The Final Collections

Designing a final degree collection is a fashion student’s first chance to approach the reality of the industry. This handbook provides a step-by-step guide to creating this collection, with each chapter exploring a different stage of the project: from understanding the brief and identifying the market to research, development and sampling, through to garment design, range planning, and styling and presentation. Richly illustrated with 350 colour photographs, the book builds on the skills learnt by students during their degree course and throughout the creation of their capsule collection. The accompanying case studies, featuring inspirational work by fashion students from 18 top fashion schools around the world, illustrate every stage of the process and showcase new talent. The book will be accompanied by a CD containing 15 additional student case studies.

Dark psychology is one of the world’s most powerful forces at work today. The world’s most powerful influencers used them in the past and continue to do so today. But it doesn’t have to be a leader to use dark psychology on you. It could be your parent, your relatives, friends, lovers, and colleagues, anyone close to you. Those who aren’t aware of what dark psychology is all about run the risk of having it used against them. You can avoid this at all costs! For this reason, inside this book, you will find highly valuable information that could quite possibly even save your life. This step-by-step guide covers essential topics in understanding eq: • Dark psychology tips and tricks; • Highly effective dark persuasion methods; • Mind control and body language for beginners; • Persuasion and manipulation explained in a simple manner; • Defense mechanisms against emotional predators; • A better understanding of emotional intelligence, manipulation and persuasion. In dark psychology and manipulation readers will be taken into the minds, the behaviors, the tactics and the techniques of the narcissists, machiavellians, psychopaths, and everyday sadists living and working among us. You’ve worked with some of these people, you’ve worked for them, you’ve dated them, married them, divorced them, admired them, feared them, but most of all wondered what it is that makes them do the dark and disturbing things they do.

By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users.

If the heart of the library is its collection, this textbook provides the keys to the heart of your library. Alongside standards of basic principles and processes, you'll find practical guidance on everything from acquisitions to preservation. Managing collections in today's libraries is more complicated and challenging than ever. Electronic formats, new options for collaboration and sharing, and the drive to use data for evaluation purposes are just a few of the changes now driving collection management. This updated edition of a classic text addresses changes in the field and provides a thorough overview of what collection development specialists now need to know to effectively and efficiently manage processes that range from selection and assessment to sharing resources, handling challenges, weeding, and preservation. Readers will find increased coverage of technical services, intellectual freedom and censorship, and collection policy development, as well as budget development and tracking, joint purchasing, and negotiating with vendors. Updates on e-resources, user needs assessment (including data visualization), and disaster management, along with suggestions for further reading, are also included. Engagingly written and easy to understand, this is a valuable text for students preparing for careers in public, academic, school, and special libraries. It will additionally serve as a training resource and professional refresher for practitioners.

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