Master's Guide to Wedding Photography: Capturing Unforgettable Moments and Lasting Impressions

Amherst Media, Inc. (February 1, 2007) | ISBN: 1584281979 | 80 pages | PDF
From the history of photography and how to shoot wedding portraits to creating stylish albums and working with digital output, everything a wedding photographer needs to know is included in this all-encompassing manual. Photographers are provided with a shooting guide that walks them through the wedding day and offers advice on a variety of topics—including integrating detail, capturing the walk down the aisle, working in and out of doors, and finding and illustrating key relationships. Traditional and “in” methods of wedding photography are depicted in an educational timeline that explores past, present, and future trends in the field; current photo manipulation software, such as Adobe Photoshop and compatible plug-ins, are also discussed. Emphasis is placed on client interaction both before and after the big day, transforming prints into fine arts products, and developing and fine-tuning a creative shooting style.

Review
"Internationally acclaimed photographer Marcus Bell used his years of expertise to create this highly informative guide on the art of wedding photography." —Shutterbug
"Bell offers tips on developing your photographic style, nurturing client relationships, personalizing your approach to each wedding, and presenting standout images and album designs." —Studio Photography

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Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization

Publisher: Jossey-Bass | 2007-03-05 | ISBN: 0470838302 | PDF | 288 pages
What Steven J. Stein found out about creating and sustaining great workplaces
The proprietary and cutting-edge research carried out by the author led to outcomes that shed new light on management practice and strategy. The 7 Keys presented in this book, when implemented, will produce immediate results and long-term enhanced performance.
You will be privy to what the author has learned about the changing workplace and the role leaders play in maximizing their workforce. You can fill an organization with all the intelligent and highly educated people you want, but without the right culture and discipline, your chances of success are in doubt.
Use this book to see how your organization measures up to the 7 Keys and implement the necessary changes to make your workplace a happier and more productive one.

The 7 keys:-
-- Hire capable people who love the work they do and show how they contribute to the bigger picture.
-- Compensate people fairly.
-- Don't overwork (or underwork) people.
-- Build strong teams with shared purpose and viable goals.
-- Make sure managers can manage.
-- Treat people with respect and leverage their unique talents.
-- Be proactively responsible by doing the right things to win the hearts and minds of your people.

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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

304 pages | Publisher: Crown Business (September 14, 2010) | English | ISBN-10: 0307591115
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?

The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the fear that always takes hold as new technology replaces the old. In fact, as Bilton shows, the digital era we are part of is, in all its creative and disruptive forms, the foundation for exciting and engaging experiences not only for business but society as well.

Both visionary and practical, I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the understanding of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior:

• With a walk on the wild side—through the porn industry—we see how this business model is leading the way, adapting product to consumer needs and preferences and beating piracy.
• By understanding how the Internet is creating a new type of consumer, the “consumnivore,” living in a world where immediacy trumps quality and quantity, we see who is dictating the type of content being created.
• Through exploring the way our brains are adapting, we gain a new understanding of the positive effect of new media narratives on thinking and action. One fascinating study, for example, shows that surgeons who play video games are more skillful than their nonplaying counterparts.
• Why social networks, the openness of the Internet, and handy new gadgets are not just vehicles for telling the world what you had for breakfast but are becoming the foundation for “anchoring communities” that tame information overload and help determine what news and information to trust and consume and what to ignore.
• Why the map of tomorrow is centered on “Me,” and why that simple fact means a totally new approach to the way media companies shape content.
• Why people pay for experiences, not content; and why great storytelling and extended relationships will prevail and enable businesses to engage with customers in new ways that go beyond merely selling information, instead creating unique and meaningful experiences.

I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works walks its own talk by creating a unique reader experience: Semacodes embedded in both print and eBook versions will take readers directly to Bilton’s website (www.NickBilton.com), where they can access videos of the author further developing his point of view and also delve into the research that was key to shaping the central ideas of the book. The website will also offer links to related content and the ability to comment on a chapter, allowing the reader to join the conversation.

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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

Description
Felix Dennis is an expert at proving people wrong. Starting as a college dropout with no family money, he created a publishing empire, founded Maxim magazine, made himself one of the richest people in the UK, and had a blast in the process.

How to Get Rich is different from any other book on the subject because Dennis isn’t selling snake oil, investment tips, or motivational claptrap. He merely wants to help people embrace entrepreneurship, and to share lessons he learned the hard way. He reveals, for example, why a regular paycheck is like crack cocaine; why great ideas are vastly overrated; and why “ownership isn’t the important thing, it’s the only thing.”

This is not your usual get-rich-quick manual. Though Dennis, a poet (When Jack Sued Jill: Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times) and the founder of a publishing empire (including Maxim magazine), wants to help the reader rank at least among the lesser rich (equal to a net worth of $30 million–$80 million by his definition), he isn't himself motivated by money. With his own fortune estimated at between $400 million and $900 million, he doesn't have to be. Instead, Dennis wants to demystify the money-getting process, and his straight-talking, honest advice makes a refreshing change in this oversaturated field. Using humorous examples from his own business life, Dennis's advice, from The Five Most Common Start-Up Errors to The Power of Focus, might sound like conventional fare, but delivered in his signature bawdy, British style, it's altogether more entertaining—and more practical. Dennis highlights the right strategies and mindset to get readers their millions, but he won't air-brush his story or soften the bitter truth along the way. As he says, when it comes to acquiring wealth, being a bit of helps.

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From Crisis to Recovery: The Causes, Course and Consequences of the Great Recession

OECD | 10 Sep 2010 | ISBN: 9264069119 | 147 pages | PDF
How did the sharpest global slowdown in more than six decades happen, and how can recovery be made sustainable? OECD Insights: From Crisis to Recovery traces the causes, course and consequences of the "Great Recession".

It explains how a global build up of liquidity, coupled with poor regulation, created a financial crisis that quickly began to make itself felt in the real economy, destroying businesses and raising unemployment to its highest levels in decades. The worst of the crisis now looks to be over, but a swift return to strong growth appears unlikely and employment will take several years to get back to pre-crisis levels.
High levels of public and private debt mean cutbacks and saving are likely to become the main priority, meaning the impact of the recession will continue to be felt for years to come.

Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Roots of a Crisis
3. Routes, Reach, Responses
4. The Impacts on Jobs
5. Pensions and the Crisis
6. New World, New Rules?
7. The Future: Five Questions

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Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery

208 pages | Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (June 1, 2010) | English | ISBN-10: 0470646039 | 11.8 Mb
Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all. To put these students' ideas into practice, the book also includes practical tips for educators.

* Breaks new ground by bringing youth voices to a timely topic-motivation and mastery
* Includes worksheets, tips, and discussion guides that help put the book's ideas into practice
* Author has 18 previous books on adolescent learning and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Educational Leadership, and American Educator

From the author of Fires in the Bathroom, this is the next-step book that pushes the conversation to next level, as teenagers tackle the pressing challenges of motivation and mastery.

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101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions

200 pages | Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 6 edition (February 10, 2009) | English | ISBN-10: 159863853X
Two more sources for job hunters. Both are useful, affordable guides to the interview process with different focuses. Fry's emphasis on one aspect of the procedure, the one-on-one interview (i.e., the selection rather than the screening), in a question-and-answer format offers a fresh, active approach to a timely subject. After two introductory chapters of guidelines, the author identifies the toughest themes of a successful encounter and provides proven responses in clear, readable text. In a revision of his comprehensive classic Sweaty Palms ( LJ 7/78), Medley updates his how-to handbook of job interviewing techniques, emphasizing skills and strategic planning. Although still verbose, the guide, however, gives full explanations of a wide coverage of tips from preparation and salary negotiation to issues of sex in the workplace and the handling of questions of discrimination. Most helpful are summary checklists at the end of each chapter for easy scanning and four appendixes, including more than 200 commonly asked questions and questions to ask of the interviewer. For career collections.

Review
Winner of the Audie Award for Best Personal Development/Self-Help of 1997 [brought to you by HighBridge Audio]. -- Audio Publishers Association

With the gates wide open flooding more employment-seeking individuals than ever out on the street, now comes your personal coach to assure the best possible success. Author Ron Fry trains the listener to plan ahead to succeed....His role-playing examples are clear, concise and designed to polish your rhetoric arsenal as you navigate through any interview. In this task-oriented training tape, Fry's advice is skillfully administered to the listener and is easily adaptable to employment and interview opportunities. Finally, a guide that makes sense

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