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ISBN: 0684827603 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Touchstone
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Social prediction --- Quality of life --- -Technological forecasting --- Creative ability --- Creativeness --- Creativity --- Ability --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Technology --- Forecasting --- Technology transfer --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Prediction, Social --- Social forecasting --- Sociological prediction --- Sociology --- Social indicators --- Statistical methods --- Technological forecasting
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ISBN: 9781541617605 1541617606 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
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"The story of humanity is the story of textiles--as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel traces this surprising history, exposing the hidden ways textiles have made our world. The origins of chemistry lie in the coloring and finishing of cloth. The beginning of binary code--and perhaps all of mathematics--is found in weaving. Selective breeding to produce fibers heralded the birth of agriculture. The belt drive came from silk production. So did microbiology. The textile business funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; it left us double-entry bookkeeping and letters of credit, the David and the Taj Mahal. From the Minoans who exported woolen cloth colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to the Romans who wore wildly expensive Chinese silk, the trade and production of textiles paved the economic and cultural crossroads of the ancient world. As much as spices or gold, the quest for fabrics and dyes drew sailors across strange seas, creating an ever-more connected global economy. Synthesizing groundbreaking research from economics, archaeology, and anthropology, Postrel weaves a rich tapestry of human cultural development"--
Textile industry --- Textile fabrics --- 746.01 --- 746(091) --- History --- Textielkunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Textielkunst ; geschiedenis
ISBN: 0060186321 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): HarperCollins
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ISBN: 0684862697 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Simon & Schuster
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Social prediction --- Technological forecasting --- Creative ability --- Quality of life - Forecasting.
ISBN: 0935640908 9780935640908 Year: 2008 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.) Walker art center
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Art --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- architecture [discipline] --- public art --- suburbs --- United States --- Art, American --- Suburban life in art --- Suburbs in art --- 711.4(A) --- 711.4(C) --- Stedenbouw ; denken over ; 21ste eeuw --- Steden ; vormgeving ; analyse ; 21ste eeuw --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Minneapolis ; Walker Art Center --- Thema's in de kunst ; buitenwijken --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; denken over de stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad --- Exhibitions --- United States of America
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