Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys
Kate Fletcher
Earthscan Publications, 2008
An expert, thoughtful and above all usable guide to the practice of sustainable fashion. Kate Fletcher describes how clothing manufacture could be turned into a sustainable industry. Her detailed book assesses systems as well as products, examining possible solutions from raw material to final design.This is a must read. [JT]
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About a Mountain
John D'Agata
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010
A tour de force of narrative nonfiction that moves from the political — the U.S. government's controversial plan, proposed 30 years ago, to dig an extensive network of tunnels into Yucca Mountain, north of Las Vegas, and there deposit 77,000 tons of radioactive waste — to the personal — the suicide of teenage boy, who jumps to his death from the roof of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas in the summer of 2002. [NL]
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Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America
Jackson Lears
Basic Books, 1995
A sweeping, deeply researched, insight-rich history of commercial persuasion and the American culture it created (or vice versa?). Full of myth-piercing and discovery in equal measure. Vital. []
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