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The Golden Thread
- How Fabric Changed History
- Narrateur(s): Helen Johns
- Durée: 11 h et 26 min
- Catégories: Histoire, Monde
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The Secret Lives of Colour
- Auteur(s): Kassia St Clair
- Narrateur(s): Kassia St Clair
- Durée: 8 h et 7 min
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The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history
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This will be a book I listen to many times
- Écrit par ColourMeGone le 2020-11-13
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Women's Work
- The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture.
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Oh the twisted thread of history...
- Écrit par Bard Groupie le 2019-07-17
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Fashionopolis
- The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
- Auteur(s): Dana Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Dana Thomas
- Durée: 9 h et 12 min
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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. From small-town makers and Silicon Valley whizzes to such household names as Stella McCartney, Levi’s, and Rent the Runway, Thomas highlights the companies big and small that are leading the crusade.
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Vanishing Fleece
- Adventures in American Wool
- Auteur(s): Clara Parkes
- Narrateur(s): Clara Parkes
- Durée: 5 h et 55 min
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Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins.
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This book wool make ewe think!
- Écrit par Jennifer Dawson le 2020-02-20
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Gods and Kings
- The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
- Auteur(s): Dana Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Sastre
- Durée: 15 h et 47 min
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In February 2011 John Galliano, the lauded head of Christian Dior, imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic public tirade. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated designer Alexander McQueen took his own life three weeks before his women's wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades.
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Biographies but make it FASHUN!!!
- Écrit par Derek L. le 2020-12-07
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A Single Thread
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Tracy Chevalier
- Narrateur(s): Fenella Woolgar
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals.
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A great listen
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-02-04
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The Secret Lives of Colour
- Auteur(s): Kassia St Clair
- Narrateur(s): Kassia St Clair
- Durée: 8 h et 7 min
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The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history
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This will be a book I listen to many times
- Écrit par ColourMeGone le 2020-11-13
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Women's Work
- The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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Au global
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Histoire
Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture.
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Oh the twisted thread of history...
- Écrit par Bard Groupie le 2019-07-17
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Fashionopolis
- The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
- Auteur(s): Dana Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Dana Thomas
- Durée: 9 h et 12 min
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Histoire
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. From small-town makers and Silicon Valley whizzes to such household names as Stella McCartney, Levi’s, and Rent the Runway, Thomas highlights the companies big and small that are leading the crusade.
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Vanishing Fleece
- Adventures in American Wool
- Auteur(s): Clara Parkes
- Narrateur(s): Clara Parkes
- Durée: 5 h et 55 min
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Au global
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Histoire
Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins.
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This book wool make ewe think!
- Écrit par Jennifer Dawson le 2020-02-20
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Gods and Kings
- The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
- Auteur(s): Dana Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Sastre
- Durée: 15 h et 47 min
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In February 2011 John Galliano, the lauded head of Christian Dior, imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic public tirade. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated designer Alexander McQueen took his own life three weeks before his women's wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades.
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Biographies but make it FASHUN!!!
- Écrit par Derek L. le 2020-12-07
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A Single Thread
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Tracy Chevalier
- Narrateur(s): Fenella Woolgar
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals.
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A great listen
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-02-04
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Persuasion
- Auteur(s): Jane Austen
- Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
- Durée: 8 h et 43 min
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Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.
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exceptional narration
- Écrit par Amanda le 2019-07-31
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Food: A Cultural Culinary History
- Auteur(s): Ken Albala, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Ken Albala
- Durée: 18 h et 22 min
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Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."
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Amazing
- Écrit par tc le 2018-11-17
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The Chiffon Trenches
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): André Leon Talley
- Narrateur(s): André Leon Talley
- Durée: 9 h et 38 min
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The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last 50 years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived - despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry - to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion.
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Must Read! Wildly interesting, thought provoking
- Écrit par Rubina Manji le 2020-12-16
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Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Auteur(s): Caroline Criado Perez
- Narrateur(s): Caroline Criado Perez
- Durée: 9 h et 25 min
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, treating men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women.
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Some Facts Are Hard to Swallow
- Écrit par Brittany McShane le 2019-08-29
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Unfollow
- A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- Auteur(s): Megan Phelps-Roper
- Narrateur(s): Megan Phelps-Roper
- Durée: 10 h et 17 min
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At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy.
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I teared up with pride more than once.
- Écrit par Terry B. le 2020-01-11
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Magdalena
- River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
- Auteur(s): Wade Davis
- Narrateur(s): Wade Davis, Xandra Uribe
- Durée: 16 h et 17 min
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Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. Now in a masterly new book, Davis tells of his travels on the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet.
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Beautiful
- Écrit par Owen Willis le 2021-01-14
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From the mummies of Ancient Egypt, via the silken dragon robes of Imperial China and the woollen sails of Viking longboats to the Indian calicoes and chintzes that powered the Industrial Revolution (and sparked more than one war), arriving finally at the lab-blended fibres that have allowed astronauts to moonwalk - fabrics, man-made and natural, have changed and shaped the world we live in.
In 12 fascinating chapters, Kassia St Clair lays out an alternative history of civilisation and human creativity. Wittily written and compellingly argued, this book will change the way you see the world.
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- Noah L.
- 2019-05-13
An excellent, highly listenable book
This is a supreme example of how a good writer can boil down a complex, esoteric topic and summarize it in a way that really grabs your attention. The book is highly accessible and surprisingly in-depth for something mentioned in the intro as "a few stories about fabrics": those stories include the centrality of silk to Ancient China's economy and its political machinations, the world-shaping power that cotton had on the European and American slave trade and global markets, and even how lace fabrics nearly bankrupted a nation. Hardly just a few stories, and it makes for a great interdisciplinary history book. Also, unlike some less astute authors, St Clair is a capable historian: she pulls from primary sources, statistics of the day when available, and (importantly) provides context and mentions when a source may be unreliable or acting out of unexpected motivation. It's a lesson many historians should familiarize themselves with, as well as those seeking to write about history. She also points out the centrality of women to any story involving fabric (which is likely one reason why the importance of it to world history is often glossed over). The only points I'll say I'm not a fan of is that the audio quality is just a bit scratchy, and in general I don't care for starting all your subheadings with quotes--snappy titles are usually enough for me. None of that overly detracts from the book: it's a very accessible, well-structured and capable narrative history, looking at a topic so often underappreciated. Highly recommended for any fan of history, fashion major, or just someone looking for a brief guide to something they may have never truly appreciated.
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- Pierre Gauthier
- 2019-03-17
Fascinating but Incomplete!
This original work deals with textiles, a topic rarely covered with a historical perspective, perhaps because it is associated almost exclusively with women in most cultures. Clearly, much research was carried out in devising the book. It is fascinating for instance to learn more about say the place of cotton in Ancient Egypt, how the sails of Viking ships were (astonishingly) made of wool and how highly resistant suits constitute a central component of space travel. Sadly, however, there is no conducting thread (no pun intended). The reader is presented with a series of well-developed vignettes, grossly placed in chronological order. It feels as if the author started out to write a history of textiles, got lost in specific details and finally published a collage (not to say a quilt). Despite this major shortcoming, the novelty of the topic makes this work quite worthwhile.
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- AM Starks
- 2019-04-24
The Golden Thread
Helen Johns captivated me with her yarns about the history of fabric from woolen Viking sails to attempts to weave spider silk. The stories of St. Clair’s book keep the reader engaged while revealing historical fact. I can’t think of a better way to learn about the importance of textiles to world history. Enjoy!
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- Thomas B.
- 2019-06-05
It is exactly it's title. Killer history of fabric
it was great. a bit dry, but I really loved it overall. definitely true to the title favorite mispronunciation brand Nike pronounced like the name Mike. took me a second to realize what they were even talking about
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- Mauricio
- 2020-06-13
how to ruin a good book with an aweful narration
This book is really good, another excellent work by Kassia St Claire but this audible version has been ruined by and aweful narration. I would like to get back time and not to buy it.