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Through tracing paper's evolution, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technology's influence, affirming that paper is here to stay.
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...
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Clock in to The Office for even more inappropriate remarks, uncomfortable silences, and petty behavior. Join Michael Scott, the clueless boss of the Scranton Branch of Dunder Mifflin who 'manages' to create unending comical drama despite his best intentions. Trusty and loyal assistant-to-the-regional manager Dwight Schrute continues to uphold the office honor and more.
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"A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault's own family. Years after...
9) Paper making
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Black ink reproduction on off-white paper, modern printing. Six numbered illustrations originally published in the 1880s that depict paper making processes from different periods: primitive hand machine, French cutting and assorting, French designer and boiler, French beating, cylinder paper machine A.D. 1859, U.S. patent, cylinder paper machine A.D. 1870. Includes text explaining the history of paper and statistics from 1860 and 1880 on paper making...
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Paper is older than the printing press and, even in its unprinted state, it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes, and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became the setting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint it became a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book Lothar Müller...
16) Recycling paper
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Discusses the problems caused by the manufacture and disposal of paper products, and proposes methods for recycling them to reduce such threats.
18) Wood and paper
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The story of how wood is taken from the trees of the forests and turned into the hundreds of things, including paper, which we use every day.
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