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Style Wise: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Fashion Stylist, 3rd Edition is an essential text for turning aspiring stylists into professional styli...

Providing insight into a broad and expanding range of topics, The Meanings of Dress, 5th Edition examines social, behavioral, and cultural aspects ...

Social Psychology of Dress, 2nd Edition presents and explains the major theories and concepts of human behavior relating to dress, drawing from the...

Learn technical design processes and industry standards, such as ASTM and ISO, for apparel production and manufacturing practices. With more than 1...

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores tourism demand, supply, organisation, and resources for ...

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Fourth Edition, shows readers how t...

Ulrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable...

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, ac...

Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, études is a diary-like sequence of poems by o...

In Young Light, novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s G...

When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with...

A practical guide on how to produce and engage with arguments

Is it possible to fight for social justice if you’ve never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you’re in love? Forty-six-year-ol...

Hindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi. Assuming no prior knowledge of Hind...

All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons. Why, then, do we look so different from each other? The answers lie in the con...

This seminal text demystifies the terminology of working in the fashion industry today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, a...

Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV, introduces and demonstrates a variety of mask ...

A renowned novel of self-deceit and self-acceptance. Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation...

While many books proliferate elucidating the science behind the transformations during cooking, none teach the concepts of physics chemistry throug...

"I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have liked me, and I’ve liked too many men." ...

No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to ...

In A Buyer’s Guide to Retail Mathematics, you will learn the retail math skills needed to be a retail buyer, planner, or store line retailer. This ...

A Guide to Fashion Sewing, 7th Edition, provides a comprehensive fashion sewing resource for beginning and advanced sewers alike. Readers will lear...

Learn how to draw fashion images that communicate design ideas and details. With more than 3,000 color illustrations and updated instructions, the ...

For fashion students who want to be both in the now and in the know! The Dynamics of Fashion, Sixth Edition, has the latest facts and figures, and ...

To execute excellent designs, you need accurate pattern drafting and quality sewing, and Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers, Third Editio...

This all-in-one text and swatch book offers current and high-quality fashion fabric samples alongside vital information like fabric name, fiber con...

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of t...

The twelfth edition of J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science provides the most current and comprehensive overview and introduction to the textile industry-...

• An in-depth, researched study on the handwoven floor coverings of Kashmir • Comprehensively covers the history, production methods and special f...

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. This...

Tourism and Hospitality Management in Practice: A Case Study Collection is a collection of real-world business cases with a particular focus on sma...

The sari has remained an essential part of culture, tradition and fashion in South Asia and India through many centuries. This book examines the va...

Drafting and pattern making are the basic necessities for making fashion garments. To become a successful fashion designer one needs to have a grea...

Unlike other books on any enactment, this book has been designed and written in a textbook format on Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous P...

Human Trafficking—one of the three most lucrative types of organized crime besides drugs and arms—has reached a frightening magnitude all over the ...

General Studies is a subject which encompasses all aspects of the world around us. It deals with politics, ethics, literature, language, culture, s...

I once tried to eat porridge with my mother's hairbrush. It wasn't a great idea, but it was a creative new choice. And it could be great for pasta ...

This book demystifies the term "trafficking" with a view to properly understand its trends, dimensions, and gaps in policy and law that need to be ...

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills. Drawing on authentic,...

The First Call for Freedom: Unravelling 1857 in Lucknow is a unique and valuable effort in bringing to the fore stories of indomitable courage and ...

General Studies is a subject which encompasses all aspects of the world around us. It deals with politics, ethics, literature, language, culture, s...

The animal world is extremely vast, comprising thousands of species living on land and in water. Human life is inextricably woven with that of anim...

Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological conc...

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and ...

This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between...

The world is at the crossroads of either quickly changing the energy picture towards implementing efficient renewable energy sources or postponing ...