How do you know what lighting to use to make the most of your interior? Should you use downlighting uplighting spots on the floor or the wall or light the whole space? What light source should you choose where should you put it & how can you control it? With more than 200 ideas for home decorators & interior designers this practical guide shows how lighting can transform your home increase the sense of space provide practical lighting for working areas & bring warmth ambience highlights & drama. The book

Includes:: information on the technical aspects
- lighting sources strength direction angle colour control & so on
- as well as on the design & look of lamp fittings from desk lamps to chandeliers. A room-by-room directory looks at every kind of lighting requirement throughout a typical house
- & the best solutions to use.




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Lighting for Portrait Photography" contains practical wide-reaching advice from one of the industrys most experienced & respected members Steve Bavister. He provides an insightful look at the many considerations involved in the lighting of successful portraits & goes on to show an inspiring set of examples from top photographers. Each portrait is accompanies by easy-to-follow diagrams & invaluable tips on how to achieve comparable results. This revised edition features all new three-dimensional illustrations plus new images from photographers working with digital technology." ...

In Lightning bestselling novelist Danielle Steel tells the story of a woman whose life is changed by one swift unexpected stroke of fate. As a partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband career & the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. Then lightning strikes
- a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Her husband Sam a Wall Street whiz-kid is as proud of his long-time marriage to Alex as he is of his successful career
- until he is caught off guard by Alex's illness. Terrified of losing his wife & family Sam fails to provide any kind of emotional support. Almost overnight Sam takes his distance from Alex & they become strangers. As lightning strikes them yet again Sam's promising career suddenly explodes into disaster & his very life & identity are challenged. With his future hanging in the balance Alex must decide what she feels for Sam if life will ever be the same for them again or if she must move on without him.

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The first time the lightning strikes Laura Shane is born... The second time is strikes the terror starts...though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted & deadly intentions of a drug-crazed robber. Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles & with increasing courage she finds the strength to prevail
- even without the intervention of her strange guardian. But despite her success as a novelist & her happy family life Laura cannot shake the certainty that powerful & malignant forces are controlling her destiny. Then the lightning strikes once more & shatters her world. The adventure
- & the terror
- have only just begun...


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According to a recent international study the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are a ready market for this timely & entertaining book which with over twenty individual stories from former Lightning pilots relates the highs & lows the dramas & the demands of those who operated this iconic aircraft from the sharp end. Tales include the recollections of an aerobatic display pilot an implausible yet true account of telepathic communication & an extraordinary episode when a Lightning pilot on an exchange programme with the French Air Force became embroiled in a mid-air collision. An unverified yet probably genuine world record is revealed in one of the chapters. In addition to the original photographs that accompany the text the renowned aviation artist Chris Stone (himself a former Lightning pilot) has provided a unique sketch as well as copies of some of his paintings. The style scope & pace of the writing in this book will appeal to the general reader as well as to the enthusiast. ...

The English Electric Lightning entered RAF squadron service in 1960 & continued flying in the interceptor role until 1988. It had a stunning world-beating performance with a top speed in excess of Mach 2 & a climb rate that would take it to 40 000 feet in a little over 3 minutes. The aircraft's safety record however left much to be desired. During a period in the early 1970s the attrition rate was the loss of a Lightning every month. There was a six per cent chance of a pilot experiencing an engine fire & a one in four chance that he would not survive. This book looks at Lightning accidents & incidents in chronological order using the official accident reports Board of Enquirey findings & first-hand accounts from pilots. It puts the reader very much 'in the cockpit'. ...

All I want is to be a success. Thats all I ask. Failing salesman Joe has a dream
- or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed
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The O' Neils who have lost brothers & sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over their one remaining young male a boy named Seamus. Hardworking & good-hearted they cling together & help each other & a whole community. Meanwhile Rosh Allen mourns the loss of Phil her dearly-beloved husb&. Aided & impeded by her mother Anna she struggles to raise three fatherless children. With the help of a kind-hearted neighbour her wounds begin to heal & she begins to take the first faltering steps into 'normality'. Tess & Don Compton are on the verge of separation. An apparently greedy & selfish woman Tess wants a semi-detached house & all her own way. But what really lies behind her desire to live on the posh side of the street. Behind the three families two men are at work. One will do serious damage; the other will reunite a clan that goes all the way back to Ireland & to ancestors thrown ashore from the ships of the Spanish Armada. ...

As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship & heartbreak with courage & humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson a widow it means never-ending worry when her twin boys are called up & sent to France; Sheila Reillys husband Cal faces the terror of U-Boat attacks; Eileen Costello is liberated from a bitter loveless marriage when her husband is sent to Egypt & she goes to work in a munitions factory
- & falls in love. & Jessica Fleming down on her luck is forced to return to the street shed hoped never to see again.
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Before World War II has even been officially declared ten-year-old Hazel Morgan & her eight-year-old brother Peter are evacuated leaving London for the safety of the Sussex countryside. With her children gone & her husband John in the army Rene Morgan misses her family terribly. When she learns that John has become a prisoner of war she has to take on the highly dangerous job of firewatcher. Meanwhile Hazel & Peter are desperate to go back home. Returning to the city they are overjoyed to be reunited with their mother & Gran. But their father is still far away & the worst of the war is yet to come. As the air raids increase the Morgans must face the terror of the Blitz together... ...