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A photographic guide laced with insider knowledge to one of Northern New Mexico’s most spectacular scenic byways.

The Enchanted Circle is an 83-mile loop through mountains, mesa, valleys, and a national forest, beginning from Taos to Red River, Eagle Nest, Angel Fire, and then back. A National Forest Scenic Byway, the route brings together the wonders of nature and the area’s rich history to create one of the country's most unique and varied landscapes, perfect for drives, hikes, camping, fishing, and much more.

This book contains beautifully rendered photographs of the Enchanted Circle’s most breathtaking sights as well as the best things to do and places to see along the popular route. Visitors could look forward to discovering historic sites, markets, mines, and villages; enjoying the regional cuisine; shopping; rafting; skiing; and more.

A photographic guide laced with insider knowledge to one of Northern New Mexico’s most spectacular scenic byways.

The Enchanted Circle is an 83-mile loop through mountains, mesa, valleys, and a national forest, beginning from Taos to Red River, Eagle Nest, Angel Fire, and then back. A National Forest Scenic Byway, the route brings together the wonders of nature and the area’s rich history to create one of the country's most unique and varied landscapes, perfect for drives, hikes, camping, fishing, and much more.

This book contains beautifully rendered photographs of the Enchanted Circle’s most breathtaking sights as well as the best things to do and places to see along the popular route. Visitors could look forward to discovering historic sites, markets, mines, and villages; enjoying the regional cuisine; shopping; rafting; skiing; and more.

Life as a series of distractions is seldom passionate and may even feel purposeless. But eliminating all the background noise, in search of that one intelligent passion that imparts to life a meaningful goal, can be difficult. For those in search of their calling, 50 Things Your Life Doesn’t Need offers simple ways to fine-tune the frequency so that finding your passion becomes feasible. What are some things that you could eliminate to make your passionate contribution to the world a realizable goal? How about

• long commutes to and from the workplace
• storage units for all that extra stuff
• small dreams and bucket lists
• a tyranny of T-shirts
• unbatched errands and bad wine
• this book

That’s right, this book. But you will have to read it to find out why!

Choosing the right lampshade can enhance the mood of a room but making lampshades by hand provides a uniquely individual touch 50. Thrifty DIY Lampshades provides you with a beautiful yet achievable collection of lampshade projects that look expensive but don't have the price tag to match to enhance any home!

Each of the 50 projects is accompanied by simple instructions, diagrams and illustrated by beautiful photographs. Useful templates and stencils are also provided to help you master the basic techniques, whether you are a complete novice or an expert DIY-er.

Features a diverse range of styles, techniques and materials for wide appeal - including knitting, sewing, beading, decoupage, upcycling, papercraft and more.

So why not brighten up your decor with handmade lamps in an abundance of styles from contemporary chic to natural organic, classic retro to boho modern.

"If you like the short-story genre, don’t pick up this addictive collection unless you are prepared to be lost in its riches for a considerable time. These beautifully translated, haunting Russian tales written from 1901 to 2001, almost all previously unpublished, read so smoothly that they are seductive..." —The Washington Times

The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. 

Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the twentieth century. The rich array of themes and styles will be of tremendous interest to students and readers who want to learn about Russia through the engaging genre of the short story.

This book offers a fascinating collection of stories and features taken straight from the pages of the magazines, many unseen for almost half a century.

50 Years of Shoot! brings back fond memories of a time when sideburns and haircuts were long, shorts were short and England's World Cup victory was a recent event. They'll recall when a footballer's favorite meal was steak and chips, he drove a Ford Capri and his biggest dislike was ignorant people. Ah, it was a different world back then! For younger readers, this will be a history lesson, proof positive that their father's heroes really did exist - and they were quite good too.

The book comprises a selection of page lifts from back issues of the magazine, featuring everybody's favorite weekly features, such as "Focus On!", "Football Funnies", "Shoot Us A Line" and "Ask The Expert", and stories and action photos from the key issues of the day.

The Foreword has been written by Chris Waddle, a man who appeared regularly in the pages of the magazine in a legendary career which included more than 60 appearances for England and many seasons at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday and Marseille.

April 4, 2018, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. This collection grapples with his enduring legacy. Though he is widely celebrated as a national hero—martyr to an inspiring dream about our country’s largest possibilities—many younger Americans now greet his name with suspicion, viewing him as an essentially conservative figure. These essays offer critical engagement in place of canonization, recovering—and scrutinizing—the profoundly radical nature of King’s political, moral, and religious thought.

This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more here.

Luthers Thesen gegen den Ablass (1517) gaben den Anstoß zu einer Bewegung von schwer zu überschätzender Wirkung. Im Kern christlich-„religiös" motiviert, wurde die Reformation zu einem Impuls, der kurz- und langfristig die gesamte politische und sozio-kulturelle Landschaft weiter Teile der „westlichen" Welt prägte und mitgestaltete. Die mehrdisziplinären Beiträge betrachten diese Vorgänge aus der Perspektive der Reformationsstadt Zürich.

Luthers Thesen gegen den Ablass (1517) gaben den Anstoß zu einer Bewegung von schwer zu überschätzender Wirkung. Im Kern christlich-„religiös" motiviert, wurde die Reformation zu einem Impuls, der kurz- und langfristig die gesamte politische und sozio-kulturelle Landschaft weiter Teile der „westlichen" Welt prägte und mitgestaltete. Die mehrdisziplinären Beiträge betrachten diese Vorgänge aus der Perspektive der Reformationsstadt Zürich.

Der Sammelband bietet einen facettenreichen Überblick über fünf Jahrhunderte Hamburger Kultur- und Christentumsgeschichte und ordnet zugleich die lokalgeschichtlichen Aspekte in die übergreifenden mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen ein.

Die Beiträge spannen einen Bogen von der Reformationszeit über das konfessionelle Zeitalter und dasjenige der Aufklärung bis hinein in das 20. Jahrhundert. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der Kultur der Gelehrsamkeit am Hamburger Akademischen Gymnasium im 17./18. Jahrhundert (J.A. Fabricius, J.Chr. Wolf, H.S. Reimarus), der Debatte zwischen Lessing und Johann Melchior Goeze im Rahmen des sog. Fragmentenstreits, der Gründungsgeschichte der Hamburger Theologischen Fakultät und der Bedeutung des Wirkens Helmut Thielickes sowie der Missionswissenschaft als eines Hamburger Propriums. Zudem enthält der Band innovative Studien zur Hamburger Erweckungsbewegung (Sieveking/Averdieck) sowie zu Johann Hinrich Wichern. Ein programmatischer Beitrag zur Standortbestimmung der wissenschaftlichen Theologie im universitären Kontext angesichts der voranschreitenden Säkularisierung richtet den Blick in die Zukunft.

Ein detailliertes Verzeichnis sämtlicher in Hamburg Promovierter (380 Personen) sowie aller Ehrendoktoren beschließt den Band.

Needlepoint is back in the spotlight with a graphic and contemporary new look. In this bumper directory of patterns, all the designs are easy to stitch in yarn on canvas.

The main stitch used for these patterns is the Bargello stitch, a stitch that actually includes several variations such as flame stitch and Florentine stitch. This group of stitches use regular, straight stitches that repeat with a regular offset. Further patterns also use other stitches adapted to the canvas, which will allow you to diversify your techniques and obtain more complex designs.

Throughout the pages, you will discover simple patterns that can be repeated ad infinitum, allowing you to cover any size canvas. Follow the colours given or change to your own palettes for even greater pattern variations. Frame your creations or transform them into cushions, bags, cases and more - the hardest part is choosing which of the 500 patterns to start with!

Here are 500 prayers for every occasion. Prayers for relationships; for problems; for saying thank you; for crying out in anger or pain; for times of spiritual dryness; for times of starting again.

They can be used for worship together, and for worship alone. They can open up new possibilities, and help to bring a bad day to a better close.

The 500 prayers will be split into thematic sections, including:

- Seasonal (Including: Christmas, Easter, Pentecost)

- Thanksgiving;

- Praise and worship; School (including exams, bullying, relationship with teachers)

- Relationships (including friendships, sex, and boyfriend/girlfriend)

- Justice (including prayers about the environment, poverty etc)

- Knowing God (including prayers for spiritual gifts)

- Pain and problems (including bereavement and illness).

The prayers themselves will be numbered but continually varied - featuring a mix of ancient prayers (approx 20%), and prayers written by the author and by young people. They are written in a variety of styles, and are preceded by a short introduction where necessary. An extensive index is included alongside features to help young people in developing a prayer life.

Here are 500 prayers for every occasion. Prayers for relationships; for problems; for saying thank you; for crying out in anger or pain; for times of spiritual dryness; for times of starting again.

They can be used for worship together, and for worship alone. They can open up new possibilities, and help to bring a bad day to a better close.

The 500 prayers will be split into thematic sections, including:

- Seasonal (Including: Christmas, Easter, Pentecost)
- Thanksgiving;
- Praise and worship; School (including exams, bullying, relationship with teachers)
- Relationships (including friendships, sex, and boyfriend/girlfriend)
- Justice (including prayers about the environment, poverty etc)
- Knowing God (including prayers for spiritual gifts)
- Pain and problems (including bereavement and illness).

The prayers themselves will be numbered but continually varied - featuring a mix of ancient prayers (approx 20%), and prayers written by the author and by young people. They are written in a variety of styles, and are preceded by a short introduction where necessary. An extensive index is included alongside features to help young people in developing a prayer life.

500-Year Journey examines historical and scriptural evidence to identify the date Christ was born, which wasn’t December 25^th!

For more than two-thousand years, Christians and skeptics have sought the truth of Jesus’ birth—with many looking in the wrong places. One group studied the stars and astrology for answers, to determine what the Magi might have seen, but that only created more questions. Others looked to mathematical calculations and tradition, but mistaken variables led them astray. Both of these approaches have contributed to the modern version of Christmas, but they have also obscured God’s truth.

Corey Piper’s 500-Year Journey makes the case that God revealed exactly when the Messiah would be born. The answer is in his Law, foreshadowed with biblical and historical events and confirmed by what the Magi saw. This resource will take readers from the exile in Babylon to the manger in Bethlehem, to a stunning encounter with God’s elaborate plan.

The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which ”civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct.

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance is more than a history of European colonization of the Americas. In this slim volume, Gord Hill chronicles the resistance by Indigenous peoples, which limited and shaped the forms and extent of colonialism. This history encompasses North and South America, the development of nation-states, and the resurgence of Indigenous resistance in the post-WW2 era.

500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down.

Beginning with "America" in 1507 and spanning the centuries to "Marsiphobiphiliac" in 2004 (a person who would love to go to Mars but is afraid of being marooned there), this book can be opened at any page and the reader will discover a dazzling array of linguistic delights. In other words, this book is unputdownable (the main entry for 1947). If Shakespeare were alive today, he would buy this book.

This 50th Celebratory Research in Labor Economics volume contains ten original and innovative articles each written by stellar senior scholars in labor economics, including a Nobel Laureate. Each article deals with an aspect of worker well-being addressing questions such as: What can epidemiologists learn from search and matching models? What advanced degrees yield the highest returns? How do occupational and safety risks on the job affect earnings? What are best practices in estimating gender discrimination? Has technology exacerbated the widening earnings distribution? How have bureaucrats overregulated the economy? Did Right to Work laws really decrease unionization? Why were undocumented immigrants able to return to work faster than natives during Covid-19? And, how does a husband’s death impact a widow’s use of time at home?

Have You Found “the One”? 

The decision to get engaged is one of the most exciting and important decisions you will ever make. 51 Things You Should Know Before Getting Engaged offers the insights and techniques necessary for a successful engagement and marriage. Psychotherapist Michael Batshaw gives you the tools to decide whether your partner is the right one for you, and if so, how to keep it that way. 

Some of his advice: 

• Beware the person of your dreams. 
• Couples who do everything together do not have a relationship that can survive. 
• Couples who do not argue are in trouble. 
• Hollywood gets it wrong. 
• The truth of the moment is not the whole truth.

Australian prime ministers since Harold Holt have all fostered close relationships with the United States, but John Howard has initiated economic and military policies that have bound the two countries even tighter. As a result, many Australians now believe that not only our sovereignty but also our very identity as a nation is under threat, and that we are fast becoming America's 51st state.

If this view is correct, it should be reflected not only in our foreign policy but also in our domestic policies. Indeed, the weakening of social safety nets, the privatisation of areas long seen as government responsibilities, and the signing of the Free Trade Agreement all point to the triumph of US-style neo-liberalism.

Yet, as Dennis Altman shows, the story is not so simple. Even as official rhetoric immerses us ever deeper into the US worldview, the resilience of the Australian social contract is imposing real limits on the application of neo-liberal principles. And, despite his enthusiastic membership of the coalition of the willing, Howard has assiduously cultivated economic and political ties within our region which, as the global balance of power shifts, will become increasingly relevant.

In this elegant and sophisticated meditation on Australian identity, Altman suggests that the tendency to attribute malign American influence to everything we dislike about the contemporary world is the flipside of seeing the US as the only model worthy of emulation, and serves to conceal the deeper questions we face namely, how does Australia imagine its future?

52 Assignments: Black & White Photography is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. 

The book is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful black and white images. From capturing clouds, reflections, and water to shooting cityscapes, architecture, and vehicles, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to embrace this timeless art and convey the essence of your subject through shades of light and dark alone. Whether you're photographing natural elements or manmade landscapes, each assignment encourages you to look at the world in a new way, relying on shape, texture, and the source, direction, and intensity of light, rather than color, to create eye-catching images. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your monochromatic photography.

Assignment topics include:

• Reflections
• Texture
• Tall Buildings
• Streets at Night
• Creative Selfies
• Silhouettes
• Minimalism
• Motion Blur
• Negative Space
• Sunrises
• Decisive Moments

52 Assignments: Composition is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts that challenge photographers to expand their knowledge of how to compose photographs, considering framing and positioning to guide the viewer’s eye and create movement. This book explores compositional techniques in fresh and challenging ways, allowing photographers to capture their favorite subjects in a new light.

Full of technical advice and professional tips, it includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal to record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your photographs.

52 Assignments: Drone Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It has a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful, dynamic drone photographs and videos. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing you to create a unique journal to record the journey you have made with your imagination. 

Complete the assignments weekly over a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your drone photography. 

Assignments in the book include:

• Composing stunning landscape vistas
• Taking aerial selfies
• Videoing a voyage through a forest
• Using waypoints to take the same shot at different times, day and night

 This book guides readers to learn something new or try something innovative within drone photography's dynamic and developing world. 

52 Assignments: Experimental Photography is a mission brief, a photographic workshop, a personalized journal, and an anarchic guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with prompts and projects, nudges and sparks, innovations, and inspirations, and most importantly experiments in shooting, processing, and printing, to help you kick your photographic habits, step out of your comfort zone, and create your own collection of experimental work. 

The book features 52 color-coded commissions and concepts with alternative ideas for composing, creating, and printing photographic images. You will be briefed to tackle modern uses for traditional film (hacking vintage film cameras, making pinholes, playing with plastic, collecting the filters that inspired Instagram) and traditional uses for digital (multiple exposures, extreme speeds, timed challenges, focus tricks), as well as lo-tech and hi-tech ways to manipulate your prints (staining prints with water, digital effects, photocopy prints, burning photos, printing on flexible surfaces). The rest of the journal’s pages are styled for you to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical specifications, quotes, and even sketches and doodles, creating a record of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend by weekend over the course of a year or dipped into every time you need to bring a new edge or experimental approach to your photography.

Assignments include:

• Traditional film
• Hacking vintage film cameras
• Making pinholes
• Playing with plastic
• Collecting the filters that inspired Instagram

52 Assignments: Instagram Photography is a collection of inspirational Insta missions, challenges, hacks, and hints from leading Instagram photographers, designed to help you elevate the images in your Instagram feed to miniature works of art. 

Whether you wish to sharpen your selfies, sprinkle some magic over your food shots, transform your travel album, pimp your pet portraits or brush up your street photography, you’ll find a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts for composing and creating #hashtaggable photography in all its forms. This is the quickest way to shake off old habits, discover new techniques, transform your best nine, and start creating Instagram images that get devoted followers flocking to your feed.

Assignments include: 

• Selfies
• Food and Drink
• Holidays
• Pet Portraits
• Travel Albums

52 Assignments: iPhone Photography is a year's worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful iPhone photographs. 

Assignments include:

• Capturing the night sky
• Reflections
• Silhouettes
• Shooting street festivals
• Newborns
• Skyscrapers

All the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to embrace the possibilities of your phone.

Whether you are photographing natural elements or urban landscapes, each assignment encourages you to capture the world around you without the aid of a range of lenses and other kit, just your iPhone. Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes journal space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagery. 

Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your iPhone photography.

52 Assignments: Landscape Photography is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. 

Small enough to fit your camera bag, it is filled with a year’s worth of weekly commissions and concepts for composing and creating eye-catching landscape photography in all its forms. From adding movement to the land to freezing the motion of seascapes; from playing with snow to capturing a starburst; from birds-eye views to worms-eye views, this is the quickest and most enjoyable way to shake off old habits and discover new approaches that will throw a whole new light on your landscape photography.

Assignments include:

• Stormy Seas
• Let It Snow
• Capture A Cityscape
• Heavy Weather
• Mysterious Mist
• Chasing Rainbows
• Stay Local

52 Assignments: Macro Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft.

It is filled with a year’s worth of weekly tasks and assignments devised to help you capture perfect macro images. From shooting flowers and fungi to bubbles and insects, this book is designed to be the most efficient and enjoyable way to shake off old habits and discover new approaches to taking macro photographs.

Each assignment has been written to show you different techniques that will give you the best macro photos possible. Whether you’re photographing in natural woodlands or manmade cities, each assignment encourages you to pay attention to the details and look at the world through a microscopic lens.

Whilst full of technical advice and professional tips, there is plenty of journal space for your own personal notes including tech specs, lists and other important memos to record your creative journey. If you plan to dip in and out of the book whenever you need inspiration or planning to follow week-by-week, this book will be sure to bring a new concept and creative approach each time you open it.

Assignment topics include:

• Contrasting textures
• Reflectors
• Gels
• Flash
• Magnifying Glass
• Insects
• Miniature Scenes
• Weather
• Extension Rings
• Ring Light
• Translucent
• Light Trails
• Out-of-Focus

52 Assignments: Nature Photography is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. Small enough to fit into your rucksack, it is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for composing and creating eye-catching nature photography in all its forms.

Whether it's building a blind, setting up a feeding station, shooting macro masterpieces, creating beautiful animal silhouettes, capturing birds in flight, or focusing on natural textures, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to be more creative, explore the natural world around you, push your photography to its limits and discover your wild side.

Assignments include:

• Park Life
• Woodland Wildlife
• City Slickers
• Butterfly Effect
• Map Challenge
• Into The Blue

This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting creativity back into night photography. It's filled with a year’s worth of weekly concepts for conceiving and composing powerful photographs of the night sky. From capturing meteor showers and auroras to focusing on the landscape around us at night, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to embrace the possibilities of your camera. Whether you are photographing interstellar objects or locations on Earth with the night sky as a backdrop, each assignment encourages you to capture the world around you with your camera, a tripod and your imagination.

Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal in which you can record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your photography.

52 Assignments: Photographic Exposure is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful images. From capturing sunsets and creating dramatic silhouettes to freezing fast-moving action scenes, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to play with light, both natural and artificial, to convey mood, evoke emotion and tell a story. If you feel you are in the dark about exposure, this book will throw new light on your photography, regardless of your chosen subject.

Assignment topics include:

• Mirror Image
• Frozen In Time
• Blurred Vision
• Slow Motion
• Create A Mood
• Before Dawn
• Out From the Dark
• Making Impressions

Take your photography to the next level with 52 Assignments' latest series addition, Portrait Photography. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. 

It is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful and dynamic portrait photographs. 

Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing you to create a unique journal to record the journey you have made with your imagination. Complete the assignments weekly over a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your portrait photography.

Assignments in the book include:

• City limits
• The young ones
• Street life
• Pop art
• The great outdoors
• The high life

From children's portraits, business headshots and street portraits to selfies, abstract shots and fashion portraits, this book guides readers to learn something new or try something innovative with their existing skills within portrait photography's dynamic and characterful world.

You will discover different ways of approaching your subjects; challenges and games that add a level of mischief and play to your work; ideas for using maps, books and signs to unleash your creativity; lists of the best festivals and events to attend; prompts for alternative subjects and themes; guides to removing clichés from your work; radical techniques for pushing your camera beyond its limits or using alternative cameras; and examples from historic masters; along with ideas for innovative approaches to processing and printing. If you have any sort of creative roadblock in your street photography, this is the book to drive you right through it. The rest of the journal's pages are styled for you to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical specifications, quotes, and even sketches and doodles, creating a record of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend by weekend over the course of a year or dipped into every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to your street photography.

Assignments include: 

• Festivals
• Themed Events
• Historic Landmarks
• Maps and Guides
• Street and Road Signs

52 Assignments: Travel Photography is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalized journal, and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. Small enough to fit into your travel bag, it is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for composing and creating eye-catching travel photography in all its forms. From planning a trip to creating a map portfolio; from capturing cultures to finding a fresh eye on festivals; from changing the angles on architecture to taking retro postcard shots, this is the quickest and most enjoyable way to shake off old habits and discover fresh approaches that will inspire a whole new series of creative adventures in your travel photography.

Assignments include:

• Architecture Tour
• Local Scenery
• Life In Motion
• Travel Themes
• Mystery Tour
• City Walls
• Road Trip
• A Working Holiday

52 Assignments: Underwater Photography is a year’s worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity.

This collection of photographic workshop assignments is designed to build core skills, expand horizons and kickstart creativity. The book takes readers on an underwater adventure with assignments designed to teach valuable lessons and produce stunning images. It has a year's worth of weekly challenges and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful, dynamic underwater photographs and videos. Complete the assignments weekly over a year, or dip in every time you need to bring a new concept or creative approach to underwater photography.

Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for readers to add their own notes, lists and tech specs, allowing them to create a unique journal to record the journey they have made with their imagination.

Assignments include:

• Silhouettes
• Macro backlight
• Reflections

Psychological and Spiritual Guidance for Effective Recovery

Healing from addiction isn’t a straightforward cure, but a journey of spiritual self-discovery. Follow social psychologist Dr. Lisa Stanton as she shares the 52 divine lessons that can help you.

The key to recovery comes from within. For many people, medicine, treatments, and therapy can only do so much during the aftermath of addiction. That is why Dr. Lisa Stanton shares how reconnecting to yourself and your relationship with faith can produce the best results. 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery is a self-improvement book that combines psychology with spirituality, exploring all the incredible truths that your journey with God can reveal. Featuring eye-opening facts about prayers, forgiveness, and setting goals, you’ll discover that the best recovery plan is embracing the type of honesty that heals.

You can thrive with His guidance. For Lisa, becoming sober looked like a confusing series of trial and error with no effective solution. Yet her recovery started where she least expected it: by reopening a door with God. Exploring what she learned from her spiritual experience, Lisa tells how moments of vulnerability with Him can lead to helping yourself and others in need. A part of recovery leadership (along with bestselling author Karen Casey) Dr. Lisa Stanton shares her story and its lessons to help those on their recovery journeys.

Inside 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery, you’ll find life-changing lessons based on psychology and spiritual guidance such as:

• How to recognize that dishonesty, people-pleasing, and stubbornness can hurt rather than help
• Why everyday miracles help you see yourself God’s plan
• Radical changes you can expect when letting go of resentment
• Why you shouldn’t deny feelings of guilt

So if you are looking for recovery books like Power Moves, Why I Believe, or Each Day a New Beginning, then you’ll thrive with 52 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned in Recovery.

Caminar, tu nuevo estilo de vida: una guía sencilla y fascinante que recoge los numerosos beneficios de esta actividad, tanto en términos físicos como espirituales y emocionales.

Caminar está más de moda que nunca, y también es el secreto mejor guardado para alcanzar una salud óptima, para sentirse más feliz, más creativo, para dormir bien, mejorar la postura y afilar la memoria. La propuesta de este libro es una nueva rutina semanal, dividida por estaciones, para caminar durante todo el año. Ideas, reflexiones y consejos que nos animarán a mejorar nuestra técnica y a adquirir nuevas habilidades, a buscar rutas (muchas de ellas, al lado de casa), nuevos compañeros de paseo (el cerebro envejece mejor cuando variamos de vez en cuando) y más momentos para caminar. 

Inspirador y también basado en la ciencia, este libro te propondrá retos, te servirá de apoyo y te animará tanto si quieres empezar a caminar como si deseas añadirle un poco de chispa a tus recorridos.

From a writer whom master poet Seamus Heaney described as one "who risks much both stylistically and emotionally" comes 52 Men. Taut, spare and highly compressed autobiographical fiction for the mobile age, it is immensely funny and sexually charged.

In contemporary literary miniatures from a few lines to a few pages, Manhattan-raised Elise McKnight describes the men in her life who gradually reveal her: high-profile cultural leaders, writers and celebrities, as well as the down-to-earth waiter, student and police officer. Fifty-two strange, romantic and sexual interludes and relationships spark to life and disappear in the wind, leaving the reader always asking: What is Elise's power? What does she want and will she ever get it? Does she have a secret and if so, what is it?

With surprising, sometimes shocking and moving cameos by figures from tabloids and the news: Jay Carney, Jonathan Franzen, Lou Reed, Michael Stipe; and encounters with artists, financiers, and a boxer who reads Neruda at the Turkish baths.

52 Parenting Principles outlines simple strategies to help parents prepare their kids with important life skills for when they leave home. The 52 principles are bite-sized nuggets that parents can learn, understand, and apply weekly or as they choose. With enough theory for context, it emphasizes applications parents can make immediately. Most of the principles can be adopted to fit children of all ages. By reading 52 Parenting Principles, parents feel empowered to make changes they can master and witness relational transformation. Each principle is followed by discussion questions and action steps to help parents understand and integrate what they have learned.

Unlock Your Path to Success for Professional and Personal Goals

Everyone wants to work less, earn more, and achieve a perfect work-life balance, but what if the secret to success isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution? 52 Secrets for Goal-Setting and Goal-Getting offers you the tools to create your own path to success by learning from the experiences of others.

Everyone strives for success, but the path isn't always clear. Debra Eckerling, award-winning author of Your Goal Guide and creator of the DEB METHOD® for goal-setting simplified, brings together insights from top executives, entrepreneurs, authors, actors, chefs and other thought leaders. This book provides practical strategies for anyone looking to enhance their focus and productivity, develop management in leadership skills, and set professional and personal goals that align with the goal of life fulfillment.

Your comprehensive guide to new year goal-setting, achieving career and workplace goals, and mastering work-life balance. Whether you’re aiming to expand your thought leadership advantage, improve your communication and networking, or find effective examples of goals to inspire your journey, 52 Secrets for Goal-Setting and Goal-Getting equips you with the knowledge and motivation you need to succeed.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Proven strategies from successful leaders to help you set and achieve your professional and personal goals and excel in leadership and management.
• Practical examples of goals experiences to guide your journey toward the life you desire.
• Tips for improving your communication, expanding your network, and balancing self-care with professional ambition.

If you liked Build the Life You Want, Goals, or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Guided Journal, you’ll love 52 Secrets for Goal-Setting and Goal-Getting.

The savviest bargainista bride knows that creativity—not money—is the greatest influence on wedding style. Now more than ever, brides have freedom to express their unique, imaginative style to create extraordinary weddings on any budget. 52 Things Brides on a Budget Should Know will keep you from feeling trapped by your budget constraints, steer you away from unnecessary spending, and convince you that you don’t need to go into debt to have an incredibly personal, chic wedding. In this simple, practical guide you’ll learn:

• How to get bargains on everything from the venue to the florist
• How to prioritize your wedding spending where it shows
• Where to look beyond the bridal salon for the best deals on gowns and more

At the poker table, just like in the ocean, baitfish get gobbled up by sharks. To help you ascend to the top of the poker food chain, 52 Things To Pick Up Your Poker Game answers all the game’s most important questions with over 50 tips and strategies to give you the upper hand. So whether you’re a seasoned pro or a bare-bones beginner, this handy, information-packed guide will take your poker game to the next level by helping you discover:

• Bluffing techniques and when to use them—or not use them
• Winning strategies when you don’t have a winning hand
• What players to choose or avoid as your opponent
• How to help determine your opponent’s hand
• How to capitalize on your opponent’s weaknesses and your strengths

Cultivate Inner Peace Through Positive Affirmations and Spiritual Meditation

“52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles is a compact rendition of how to live with love and forgiveness at the center of our lives." ─Allyson Gracie, Retailing Insight

#1 Best Seller in Spiritualism

Find the path to inner peace through a weekly guide of spiritual meditations and positive affirmations.

Use Karen Casey’s 52 positive affirmations and meditations to find inner peace. We all face struggles that can leave us feeling broken and hopeless. But peace and healing are always available to us if we are open to them. Karen Casey is a beloved author who has helped millions onto the road to recovery with her inspirational self-help and meditation writings. In this inspirational book, Karen takes readers on a journey towards peaceful living by sharing how she has found serenity in her own life. Karen teaches readers that the goal is not perfection, but rather progress towards creating a life of love and peace.
 
Cultivate a simpler, slower, more love-filled life. When Karen Casey was struggling with addiction, she found life-changing inspiration in Helen Schucman’s book, A Course in Miracles. In 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles, she shares the ideas she discovered in Helen Schucman's book and the spirituality that we can all bring to our own lives.

Find inside:

• Meditations and affirmations that lead to a simpler, slower life
• Insights into Helen Schucman’s A Course in Miracles
• Stories of the author’s own struggles and triumphs on her path to healing

If you enjoyed reading other books like Practicing Mindfulness, The Untethered Soul Guided Journal, or A Year of Mindfulness, then you’ll love 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles.

Easy Desserts to Bake for Every Week of the Year

#1 New Release in Sweets, Confectionary

Sweet recipes with gorgeous pictures for every season.

Baked treats for every season. An ode to seasonal baking, Vedika Luthra has crafted unique dessert recipes using seasonal ingredients and distinctive flavor combinations for throughout the year.

Desserts for Christmas and other holiday desserts. Whether you're looking for a stunning pumpkin spice cheesecake to welcome fall to your household, or a festive pavlova that serves as the grand finale to your Christmas party, this book provides you with a recipe repertoire fit for all occasions. These treats can serve as gifts for friends and family or an indulgent sweet treat for yourself.

Never run out of delicious recipes. Vedika invites you to explore desserts from her Indian heritage, her polish home base, and other dishes from around the world. Indulge in her unique 52 recipes, one for each week of the year, each accompanied by breath-taking photographs that will kick-start your sugar cravings and inspire you to create something special.

Uncomplicated baking. Is your favorite flavor chocolate, vanilla, or red velvet? Vedika has easy desserts to bake for you. She wants everyone to feel confident in their confectionary creations. Practice makes perfect and she guides you on your dessert journey whether it be lemon cakes, Bundt cakes, banana bread, or cookies.

If you loved baking with Zoë Bakes Cakes, The Great British Baking Show, or Small Batch Baking, then 52 Weeks, 52 Sweets should be your next sweet read.

Set in mid-60s Harlem and Alabama, two families grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era in the American South, reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma, and the heavy question of what justice demands.

The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965—from the infamous “Bloody Sunday” march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on the 7th to the triumphant entry into Montgomery on the 25th that climaxed the voting rights campaign—and the families who find themselves confronting the past amid another flashpoint in American history.

Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents’ home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South she both hates and fears, and to a reckoning that may result in an incalculable loss.

Meanwhile, Thelma’s brother Luther is also spiraling, but in a different way. Forty-two years after his parents were lynched before his eyes, and twenty years after the man who led the lynch mob walked out of court a free man, Luther has just made a shocking discovery. He‘s found the murderer, Floyd Bitters, helpless and enfeebled in a rest home—unable to move or even to speak. The old man is literally at Luther’s mercy. And Luther, who has never overcome this trauma that defined his life, is suddenly forced to relive it all again as he grapples with the awful question of what justice now demands.

Over time, horses (like people) acquire postural habits, compensate for soreness and injury, and develop poor movement patterns. This limits performance ability, causes unsoundness and health issues, and ultimately undermines the horse's overall well–being.

Jec Aristotle Ballou has made a name for herself advocating for the horse and providing sensible instruction in his schooling, conditioning, and care. Her bestselling books and popular clinics are designed to enable any horse person to correctly apply proven principles that bring measurable progress while avoiding boredom and confusion.

In her latest collection of mounted and unmounted corrective exercises, Ballou demonstrates how we can actively work to improve the horse's posture and movement, whether he is:

• An active performance or pleasure mount.
• An aging or older horse that benefits from gentle exercise.
• A horse being rehabilitated following injury, illness, or lack of conditioning.

Ballou's positive cross–training techniques are free of shortcuts, and her guidelines for analyzing the horse's posture and way of going help readers gain a new awareness of the equine body. Applicable for all disciplines and full of quality color photographs to explain the exercises, this is an integral collection that optimizes how the horse uses his body and helps ensure he stays sounder and healthier for more years of his life.

Learn About the Five Essential Legal Documents You Need to Set Up by Age 55!

Many people discover too late that they need some essential legal documents to deal with common health and end of life issues. Failing to prepare these documents ahead of time can create major legal headaches that often require expensive trips to court to resolve.

Written by expert attorneys in the fields of elder law and estate planning, 5@55 is a slim, easy-to-read guide to the five most important legal documents you should have by age 55:

1. Healthcare Advance Directive
2. Living Will
3. Power of Attorney
4. Last Will and Testament
5. Authorization to Access Electronic Records and Media Sites.

These are the documents that everyone says they’ll get to “eventually.” But “eventually” all too often turns to “never.” Setting a deadline of age 55 to draft these essential documents ensures that they’ll be ready before you need them—and avoid nasty and costly surprises.

With full descriptions of each document, explanations of why you need it, and sample documents you can adapt to your own needs, 5@55 is a must-have manual for the second half of life.

With 5G, telecommunications networks have entered a new phase. 5G mobile networks use unique concepts and technologies to deliver current and future applications across a wide spectrum, from high bit-rate smartphones to high-availability car-to-x and mass IoT applications.

This book on 5G technology starts with the evolution of mobile networks to 5G. It then addresses basic concepts and technologies such as NGN, IMS, virtualization with NFV and MEC, SDN, and Service Function Chaining.

The 5G environment is comprehensively presented, starting with use cases and usage scenarios and moving on to concrete requirements, as well as the standardization at ITU and especially 3GPP, including regulation.

In this context, the 5G system design, the 5G access networks with their high-performance transmission technology, and the core network with the innovative concepts of Service Based Architecture and Network Slicing play a significant role. A 5G system is presented here in an integrated view, rounded off by an overview of all relevant IT security aspects.

The overall view is concluded by looking at the environmental influences of electromagnetic radiation and the energy and raw material resources requirements. Furthermore, the future development of 5G up to 6G is outlined.

The book's main objective is to provide people interested in 5G technology and application scenarios with a well-founded knowledge for an introduction to 5G and encourage further discussion of this topic. The target audience is generally technically interested persons, mostly employees of public and private network operators. This book should be of particular interest, especially within the IT departments of potential 5G user companies, and of course, among computer science and electrical engineering students.

5G-Netze werden weltweit auf- und ausgebaut. Im Vergleich zu 4G bieten sie nicht nur offensichtliche Vorteile wie höhere Bitraten, sondern hohe Zuverlässigkeit und geringe Latenz, z.B. für Car-to-X-Anwendungen, oder die Einbindung einer sehr hohen Anzahl von Endgeräten, z.B. von Sensoren in einer Smart City.

Dieses einzige deutschsprachige Buch zur 5G-Technik beginnt mit der Evolution bei den Mobilfunknetzen hin zu 5G und geht in der Folge auf die Basiskonzepte und -technologien wie NGN, IMS, die Virtualisierung mit NFV und MEC sowie SDN ein. Die besondere Herangehensweise an 5G über Anwendungsfälle und Einsatzszenarien hin zu konkreten Anforderungen sowie die Standardisierung bei ITU und vor allem 3GPP sowie die internationale Regulierung werden aufgezeigt. Breiten Raum nehmen das Design von 5G-Systemen, die 5G-Zugangsnetze inkl. Open-RAN mit ihrer leistungsstarken Übertragungstechnik sowie das Kernnetz mit den innovativen Konzepten der Service Based Architecture und des Network Slicing inkl. Beispielen aus der Netzwerkpraxis ein. Ein 5G-System wird in der Gesamtsicht dargestellt, ergänzt durch einen Blick auf Campusnetze und abgerundet durch einen Überblick über alle relevanten IT Security-Aspekte. Abgeschlossen wird die Gesamtbetrachtung durch einen Blick auf die Umwelteinflüsse durch die elektromagnetische Strahlung, die Energie- und Rohstoffbedarfe sowie das Thema Nachhaltigkeit. Zudem wird die Weiterentwicklung bei 5G beschrieben inkl. eines optimal aufbereiteten Einstiegs in 6G.

Hauptziel des Buches ist es, an 5G-Technik und -Anwendungsszenarien interessierten Personen fundiertes 5G-Wissen zu vermitteln und zur weiteren Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Themengebiet anzuregen. Angesprochen sind allgemein technisch Interessierte, speziell Mitarbeitende von öffentlichen und privaten Netzbetreibern. Interesse wird dieses Buch auch in den IT-Abteilungen möglicher 5G-Anwenderfirmen wecken, nicht zuletzt natürlich bei Studierenden der Informatik und Elektrotechnik.

The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller’s second memoir. Coming after Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (published in 2000), this book finds Miller returning to baseball, the game of his youth, in order to find the metaphor that will provide the measurement of his life. At 60, he ponders whether his life can now be entered into the official record books as a success or failure.

The 5th Inning is one man’s examination of personal relationships, depression, love and loss. This is a story of the individual alone on the pitching mound or in the batters box. It’s a box score filled with remembrance. It’s a combination of baseball and the blues. The paperback has an additional chapter.

• "...a charming, beautiful and extremely aesthetically pleasing travelogue." — Roger Lush, Amateur Photographe
• “Stunning photography.” — Outdoor Photography 

According to the clichés: as dark and cold as a refrigerator. And yet it is precisely in these wintertime months that photographer Michael Königshofer picks up his camera and heads to the Arctic Circle!

In this rich and original photo book, the Scandinavia-savvy Austrian captures much more than the clichéd images of the Northern Lights. With an eye on the coexistence of nature and culture, Michael Königshofer explores how lives are lived in this intense and extreme environment, from the traditional ivory carver in Greenland to the ice surfer in the North Cape. The result is an authentic portrait of Scandinavian life, showing a whole new side to life up north. Text in English and German.

Your seven-figure real estate agent income is six simple steps away.

It’s difficult to build a real estate business, and it’s even more difficult not to lose yourself in the daily grind. 6 Steps to 7 Figures contains all the tactics that the best real estate agents use to promote their businesses, become financially free, and pursue the lives of their dreams.

Pat Hiban is one of the only residential real estate agents to hold the title Billion-Dollar Agent—having sold more than 4,000 homes with a billion dollars in volume—and he compiled two decades of invaluable experience into this manual. A combination of motivational success strategies and practical tips for flourishing in real estate, this completely expanded and revised edition also contains two new chapters on what the author learned from giving up the workaholic lifestyle.

In this book, you'll learn how Pat:

• Raised his average sales price from $92,000 to more than $450,000 with four simple steps
• Transformed $13,000 in annual commissions to more than $5 million annually
• Went from zero foreclosure listings to over 325 in two years
• Got his team revved up by humiliating himself on YouTube
• Landed more customers by dressing up as Dracula
• Learned some of his best tactics through “authorized stealing” from his competitors
• Shifted from being a raging workaholic to taking 153 days off each year

"Inner Bonding is a cutting-edge process for self-love. It gets profound results, and it gets them quickly. Margaret is truly a master, and the Inner Bonding process creates miracles."–Marci Shimoff, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, and creator of Your Year of Miracles

This powerful life-changing Inner Bonding Process is the result of Dr. Margaret’s more than fifty-three years of personal work with clients. Heal the cycle of shame and self-abandonment leading to anxiety, depression, addiction, aloneness and relationship failure. Discover how to love yourself and connect with your personal source of spiritual guidance. Learn how to:

• Rapidly heal false beliefs about yourself, others and higher spiritual guidance
• Heal guilt, shame, emptiness and aloneness
• Move beyond self-judgment into self-compassion
• Address the resistance that’s keeping you stuck
• Heal relationship conflicts and attain the intimacy you’ve always wanted

Unless you were raised by people who were loving to themselves, each other and to you, you may not have learned how to manage your painful feelings and may be operating from your ego wounded self, controlled by your fears and false beliefs.

Self-abandonment perpetuates fears of rejection, abandonment, aloneness, engulfment or failure, and can also contribute to illness. Inner Bonding will help you love and value yourself. 

Your wounded self may often take over in unloving ways, trampling on your hurts, ignoring them or avoiding them with various addictions and controlling behavior including: 

• Addictions to drugs, food, nicotine, alcohol, relationships, work, TV or gaming
• Co-dependence—trying to control others with anger, violence, guilt or compliance—making others responsible for your sense of safety and worth
• Staying in your head rather than being present in your body
• Self-judgment, shaming yourself
• Obsessive thinking, ruminating, worrying
• Resistance to self, others, spirit—to taking loving care of yourself

"Inner Bonding is a cutting-edge process for self-love. It gets profound results, and it gets them quickly. Margaret is truly a master, and the Inner Bonding process creates miracles."–Marci Shimoff, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, and creator of Your Year of Miracles