Books like The new basics by Michel Cohen

A comprehensive guide to graphic design and typography, offering practical advice and design techniques for students and designers alike.

The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition, presents a refreshed, color‑rich exploration of typography, layout and visual hierarchy, featuring over 750 images and new content on web design, modularity and motion.

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka explains how to turn daily power struggles into teachable moments, helping parents identify triggers and address the emotions behind their child's behavior.

A practical guide for first‑time parents, offering realistic advice on baby care and the parent’s own wellbeing, written with humor and grounded in medical knowledge.

A parenting guide by school psychologist Dr. Sal Severe, focusing on changing parental behavior to positively influence children’s behavior.

A practical guide by Dr. Bill and Martha Sears that explains how to use attachment parenting principles—such as bonding, breastfeeding, and babywearing—to improve a baby's sleep, foster independence, and strengthen family bonds.

A guide for parents and educators showing how everyday words and actions can send hidden, often negative, messages to children, and offering practical ways to improve communication.

A practical guide that offers evidence‑based strategies for parents of spirited children, helping them understand and manage intense emotions, playful behavior and occasional aggressiveness.

Good Dad/Bad Dad offers practical, conversational guidance for fathers, covering everything from baby‑proofing to college planning, all drawn from the author’s own parenting experience.

A groundbreaking guide to using Personality Type analysis to understand and improve parenting strategies with children.

Dr. Frank Lawlis shares a thirteen‑step mind‑body‑soul method to strengthen parent–child relationships, improve learning, and boost intellectual and emotional intelligence.

A practical guide for parents that blends coaching insights and everyday wisdom to nurture happier, better‑behaved children from toddlers to teens.

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects. Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids a manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical a are also covered. Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.