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Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393353709
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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 to ...

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: Alexander Monro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307456692
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This is the story of how you came to be holding this book, how you came to be following its printed words across dozens of pages, pages made not from bamboo, silk, parchment or papyrus, but from paper.

Author: Dard Hunter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486236196
Size: 33.63 MB
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The classic work on papermaking, this book traces the craft's history from its invention in China to its introductions in Europe and America.

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408829630
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Growing up in the years following World War II, Joel Bloom always played soldiers with his friends.

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: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307497100
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This is not just a manifesto for our times but a trailblazing book whose time has come. From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409078523
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Presented by subject - including 'Food and Sex', 'Bread', 'Rants' and 'Dessert' - and illustrated with Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings as well as classic photographs, this wonderful collection, like the very best meal, is varied, ...