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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 396,179 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 815,494 ratings — published 2010
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.56 — 1,240 ratings — published 2023
Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,710 ratings — published 2006
The Knitter's Book of Yarn (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,545 ratings — published 2007
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,738 ratings — published 2023
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,849 ratings — published 1985
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.51 — 53 ratings — published
Babbitt (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 25,047 ratings — published 1922
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,767 ratings — published 2021
Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,632 ratings — published 2019
The Acquisitive Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 110 ratings — published 1920
The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
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avg rating 4.20 — 249 ratings — published 2017
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 439 ratings — published 2016
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,181 ratings — published 2016
Textiles: The Art of Mankind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 38 ratings — published 2012
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 2,708 ratings — published 2012
The Textile Reader (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.64 — 25 ratings — published 2012
Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty From Victorian Times to the Present Day (Women With Style)
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avg rating 4.08 — 283 ratings — published 2009
International Textile Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 227 ratings — published
Pencils You Should Know: A History of the Ultimate Writing Utensil in 75 Anecdotes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 157 ratings — published
The Elements of a Home: Curious Histories behind Everyday Household Objects, from Pillows to Forks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 291 ratings — published
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 82 ratings — published
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 4,010 ratings — published 2019
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,809 ratings — published 2018
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,722 ratings — published 2017
The Pencil Perfect: The Untold Story of a Cultural Icon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 84 ratings — published
Stationery Fever: From Paper Clips to Pencils and Everything In Between (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 55 ratings — published
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,740 ratings — published 2018
Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabrics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,812 ratings — published 2014
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,793 ratings — published 2013
Advanced Textiles for Health and Well-Being (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 2011
How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,017 ratings — published 2012
Classic and Modern Fabrics: The Complete Illustrated Sourcebook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2010
Bookmarks (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1995
Plastics In The Modern World (Pelican)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1941
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
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avg rating 4.13 — 87 ratings — published 1993
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,379 ratings — published 1994
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 658 ratings — published 1992
Cloth and Human Experience (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 1989
Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 93 ratings — published 2000
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7,036 ratings — published 2006
The Waste Makers (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.03 — 233 ratings — published 1960
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published
The Waste-Free World: How the Circular Economy Will Take Less, Make More, and Save the Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 176 ratings — published


