What's more important to a story: a gripping plot or compelling characters? Literary-minded novelists argue in favor of character-based novels while commercial novelists argue in favor of plot-based stories, but the truth of the matter is this: The best fiction is rich in both.

Enter Plot Versus Character. This hands-on guide to creating a well-rounded novel embraces both of these crucial story components. You'll learn to:

Create layered characters by considering personality traits, natural a...

Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find the information and know-how required to make a design work-until now. Universal Principles of Design is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design. Richly illustrated and ...

From a best-selling social work author, this book is about assessment and intervention, in other words what you actually do as a social worker.

This BACP co-pub provides the reader with all the necessary theory and practice needed to engage in case study research

This book is essential reading for everyone working with culturally diverse groups.(English translation of the book: ’Normaal is anders!’)In today’s working environment, many different cultural identities meet and interact on a daily basis. Cultural complexity will not go away. Diversity challenges us to question perspectives and unconscious routines and, if embraced, can be used to generate great competitive advantages. The power inherent in such diversity can boost team productivity and ...

Ever wondered why you are here on this Planet? Ever wondered why sometimes everything seems to be that logic and structured while at other times a complete chaos? Ever wondered if there is more between Heaven and Earth than your eyes can see? Paradise on Earth - Could it Be? shows you the Beauty of Life throughout the Universe when you look at it from a bit different perspective. What would happen when you would fully integrate your right sight brain with your left sight? Would you be able to...

By applying a fieldwork-based, geoarchaeological approach, Tourloukis examines in this study the evidence from Greece within the framework of the earliest occupation of Europe. Although the Greek Peninsula lies within a core area of early hominin movements between Africa and Europe but also within Eurasia itself, the Lower Palaeolithic record of Greece remains as yet extremely poor.

Choosing the scanty Greek record as a case-study, Tourloukis elaborates on a hitherto largely overlooked subjec...

Deze Engelstalige publicatie is een verzameling hedendaagse pamflettische teksten en manifesten rondom het verzamelde beeldende werk van beeldend kunstenaar Jonas Staal (1981). Het werk van Staal, waarin de relatie tussen kunst, politiek en ideologie centraal staat, heeft in de publicatie een platformfunctie voor een dialoog met een selectie internationale auteurs die zich nadrukkelijk bezig hebben gehouden met de politiek-maatschappelijke betekenis van het schrijven en publiceren, met het sc...

Lydia Muijen has worked and lived both in the US and the Netherlands. In 2000 she acted in her first theatrical performance in Florida, where she was casted as Syra in the Merchant by Plautus. After having moved back to the Netherlands in 2001 she and six other friends set up a student based theatre group called ToCo. After having completed her MA and MSc she moved to Los Angeles. Theatrical productions include The Taming of the Shrew, Not to be the Shakespearean Death Project and the Pillow ...

Ultrasound continues to be one of the most important diagnostic tools in medicine and is used by a wide range of healthcare professionals across many applications. This book provides a practical, clinically relevant guide for all practitioners working in the field of abdominal ultrasound. Its aim is to enable the operator to maximize the diagnostic information and recognize the limitations of ultrasound scans.

Accessible, step-by-step approach

Covers the basic related anatomy, technique and u...