Book Review: Penny Le Couteru & Jay Burreson’s Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
A fascinating look at cause-and-effect in history and on the world.
Genre: non-fiction
Book Review: Patricia Polacco’s Chicken Sunday
Love will find a way for a young Russian American girl and her African American brothers to buy their gramma Eula an Easter hat…in just the right way.
Book Review: Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s WordPress for Dummies
WordPress For Dummies, 3rd Edition, helps bloggers quickly take advantage of most of what this popular blogging tool has to offer.
Book Review: Jan Tschichold’s The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Designby Jan TschicholdIt is part of the Classic Typography series and is a non-fiction, business in a paperback edition that was published by Hartley & Marks on January 1, 1991 and has 191 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Non-fictional collection of essays that discuss typography and book layout. My Take Oh my god, what a pretentious twit! Albeit one with a lovely gift for words, so flowery in his discourse on the beauty of book layouts. I couldn’t decide if I was reading a critique on book construction or wine. Harmony is determined by relationships or proportions. Proportions are hidden everywhere: in the capaciousness of the margins, in the reciprocal relationships to each other of all four margins on the page of a book, in the relationship between leading of the type area and dimensions of the margins, the placement of the page number relative to the…and on and on. Tschichold’s use of the word “morality” as part of the title […]
Book Review: Mark Pilgri’s HTML5: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Web Development
If you don’t know about the new features available in HTML5, now’s the time to find out. The latest version of this markup language is going to significantly change the way you develop web applications, and this book provides your first real look at HTML5’s new elements and attributes.
Book Review: Ursula Hegi’s Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America
An exploration of interviews by one German of other Germans who now live in America and were children growing up in Germany during or after the war. What they remember. How they survived.
Book Review: Barbara Corcoran with Warren Berger’s Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life
Where, and maybe more importantly, how do you want to live once you’ve escaped the 9-to-5? Corcoran identifies the top eight trends that are changing where (and how) boomers are retiring.
Book Review: James Scott Bell’s Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
How does plot influence story structure? What’s the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that’s gone off course?
Book Review: Jane Aiken Hodge’s The Private World of Georgette Heyer
Lavishly illustrated, and with extracts from her correspondence and references to her work, The Private World reveals a formidable and energetic woman with an impeccable sense of style and above all, a love for all things Regency.
Book Review: Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail
Tough, spirited, and fiercely independent Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. But Abigail is a young woman who lives with a strength and inner light.