Books with author Dan Lewis

All hospitality jobs share a common purpose: to service people in the best way. The goal of every job is to make people's lives a bit brighter, whether it's by preparing an exquisite meal, making sure someone's flight is enjoyable, or putting together a beautiful bouquet of flowers. It's a fun and fast-paced industry filled with jobs that affect people's lives in a positive way; so if you enjoy working in crowded environments, and have a friendly or outgoing disposition, this may be the field for you. Unlike other industries, hospitality employers aren't necessarily looking for good grades or fancy degrees. What they value most is employability skills: commitment, responsibility, a willingness to learn, flexibility, and above all, enthusiasm. And if you stick with it, a hospitality job can lead you to a satisfying and lucrative career. Each title in this series contains color photos throughout and the essential information needed to find not just a job but a career that draws on the reader's particular skills and interests. Each chapter profiles a different job in the field and helps the reader to determine whether it is the right job for him or her. Web sites listed in each chapter provide further information. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons in this series are as follows: Words to Understand are shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced type in that chapter, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions-building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Sidebars are highlighted graphics with content rich m

Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book takes a sample of contemporary picturebooks and closely examines the features that make them distinctive and then suggests a way of characterising the 'interanimation' of words and pictures that is the essence of the form. The reasons for the picturebook's vitality and flexibility are also explored and the close bond between the picturebook and its readers is analyzed. Advances in our understanding of how visual images are organized are examined and the book concludes with an attempt to redescribe the picturebook in such a way that pictures, readers and text may be drawn together. Picturing Text will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers interested in reading, children's literature and media studies.

In a world where humans are below Shifters, a tiger falls for a human girl. To love her is to kill her. Rush, a tiger shifter with an abusive Alpha, finds himself wishing for more with Jane, a human. The kind of "more" everyone warns them against. Jane may be the love of his life but if their secret is discovered by his Alpha there'll be more than hearts at stake. There will be blood.

Danny lives on a cattle station in the middle of the Australian outback, where everyone’s getting ready for the annual muster. But this year, everything is different: because Danny’s beloved older brother Jonny has died in a farm accident, and nobody talks about it: because his fouteen year old sister is pregnant, and about to be packed off to Alice Springs in disgrace: because his mother can’t cope, and has decided to hire a housegirl… and what they get is a wide-eyed English backpacker called Liz. She has no idea what she’s let herself in for. Neither do they.

On the continent of Wulkos, a vast amount of refineries and factories populate the land. The boss of one of the factories, Gordoa, uses Fishlers to work in the factories. He makes the ill and older Fishlers work longer and harder than the rest of the factories on Wulkos. Ralph and Ren, two Fishler cousins, escape from the factory after seeing multiple of their co-workers and friends die from illness. They journey across Wulkos to try and locate their family and end up uncovering a terrifying secret.