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Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285480
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By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Middle East, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology’s influence, affirming that paper is here ...

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN: 9781410490070
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Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward and illuminates our times.

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448113202
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Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind.

Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385350449
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A Best Book of the Year: Mother Jones, Bloomberg News, National Post, Kirkus Reviews A consideration of all things paper—its invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and ...

Author: Alexander Monro
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1846147204
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This is the story of how paper, a simple Chinese invention, has wrapped itself around our world, with history's most momentous ideas etched upon its surface.

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393353709
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354) and index.

Author: Lothar Müller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745681832
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In this brilliant new book Lothar Müller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper ...

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863936
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Through Mark Kurlansky's multilayered and electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life.

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446450414
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This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with this prolific fish.

Author: Anne Trubek
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620402165
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Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four ...