Unlike many earlier guides, in which writers spun narratives about their own journeys and experiences, Baedekers were informational and service-oriented — listing steamboat fares and passport requirements, recommending suitable clothing and suggesting how much to tip.
The site invites users to write up and sell their own fitness guides, in which they can instruct visitors on diet and exercise regimes designed to whip them into shape.
Children will receive a family guide in which rhyming hints direct them to certain artworks.
In the nineteen-eighties, when I was in high school, my parents bought a VHS player, and, with it, an Ebert video guide, in which various of his Chicago Sun-Times reviews were collected.
How much the body is heir to a thousand natural shocks registers acutely in the opening story, "The Guide," in which a female narrator recounts her obsession with a blind lover: "He cannot see what he has done to me.
Still others, like Deja News.com, a buying guide in which consumers rate products and give advice, assumed a new identity (Deja.com) and charged headlong into the e-commerce fray.
Like "Tender," "Ripe" is an alphabetical guide in which the recipes for each fruit are preceded by gardening advice, as well as lists of tasty kitchen combinations — apricots play nicely with pistachios, lamb, brandy and so on.
It will also include a study guide, in which weekly readings instruct readers "to find an actual stone or other memento from nature so that by the time they finish the study guide they will have created a small memorial to mark their journey".
The New Yorker, July 23 , 1949P. 15 A man in Hollywood has informed us that the Official Screen Directory of the Professional Screen Children's Guide, in which, for a $25 registration fee, parents may list children up to 18 as available for motion-picture work, contains more two-year-olds than members of any other age group.
Other Information on the Web: The New York Times on the Web's Politics section (//www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html) provides the latest coverage of the current elections, plus a congressional guide in which you can follow your state and local elections and key races, register to vote, and meet your candidates.
It would simply lead to the "gerrymandering" of definitions based on outdated and invalid knowledge.Now the WHO has taken the initiative with its Intervention Guide, in which the organisation's own classification of brain disorders itself in the process of being revised to make it simpler for non-specialists to use has been distilled into 100 pages of easy-to-follow flowcharts.
