Budding shutterbugs will find much to learn & explore between the pages of this colourful & wide-ranging introduction to the world of photography. Illustrated throughout & written in a style thats informative & easy to understand this book covers everything from the difference between digital & film cameras to mastering action shots & taking pictures of ones favourite pets. Sections introduce young readers to famous photographers & iconic images. Acclaimed writer George Sullivan also explains the principles of composition lighting & visual story telling & even the proper way to hold a camera. He offers valuable tips for creating whimsical unusual shots & for using free software to organize share & edit photographs. Children will be entertained & challenged in discovering how to make exciting high quality photographs they can share with their family & friends. ...

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead & Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark & his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together they must take on the might of the State & the wiles of a cold-blooded killer. ...

This is the first book to focus on commonly occurring client issues & explore how to work with them from a person-centred perspective. Extensive case studies translate person-centred theory into effective practice enabling therapists to work successfully with clients presenting a variety of different problems including: Post Traumatic Stress; Depression; Panic & Anxiety; Drug & Alcohol Issues; Eating difficulties; Self harm; & Childhood Sexual Abuse. Each chapter covers the origin & meaning of the difficulty the person-centred therapeutic approach & process & the outcomes. Drawing from a combined 50 years of experience in the field Paul Wilkins & Janet Tolan bring together leading person-centred therapists to address how & why each problem can be eased by means of working with the person. This book should be on the desk of every counselling & psychotherapy trainee & is recommended reading for other practitioners of health & social care working with these client groups. ...

From climbing & abseiling to canoeing & a Crazy Bucket Race Tim's adventure holiday promises to be full of action. There's just one problem: he is hopeless at sports of any kind. Can Tim survive the horrors of a week absolutely packed with activity? Can his team
- the Tigers
- be the overall champions? There are some surprises in store for everyone!

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CAWSES (Climate & Weather of the Sun-Earth System) is the most important scientific program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). CAWSES has triggered a scientific priority program within the German Research Foundation for a period of 6 years. Approx. 30 scientific institutes & 120 scientists were involved in Germany with strong links to international partners. The priority program focuses on solar influence on climate atmospheric coupling processes & space climatology. This book summarizes the most important results from this program covering some important research topics from the Sun to climate. Solar related processes are studied including the evolution of solar radiation with relevance to climate. Results regarding the influence of the Sun on the terrestrial atmosphere from the troposphere to the thermosphere are presented including stratospheric ozone mesospheric ice clouds geomagnetic effects & their relevance to climate. Several chapters highlight the importance of coupling mechanisms within the atmosphere covering transport mechanisms of photochemically active species dynamical processes such as gravity waves tides & planetary waves & feedback mechanisms between the thermal & dynamical structure of the atmosphere. Special attention is paid to climate signals in the middle & upper atmosphere & their significance relative to natural variability. ...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the 21st century. The next hundred years could see coastlines & islands submerged & a surge in heatwaves hurricanes droughts floods & therefore in pests disease famine & displacement. While government & industry dither this book argues we could all cut our personal greenhouse gas emissions by 60%
- the level necessary to halt the current trend according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. After summarising today's state of affairs scientifically & politically climatologist Dave Reay explores the climate impact of housing gardening food money work transport death even. Packed with provocative case studies calculations & lifestyle comparisons this entertaining & authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology tractable & challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'.
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Insightful & refreshingly level-headed this book tackles all of the major climate change issues facing today's world. From global warming & expanding populations to renewable energy & sustainability this study examines each issue with an objectivity & grace rarely seen in an arena fraught with dissent & extremism. ...

In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Crowded conditions slowed their progress & late in the day 23 men & women including the expedition leaders were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disorientated & out of oxygen climbers struggled to find their way to safety. Alone & climbing blind Anatoli Boukreev rescued a number of climbers from certain death. This honest & gripping account

Includes:: the transcript of the Mountain Madness debriefing recorded five days after the tragedy as well as G. Weston de Walts response to Jon Krakauer. Powerful.. .a breath of brisk sometimes bitter clarity.. . Boukreev did the one thing that denies the void. He took action. He chose danger & he saved lives. New York Times Book Review The best book Ive read this year.. . The Climb has a story that will grip & haunt you. Alex Garland author of The Beach & The Tesseract

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The boxy spiky monkey puzzle tree stands tall & imposing outside the dormitory window of Woodmaston House For Girls a forbidding guardian to the schools young charges. Nancy Cameron is a new arrival not just to Woodmaston but to Engl&. Shes rolled up from the backwoods of Canada eager for a new life brimming with adventure. But boarding school isnt the Famous Five fantasy that Nancy had imagined. It is an austere loveless world where budding relationships are soon put to the test. Nancy wins friends & finds solace by telling stories but spinning stories for others cant hide the fact that Nancy feels horribly alone inside. & when she leads her dorm in a special fund-raising event that goes tragically wrong things go from bad to worse. Nancy longs to meet the glamorous brother of her friend Caroline & as her troubles build its an encounter that cant come soon enough
- until a shocking revelation comes to light...
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In Climbing Everest George Mallory (18 June 1886
- 8/9 June 1924) possibly the first man to summit Everest takes us with him on
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