\* FULL COLOR EBOOK \*Taking Your Photography to the Next LevelYou've Spent Hundreds on A High Quality Camera – Wouldn't You Like to Do More with It than Just Point and Shoot?Whether you want to pursue photography as a hobby or looking at launching a career, you want to be able to explore all the possibilities of photography as an art form – and I'm here to show you how.This book will show you how the physics of photography and the...

The Original "DSLR Photography for Beginners". FULL COLOR EBOOKWho Else Wants to Take Mind Blowing Pictures?If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to Digital SLR photography will overwhelm you with jargon, but you and I both know that’s not what photography is all about.When I first started out...

This award-winning history provides a fascinating look at the Civil War era oil boom in western Pennsylvania and its devastating impact on the region.In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War...

Hungry for SexAt colleges and high schools today, campus sororities are sometimes accused of being nothing more than sex clubs. And all too often the accusations are true. Greek-letter life can be a Roman orgy!Virginity is laughed at. The co-eds are out to trap likely boys into becoming husbands, and to achieve sexual kicks at any cost. So you find these young girls teasing handy males, tantalizing them, tumbling into bed with them, treating them as sex fodder. Anything to ...

How have South Asian traditions responded to plurality and difference? The question lies at the centre of this collection, inviting us to challenge established conceptions of pluralism and understand South Asian ways of thinking about difference, diversity, and 'the other'.This diverse collection is the first in-depth treatment of the variety of ways that South Asian traditions theorise plurality. Bringing together case studies across South Asia's distinctive relig...

THE ORIGINAL "DSLR Photography for Beginners"(Please note that the PAPERBACK version is in black and white to keep the price you pay low)Who Else Wants to Take Mind Blowing Pictures?If you want to stand out from the crowd and capture all those magic moments for posterity, you have come to the right place. Most guides to Digital SLR photography will overwhel...

“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street JournalOur bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you, an undeniable document of who you...

Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a narrative account of a conversation between characters within a text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through which commentators and modern audiences can engage with an ancient text, dialogue features prominently in many of the most foundational sources from classical India. Despite its ubiquity, th...

Can secularism continue to provide a foundation for political legitimacy? It is often claimed that one of the cultural achievements of the West has been its establishment of secular democracy, wherein religious belief is respected but confined to the sphere of private belief. In more recent times, however, political secularism has been increasingly called into question. Religious believers, in numerous traditions, have protested against the distortion and confinement that secularism impose...

Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including some of the most established scholars of South Asian religious texts, this book examines the use of dialogue in early South Asian texts with an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional ...

Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History from Oil Heritage Region, Inc.In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley's descent into environmental hell...

Behind each door of the roadside motel a drama is played out--A LIFE IS RESHAPEDRoom 1—Janet Harris, schoolteacher, trades her virginity for a strange lesson in sex...Room 2—Rita Greene, teenager, discovers more than she wants to know about men...Room 3—Flora Blackton, housewife, is forced to watch her husband's violent perversions...Room 4—Hilde Larson, secretary, seduces her boss...Room 5—Lynette, too young for any man, is ...