Fashion Careers has been an extremely useful tool for graduating seniors and an excellent reference for those seeking new opportunities in fashion and related industries. In these ever changing times within fashion retailing, product development and manufacturing , this book allows individuals the ability to analyze their strengths and weaknesses and ultimately develop a resumé that will help land them an appropriate position in their field of interest. The workbook is particulrly helpful, in that it allows the opportunity to xerox and reuse worksheets as one evolves through their chosen career path.
I recommend this book to all individuals thinking about or actively involved in a job search.

I purchased this book after being downsized as a retail buyer. I used the book to help me focus on what my skills were, and to give me tips for writing a punchier resume. The book was easy to use and yielded great results. I am working again, this time in sales and earning a higher salary. This is a book that will stay on my bookshelf!

What a joy to find an industry specific text for use in "Career Planning" courses for college students majoring in Fashion Merchandising and/or Fashion Design. While there is no shortage of "Career Planning" texts or workbooks per se, this is the only one we have seen that so perfectly fits the requirements of students seeking appropriate Fashion Industry related examples of everything from writing an effective resume, to cover letters, to interview techniques, to thank you letters following an interview.
The workbook exercises have proven especially useful in helping students identify and focus on specific areas of career opportunities within the Fashion Industry, as well as where and how they might begin their job search/careers. The text also includes useful reference lists of Fashion Industry websites and professional organizations.
As a Fashion Merchandising and Career Planning instructor, I would highly recommend this book for consideration as a required text for Fashion Merchandising and Fashion Design students.

I do not feel this book is specific enough regarding values of stones for a beginner such as myself, especially for less-expensive stones.

Now in an updated second edition, Gemstone Buying Guide by experienced and professional gemologist Renee Newman is an authoritative, useful and "user friendly", no-nonsense guide to evaluating, identifying, and caring for colored gems, ranging from pearls and opals, to moonstone, topaz, turquoise, and more. Vibrant color photographs throughout add visualization to the tips, tricks, and techniques skillfully described in the text. If you are buying or selling any kind of gemstone then give Renee Newman's Gemstone Buying Guide is "must" reading.

If you are looking for a brief, concise, easy to read book that spells out the basics for gem buying, this is for you. It also has some lore and some of the most beautiful photographs of gems I have ever seen. Inexpensive and useful.

This is a must have for those who are trying to find out who they really are. The book is fun, easy to read and understand, and is one of the best sources for figuring out your personality type that I have encountered yet.

Although this book does not cover Myers-Brigg/Keirsey-based personality typing with the depth of "Please Understand Me" or "Personality Type: An Owner's Manual" (both very good books), it's an excellent quick and easy resource on the 4 basic types and the 16 specific types. Besides character-specific traits, the author offers tips on getting along with each type, as well as well as tips for each type on getting along with other types (make sense? ;). I do think the self assessment in the front could be a bit more comprehensive, but this book was obviously not written to be the definitive information source on Myers-Brigg, so I think that's excusable. When introducing MB/K to others, this is the book I reach for - it's easy to understand and appealing to read.

This book is great for the lay person to help understand the Myers Briggs temperment typing. I've read Kiersey Bates and this book was much better at giving me an appreciation and understanding of the different types. I learned so much from the great cartoons - the types come alive through the cartoons. The types are described so well that I use this book as a reference to help me in my relationships with my family members, friends and co-workers. It's a light, fun, easy to understand description of the Myers Briggs system of temperment typing.

I did not find the books about Martha as good or
as interesting as other books about Laura Ingalls Wilder's family. There was too much nonsense in the books about fairies
and the like. In my opinion the books were dull and slow moving
and I doubt if I'll want to read them again.

Little House in the Highlands is a very nice book to curl up with on a Saturday afternoon, but it is not a very good history book to read for school. This is only the first book- I think the other three books are much better than this one. However, you should read this book. I found it very enjoyable and the fairy tales told in it are very interesting. (By the way, you might have trouble reading this book if you're not used to a Scottish accent).

What a sweet book. I really enjoyed it. Very nice to read about the highlands and their way of life back then. Very informative book. Great for kids and adults!

Also,it is great to read about Laura Ingalls Wilder's ancestors. Fascinating indeed. Melissa Wiley has an enchanting way of writing. You can see where Laura got her fiestiness, charm and energy.

I recommend this book for you and your children!

I just finished reading "Meet Kirsten" I loved it a lot. This book is about a Swedish girl named Kirsten. Kirsten has to leave Sweden, the land she knew, to go live with her cousins. To get there she has to go on to a boat that goes to NY, a train that goes to Chicago and the rest of the way they walk to Minnesota! Sound hard? No kidding. Pioneers who made journeys like that were called immigrants. I thought "Meet Kirsten's "A Peek Into the Past was awesome! It even had a map of Kirsten's travels! Not only are they good stories but they are also history lessons. I would very highly recommend this book to a friend .

I read a book that was an American girls book. I liked the book because it was full of excitement. It's about a girl named Kristen. She came from Sweden to live in American with another family.In the family was Kirsten's friend. I liked these books. Do you think all of them well make it? I recomend this to girls who love sad stories.

This is another in the American Girls Short Stories series about Kirsten Larson, a nine-year-old girl from Sweden. This is the first book in this series. In it, we meet Kirsten on the Eagle, a sailing ship bringing her and her family from Sweden to America in 1854. Leaving behind the life she knew, Kirsten sails across the wide Atlantic, takes her first ever train ride, sees several big cities, and begins her new life in frontier Minnesota. It is a journey mixing joy and grief, and fear and happiness.

This book is quite fascinating, showing the joys and dangers in the life of an immigrant to the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Kirsten is adorable, and yet teaches the young reader. As an added bonus, the book contains a final chapter that provides a great deal of information on the experiences of immigrants in that time. As always, Renee Graef's illustrations are plentiful and beautifully done, adding greatly to the story. My nine-year-old daughter loves these books, and I must admit that reading them with her has kindled my own interest in my Swedish ancestors. This is a great book!

...don't buy it. fans of true crime can find many efforts within the genre which are far superior. while i'm not minimizing the horrible reality of the child's death, the truth is that this book fails to evoke it. i've read a few of carlton stowers's other books, although not recently, but, if memory serves correctly, he is capable of relating a story with much more skill than is displayed here. usually, when reading an account such as this one, a reader feels negatively toward the murderer and has a strong sense of sympathy/empathy/admiration for the victim's relatives and/or the advocates involved in pursuing justice. for me, in this instance, these reactions were more theoretical than real. it's hard to pinpoint exactly why that should be, but i guess it just doesn't seem to have been written with a great deal of inspiration. even the conversations and vignettes themselves seem lacking in conviction. again, the truth is awful, and the victims' pain should be recognized. but that effort is not served very well in this case.

I found this story one I could not put down until I finished it. I was saddened by the story but glad the truth came out. Hooray to these women for pursuing thier gut feelings and may carlton stowers and others keep the true crime storys coming. We need to be informed educated so we can be more able to protect the children!!

thanks to this spellbinding book by Mr. Stowers; I am a prolific reader of true crime and while I am reading a book I am engrossed in it but the story fades quickly; not so with this book. There are so many aspects to the story: the shoddy, so- called investigation by the police; the shoddy examination by the medical examiner resulting in an "undetermined cause of death",the realization that if the family had not been persistent, this child's murder would have been "cold filed"; What is heartening is the degree of involvement of Sue Dietrich the Detective who asked to get involved in this case and the attorney who tried the case Jeri Yenne; their passion to bring the killer to justice was surprising and Mr. Stowers reveals their compassion for this child. Most of all, Mr. Stowers writing style evoked an immense amount of sympathy for this poor unfortuante and innocent child. I kept looking at her face and then went back to reading the book; while the death of a child is always horrific, you don't always feel as though the child in the book if personalized as was the case with this book; I felt as though I could see Renee and hear her laugh and play; in fact,there were times I had to put the book down because it was painful to read; Thank goodness for Sharon, Renee's grandmother, who was intelligent and feisty and would not allow this crime to be swept under the rug; It was the passion of the the detective and the attorney who tried the case that won this case for Renee; I will never forget you, Renee.

Not a French Unabridge Dictionary, this is, in fact, a very good French-English English-French dictionary. While it is quite good, you should realize the title is misleading and it is written and compiled in England. You will find unfortunate translations which skew the real meaning. Example: 'tetes brulees' is translated as "desperado", when it really means 'hot-head', 'daredevil'. Another: "foutu" is translated as 'damn', 'bloody', when it really means the four-letter word "f---".

For a person who is hungry for words, this is THE dictionary to opt for. The umpteen entries make this dictionary the most sought-after bilingual dictionary to look up for new words. The additions of recent words, which have made an entry into French, make this a contemporary dictionary of the French language. This would have proved to be the best in all possible ways if only the manner in which the skeleton has been structured was more pragmatic. One would be dissatisfied after futilely looking up in the dictionary to find how to express certain expressions native to an English user like "receive a proposal" et al. If only this dictionary had been more user-friendly (by drawing heavily from corpus) like Oxford-Hachette is, it would have been an indispensable tool.

I wholeheartedly agree with those who say that this particular dictionary is THE French dictionary for students of French (and French enthusiasts). Not only is the vocabulary comprehensive, but the usage notes are invaluable; symbols indicate British versus American usage, the "slang quotient" of a word, and archaic and colloquial words, among others. The entries are full of examples that make it very easy to find out exactly how to use the word in context. There is also a special "Language in Use" section in the middle for particular cases, especially idiomatic phrases. The pronunciations are in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), with guides in English and French. Highly recommended!!

Magnificant monologues for kids is a REALLY good way to learn how to act! The monologues are great for kids between the ages of 8 to 14! I love this book! It helped ME become an actress!!

I recently came across MAGNIFICENT MONOLOGUES FOR KIDS when my daughter's agent got her an audition for the National Touring company of ANNIE. She was required to do a monologue so my husband and I bought a couple of Monologue books. Well MAGNIFICENT MONOLOGUES was by far the best. Our daughter liked so many of them she had a hard time making up her mind which one to audition with. Long Story short my daughter got a callback! Great book

I am in seventh grade and I like this book because it helps kids who want to become actors or actresses. The monologues are easy to read and fun to act out. My favorite monologue is "Craig." It is about a boy who goes to summer camp and his parents have deserted him. Maybe that will be your favorite monologue but you have to buy the book first.