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Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art. -- .

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"Entertainingly written with examples from popular culture, Communicating Fashion draws together theories from communication, media and fashion studies to explain how we all use clothing to express ourselves and how the media shapes our understanding of fashion and style"--

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"Entertainingly written with examples from popular culture, Communicating Fashion draws together theories from communication, media and fashion studies to explain how we all use clothing to express ourselves and how the media shapes our understanding of fashion and style"--

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Contains twenty lessons in Gerber's AccuMark technology, focused on computerized patternmaking, digitizing, grading, and marker-making. This title teaches students how to use the software to make first patterns from basic slopers and make modifications and alterations on existing production patterns.

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"Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings, medical implications and socio-cultural significance from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. Withey charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair, and shaving - away from 'formal' medicine and practice - towards new concepts of hygiene and personal grooming"--

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Cotton has literally changed the world. This book explores the fascinating history and present day practices associated with cotton.

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A collection of essays, intended for student designers, this book looks at design, whether in clothes, hardware, posters, cars, airports, chairs, lighting, vending machines, cities or bathrooms. It is on how we use design, language and instinct to navigate our everyday world. It is useful as a foundation for student designers.

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Research, design, and development firms are actively recruiting anthropologists and other social scientists, as ethnographic research becomes more central to the creation of appropriate new products, services, and marketing strategies for U.S. and global markets.

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This text will teach students that creativity is a tool available to anyone who understands its components. Students are introduced to the foundations of creativity, with particular emphasis on exploring and developing one's individual and collaborative creativity relative to fashion design.

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The first major study of knitting, crochet and other forms of handicrafting as practiced by fans of cult films and television shows.

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Exploring violent tropes in British, French and American fashion c. 1919-39, this book asks why they appeared and how they relate to their social, political and cultural contexts.

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This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure of the dandy, the books claims an essential role and place of the male body and masculinity in the history of Art Deco. -- .

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Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and spaces. Bringing together case studies and material from a range of industries and contexts, this work provides an account of key trends in the creative industries at the start of the twenty-first century.

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Design and other creative industries not only shape our lives in numerous ways, but also shape the look and feel of everyday objects and spaces. Bringing together case studies and material from a range of industries and contexts, this work provides an account of key trends in the creative industries at the start of the twenty-first century.

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