The Fabric of Civilization. How Textiles Made the World, Paperback - Virginia Postrel

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal)Pub...

Reducere. 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 ou...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of The Elegant Universe , Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey th...

Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World - Giorgio Riello

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities (reciprocity, cooperation, empathy) and cogni...

Reducere. What better way to learn to read than to start by reading about God and His Creation? Not only will your children read about the sky, the trees, an...

DescriptionGod has given us lots of clues about how He made the world. This is how we think He did it. Discover how our world was made, beginning w...

DescriptionSwiss photographer Beat Streuli (born 1957) draws connections between his early black-and-white photographs and more recent photographs,...

Soul Infusions are portals through which you can deepen your awareness of the sacred and allow your love and vitality to flow freely into every are...

Reducere. In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civiliz...

DescriptionA finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the ...

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Reducere. Nazi secrets are weird enough. It is therefore unnecessary to add more fantasies to the genuine historical facts in the field of Nazi occultism, es...

Reducere. Printed cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. In...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Cathy (Cathy Crimmins) CrimminsNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 19Cover ty...

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. Sweeping in its scope and c...

DescriptionTracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.For many of our interactio...

Reducere. Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing tex...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

"Lyn Julius provides a riveting account of a fascinating, but disgracefully overlooked subject. Anyone who really wants to understand the Middle Ea...

Reducere. Children should not just read about history, they should live it. InThe Story of Civilization, the ancient stories that have shaped humanity come a...

Reducere. In The Story of Civilization text book, children will live through the ancient stories that shaped humanity. Author Phillip Campbell uses his histo...

Reducere. In present-day Japan, Ainu women create spaces of cultural vitalization in which they can move between "being Ainu" through their natal and affinal...

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Reducere. History of the World Mad Libs features 21 Mad Libs-style stories all about historyThe book includes topics like the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Wo...

Reducere. This book shows how the planet's earliest civilization lead the world in both material and spiritual progress. From the Vedic culture of ancient In...

OverviewInternational System of Units (SI) (Print On-Demand Edition) is a one-of-a-kind book. It provides detailed information on the metric system...

Reducere. With this test book, students can assess their reading comprehension and further educate themselves on the content found in the text. One quiz corr...

Reducere. This test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: The Making of the Modern World. With this book, students can test their...

Reducere. This true story begins with a little boy named Jack who is sad when he goes to sleep at night. He then gets a hamster that takes him and his family...

Reducere. DescriptionThere are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we t...

The renowned philosopher John Searle investigates the nature of social reality. How do institutions such as money, marriage, and government arise f...

Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is influential.