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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...
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"Describes how paper is made as well as the different kinds of paper and their many different uses. Readers use scientific inquiry to learn about when some kinds of paper are better to use than others. An activity based on real world situations challenges them to apply what they've learned in order to solve a puzzle"--Provided by publisher.
9) Paper
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"Examines how we use paper in every day objects, its unique traits and qualities, and how it is processed to be useful to us. Also discusses how paper can be recycled to use again"--Provided by publisher.
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The Paper Trail traces the cultural, political, and religious revolutions that this now globally ubiquitous material set in motion when it was new to the world. Alexander Monro--who has lived in, traveled through, studied, and written about China for many years--takes us from paper's refinement in 2nd century A.D. China, where it was used to solidify social and political systems that continue to influence the country today, to its use in the dissemination...
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"Myne makes progress with her book-making endeavors, all so that she can read them herself. Her sickness turns out to be the Devouring after all, and she learns that curing herself will cost a lot of money. She ultimately decides to keep living as she has been thus far, selling her knowledge from her past life to make money. But despite her enthusiasm, the Devouring eats away at her more by the day, until she ends up collapsing in the middle of a...
13) Paper
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Explores how paper is made, from trees being sent to a paper mill to the large rolls of finished paper. Includes color photographs, an activity, and a glossary.
15) Paper crafts
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Information about the history of paper and its uses accompanies instructions for making different types of papers and objects such as flowers, trays, lanterns, and more from paper.
17) The cloudmakers
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A Chinese grandfather and his grandson who are captured by the Arab army barter for their freedom by demonstrating the art of papermaking.