Looks at the history of the United States, focusing on the lives and experiences of Americans.

Product Description: Fans of the iconic fashion designer can peek into the world of Anna Sui with this sketchbook, where blank pages for drawing are interspersed with Sui s own fashion illustrations, scans of her vibrant textiles, and inspiring quotes from her twenty year career as one of the most beloved of designers...read more

Product Description: Apparel—Design, Textiles & Construction is designed to help students understand the role of apparel in their lives and the lives of others. Students will learn about the textile and apparel industry from the U.S. and global viewpoint, the latest trends in fashion and apparel, the impact of fashion design on the industry, and a focus on career opportunities in textiles and apparel...read more

Product Description: The Art of Fashion Illustration is the ultimate guide to fashion sketching. Inside, you'll find more than 150 beautiful illustrations from the international community's masters of illustration and rising stars including Adriana Krawcwicz, Sarah Beetson, Pippa McManus, Sarah Hankinson, Nuno Da Costa, Lovisa Burfitt, and Erin Petson...read more

Product Description: Fashion is about more than models on the runway at a fashion show. Fashion starts with a designer's idea. Then it involves cutting and sewing fabric, and the business of making and selling clothes. This book will show you how a sketch can become the fashion that we all want in our closets!About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher...read more

Product Description: In this fun, hip, easy-to-follow guide, Project Runway contestant Buffi Jashanmal shows you how to design and make your own custom-fitted dresses from start to finish. You’ll learn how to create custom patterns for three basic dress shapes – the shift, the sheath, and the princess seam – and how to make them rock by exploring nine variations for each basic shape...read more

The second edition of this authoritative text has been updated to provide the latest information on the organization and operation of the fashion industry. It traces the steps of fashion apparel,accessories, and home fashions from research through design, manufacturing, and marketing, all the way to the final sale to the consumer. It explains the industry's various components, emphasizing technological changes and global perspectives.

"Contemporary Nutrition" is designed for students with little or no background in college-level biology, chemistry or physiology. It provides the ideal balance of reliable nutrition information and practical consumer-oriented knowledge. With a friendly writing style, the authors act as the student's personal guide to dispelling common misconceptions and to gaining a solid foundation for making informed nutrition choices. "Contemporary Nutrition" emphasizes that a population consists of individuals with varying genetic and cultural backgrounds, and these individuals will have varying responses to diet. The knowledge gained from this text will allow students to personalize nutrition information and make smart choices.

Product Description: Published in conjunction with Harrods, London, this book is the first of its kind: a rare look inside the world of couture, an elite class of the world's greatest designers who have achieved a level of perfection in their craftsmanship and vision in fashion...read more

Product Description: Folding has been used in historic and current fashion trends. Couture Unfolded shows techniques of folding through simple illustrations, detailed instructions, and examples of traditional and modern variations by some of today's most innovative and avant-garde designers.

Product Description: The standard work on creative flat drawing in fashion is now completely updated, revised, and expanded! Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator® teaches students, designers, merchandisers, and developers how to master the industry's most established application and deliver stunning designs in the fastest possible way—exactly what's required on the job...read more

Product Description: For crafters, designers, and any stylish individual who has ever wanted to recreate a runway look or simply put their own mark on their wardrobe, this book is the ultimate inspirational resource. Customize Your Clothes is a one-stop DIY guide that covers customizing all essential garments and accessories from head to toe, showing readers how to transform, deconstruct, and/or upcycle their wardrobe by bleaching, beading, stitching, distressing, spray-painting, and much, much more...read more

After eminent scientist Walker Stevenson is killed trying to discover Ponce de Leon's legendary city of eternal life, Stevenson's lover, Dr. Harriet May Eddy, tries to solve his murder and faces a force of staggering evil