Photography 101 will help you through every step from taking your DSLR camera out of the box to using your camera in manual mode. This guide for beginners will help you gain confidence when you aren't shooting in an automatic mode, and it will encourage you to progress your photography skills while developing your understanding of the world of photography. Read along as you go through topics of camera modes, file types, composition, guidelines of photography, lighting, and much more!

From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada.Touching on a wide range of topics ranging from learning, the law, kindness and courage, to the monarchy, Aboriginal education, justice, bilingualism, mental health and hockey, David Johnston has always used th...

The Landscape Photography Handbook is an installment in the Photography Essentials Series. This guide to all things landscapes is designed to cover multiple topics that will help you shoot better landscape photographs. The Landscape Photography Handbook will take you through the topics of composition, how to shoot various types of landscape photographs, different tools to use for your landscape photography, landscape photography gear, how to plan a shoot, and much more. Implementing the le...

From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies rely. One of Canada's most revered governors general, David Johnston mines his long life and varied career to give Canadians twenty ways to make themselv...

The 28th Governor General's most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action.As the world stumbles through the most severe pandemic of the last century, threatened by teetering economies, torn by political division, separated by unequal access to resources, and wrestling with issues as diverse as racism, gender, cybercrime, and climate change, the nations that best adapt and prosper are those in which empathy i...

The Portrait Photography Handbook is an installment in the Photography Essentials Series. This guide to all things that have to do with portrait photography is designed to cover multiple topics that will help you shoot better portrait photographs. The Portrait Photography Handbook will take you through the topics of composition, how to shoot various types of situations, lighting, how to manage your clients, kid portraits, engagement sessions, weddings and much more. Implementing the lesson...

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from India were contemporaries of Carl Gustav Jung. Their Integral Yoga can be characterized as based on the former's observation that All Life is Yoga, just as Jung's individuation process is founded on the fact that Everything Living Dreams of Individuation. In each case, the path involves a specific concentration of a natural phenomenon, which speeds up the process. This firm establishment in nature is a significant factor in distinguishing their spiritualit...

This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. Written in an accessible style with the minimum of legal technicality, the book is designed for students and teachers of Roman history as well as interested general readers. Topics covered include the family and inheritance, property and the use of land, business and commercial transactions, and litigation. In this second edition, all chapters have ...

A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice.An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justiceShows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justiceTraces the emergence of the idea of social justiceIdentifies connections as well as differences bet...

The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming.

Liberalism, the founding philosophy of many constitutional democracies, has been criticized in recent years from both the left and the right for placing too much faith in individual rights and distributive justice. In this book, David Johnston argues for a reinterpretation of liberal principles he contends will restore liberalism to a position of intellectual leadership from which it can guide political and social reforms. He begins by surveying the three major contemporary schools of libe...

"There are two important days in your life; the day you were born and the day you find out why!" (Mark Twain) Why are you here on planet earth? Once you know why you were born you will have a new appreciation for your true self, have a known purpose in life and know why you matter. Then, and only then, can you choose a life path, a course of action and eventually a fulfilled life… no disappointments, no pressure to conform to the ideas and expectations of others. You will be free to be you...