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Series
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
©1992.
Language
English
Description
Explores, through text and illustrations, how fashions and clothes reflect the social, political, and cultural climate of their time. Fashions of a Decade: The 1990s recounts the history of fashion as it threaded its way through this exciting era. From silk walking shorts to bike leathers to layered minidresses to stretch-velvet jump suits, the 1990s represented a period of fun, innovative clothing styles that could be sold at affordable prices for...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred...
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