This irreverent guide to drawing cartoons offers tips and tricks from a professional illustrator to aspiring artists. Tips include how to work with perspective and shadows, the best way to stretch and squash physical features, and how small alterations can create unique scenes and characters. Endlessly encouraging young cartoonists, this instructive resource suggests ways to improve basic skills and unleash creativity through drawing exercises and examples.
In the opening essay' Wordsworth in the Tropics' he somewhat cantankerously works to disabuse us of the idyllic Wordsworthian picture of 'nature' He presents a picture of the horrors of non-hospitable nature, and ties Wordsworth 's genius to a particular latitudinal range. In the Tropics Huxley suggests there would not have been those 'intimations of immortality.
Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is not simply a critique of colonialism in the Congo; it is an examination of the human tendency toward self-endangering corruptibility. This collection of critical essays suggests it has taken on the power of myth.
The old Darwinian model of evolution was recently substituted with the selfish gene theory. The present book suggests that this mainstream theory is just as erroneous as Darwin's original model and we can soon expect another revolution. It suggests replacing the selfish gene model by a theory called "frozen evolution".
This book looks at the challenges of restructuring services and working with people with different training and working practices. It suggests that the way staff work together will impact on the service offered to children and their families. It explains how you can be an effective member of the team and encourage confident and open communication between colleagues.
