Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sneakers meet your feet Sneakers meet your feet Vicki Cobb Follows the familiar materials of rubber, cotton, nylon and leather through the steps of manufacturing and marketing them as sneakers. OL15213387W
Shoes Shoes Charlotte Yue Relates the history and lore of many of the kinds of shoes worn by men, women, and children throughout the world. OL15845118W
Shoes Shoes Lucy Johnston "After a general introduction, chronological chapters illustrated throughout retrace the history of footwear from the Middle Ages to today, featuring shoes and boots that once belonged to both anonym… OL19715018W
Custom kicks Custom kicks Kim Smits,Matthijs Maat Discusses artistic footwear customization, with photographs of work by over 140 artists and illustrators and an examination of the origins of the trend and types of materials that can be used. OL19938161W
In my shoes In my shoes Tamara Mellon "When Tamara Mellon's father lent her the seed money to start a high-end shoe company, he cautioned her: "Don't let the accountants run your business." Little did he know. Over the next fifteen years… OL19973299W
The complete book of shoes The complete book of shoes Marta Morales This book covers 300 extraordinary shoe designs of 39 international designers and fashion houses from around the world. It includes behind the scenes text on design approach and use of materials alon… OL19980553W
Sneaker century Sneaker century Amber Keyser Sneakers, first invented in 1868, have profoundly influenced athletics, fashion, music, culture, and the global economy over the last century plus. Sneaker Century takes a look at these incredible sh… OL19994086W
Fifty Shoes That Changed the World Fifty Shoes That Changed the World Design Museum 112 pages : 22 cm OL21596510W
Big Sarah's little boots Big Sarah's little boots Paulette Bourgeois Sarah loves her shiny yellow boots, until the day she finds she has grown and cannot fit into them any more. OL29474W
Red lace, yellow lace Red lace, yellow lace Mike Casey Rhyming text teaches young children how to tie a shoe. OL2961785W
Whose shoe? Whose shoe? Margaret Miller Illustrates a variety of footwear and matches each wearer with the appropriate shoe. OL2963930W
Every Step a Lotus Every Step a Lotus Dorothy Ko "In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses wo… OL3453987W
From cow to shoe From cow to shoe Ali Mitgutsch Follows a cow hide from the tannery where it is soaked, scraped, stretched, and sometimes dyed to the shoe factory where it is cut and stitched together to make shoes. OL4031444W
Class and Community Class and Community Alan Dawley "Dawley reflects on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth centur… OL4613896W
Clogs and clogmaking Clogs and clogmaking Jeremy Atkinson 32 p. : 21 cm OL5443225W