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Paging Through History

Автор: Mark Kurlansky

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: WW Norton & Co

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Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millenn...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Mark Kurlansky

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2016

страници

416

EAN

9780393239614

ISBN

0393239616

Enbook ID

09504192

Издател

WW Norton & Co

Теглоt

858

Размери

166 x 244 x 33

Пълно описание

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 produced 6.5 billion copies of Mao zhu xi yu lu, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong), or the fact that Leonardo da Vinci left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. Now, on the cusp of "going paperless"-and amid rampant speculation about the effects of a digitally dependent society-we've come to a world-historic juncture to examine what paper means to civilization. Through tracing paper's evolution, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's influence, affirming that paper is here to stay. Paper will be the history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times.

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