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Langford's Advanced Photography, Seventh Edition

Langford's Advanced Photography, Seventh Edition
Focal Press | ISBN: 0240520386 | PDF | 432 pages | January 21, 2008 | 9.96 MB

A comprehensive guide to digital and film photography for the serious amateur, student or training professional. Fully updated to cover new digital technologies, workflow and methods from image manipulation to colour management and archiving. The ONLY comprehensive guide to photography at an advanced level.
The 7th edition of Langford's Advanced Photography brings this bestselling advanced guide bang up to date. Efthimia Bilissi maintains Michael Langford's renowned level of technical detail, balancing art and technique, whilst adding information on all the latest digital technologies. This book covers it all; from cameras, lenses, digital imaging sensors and films to insights into photography as an industry and how to kick start your career. Genres are explored, from portraiture and fine art to aerial, and broad coverage of digital manipulation, film processing, colour theory, archiving and storage provide everything the serious photographer needs to extend their art into professional realms. Exciting new areas such as infrared, underwater and stereoscopic photography are included, with a key section on business practices covering how to manage accounts, charge for jobs and self-promote. The book benefits from a full glossary, charts and inspirational images throughout, with a summary and projects to try at the end of each chapter.

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Langford's Starting Photography, Fourth Edition: A guide to better pictures for film and digital cam

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Langford's Starting Photography, Fourth Edition: A guide to better pictures for film and digital camera users
By Philip Andrews, Michael Langford
Publisher: Focal Press ( 2005-05-11 ) | 304 pages | ISBN: 0240519671 | PDF | 56 MB

A practical book for the absolute beginner. Learn how to compose your pictures for more visual effect, understand the camera controls that will allow you more creative freedom, tackle different subjects and difficult lighting conditions, photograph in a studio and process and print your own pictures in the darkroom. Each chapter is fully illustrated with colour examples and suggestions for practical exercises allow you to practice and explore different effects

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You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises for Men and Women

You Are Your Own Gym
The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises for Men and Women
Light Of New Orleans Publishing | 2010
ISBN: 0971407614

Providing the only exercise equipment anyone will ever need again, this guide presents to the public, for the first time, the most elite Special Operations fitness exercises to fit their schedule and their wallet. Providing the most effective, efficient, inexpensive, and convenient routine for exercise available, this simple program requires no gym or weights—only the human body.

For thousands of years—from Ancient Greece’s Olympic athletes to tomorrow’s U.S. Special Forces—humanity’s greatest physical specimens have not relied on fitness centers or dumbbells, but have rather utilized their own bodies as the most advanced fitness machines ever created. These 107 exercises are presented in a clear, concise, and complete manner for men and women of all athletic ability levels.

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Built For Show : Four Body Changing Workouts

Built for Show
Four Body-Changing Workouts for Building Muscle, Losing Fat, and Looking Good Enough to Hook Up
Nate Green

No-nonsense workouts to build a lean, strong, eye-catching physique.

Every guy is looking for an edge, some way to get single women his age to notice him more than they do now.

Unfortunately, most guys have absolutely no idea what kind of body automatically flips a girl’s attraction switch. Nate Green does.

Built for Show is the first fitness book to address young men on the prowl. It’s not just written for them; it’s written by one of them. Green, who’s just twenty-three years old, is already a veteran fitness professional who’s been quoted in Men’s Health and Maximum Fitness magazines. Green offers four twelve-week workout programs, each with a seasonal theme. The fall and winter workouts add muscle size and strength that’ll show even under layers of clothing. The spring and summer workouts burn fat and chisel the showpiece muscles—creating a lean, cut, beach-ready physique.

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The detailed programs include over fifty exercises, illustrated with over one hundred original photos.

Neither a weight-loss guide nor a body-building manual, Built for Show instead reveals to guys exactly what they need to build the body they – and women – want.

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Yoga for men

Yoga for Men
Postures for Healthy, Stress-Free Living
2004 by Thomas Claire

Here is a comprehensive introduction to yoga geared to men of all ages and backgrounds-whether they’re athletic or sedentary, young or old, or devotees of yoga who seek new information to enhance their existing practices or neophytes just starting

out on their yoga journeys. The information is presented in simple, how-to form so that you can perform a basic, yet complete, yoga session on your own. It provides an overview of all the major styles of yoga so that you can custom tailor a practiceto suit your needs. In addition, Yoga for Men includes information specific to men-yoga and male health concerns, yoga for all phases of a man’s life, how yoga can enhance performance for athletic activities (and your sex life!), and how yoga can beenjoyed with a partner. Yoga for Men provides today’s man with a prescription for a lifestyle that unites body, mind, and spirit.

Yoga is a millennia-old body of wisdom that is now exploding in popularity. From urban health clubs to rural retreats, more and more men are experiencing firsthand yoga’s power to relax, rejuvenate, and restore balance, harmony, and inner peace.

My own exploration of yoga began more than 30 years ago when I was a young Fulbright teaching assistant pursuing postgraduate studies in Paris. One of my French teaching colleagues invited me to accompany her to a yoga class she was taking to de-stress her life. Curious about this practice called yoga, I accepted her invitation. The class was taught by a young housewife in the somewhat crowded living room of her suburban home. I do not remember much

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The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion

The Child
An Encyclopedic Companion
2009

The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference

Bringing together contemporary research on children and childhood from pediatrics, child psychology, childhood studies, education, sociology, history, law, anthropology, and other related areas, The Child contains more than 500 articles—all written by experts in their fields and overseen by a panel of distinguished editors led by anthropologist Richard A. Shweder. Each entry provides a concise and accessible synopsis of the topic at hand. For example, the entry “Adoption” begins with a general definition, followed by a detailed look at adoption in different cultures and at different times, a summary of the associated mental and developmental issues that can arise, and an overview of applicable legal and public policy.

While presenting certain universal facts about children’s development from birth through adolescence, the entries also address the many worlds of childhood both within the United States and around the globe. They consider the ways that in which race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and cultural traditions of child rearing can affect children’s experiences of physical and mental health, education, and family. Alongside the topical entries, The Child includes more than forty “Imagining Each Other” essays, which focus on the particular experiences of children in different cultures. In “Work before Play for Yucatec Maya Children,” for example, readers learn of the work responsibilities of some modern-day Mexican children, while in “A Hindu Brahman Boy Is Born Again,” they witness a coming-of-age ritual in contemporary India.

Compiled by some of the most distinguished child development researchers in the world, The Child will broaden the current scope of knowledge on children and childhood. It is an unparalleled resource for parents, social workers, researchers, educators, and others who work with children.

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How To Motivate People

Management matters. If you have a team of people reporting to you, then supervising them takes time and needs both consideration and care. It does not matter whether the team is just a handful of people or an entire organization; the principles are the same. So too is the measurement that is applied. Your competence as a manager will be judged not solely on what you do yourself, though this is doubtless important, but on the combined performance of you and your team: all of them, in all their aspects. And there is no doubt that people who are well motivated perform better than those who are not.

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The days of just telling people what to do, if they ever truly existed, are long gone. Staff are more demanding of their employers than in the past. They want to know what is going on, they want to be consulted and they want to be involved. They want to feel that whatever they do it has some real worth, and they preferably want it to have an element of enjoyment; certainly of satisfaction. When people are content in these kinds of ways they will perform well. So if you motivate your people well they will perform better than if you do not (and certainly better than when they feel management is actively antagonistic in some way). And the incentive for doing so is that a successful team not only gets the job done, whatever that is, but reflects well on whoever manages them also.

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