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Disrobed: How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future Audiobook, by Syl Tang Play Audiobook Sample

Disrobed: How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future Audiobook

Disrobed: How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future Audiobook, by Syl Tang Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Randye Kaye Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781541484122

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

56:56 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:59 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

38:20 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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 listener on an unusual journey, telling stories and asking questions that most consumers have never considered about their clothing. Why do banker's wives sell off their clothes and how does that presage a recession? How is clothing linked to ethanol and starvation on the African continent? Could RFID in clothing save the lives of millions of people in earthquakes around the world?

This book takes an everyday item and considers it in a way that listeners may not have previously thought possible. It tackles topics relevant to today, from fakes in the museums to farm-to-table eating, and answers questions about how we can anticipate and change our world in areas as far-reaching as the environment, politics, and the clash of civilizations occurring between countries.

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"A fresh perspective about how our individual choices can radically upend societies on the other side of the globe."

— Aki Peritz, former CIA analyst

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About Syl Tang

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

About Randye Kaye

Randye Kaye is a national voice talent and actress, also currently heard as part-time newscaster and classical music host on NPR affiliates WSHU-FM and AM. Prior to that, while raising her children, she was a full-time morning personality for a top-rated Connecticut radio station in addition to her voice-over, on-camera, and theater work.