Child & Family Studies

Perfect for any reader interested in fashion, history, or popular culture, this text is an essential resource that presents vital information and informed analysis of key fashion fads not found elsewhere. * Provides high school and college students with interesting information about the direct connections between fashion trends and history that is not available elsewhere in a scholarly source * Presents a multi-dimensional approach to understanding the ever-changing fads in the world of fashion, allowing students to recognize the meaning behind clothes and better think critically about what is presented to them through their peers and celebrity culture or sold to them by advertisers * Offers readers easy access to original source material * Supports the national social studies standard CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7, which requires students to integrate information from diverse sources into an essay on American history

Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields--from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians--to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.

Explains how to prepare for a job interview, suggests ways to answer frequently asked questions, and lists the rights of the interviewee.

In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications.

How does a room affect an occupant's behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents' health? Environmental Psychology for Design, 2nd Edition, explores these questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment.

Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it's not calories--but concepts--that should be counted?

Posing the urgent questions that anyone with food allergies will think to ask--and then some--Food Allergies provides practical, sensitive, and scientific guidance on the topics that affect your life. Allergy expert Scott H. Sicherer addresses the full spectrum of food allergies, from mild to life threatening and from single foods to food families, clearing up misconceptions along the way.