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…
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1. Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
By: Gary Klein
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Insights--like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's b… read more
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2. 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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3. 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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4. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
By: Kate Lister
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Authored by one of the most original contemporary thinkers on the subject, this book is an enlighte… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. 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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7. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. 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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10. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By: Richard Thompson Ford
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more
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11. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.50
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more
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12. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By: Hannah Carlson
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more
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13. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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14. This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
By: Esther Rutter
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter—who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spi… read more
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15. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
By: Esther J. Hamori
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more
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16. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
By: Anthony Bale
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more
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"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
17. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.70
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life… read more
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18. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… 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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20. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
By: Marie Arana
4.29
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more
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