Now everyone can learn to take great pictures of the cosmos!The night sky is filled with immense beauty and mystery, and it’s no wonder so many photographers want to learn how to take great photographs of all it contains: the moon, stars, planets, galaxies, and beyond. But for photographers just getting started photographing the cosmos, some books veer into “advanced” territory way too quickly, filled with difficult theory and long, expensive lists of “must-have” g...

Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses is your all-in-one guide to making spectacular, multi-image nightscapes and time-lapses. Covering everything from conceptualization and planning to post-processing, this book features innovative cookbook-style "recipes" for each composite nightscape and time-lapse project.Beginning with a review of the key fundamentals of astronomy and photography, author Mike Shaw covers the latest methods for planning your night shooting sessions and how to se...

My Adventures of Sex, Lust and Love in the Booming China!Back in the U.S., I was engaged to a Chinese-American woman. When the first financial crisis took away my job, my life's savings, and my hopes for the future, my beautiful fiancée left me, too. I took a trip to China to clear my head. While in China, a special fraternity of men showed me how the locals really partied. I learned to navigate the dating and the sex scenes in China. I became an expert at bedding ...

Tom Cliffe is who many young people in the 1960s want to be: not just a lover of music, a player of music. But more than an interest, more than a passion, music and a commitment to becoming an accomplished player and recognized for it will become the driving force in Tom’s life. He will give up everything, all the accommodations of the conventional life he was brought up in and educated for. Even when he is nearly destitute, even through years of itinerancy on the road, despite self-intere...

"Goal setting for Losers" Is based upon my passion to help the millions of people who have tried and failed to find a winning formula to help achieve their goals. Despite the best efforts of my "Alter Ego Mike James" once I incorporated the Power of the Universe into my goal setting I became a winner, despite the many challenges and distractions I encountered along the way. This is a "Bull Crap" free book that will empower you to success in achieving your goals. Follow my promptings and yo...

It is just a few years ago that I started to write this book! Its Official! Growing Old Sucks! My intent was simply to appeal to older folks of sixty-five years and older who have let their physical and mental muscles go to hell in a hand basket! However, I have to say at that point in time that I did not have a lot of enthusiasm or intensity for the task, which is why the book remained unfinished!However, my life was turned upside down when my wonderful big sister fell victim to A...

Within three short decades this raggedy arsed kid would metamorphose into the globe-trotting, womanizing Son of a bitch pictured here! As a successful International business man traveling the World he would rub shoulders with Arab Sheiks, Millionaires, High Ranking British Politicians, Arms dealers and a sinister Mafi a type God Father fi gure! When he wasnt chasing the one big deal that would make him rich, he headed up his own Rock Band and played with his toys, he would drive fast cars ...

Are you looking to better your golf score? You can achieve this goal by improving your lag putting. In Putting by the Numbers, author Bob Labbe provides a quantitative method of lag putting applicable for all golfers whether recreational, amateur, or professional. It can help you reduce your score by four to five strokes per round regardless of skill level.This method is based upon science, including physics and engineering mechanics, but is simplified and reduced to an arithmetic ...

Businesses rise, fall, or stall based on their level of leadership. Businesses that invest the time, energy, and resources to develop leaders enjoy a competitive edge—and by developing leaders who can develop other leaders, unleash the power of rapid and sustainable growth. By developing people with the skills to put team members and customers in the best position to succeed, they ensure their own success.The Leadership Edge gives business leaders and lead...

Understanding Economic Equilibrium reveals how all markets fit together, and how we as individuals fit into that bigger picture.Economic agents all over the world are trying to maximize their returns given their efforts, resources, and opportunities. They come together in markets that ultimately allocate goods and services among many competing interests. We can readily see how individual markets behave; it’s more difficult, but exponentially more important...

Online Teaching: Tools and Techniques to Achieve Success with Learners will provide the online teacher with essential strategies to successfully design, develop, deliver and improve their online course offerings. This book is an invaluable resource for the novice instructor, as well as the seasoned educator. The chapters of the book will take the reader from the basics of online course development and delivery to assessment and improvement after a successful semester. The authors provide p...

Lady Britomart Undershaft, the daughter of a British earl, and her son Stephen discuss a source of income for her grown daughters Sarah, who is engaged to Charles Lomax (a slightly comic figure who continually stupidly says "Oh, I say!"), and Barbara, who is engaged to Adolphus Cusins (a scholar of Greek literature). Lady Britomart leads Stephen to accept her decision that they must ask her estranged husband, Andrew Undershaft, for financial help. Mr. Undershaft is a successful and wealthy...