![]() ![]() Sometimes infographics can masquerade as how-to guides. If your guide is more of a visual essay than a structured table or list, then chances are that is an infographic. Flow charts and step-by-step guides are considered guides, so are visual references that line up different types of something next to one another other.Īn infographic is more educational in layout and content, finding something specific on an infographic is not as easy because it is designed to inform through more narrative structures. Guides are typically laid out in a grid configuration of some sort or sectioned into multiple tables by a category or step of a process. On top of that not all guides are created equal, many technically qualify as guides, but lack substance. If someone has to visually bop around your guide to find what they are looking for, the guide does not pass the layout test. The layout or structure of a guide must be that so, when someone is trying to find/reference information from the guide, they can do so logically or simply. ![]() It takes both content and layout to make something a guide. Guides are reference materials, how-tos, and/or comparison tables. ![]()
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![]() ![]() New York City homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas has no problem finding connections between the two crimes. One that leads from the runway to the dark underworld of New York City where drugs can fulfil any desire - for a price. Putting her job on the line to head the investigation, Eve discovers that the world of high fashion thrives on an all-consuming passion for youth and fame. ![]() ![]() And Eve's chief suspect is the other woman in this fatal love triangle - her best friend Mavis. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted - even another woman's man. The victim in her latest murder investigation is one of the most sought-after women in the world. The victims had been using the same dating service. With a creeping dread, Eve watches the bodies mount and realises the key - the killer is counting down the twelve days to Christmas. And he's left behind a present: a partridge in a pear tree, pinned to the victim's hair. Finding a woman strangled to death by a murderous Santa doesn't help. It's Christmas-time in New York City, but homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to get into the holiday spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() This eighth edition will bring readers, both old and new, up to date with the world of wine. ![]() ![]() It is recognized by critics as the essential and most authoritative wine reference work available. If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one." - Andrew Jefford, Decanter Few wine books can be called classic, but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history when it appeared in 1971. Winner of the Andre Simon Drink Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Wine Book of the Year 2020 "One book deserves a place on every wine drinker's shelf, and that is The World Atlas of Wine" - Victoria Moore in the Telegraph "magisterial" - Fiona Beckett, Guardian "a key reference material for any sommelier, wine professional or any amateur serious about their passion" - Imbibe "The most useful single volume on wine ever published. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rescuing Alejandra is the hardest mission I've ever had to accomplish.No war has ever been won alone. Not only do I need to rescue her for Gunner, but once I see her picture and learn how she's been locked up most of her life, I can relate to the lost look in her eyes. When my VP, Gunner, discovers he has a sister, I know it has to be me that saves her. ![]() Adjusting as a civilian was difficult until I met my "brothers" and we formed The Bleeding Scars MC. ![]() I want to know him, but the idea of freedom is something I've longed for.AceAs a former Marine, going into a hostile situation and retrieving a target was a specialty I excelled at until I was captured and held as a POW, cutting my military career short. One day, he shows up and offers me a gift, my freedom for informing on my brother. Sure, I have a sperm donor, but he's only seen me a handful of times and not a single time was he fatherly. I've never had a real family, no mother to wipe my tears. I'm a bargaining chip, used by my family's business to seal a deal or impress a client. AlejandraThere's been one truth in my life-one thing that I've always known. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I’ll be generally having fun and making a fool of myself with sound effects and silly hats! Bring the children / grandchildren along – or if you’re interested in writing for children yourself, drop by for the session and have a chat afterwards. I’ll be reading from my new book St David’s Day is Cancelled and from my other books too. Oh, and I’ll be doing a FREE session on Saturday, 29th in Eve’s Toyshop. The festival ends with events on Sunday 30th, and with so many wonderful places to eat and gorgeous independent shops to browse in Llandeilo, what could be a better way to spend the Bank Holiday weekend? If you love books – it’s the place to be! Find full details of the programme and how to book here: Events Many of the events are free, but for those that are ticketed, booking in advance is strongly recommended to avoid disappointment. Starting on Thursday, 27th April, there’ll be lots of events to enjoy – readings & book signings, and discussions, including an amazing session with Jasper Fforde, author of the ‘Thursday Next’ series, & Jodi Taylor. ![]() The Bank Holiday at the end of April will soon be here, and with it comes a new & exciting event – Llandeilo Literature Festival! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Oppenheimer-end up with such vastly different fortunes, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, and how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making. To support his thesis, he examines why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how the Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how two people with exceptional intelligence- Christopher Langan and J. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. Outliers: The Story of Success is the non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() The base commander orders Dash not to discuss his suspicions. He doesn't believe it was an accident or suicide. The next morning, Dash learns Holtz died during an unauthorized moon walk. Most of all, he's bored.īut that's only until he makes a late-night run to the "evil" suction-like toilets in the communal bathroom and overhears Holtz, a scientist, telling someone he's made "the most important discovery in all of human history." He plans to announce it tomorrow. Instead, he sleeps in a pod that resembles a "tomb," and the food is dehydrated. He expected great accommodations and food. It's 2041, and it's 12-year-old Dashiell "Dash" Gibson's 188th day on the first moon base.ĭash bought into all of NASA's hype about the excitement and prestige of being among the first people - scientists, their families and others - selected to live on the moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More blood will spill if she doesn’t rein in the trial-her people’s, her family’s, and even her own. ![]() Descendant of the Crane is her young adult debut. She studied psychology and Chinese History at the University of Pennsylvania and currently writes from a desk overlooking the city waterfront. Not the heroes in history, or the father she thought she knew. Joan He was born and raised in Philadelphia but still will, on occasion, lose her way. As the investigation quickly spins out of control, Hesina realizes that no one is innocent. Descendant of the Crane is about Princess Hesina, soon to take on the role of Queen, who is on a mission to find out who murdered her father. She is determined to uncover the truth and bring the assassin to justice.īut in a broken system, ideals can kill. The imperial doctors say the king died a natural death, but Hesina believes he was murdered. He was supposed to teach her how to rule. He taught her how to defend against the corruption and excesses of the old kings, before revolutionaries purged them and their seers to establish the dynasty anew. This gorgeous, Chinese-inspired fantasy is packed with dizzying twists, complex characters, and intricate politics.įor princess Hesina of Yan, the palace is her home, but her father is her world. In New York Times – and Indie-bestselling author Joan He's debut novel, a determined and vulnerable young heroine struggles to do right in a world brimming with deception. ![]() Signed! *Signed Books, plus Bookmark and Character Card (Randomly Chosen) while Supplies Last!* ![]() ![]() ![]() Though this is a story of survival, it is also a poignant and dramatic tale of living in the wilderness and coping with inevitable loss. But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphise animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself - and he became her friend. He became a regular visitor, eventually sitting near her as she read to him from The Little Prince or Dr Seuss. One day, she realised that a wild fox that had been appearing at her house was coming by every day precisely at 4.15. Except when teaching, she spoke to no one. She managed to put herself through college and then graduate school, eventually earning a PhD in biology and building a house on her remote plot. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, at times living in her run-down car on abandoned construction sites, or camping on a piece of land in Montana she bought from a colleague. ![]() Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. ![]() A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox. ![]() ![]() I'm tired of searching aimlessly for answers. I don't know exactly 'what' I am, but I do know who I am.At least.I did.Sometimes life sends things your way that upend everything you thought you knew, and then slings you in another direction without any sort of harness or warning.Sometimes it drops someone like me off in the path of four wildly different monsters, who all used to be best friends, but now sort of hate each other and compete over absolutely everything, .Life would be easier if I wasn't already attached to those four monsters, but they occasionally let their guard down around me, and I get a glimpse of what has to stay hidden under all those snowball layers, since they already rolled downhill a long time ago.I'm tired of losing people I care about. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm like a snowball rolling downhill.That's the first thing that pops into my mind when I try to explain my life. ![]() |