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The Great Canadian Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences
Robin Esrock - 2013
After spending years crafting the definitive Canadian Bucket List, he's packed in enough for a lifetime, at least.A few of the highlights include:• Ziplining over a giant waterfall in New Brunswick • Digging for dinosaur bones in Alberta’s badlands • Harvesting an iceberg to make a refreshing Newfoundland cocktail • Floating in Canada's own Dead Sea • Cracking a Canadian Da Vinci Code in Winnipeg • Hiking the tundra under Nunavut's midnight sunThe companion website presents extensive bonus content: on-the-ground info, videos, gear guides, hotel and tour recommendations, and more. Join the community of Bucket Listers sharing their experiences as they follow Robin's trail.
Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic Record
Colin Wilson - 2002
Packed with more than 400 photographs arranged in chronological order, this book covers everything from arson to connibalism, con men, mass murderers, sabotage, victims and vital clues.
Fashion Photography 101
Lara Jade - 2012
Lara shares her experience of fashion photography in the digital age, including dedicated sections on retouching, genres of fashion photography, and making the best use of social media. Whether you're taking your first-ever shot, working with a professional model for the first time, or pitching to new clients, here is everything you need to produce moody, magical images that leap from the page straight into the viewer's imagination.
The Photographer's Guide to Yosemite
Michael Frye - 2000
An indispensable and handy resource for anyone who wants to take better pictures in Yosemite and elsewhere.
Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction
Dan Margulis - 2002
This new edition, the first in nearly five years, is completely updated for the age of digital photography. It continues the book’s tradition of introducing astoundingly effective, previously unknown methods of image enhancement. The original photographs found in the book come from a variety of professional sources, and all correction exercises are on the included CD. Professional Photoshop has changed radically from edition to edition, and this time is no exception--with almost 90 percent new content and completely overhauled coverage of curves, channel blending, and sharpening.Professional Photoshop offers a full explanation of:
How curves bring out detail in the most important areas of the imagen
A comprehensive strategy for blending channels to create deeper, stronger images
The strengths and weaknesses of CMYK, LAB, and RGB, and when to use each one
The first detailed look at the Shadow/Highlight command--and even more sophis-ticated ways to enhance contrast in the lightest and darkest parts of the imagen
Sharpening strategies, in three full chapters, including the innovative hiraloam method (High Radius, Low Amount). Plus, a fiendishly effective method of merging hiraloam and conventional unsharp masking
The realities--and the politics--of preparing files for commercial offset printing and how to deal with colors that are out of the press’s gamut
What Camera Raw and similar acquisition modules can offer
Typical problems of digital captures that were not found in the age of film--and how to correct for them
Greece, Athens and the Mainland (Eyewitness Travel Guide)
Marc S. Dubin - 1997
Packed with detailed maps and beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all unparalleled sites, this guide highlights the best things to do in Greece, Athens, and the Mainland, such as exploring the archaeological monuments of the Acropolis, visiting the monasteries of Meteora, relaxing on a beach, and taking a scenic walk to discover some of Europe's most inspiring scenery. Fully updated and expanded, the "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland" includes all the essential insider information every traveler needs, including dozens of reviews for hotels, listings of recommended restaurants, and tips for shopping, entertainment, and excursions, for any budget.Don't miss a thing on your vacation with the "DK Eyewitness Travel" guidebook to Greece, Athens and the Mainland.HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps Cutaways and floor plans of all the major sights 3D aerial views of the city's most interesting districts Huge selection of hotels, restaurants, stores, and entertainment venues Specially devised walking tours, special events info
Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo
Beth Whitman - 2007
The book dispels the myths that solo travel is dangerous and provides straightforward advice on making the most of your travels while having the time of your life. With up to date listings of websites and details on the latest in technology products, it is the most up to date book in this genre.
The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations from Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat - 2014
Following the success of her New York Times bestselling debut, everyone's favorite disgruntled feline is back with this demotivational guide to everyday life, love, friendship, and more. Featuring many new photos of Grumpy Cat's famous frown and packed with uninspiring observations, The Grumpy Guide to Life will help anyone get in touch with their inner grouch.
The Art of Fashion Draping
Connie Amaden-Crawford - 1988
The Art of Fashion Draping, 3rd Edition, is organised from basic to more advanced topics. New and revised illustrations keep the book up to date.
Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles: Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Chris Townsend - 2014
Of all his adventures, those he enjoyed on America’s Pacific Crest Trail in the Eighties are among his favourites. The PCT runs 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada through desert, forest and mountain wildernesses. In Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles Chris recounts not only his own six month w alk but also the longer story of the Trail, and shares his ideas on how it is developing and where it is all going with his many readers. Illustrated with Chris Townsend’s photographs from his long hike, and earlier, iconic images, Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles will be the definitive Pacific Crest Trail account
Cats for Dummies
Gina Spadafori - 1997
Find out how to choose, housebreak, groom, and even travel with your feline friend.
How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better
Charla Krupp - 2008
Packed with eye-opening details on hair color, brows, lipstick, wrinkle-erasers, jeans, shapewear, jewelry, heels, and more, the book speaks to every woman: from low maintenance types who don't want to spend a fortune or tons of time on her looks to high maintenance women who believe in looking fabulous at any price. There's also too-old vs. just-right before and after photos, celebrity examples of good and bad style, shopping lists of Charla's brilliant buys in fashion and beauty products, coveted addresses of "Where the top beauty pros go," fun sidebars--and more. Known to national audiences from her ten years on NBC's Today show, style expert Charla Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous -- no matter what your age.
Blood Miniature Exhibition Book
Mark Ryden - 2003
Includes details and drawings of paintings from "Blood" exhibited at Earl McGrath Gallery. Distressed leather-like embossed soft cover. Smyth sewn binding, Ninety two pages. Limited printing of 20,000 books (This book will not be reprinted). Each book is individually numbered. Book Size: 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"
The Summer Book
Susan Branch - 1995
It contains more than 100 recipes, from barbecued bourbon chicken to beach crab cakes and blueberry bread pudding. It also includes gardening advice, how to cook with herbs and how to remedy bee stings.