Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textil…
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1. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. How to Celebrate Everything: Recipes and Rituals for Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, and Every Day In Between
By: Jenny Rosenstrach
4.15
Format: 333 pages, ebook
From the creator of the popular blog and book Dinner: A Love Storyand author of the New York Times … read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Furies
By: Natalie Haynes
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,… read more
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4. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
By: Alden Wicker
4.32
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- fashion
- environment
- audiobook
5. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
6. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- fashion
- science
7. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
8. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- crafts
- knitting
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
9. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- fashion
- audiobook
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
10. Love and Lemons Every Day: More than 100 Bright, Plant-Forward Recipes for Every Meal: A Cookbook
By: Jeanine Donofrio
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate guide for cooking outrageously delicious, vegetable-packed meals every day of the week… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
12. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- fashion
- science
13. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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- crafts
- history
- nonfiction
- fashion
- audiobook
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
14. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- knitting
- nonfiction
- science
15. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
By: Rachel E. Gross
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genital… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
"Medicine is supposed to be unbiased," she says. "But when we look at the bigger picture of it, we can see that it is far from that."-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
"Darwin's attitudes toward women were a direct outgrowth of his ideas about other animals—or, rather, each reinforced the other. Throughout his career, he insisted that female animals were less capabl…"-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
"Your vagina is another planet. If you could shrink down to the size of a grain of sand and go between your own legs, you'd find a wondrous realm of humid jungles, cool caves, and viscous pits of mucu…"-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
16. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
By: Clara Parkes
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more
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- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
17. Food Isn’t Medicine: Challenge Nutrib*llocks & Escape the Diet Trap
By: Joshua Wolrich
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Losing weight is not your life's purpose.Do carbs make you fat?Could the keto diet cure mental heal… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. An Intrigue of Witches (Secret Society Mystery, #1)
By: Esme Addison
3.61
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Introducing the Secret Society mystery series, and kick-ass red-headed heroine Sidney, a Black his… read more
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19. Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textil… read more
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- science
- history
- agriculture
- knitting
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- fashion
- environment
- audiobook
