Per decenni i libri della collana This is di Miroslav Sasek, con la loro frizzante modernità, hanno accompagnato i bambini alla scoperta di tutto il mondo. Grazie al prezioso materiale emerso dall'archivio della Sasek Foundation di Praga, in questa biografia illustrata, corredata da 119 immagini, finalmente si può far luce anche sul misterioso autore di queste opere d'avanguardia.

This unashamed visual feast celebrates the best designed and illustrated picturebooks from around the world over the past one hundred years.

Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists, and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child's and family's perspectives throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century.

Fearlessly confronting the frontiers between a child's picturebook and art, this is a collection of books that anyone with an interest in design, illustration, or simply children's literature should know about.

About the ABC of Multimorbidity---Edited by Stewart W. Mercer, Professor of Primary Care Research, General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, Chris Salisbury, Professor of Primary Health Care, Centre for Academic Primary Care, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, and Martin Fortin, Professor and Research Director, Family Medicine Department, Universite de Sherbrooke Academic Research Director, Centre de Sante et de Services Sociaux de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada

ABC of Multimorbidity is the first title to provide primary care practitioners with a practical approach to the complex issues of treating and managing patients with more than one morbidity

ABC of Multimorbidity examines how multimorbidities can be addressed within primary care, from the GP and Family physician consultation through to the effective use of a range of health care services. It addresses complex issues such as polypharmacy, mental health, patient safety, patient involvement in self-management and the role of the practitioner. It then provides guidance on how multimorbidities can be best treated and managed within primary care through specific interventions to improve outcomes

From an international, primary care editor and contributor team, ABC of Multimorbidity is a practical resource for general practitioners, family physicians, practice and specialist nurses and others caring for multimorbid patients. It is also relevant for junior doctors, medical trainees and students.

Children's picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picture book for children? In this publication, Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles introduce us to the world of children's picturebooks, providing a solid background to the industry while exploring the key concepts and practices that have gone into the creation of successful picturebooks.

The successful book illustrator starts by understanding his author's flight of fancy, then rendering the ideas and actions imaginatively in pictorial terms. This unusual and inspiring book was written for art students and ambitious beginners. It instructs on methods of developing both imaginative powers and the technical artistic skills to produce high quality illustrations that will please authors and children's book editors. Separate chapters focus on:

• Media, materials, and techniques
• Developing different drawing styles to fit specific storytelling methods
• Instilling visual personality traits in story characters
• Creating effective sequential images for storyboards and picture book outlines
• Design, typography, and preparation for print
• Illustrating story books for older children
• Illustrating nonfiction and educational books
• Breaking into the children's book publishing business

Here is solid, practical instruction for students of book illustration, enhanced with more than 250 how-to illustrations in color and black-and-white.

Essential guide packed with advice and information.