Take Your Photos Super Sharp is a guide to taking super sharp photos. It is illustrated with appropriate photographs and provides examples and tips on how to keep your camera steady by hand holding your camera correctly and steadying your camera using everyday supports such as lamp posts and walls as well as commercial items such as bean bags, monopods and tripods. There are sections on choosing and using lenses and an emphasis on accurate focussiing. This is a guide based on standard phot...

The Love Seats and other stories is a collection of short stories by author, John Rocha

This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the ultimate guide to a television classic.The Fifty-Year Mission: Volume Two is an incisive, no-holds-barred oral history telling the story of post-Original Series Star Tr...

It is a time of turmoil and Civil War in China. The Communists and Nationalists are at war. Xiao Yian, a young teenage girl escapes rape and famine to become a circus performer - a Tiger Tamer - in Shanghai. There she has to face up to the fact that she must leave her teenage years behind her and accept her future as a woman.

In just over a decade, the Brazilian faith healer known as John of God has become an international superstar. Oprah Winfrey, Ram Dass, Wayne Dyer, and Shirley MacLaine have all visited him, as have the wealthy and the desperately ill. Renowned for performing surgeries using rudimentary tools such as kitchen knives and scissors, without anesthetics or asepsis, John of God allegedly channels "entities," or spirits, and goes into a trance-like state in order to heal his visitors. In recent ye...

Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation analyzes the possibility of identifying and adopting moral values from television show...

This is a first person short story about some experiences of Karl - a psychiatric nurse

About the bookSimon, a middle-aged actor, receives a shocking phone call that turns his world upside down. The message reveals that his long-lost biological father, Peter, is alive. From that moment on, Simon's life transforms into a riveting journey through time and secrets, beginning in Canada.As Simon delves into the mysteries of his family's past, he grapples with questions that haunt him: Who concealed the truth, and why? What hidden secrets lurk withi...

To meet the targets outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, many countries are actively working towards reaching climate neutrality and achieving net zero by 2050. With the livestock sector estimated to contribute approximately 11-17% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more research and innovation is required to understand the cause of these emissions and how they can be reduced.Achieving net zero dairy farming provides a detailed insight into the fundamental processes with...

La fotografía y otras manifestaciones artísticas como fuente documental para la historia

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domest...