{"product_id":"faux-real","title":"Faux Real","description":"Faux Real\nGenuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes\nRobert Kanigel\n\n\"A sound researcher and an engaging writer. . . . Kanigel intelligently takes time to address the philosophical question of the importance of faux versus real.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Fantastic cultural history. Smart and sensual prose. You'll never look at your Manolos the same way again.\"--Sylvia Nasar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Kanigel's book is an easy and pleasurable read. . . . A tribute to leather's physical and tactile properties and to humankind's ingenuity and persistence in attempting to imitate them.\"--\u003ci\u003eDesign and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nWhat makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know.\n\nOver the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself--or at least to convince consumers that it does.\n\nPerhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl\nsiding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. \u003ci\u003eFaux Real\u003c\/i\u003e explores this borderland of th","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52651133731183,"sku":"9780812221329","price":174.31,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/081222132X.jpg?v=1770669700","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/faux-real","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}