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Disrobed

- How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
Af: Syl Tang Engelsk Hardback

Disrobed

- How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
Af: Syl Tang Engelsk Hardback
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We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness. Chapter by chapter, Tang takes the reader on an unusual journey, telling stories and asking questions that most consumers have never considered about their clothing. Why do banker’s wives sell off their clothes and how does that presage a recession? How is clothing linked to ethanol and starvation on the African continent? Could RFID in clothing save the lives of millions of people in earthquakes around the world? This book takes an everyday item and considers it in a way that readers may not have previously thought possible. It tackles topics relevant to today, everything from fakes in the museums to farm-to-table eating, and answers questions about how we can anticipate and change our world in areas as far-reaching as the environment, politics, and the clash of civilizations occurring between countries. Much like other pop economics books have done before, the stories are easily retold in water-cooler style, allowing them to be thoughtfully considered, argued, and discussed.
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We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness. Chapter by chapter, Tang takes the reader on an unusual journey, telling stories and asking questions that most consumers have never considered about their clothing. Why do banker’s wives sell off their clothes and how does that presage a recession? How is clothing linked to ethanol and starvation on the African continent? Could RFID in clothing save the lives of millions of people in earthquakes around the world? This book takes an everyday item and considers it in a way that readers may not have previously thought possible. It tackles topics relevant to today, everything from fakes in the museums to farm-to-table eating, and answers questions about how we can anticipate and change our world in areas as far-reaching as the environment, politics, and the clash of civilizations occurring between countries. Much like other pop economics books have done before, the stories are easily retold in water-cooler style, allowing them to be thoughtfully considered, argued, and discussed.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 182
ISBN-13: 9781442270992
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1442270993
Kategori: Populærkultur
Udg. Dato: 28 sep 2017
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato: 28 sep 2017
Forfatter(e): Syl Tang
Forfatter(e) Syl Tang

Kategori Populærkultur

ISBN-13 9781442270992

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 182

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 160mm

Udg. Dato 28 sep 2017

Oplagsdato 28 sep 2017

Forlag Rowman & Littlefield

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