The book all amateur digital photographers need – learn how to take the perfect photograph every time, from the authors of the bestselling Collins Complete Photography Course.In this book, John and Graeme apply their years of experience as professional photographers and instructors to teaching you the techniques and tips for capturing your friends and family, children and pets, holidays, sports days, celebrations, parties, festivals, weddings, births and birthdays. This book will s...

A practical, affordable and accessible home photography tutor. This inspiring project-based course book covers everything from basic composition to the latest digital darkroom techniques.Learn at your own pace as this practical, comprehensive course helps you develop your key photographic techniques. Contents include: step-by-step projects on exposure, aperture, lenses, light, filters, colour, black and white and image enhancement; plus professional secrets and stunning shots from ...

In "What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile," John Hanning Speke embarks on a meticulous exploration of one of the most significant geographical quests of the Victorian era. Speke combines detailed observations, personal anecdotes, and an empirical approach to recount his perilous journey through central Africa, blending elements of travel literature and scientific inquiry. Written in a period marked by fervent interest in African exploration, Speke's narrative is not merely an...

In "The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California," John Charles Frémont presents a meticulously detailed account of his 1842-1844 expedition across the American West. Blending adventure narrative with geographical survey, this seminal work captures the rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains and the untamed landscapes of Oregon and California. Frémont's literary style is characterized by its vivid descriptions and keen observations, offering readers both a sense of p...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2020Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job.The Mind Reader: An outspoken bar patron runs an experiment to see if the world can be divided into the "weak" and the "strong" in attempt to prove he's not an authoritarian fascist.I, von Economo: A woman goes back to get revenge on the ma...

Rudyard Kipling Ultimate Collection (Illustrated) gathers the breadth of Kipling's fiction, poetry, and imperial fables into a single expansive volume, enhanced by visual materials that evoke the period imagination surrounding his work. From the animal wisdom of The Jungle Book to the barrack-room voices, adventure tales, and morally charged lyrics, the collection displays his vigorous narrative pace, rhythmic prose, and gift for memorable speech. It also situates him within late Victorian...

If a video game engine tries to calculate and draw the entire geometry of a massive, 3D city all at once, the computer's processor will instantly overload and crash. The engine must quickly determine exactly which walls and enemies are visible to the player right now, and completely ignore the rest. The mathematical solution to this problem is Spatial Partitioning via the K-D Tree. This textbook explores the elegant computational geometry that built the first 3D shooters. A K-D Tree (k-dim...

Use data analytics to drive innovation and value throughout your network infrastructureNetwork and IT professionals capture immense amounts of data from their networks. Buried in this data are multiple opportunities to solve and avoid problems, strengthen security, and improve network performance. To achieve these goals, IT networking experts need a solid understanding of data science, and data scientists need a firm grasp of modern networking concepts. Data An...

How sharing your personal passions improves work performance, builds culture, and strengthens relationships with colleagues and clients (and bosses, too).Do you have expertise that's not being utilized at work?Do you want to stand out from the competition?Do you want to attract and retain top talent?What's Your "And"? is a compelling wake-up call that rejects the conventional wisdom that professionals have to conform to a specific stereotype to be successful at work. In fact, defying the n...

What if you could save a life, even in death? What if a part of you could live on and give a new lifea new heartbeatto another person in need? Organ donation is this ultimate gift of life, and for one man and his family, waiting for this miracle gift would be a lesson in life, faith, and hope.In Wait until Tuesday, author John M. Garrett shares his compelling story of waiting for a heart transplant while trying not to die. After a series of close calls, John is finally told he need...

Goodfellow Air Force Base is one of the oldest installations in the US Air Force. It was the first of scores of flying training fields established across Texas and Oklahoma during World War II. What qualified San Angelo as the site for the first of the new fields did not, for the most part, distinguish it much from its neighbors. The clear skies and flat, forgiving terrain so desirable in the training of pilots were regional qualities. But San Angelo also had Bob Carr, a former military av...

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure, Damage Evolution and Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 2025 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of five from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:3D Deformation and FailureIn-situ ...