Publisher's Synopsis
This book is part of a series covering the four main areas of Home Economics in the GCSE criteria - food, home, textiles and family. It is designed to help students develop the skills of decision-making and problem-solving and activities are included which provide this practice.;Well illustrated with diagrams and photographs, each book is written in short alphabetical topics similar to a catalogue and is suitable for average to lower-average abilities. Frequent cross-referencing amongst topics in each individual book and to the other books in the series satisfies the GCSE aim of bringing out inter-relationships in the four main areas. This format also allows the books to be used alongside established reference texts and for individual studies and project work.
