The Culture of Clothes

Style is not just the clothes on our backs--it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian...

Can memories, meaning and ideas be wrapped up in a winter coat?These are the questions that interest Shahidha Bari, as she explores the secret lang...

Style is not just the clothes on our backs--it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian...

'A sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish' - Deborah LevyWe are all dressed. Ranging freely through literature, art, film and philo...

A colourful celebration of costumes and cultures from around the world.

At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik's study combines close readings of modernist and m...

A consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Leigh ByrneAt eight-years-old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when tragedy sends her family spiraling out of con...

Reducere. Long ago in a province in China there lived an emperor whose greatest pleasure in life was to dress in new clothes. So begins Demi's retelling of t...

This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainabil...

Elvis stands above all icons in music, elevated by his influence on youth culture, with his walk, his clothes and, of course, his incredible singin...

How does a sign represent something other than itself? How do we come to understand the meaning of a written symbol? What happens when a sign cross...

This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It prov...

Reducere. Fashion is everywhere. It is one of the main ways in which we present ourselves to others, signaling what we want to communicate about our sexualit...

Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Roland Barthes' application of semiotics to literature, popular culture, clothes, and fashion, and expla...

Reducere. Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, E...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee sto...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

How We Desire is an enthralling essay about gender, sexuality and love by one of Germany's most admired writers. It's about growing up, and discove...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Reducere. Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Reducere. DescriptionJoin Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of h...

Discover a renewed biblical vision for sex, singleness, and relationships, and transform into an empowered woman of faith equipped to navigate toda...

Reducere. DescriptionJoin Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of h...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in her exciting new series. Learn what ...

Reducere. The rags-to-riches story of Coco Chanel plays out in a wonderful picture-book biography as full of style and spirit as its heroine. Gabrielle "Coco...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack LondonIllustrated in this edition by more than thirty of Jack London's own photographs, 'The People of the Abyss' docu...

A dystopian punk rock fairy tale.Princess is the heiress to the Presidency of America, but she has a dark secret - a deep love of metal, punk, and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis controversial book has been a stalwart part of the reading lists of those attracted to naturism, which involved much more than simp...

Reducere. A bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes--from one of the most creative minds of our time. "Nora E...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Lyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Bro...

A tweed suit, pipe, umbrella, and hat; a large dose of British humor and no sports --well, except for cricket. The Chap is the modern English gentl...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy,...

Reducere. Lindsay de Feliz walked away from an enviable lifestyle - marriage, successful career, expensive holidays, designer clothes, fast cars - to pursue ...

DescriptionThis gorgeous paper doll collection spotlights the world's most famous royal sisters-in-law: the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of...

Reducere. In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the Americ...

Reducere. "Vampire " The very word conjures up visions of ruined castles, of enigmatic, pale-skinned noblemen shrouded in dark cloaks, of slumbering beauties...

Reducere. It's the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling unde...

Reducere. A highly original work that deals a shattering blow to all our preconceived notions about our past and human origins.World-wide legends refer to gi...

Reducere. Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Us...

For fashion buffs, romantics, and brides-to-be, a fascinating collection of wedding garb and glamour through pop culture and history.The Way We Wed...

Reducere. Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty--a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macab...

Reducere. The Year without a Purchase is the story of one family's quest to stop shopping and start connecting. Scott Dannemiller and his wife, Gabby, are fo...

DescriptionMinda is an orphan, taken in by her practical and less-than-enthusiastic Aunt Karin. Minda and her crafty goat, Stor Geta, struggle to f...

Contributor(s): Author: Emily W. KaneFrom the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ...

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films sta...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dave PelzerImagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possessions are the old, torn clothes he carries i...

Reducere. Are you dreaming of taking a family vacation to a place you've never been to before?You and your whole family are invited to join us on a tour to e...

Reducere. The real story behind a very private American fashion icon--Lilly PulitzerToday, Lilly Pulitzer's iconic brand of clean-cut, vibrantly printed clot...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Joe Hawkins is the anti-hero's anti-hero. His life is ruled by clothes, beer, football and above all violence - violence against h...

Reducere. Wouldn't you like to take a family vacation to a place you've never been, right now? You and your entire family are invited to come and experience,...

Love, Romance, and Great Big Sexuality for Everyone Big Big Love is the only one-stop-shopping handbook on relationships, sexuality, and big sexy c...

April is a thoughtful yet sarcastic mother of two who tries her best to be a caring, connected mom in a middle-class culture where motherhood has b...

Reducere. Wouldn't you like to take a family vacation to a place you've never been, right now?You and your entire family are invited to come and experience, ...

Reducere. Wouldn't you like to take a family vacation to a place you've never been, right now?You and your entire family are invited to come and experience, ...

Reducere. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Federal Writer's Project assigned field workers to interview ex-slaves. More than 2, 000 former slaves co...