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A deep and timely account of how American newspapers were produced and distributed on paper. Winner of the Best Book in Canadian Business History by the Canadian Business History Association Popular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim that some have taken to calling them “dead tree media” as a way of invoking the medium’s imminent demise. There is a literal truth hidden in this dismissive expression: printed newspapers really are material goods made from trees. And, throughout the twentieth century, the overwhelming majority of trees cut down in the service of printing newspapers in the United States came from Canada. In Dead Tree Media, Michael Stamm reveals the inte...
Sometimes, hunting magical beasts can be murder... In the great city of Abraniotok live the Stalkers: men and women dedicated to hunting miscreations – magically created beasts who lurk in the city and countryside. So when a pair of fast-breeding, tree-eating miscreations attack a valley of orchards two days away, Assistant Stalker Abyowith and Lieutenant Kalitith are ordered to grab their swords and pistols and hunt them down. It seems like an easy job until Abyowith finds the son of the local noble, lying dead near a mountain stream. Now, Abyowith and Kalitith must split their focus between finding the young man’s killer and stopping the tree eaters from destroying the valley. But as what looks like a simple murder grows ever-more complicated, the Stalkers realize that discovering the truth may be far more dangerous than anything they expected.
Temperate and boreal forests, ecology.