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Syl Tang - Disrobed - 9781442270992 - V9781442270992
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Disrobed

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Description for Disrobed Hardback. Disrobed explores how clothing reflects the state of the world and where it might be headed. Syl Tang brilliantly links the clothes we wear to world concerns such as the environment, water security, culture clashes, and economic booms and busts. Readers will never think about clothing the same way again. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: AKT; JFCA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442270992
SKU
V9781442270992
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Syl Tang
Syl Tang is CEO and founder of the 19-year old HipGuide Inc. A futurist, her focus is how and why we consume, with an eye towards world events such as natural disasters, geo-political clashes, and pandemics. She has written hundreds of articles on the confluence of world events and soft goods for the Financial Times, predicting and documenting trends such ... Read more

Reviews for Disrobed
Can what you wear save your life, keep you safe, or kill people across the world? Syl Tang shows that, sometimes, it does. You've never read a national security book quite like Disrobed. A fresh perspective about how our individual choices can radically upend societies on the other side of the globe. Do clothes reflect the jagged fault lines between ... Read more

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