Author: Tony Johnston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152061452
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.
Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea
Author: Tony Johnston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152061452
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152061452
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.
Levi Strauss
Author: Lynn Downey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625342294
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Blue jeans are globally beloved and quintessentially American. They symbolize everything from the Old West to the hippie counter-culture; everyone from car mechanics to high-fashion models wears jeans. And no name is more associated with blue jeans than Levi Strauss & Co., the creator of this classic American garment. As a young man Levi Strauss left his home in Germany and immigrated to America. He made his way to San Francisco and by 1853 had started his company. Soon he was a leading businessman in a growing commercial city that was beginning to influence the rest of the nation. Family-centered and deeply rooted in his Jewish faith, Strauss was the hub of a wheel whose spokes reached into nearly every aspect of American culture: business, philanthropy, politics, immigration, transportation, education, and fashion. But despite creating an American icon, Levi Strauss is a mystery. Little is known about the man, and the widely circulated "facts" about his life are steeped in mythology. In this first full-length biography, Lynn Downey sets the record straight about this brilliant businessman. Strauss's life was the classic American success story, filled with lessons about craft and integrity, leadership and innovation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625342294
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Blue jeans are globally beloved and quintessentially American. They symbolize everything from the Old West to the hippie counter-culture; everyone from car mechanics to high-fashion models wears jeans. And no name is more associated with blue jeans than Levi Strauss & Co., the creator of this classic American garment. As a young man Levi Strauss left his home in Germany and immigrated to America. He made his way to San Francisco and by 1853 had started his company. Soon he was a leading businessman in a growing commercial city that was beginning to influence the rest of the nation. Family-centered and deeply rooted in his Jewish faith, Strauss was the hub of a wheel whose spokes reached into nearly every aspect of American culture: business, philanthropy, politics, immigration, transportation, education, and fashion. But despite creating an American icon, Levi Strauss is a mystery. Little is known about the man, and the widely circulated "facts" about his life are steeped in mythology. In this first full-length biography, Lynn Downey sets the record straight about this brilliant businessman. Strauss's life was the classic American success story, filled with lessons about craft and integrity, leadership and innovation.
Who Was Levi Strauss?
Author: Ellen Labrecque
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593225074
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
How did an immigrant who sold sewing supplies in New York City reinvent himself in the American West by creating the most iconic pair of pants in the world? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! As a young working-class German immigrant, Levi Strauss left his family's dry goods business in New York City to journey out west for the California Gold Rush. Only Levi wasn't looking for gold -- he wanted to provide the miners with sturdy clothes to wear while they worked in the dusty river beds. His solution? Blue jeans -- pants made of strong denim fabric -- which have become one of the most beloved and fashionable clothing items in the world. Who Was Levi Strauss? follows the remarkable journey of this American businessman, and takes a look at how one man and a pair of pants changed fashion and the world forever.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593225074
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
How did an immigrant who sold sewing supplies in New York City reinvent himself in the American West by creating the most iconic pair of pants in the world? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! As a young working-class German immigrant, Levi Strauss left his family's dry goods business in New York City to journey out west for the California Gold Rush. Only Levi wasn't looking for gold -- he wanted to provide the miners with sturdy clothes to wear while they worked in the dusty river beds. His solution? Blue jeans -- pants made of strong denim fabric -- which have become one of the most beloved and fashionable clothing items in the world. Who Was Levi Strauss? follows the remarkable journey of this American businessman, and takes a look at how one man and a pair of pants changed fashion and the world forever.
Between the Eyes
Author: David Levi Strauss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597112147
Category : Mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In an era of social confusion and visual pandemonium, David Levi Strauss tackles issues of photography and politics in a way that few critics today are courageous enough to attempt. The essays collected in Between the Eyesaddress topics ranging from propaganda and the imagery of dreams, to Sebastião Salgado’s epic social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. Other issues broached here include the legitimacy of photographic imagery and the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11, as well as essays on the work of Ania Bien, Miguel Rio Branco, Alfredo Jaar, Joel-Peter Witkin and others, plus an interview with painter Leon Golub (who worked from photographs). Reviewing the first edition of Between the Eyes, Publisher’s Weeklywrote: “‘Photography and Propaganda,’ a study of the work and deaths in ‘80s Central America of photojournalists Richard Cross and John Hoagland, should be required reading in the age of embeddedness, and ‘Photography and Belief’ is a terrific meditation on truth in the age of digital manipulation.”
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597112147
Category : Mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In an era of social confusion and visual pandemonium, David Levi Strauss tackles issues of photography and politics in a way that few critics today are courageous enough to attempt. The essays collected in Between the Eyesaddress topics ranging from propaganda and the imagery of dreams, to Sebastião Salgado’s epic social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. Other issues broached here include the legitimacy of photographic imagery and the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11, as well as essays on the work of Ania Bien, Miguel Rio Branco, Alfredo Jaar, Joel-Peter Witkin and others, plus an interview with painter Leon Golub (who worked from photographs). Reviewing the first edition of Between the Eyes, Publisher’s Weeklywrote: “‘Photography and Propaganda,’ a study of the work and deaths in ‘80s Central America of photojournalists Richard Cross and John Hoagland, should be required reading in the age of embeddedness, and ‘Photography and Belief’ is a terrific meditation on truth in the age of digital manipulation.”
Levi Strauss and Blue Jeans
Author: Nathan Olson
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736896467
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tells the story of Levi Strauss and the evolution of blue jeans. Written in graphic format.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736896467
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tells the story of Levi Strauss and the evolution of blue jeans. Written in graphic format.
Levi Strauss & Co.
Author: Lynn Downey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738569345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738569345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology
Author: Marcel Hénaff
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816627615
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
As anthropology continues to transform itself, this book affords a broad and balanced account of the remarkable accomplishments of one of the great intellectual innovators of the 20th century. It presents an authoritative and accessible analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's research in anthropological theory and practice as well as his contributions to debates surrounding linguistics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816627615
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
As anthropology continues to transform itself, this book affords a broad and balanced account of the remarkable accomplishments of one of the great intellectual innovators of the 20th century. It presents an authoritative and accessible analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's research in anthropological theory and practice as well as his contributions to debates surrounding linguistics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
Everyone Wears His Name
Author: Sondra Henry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875183756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co., the world's first and largest manufacturer of denim jeans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875183756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co., the world's first and largest manufacturer of denim jeans.
Tristes Tropiques
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101575603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101575603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."
Myth and Meaning
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134522304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134522304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.