The Essential Guide to Portraits: Improve Your Photo Skills & Take Your Best Ever Images
On the quest to create better pictures? The practical information, inspirational guides and helpful instructions within this MagBook make this title an invaluable resource for any serious amateur. Guiding you through every stage of shooting a portrait - from viewing the subject to considering the use of lighting, composition, backgrounds and techniques involved in recording the image, this MagBook provides you with the information you need to create maximum impact photographs!
Eat everything. Concentrate on whole grains. Drink milk. Balance protein with carbohydrates. Avoid processed sugars. Do some exercise. The idea that a diet book making such proposals comes as a pleasant surprise shows just how far afield we've gone in the search for new ways to be fit. The only thing new about this diet by the editor-in-chief of Men's Health is its name, and this, one can presume, is because nowadays, a book simply called "Sensible Eating" wouldn't sell. The book's title is indeed misleading; only the final chapter deals solely with abs.
What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers
While the premise of the book is intriguing, the answers that are provided are a mix of conjecture, legend, and truth. The author, unfortunately, does not provide any references for his work. You have to take his word on trust, which for me ran out when he asserted that the 1969 Moon landing is not yet proven.
“His greatest work, and a crucial book for our time.”—Le Monde. His earlier books—from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise—have informed and inspired the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of a system where every activity and aspiration has been subjected to the rule of the market.
Cooperative Sourcing: Simulation Studies and Empirical Data on Outsourcing Coalitions in the Banking Industry
More and more banks are deciding to merger business activities like payment processing or loans administration by founding joint transaction banks or credit factories. But under which circumstances will banks decide to outsource certain activites? What are the relevant drivers and inhibitors? What is the role of externalities and how can stable coalitions be established? What are the resulting market structure effects of cooperative sourcing activities?
