About the author - Andrew Sia
In his 42 years of business career, he created an admirable operation and played an important role in the intimate apparel industry. He also took part in education and set up intimate apparel training courses in Hong Kong, the U.S. and U.K. The purpose during the time was to train the younger generation for the betterment of their career path.
After his retirement in 2012, Andrew “reinvented” himself and began his adventure in publication and created the iApparel Journal which later changed the name to International Apparel Journal to cater for a bigger audience.
The Beacon Publication 2020 was established in the year of 2020, and it is another level of Andrew’s venture. This time they are books in the different sections to meet the different interests.
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- Andrew's all-time favorite books
This is my personal library, and in this library it consisted my favorite books that I have found from the book critiques. I also use them to inspire me and to use them as my references.
COLLAPSE
How Societies Choose
to Fail or Survive
By: Jared Diamonds
Civilization began on fertile land with inexhaustible resources. For any raw materials that they lacked, those could be obtained by trading overseas. The land then prospered with population multiplying beyond its abundant resources could support. Gone was the forestry, eroded soil, agricultural productivity, until it could no longer support its population.
Environment and sustainability are the focuses of iApparel Journal and the book was reviewed extensively in our issues of April, July and October 2016.
EMPIRE OF COTTON
A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
Although cotton was first grown by the Mexican, it turned into one of the most important commodity since 1800s and paved the way to our modern capitalism. This piece of the history is so important that we have to know. Cotton is still the most important yarn for garments.
This book was reviewed in the iApparel Journal in our July 2015 issue.
SPQR
SPQR – the abbreviation of
“The Senate and People of Rome”
A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
Roman Empire, the Latin phrase imperium sine fine means empire without end. Ancient Rome was an interesting city even by today’s standard. An empire that spanned from northern Europe to Africa in the south; from Spain from the western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The book began from 63BCE and walked us through the infamous characters of Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus and Nero. We came to know that it was the Romans were the first who put London as the capital of their province—Britannia.
