with digital cash gurus. Then it's on to Reykjavik, where Icelanders are about to kill their national currency; Washington, to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Comprehensively researched, vividly written, The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence...
Series
Paper trade journal ; 124, no. 27
Publisher
Lockwood Trade Journal Co
Pub. Date
[1947]
Language
English
18) Paper
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, composition, production, and uses of paper.
20) Paper, wasps and packages: the romantic story of paper and its influence on the course of history
Author
Pub. Date
1937
Language
English
