| can't find it |

| browse books |

Textbooks

technical & manufacturing industries & trades

technology

| book details |

Paper: An Elegy

By (author) Ian Sansom

| on special |

normal price: R 310.95

Price: R 279.95

| add to trolley |

| book description |

What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still, there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change - Christmas won't be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. And the language of paper - documents, files and folders - has survived digitisation. In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox - its vulnerability and durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper it's printed on.

| product details |

Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 25 Oct 2012
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 224
Dimensions | 209 x 141 x 29mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 480g
ISBN | 978-0-0074-8026-5
Readership Age |
BISAC | technology / technical & manufacturing industries & trades

| other options |

| your trolley |

To view the items in your trolley please sign in.

| sign in |

| specials |

Survive the AI Apocalypse: A guide for solutionists

Bronwen Williams
Paperback / softback
232 pages
was: R 340.95
now: R 306.95
Forthcoming

Let's stare the future down and, instead of fearing AI, become solutionists.

| more |

| add to trolley |

Living in a hut in 21st Century South Africa

Monde Ndandani
Paperback / softback
142 pages
was: R 220.95
now: R 198.95
Usually delivered in 6-12 days

| more |

| add to trolley |

The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
Paperback / softback
352 pages
was: R 295.95
now: R 265.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order

| more |

| add to trolley |

The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
Paperback / softback
320 pages

Enquiries only

| more |

| enquire |

Copyright 2025 | terms and conditions