Improve your photography with more than 200 lighting tips from a top photographerWritten by Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon and leading fashion and studio photographer Vered Koshlano, this guide is packed with professional advice on the essential element of photography: lighting. It provides detailed information and insider secrets that are bound to make you a better photographer.You'll learn the basics of studio lighting as well as how to achieve special effects. A 90-...

Does the concept of agile project management leave you confused and lost? Do you want to know how Scrum can help you build an agile, profit-focused business? Are you interested in implementing its key principles successfully?Scrum focuses on delivering high-quality products at a lower cost within a shorter period. Simply put, it is all about being efficient and effective while making the most of your team's resources.Sounds too good to be true? Organizations such as LEGO, C...

What if the reason your work feels overwhelming isn't the workload, but the tools you are using to manage it?You would not open a can with a pair of scissors, yet that is exactly how most people run their projects, forcing the wrong method onto work it was never built for. The result is stress, missed deadlines, and the constant feeling of pushing a boulder uphill.You want to lead projects that flow, where the team knows what to do next and nothing slips ...

Claudia just landed a cozy office job, the only worries she had were deciding on getting a cat and finishing her paperwork.That was until she ended up meeting a mysterious man from upper management. His etiquette was as perfect as his God like body. Claudia couldn't help developing a crush.But things go wrong as she's being invited by her Best Friend's love interest. She can't seem to shake the guy, and it costs Claudia her friendship.Without the support of her frie...

The essential guide to enjoying and photographing the Mother Road“Rick Sammon has a super power: he makes any photographic technique or concept simple to understand.” — PhotoFocus.comFrom legendary photographer Rick Sammon and his wife, Susan, The Route 66 Photo Road Trip is the perfect companion to enjoying and photographing everything that the country’s most famous highway has to offer, whether you’re hauling professional gear or just your phone!...

God's right to judge humanity is written on the very fabric of human existenceThe doctrine of reprobation—that is, the eternal, unconditional decree of God for the non-elect—is frequently misconstrued in both pastoral and theological literature. In Reprobation and God's Sovereignty, Peter Sammons reintroduces this oft-misunderstood doctrine, revealing its relationship to divine sovereignty. With Romans 9 as a guiding text, Sammons presents a thoroughly res...

Ask any teacher why they went into teaching, and they'll invariably refer to students or their subject. Yet, modern educators are faced with a dilemma: the industry judges us primarily on outcomes, offering the justification that grades improve life chances. Grades improve life chances as much as money buys happiness: it's no more than a prop or a poor substitute. Unless the profession starts to get to the heart of its reason for being, we might as well all pack up and go home. Education h...

From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "Epic Cycle," six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems. Though they are now lost, these poems were much read and much discussed in ancient times, not only for their content but for their mysterious relationship with the more famous works attributed to Homer. In Device and Composition in the Greek Epic Cycle, Benjamin Sammons shows that these lost poems belonged, compositionally, to essentially the same tr...

Halloween, a time for laughing children in white bedsheets and superhero costumes. A time for chocolate candy, and pumpkins, and Trick-or-Treat.... a time for dark things everywhere to slink out of the shadows and into our lives, reminding those unlucky few that our charades of Halloween cannot erase the centuries of history and pain behind the facade…What October Brings celebrates the dark traditions of the autumn rituals, of Halloween and Samhain, in homage to the uniquel...

Hooray! Your book is written, and published, and headed for the NY Times Best Seller List! Ah, if only that were true. Regardless of the path that got you here, even award-winning bestsellers have to embrace a marketing plan that helps their book soar. Join us here for LAUNCH PAD: The Countdown to Marketing Your Book.From Dan Blank's marketing mindset guidance to practical tips on leveraging social media, book clubs, reviews, and so much more, this book, the third in a series of th...

What does a criminological psychologist actually do? Most people picture a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, helping the police to solve crimes, but the reality is far more interesting and complex. Psychology and Crime offers a fascinating introduction to criminological psychology, providing the reader with a comprehensive grounding in everything from cognitive forensics to police interviewing.Concise, informative and accessible, the book explores a range of theories to understa...

Darcy Adams is a normal grade school teacher. She is funny and well- liked by her fellow teachers and faculty and even her students. She has even come to terms with the fact that being a BBW means that her weekends will be forever free to do whatever she wants. Except finding Mr. Right or even Mr. Right now. Her life is very routine - and you can say boring.But all that is about to change..After a late night workout Darcy finds her whole world spinning when she hit...