Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays--just as irresistible? Plot Perfect provides the answer. This one-of-a-kind plotting primer reveals the secrets of creating a story structure that works--no matter what your genre.

A Picture Book Primer: Understanding and Using Picture Books

Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and straightforward guide. After defining the picture book and describing its history and technological evolution, the author helps you better understand and appreciate picture books by describing how they're made-their anatomy, types of illustration, layouts, design elements, and typography-various types of picture books (genres, formats, styles), how picture books work (the art of the story), and how they relate to child development and literacy.

Thomas Sowell explains exactly what economics is and what its guiding principles are. No jargon, no graphs, no equations in this comprehensive survey, from scarcity, the balance of trade, and price controls to minimum-wage laws, competition, profits, losses and the role of government. Intended as a primer for the citizen not trained in the basics of economic theory.

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Solutions Manual - A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering

Every exercise from the Math Primer book is solved in detail in the Solutions Manual. Over 50 new exercises are included, and complete solutions to these supplemental exercises are provided. Many of the new exercises are quite challenging and insightful from the perspective of further studies in financial engineering as well as for future job interviews. The addition of this Solutions Manual to the book ``A Primer for the Mathematics of Financial Engineering" offers the reader the opportunity of rigorous self--study of the mathematical topics presented in the Math Primer, and of achieving a deeper understanding of the financial applications therein.

How To Do Biography - A Primer

It is not surprising that biography is one of the most popular literary genres of our day. What is remarkable is that there is no accessible guide for how to write one. Now, following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in this first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer’s craft.