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  • Blue Jeans

    Serie serien Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or casual as blue jeans. Yet, their simplicity is deceptive. Blue jeans are nothing if not an exercise in opposites.Americans have accepted jeans as a symbol of their culture, but today jeans are a global consumer product category. Levi Strauss made blue ... Les mer

    65,65 kr

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    Student Compositions from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

    Redigert av Alex Sibo, Tyler Arsuaga ...
    Penn Statements is a reader of student essays and compositions from courses offered through Penn State's Program in Writing and Rhetoric. All essays are submitted by students and are used as examples of student writers engaging with rhetorical principles. ... Les mer

    193,39 kr

  • Fashionopolis

    The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

    av Dana Thomas ...
    'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH.Fashionopolis is the definitive book on the cost of fast fashion, and a blueprint for how we get to a more sustainable future.Fashion has blighted our planet. Today, one out of six people on earth work in fashion, churning out 100 billion garments a year. Yet 98 percent of them do not ... Les mer

    101,03 kr

  • Don't Touch My Hair

    av Emma Dabiri ...
    'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology, maths, politics, philosophy and history' Bernardine EvaristoStraightened. Stigmatized. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair' ... Les mer

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  • Fashionopolis

    Why What We Wear Matters

    av Dana Thomas ...
    A “fascinating” (New York Times Book Review) investigation into the human and environmental cost of fast fashion and global supply chains—and what we can actually do to enact change“A glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.” —The New YorkerWhat should I wear? It’s a fundamental question we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we ... Les mer

    120,91 kr

  • Unraveling

    What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

    “Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change ... Les mer

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  • Status and Culture

    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

    av W. David Marx ...
    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Les mer

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  • The Day the World Stops Shopping

    How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

    Consuming less is our best strategy for saving theplanet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book,journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world withoutshopping.We can’t stop shopping. And yet wemust. This is the consumer dilemma.Theeconomy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leadsto widespread unemployment, ... Les mer

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  • Saving Time

    Discover a wiser way to live

    av Jenny Odell ...
    We're living on the wrong clock. Now is our moment to rethink.In this provocative follow-up to How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell challenges our cultural obsession with productivity. Drawing on philosophy, ecology and art, Saving Time argues that time is not money – it’s life itself.Odell explores how the ‘clock of capitalism’ dictates our days and disconnects us from natural rhythms, proposing ... Les mer

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  • The Substance of Style

    How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

    Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century has become the age of aesthetics, and whether we realize it or not, this influence has taken over ... Les mer

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  • All We Want

    Building the Life We Cannot Buy

    Our lives are defined by a story of endless growth and consumption. Now a climate crisis demands that we change. Can we write new stories?In All We Want, award-winning author Michael Harris dismantles our untenable consumer culture and delivers surprising, heartwarming alternatives. Drawing on the wisdom of philosophers, scientists, and artists, Harris uncovers three realms where humans have ... Les mer

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  • Dress Code

    Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

    A New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country Must-Read Book of 2022 * A Fashionista Summer Read“Smart, funny, and impressively thorough.”—The CutIn the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry—its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear,... ... Les mer

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