Deanna Reynolds has everything mapped out: her dream job, her dream life. A talented TV journalist, she is determined to make

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It is autumn 1954, & after the success of Molly Mc Queen's detective agency, she decides to add a new domestic branch. It is not long before one of the newly hired employees, Maisie, uncovers a riveting mystery by accident while visiting a client. Vera Barton's husband Dave & young daughter Etta went missing in 1930. ...

One of the highest paid positions in photography is that of the professional fashion photographer. If you have a passion for fashion & want to shoot fantastic pictures, Pro Digital Fashion Photography will help to put you at the forefront of this competitive field. This book contains countless insights, tips & techniques that will inspire you to develop your own skills & style
- so you too can capture the glamour, dynamism, & sophistication of the fashion industry. The book comprehensively examines every aspect of fashion photography, from high-end beauty & fashion photography to catwalk, swimwear, & lingerie shots. It clearly explains all the key information, from setting up the perfect studio & working with models, to post-production skills & how to break into, & compete within, the fashion photography business. This unique hands-on title will give you the tools required to create a winning portfolio, & ultimately to succeed in the world of fashion photography.
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Michael Freeman has a well-earned reputation for effectively explaining the concepts behind digital picture-taking. Here, he turns his attention to professionals & advanced hobbyists who need help moving to digital & mastering the latest technology. Taking into account contemporary cameras? latest features, such as high resolution sensors, image stabilization, & dust reduction, Freeman thoroughly answers the most frequently asked questions about digital capture, storage, printers, & scanners. Photographers will learn the different file formats & how to save images for print & publishing on the web. They?ll explore valuable software tools & basic image processing programs that fix common problems, & see how to improve pictures using an assortment of cropping & filtering techniques. The smart, detailed advice will give photographers confidence as they enter the digital world. ...

What are humans doing to explore the 'final frontier'? From satellites to the space shuttle, humans have planned & constructed the tools & machinery necessary to quench our curiosity about outer space. This title investigates the technology we use to explore the universe & beyond. ...

Adopted at eighteen months, Caradoc King was brought up in a large & growing family. His adoptive mother, a complex woman, was unable to bond with her newly adopted son & treated him with a harshness bordering on cruelty. At the age of six, he was sent to a boarding school run by two brilliantly eccentric brothers. But this happy time ended abruptly when his adoptive mother became a passionate Catholic & removed him from the school. From the age of eleven, Caradoc was shuttled from one school to the next, later failing to fulfil his mother's wish that he should join a seminary. When he was fifteen, he was informed that he had been adopted &, a year later, his parents ejected him from the family. Two years later, he scraped into Oxford & there on his first day met Philip Pullman, who was to become his first client when he set up as a literary agent. Thirty years later, Caradoc went in search of his natural family & began to make sense of the mystery of his two absent mothers. ...

Books Pre-school Activity Books Filled with over 100 fun, Key Stage 2 curriculum-based exercises, this workbook is the perfect way for kids aged 7–9 to sharpen their problem-solving & reasoning skills & support their learning at home. The book features 12 sections, each one focusing on a different maths topic – from multiplication & fractions to geometry & statistics. Each section is filled with exercises to help children practise their problem-solving skills, such as fraction subtractions, co-ordinate grids, written equations & pictograms. Written by an experienced educational consultant & featuring engaging illustrations by artist Chris Dickason. The book also features a glossary of key maths terms at the back.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781780559230 •†Author: Kirstin Swanson •†Publisher:†  Michael O' Mara •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 64 •†Dimensions:† 28 x 21.6 0.3 cm ...

Books Primary School Books Filled with over 100 fun, Key Stage 2 curriculum-based exercises, this workbook is the perfect way for kids aged 7-9 to sharpen their problem-solving & reasoning skills & support their learning at home.  The book features 12 sections, each one focusing on a different maths topic
- from multiplication & fractions to geometry & statistics. Each section is filled with exercises to help children practise their problem-solving skills, such as fraction subtractions, co-ordinate grids, written equations & pictograms.  Written by an experienced educational consultant & features engaging illustrations by artist Chris Dickason. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781780559247 •†Author: Kirstin Swanson •†Publisher:†  Buster Books •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 64 •†Dimensions:†21.6 x 28 x 0.6 cm
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An odyssey for the twenty-first century. Beginning on America's East Coast, this poem journeys restlessly through the European continent, exploring the inheritance of the Old World upon Walcott's native St Lucia, & sees the poet wondering about his own sense of abandonment, whether to leave a place is to lose it. ...

The range of performance accreditable in further education allows students to create bespoke packages of evidence of their achievements. But how are they to present the evidence to employers? This book tells them how to assemble their work using practical advice & real life examples. ...