Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
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Main Author: Kanigel, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press 2010
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Item Description:Biographical note: Robert Kanigel is Professor of Science Writing at MIT and author of several books, including The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and L.A. Times Book awards
Main description: From Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (296 S.)
ISBN:9780812205596
DOI:10.9783/9780812205596

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