Fabric of Civilization

Fabric of Civilization

By
Virginia Postrel
Virginia Postrel
2020 • 368 pages

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Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
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Clothing Fashion Crafts

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Fashion on the ration ; style in the Second World War
How to Dress: Secret styling tips from a fashion insider
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
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Sex with Kings
The History of White People
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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Fabric of Civilization
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The Case for Mars
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Reclaiming Conversation
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Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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History

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Way to Rainy Mountain

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Overstory

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

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Fashion

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Fifty Shoes That Changed the World
Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
The Seductive Shoe: Four Centuries of Fashion Footwear
Jewelry 7000 Years: An International History and Illustrated Survey from the Collections of the British Museum
Hollywood Jewels: Movies, Jewelry, Stars

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
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Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
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Technology

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Life on the Screen
Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values
Never Use Futura
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
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History World

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Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

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Fiber Arts

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Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World
Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
No Idle Hands
Silk: A World History

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Gifts

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