Turn your passion and inspiration into a must-have bag collection and launch your own successful brand. Handbag design is more than just a creative pursuit-it's also a business. This book is a practical guide to developing your design skills alongside the vital business know-how you'll need to avoid costly mistakes. Ann Saunders leads you through the whole process from initial concepts through to sampling, manufacturing, marketing, and retail. You'll learn how to navigate the challenges of sourcing materials, finding a manufacturer, creating a bespoke brand, developing a sales strategy, and growing your business. Throughout the book Ann's former students, who have established their own successful brands, share their real-world insights into the challenges of becoming a designer/entrepreneur in today's highly competitive accessories market. With more than 150 images, charts and illustrations, Design, Manufacture and Sell Your Bag Collection includes detailed advice on: The Creative Process, Researching Your Brief, Knowing Your Customer, Designing Your Bag, Critical Paths, Materials, Hardware, Understanding Bag Construction, Completing Your Design, Planning a Range, Sampling, Manufacturing, Branding, Marketing, Business Planning, Sustaining Your Business, and Sustainability
SAUNDERS ELECTRONIC NURSING DRUG CARDS 2002 CD-ROM offers quick and easy access to 400 compact drug card monographs, 55 drug classifications, as well as the opportunity to test pharmacology knowledge with a database of over 300 NCLEX-style questions. Quizzes are timed and scored automatically. Users can quickly access information by choosing from an alphabetical listing of generic and trade drug names or by selecting a menu option showing all the drug cards in the deck for a given clinical or pharmacotherapeutic drug classification category. Each attractive 4-color card presents the generic drug name, brand name, classification, fixed combinations, pregnancy/lactation, availability, pharmacokinetics, action/therapeutic effect, uses/unlabeled uses, administration/handling, indication/route/dosage, precautions, interactions, side effects, adverse reactions/toxic effects, and nursing implications. (Includes FREE SIMON website at:www.harcourthealth.com/SIMON/SaundersNDH/) CD-ROM for Windows.
As a young girl, Agnes (Mother Teresa's birth name) experiences tragedy, near poverty and finds comfort in her writing. She dreams of growing up to be a writer but also wants to help the needy. She doesn't think she can do both, and learns miracles do happen. A Special gift for Children who are making their 1st Holy Communion, 8th graders being confirmed into the church have to choose a saint for their name, parents, teachers, those who like helping others, those who volunteer, anyone interested in Mother Teresa.
Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying. Neumann struggled to put her life back in order and found herself haunted by a question: Was her father’s death a good death? The way we talk about dying and the way we actually die are two very different things, she discovered, and many of us are shielded from what death actually looks like. To gain a better understanding, Neumann became a hospice volunteer and set out to discover what a good death is today. She attended conferences, academic lectures, and grief sessions in church basements. She went to Montana to talk with the attorney who successfully argued for the legalization of aid in dying, and to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to listen to “pro-life” groups who believe the removal of feeding tubes from some patients is tantamount to murder. Above all, she listened to the stories of those who were close to death. What Neumann found is that death in contemporary America is much more complicated than we think. Medical technologies and increased life expectancies have changed the very definition of medical death. And although death is our common fate, it is also a divisive issue that we all experience differently. What constitutes a good death is unique to each of us, depending on our age, race, economic status, culture, and beliefs. What’s more, differing concepts of choice, autonomy, and consent make death a contested landscape, governed by social, medical, legal, and religious systems. In these pages, Neumann brings us intimate portraits of the nurses, patients, bishops, bioethicists, and activists who are shaping the way we die. The Good Death presents a fearless examination of how we approach death, and how those of us close to dying loved ones live in death’s wake.
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