Paper: Paging Through History Mark Kurlansky Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία General Issues

Paper Is One Of The Simplest And Most Essential Pieces Human Technology For Past Two Millennia Ability To Produce It In Ever More Efficient Ways Has Supported Proliferation Literacy Media Religion Education Commerce Art Created Civilisations Fostering Fomenting Revolutions Stabilising Regimes History’s Greatest Press Run Produced 6 5 Billion Copies Máo Zhu Xí Yu Lu Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong) Leonardo Da Vinci Left Behind Only 15 Paintings But 4 000 Works On Now Cusp \ Going Paperless\ —And Amid Speculation About Effects A Digitally Dependent Society—We’ve Come World-Historic Juncture Examine What Means Civilisation Through Tracing Paper’s Evolution Mark Kurlansky Challenges Common Assumptions Technology’s Influence Affirming That Here Stay Will Be History Guides Us Forward Twenty-First Century Σελίδες: 416 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0610 Διαστάσεις: 16 8X16 8Cm