Textile Science

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
    • By: Dana Thomas
    • Narrated by: Dana Thomas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials....

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    • The Hype, Science, Culture & Cool of Running Shoes
    • By: Brian Metzler
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Sports journalist and veteran shoe tester Brian Metzler takes runners and kicksologists deep inside the $10 billion running shoe industry with a behind-the-curtain look at what makes iconic running shoe brands tick...

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    • Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
    • By: Alicia Drake
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry....

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    • Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
    • By: Rebecca Burgess
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear - by a leader in the movement for local textile economies....

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    • A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
    • By: Tanisha C. Ford
    • Narrated by: Tanisha C. Ford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • In this highly engaging audiobook, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots, and hotpants of the 60s; hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings; and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today....

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    • A Philosophy of Clothes
    • By: Shahidha Bari
    • Narrated by: Shahidha Bari
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....

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    • The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
    • By: Tansy E. Hoskins
    • Narrated by: Anneliese Rennie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class, and advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation....

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    • By: Nicholas de Monchaux
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function....

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    • Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
    • By: Véronique Hyland
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In 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, and why it matters—from Elle Magazine’s fashion features director....

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    • Fighting Widespread Misinformation and Pursuing Environmental Literacy: Handbook of Textile Sustainability
    • By: Sae Chang
    • Narrated by: Frank B
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • In today's world, widespread misinformation presents significant challenges to achieving true environmental sustainability. Unfortunately, even some of the most influential global organizations base their actions on unscientific notions and misconceptions, contributing to the problem.

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    • A Life Amongst Clothes
    • By: Claire Wilcox
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....

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    • How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers
    • By: Terry Agins
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Hollywood stars have always furthered fashion's cause of seducing the masses into buying designers' clothes by acting as living billboards.....

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    • Fashion, Gender, and Subculture (Dress, Body, Culture)
    • By: Yuniya Kawamura
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them....

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    • A Book of Hours
    • By: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Entertaining, unexpected, and charming, All the Time in the World digs up the forgotten treasures of the past and inspires a passion for good living in the present....

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    • A Biography of Diamonds
    • By: Rachelle Bergstein
    • Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Brilliance and Fire offers a glittering history of the world's most coveted gemstone and its greatest champions and most colorful enthusiasts....

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    • By: Sue Lange
    • Narrated by: Katina Kalin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Not an easy listen. Intellectual. Literary. If you're looking for something vapid, move on. This is a humorous story of insanity in the high-energy high-fashion world of the future....

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