Product Description: This text provides a background in entrepreneurship for apparel, accessories, textiles, and home furnishings business development. In addition, the text delivers the information needed to develop a comprehensive, effective business plan, aspects of which have been incorporated in chapters on merchandising, operating procedures, human resource development, and financing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Considering a career in fashion? This exciting and dynamic industry presents a wide range of different possible career choices. But without being on the inside, it's difficult to determine exactly what a designer, textile manufacturer, wholesaler, illustrator, model, product developer, journalist, or retailer does...read more

Product Description: This text helps students understand and analyze the segments of the textile and apparelindustry. Incorporating the experience of the author and her previous publication, A Guideto Analyzing Your Fashion Industry Internship, this updated and revised guide with accompanyingCD-ROM teaches students how to apply classroom theories to their real worldexperience...read more

Product Description: This book asks readers to act as business consultants in a variety of hypothetical work settings, from apparel and soft goods manufacturing to retail sales. Presenting real-life business situations, the cases encourage readers to offer original ideas for problem-solving and troubleshooting...read more

Pleased when they are assigned to the cute new male teacher on the first day of fifth grade, best friends Marty and Nina set out to become teacher's pets, until Marty learns that being a diligent and creative student has other rewards

Product Description: A practical resource for the new employee as they begin work in the fashion, textile or apparel industry.

Six short stories depict the warm relationship between an older and younger sister. Original.

Charlotte tries hard to convince her unyielding parents that she should adopt the stray cat that roams around their rented vacation home