Garment assembly is fundamental to the creation of designs.

This guide provides fashion students and designers with the knowledge of the techniques and components essential to the assembly of sewn products.

Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion Industry develops your understanding of which stitch and seam types to select for particular fabrics and garments. As well as the knowledge to construct a range of basic techniques to assemble entire garments using the correct components.

It can be difficult to master the skills of garment assembly by reading...

GIMP for Absolute Beginners gives us an easy wayto usethe power of GIMP, and enjoy digital photography and graphics without worrying about application features.

GIMP is a powerful open source graphics and digital imaging application with almostall the features of its proprietary counterpart, Photoshop.But many of us are photographers and artists first, and we like touse our tools without having to think about them too much.GIMP for Absolute Beginnersgets us to this stage without patronising users who haven't used GIMP before.

But what can we actually do with photos...

The long-awaited second volume of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction (RAF) West Germany s most notorious urban guerillas covers the period immediately following the organization s near total decimation in 1977. During this period, the RAF was in a state of regrouping and attempting to renew its ties to the radical left in response to the emergence of a new radical youth movement in the Federal Republic, the Autonomen. This reorganization was evidenced by the shifting of focus from freeing prisoners to fighting NATO. By examining communiques and texts from 1978 up...