Be inspired to take the underwater photographs you have always dreamed of using a compact camera. Book of the Year Diver Magazine Designed to help the beginner & the more advanced digital compact camera users Underwater Photography for Compact Camera Users promises to inspire both snorkelers & divers to achieve fabulous underwater photographs. Crammed with fantastic tips & photographs to illustrate the techniques it delivers the expert advice without confusing the beginner or patronising the advanced user. Included in Underwater Photography for Compact Camera Users: * Choosing & caring for your camera underwater * Understanding the settings on your camera * Using accessories * Underwater composition * Lighting your subject underwater * Natural light photography * Downloading & sorting your images *A special guest gallery to inspire & show you how to capture the photographs you have always dreamed of ...

This book is a global sensation! Its full of breathtakingly beautiful underwater photographs of unknown animals & life forms from the ocean & its coral reefs. The variety of forms & vivid colours of these marine creatures is unbelievable & overwhelming. It is a book for everyone who hasnt yet forgotten how to feel astonishment for people who are interested in & inspired by nature animals & the ocean or by colours shapes & design. ...

We know what happens to the body when we die but what happens to the soul? The answer may remain a great unknown but the question has shaped centuries of tradition folklore & religious belief. In this vivid history of the macabre Carl Watkins goes in search of the ancient customs local characters & compelling tales that illuminate how people over the years have come to terms with our ultimate fate. He discovers what a small Norfolk church has to tell us about the apocalypse; why the greatest minds of the seventeenth century were embroiled in debate over the phantom Drummer of Tedworth; & how a nineteenth-century Welsh Druid completely changed the national view of cremation. The result is an enthralling journey into Britain's past from medieval hauntings on the Yorkshire moors & eccentric memorials on the Cornish coast to seances in Victorian kitchens & gallows tales from a Bristol gaol. Impeccably researched & elegantly told The Undiscovered Country ventures beyond the veil to bring the dead back to life. ...

Even while rambling in the most rugged & remote parts of Wales one is liable to stumble upon some mysterious link with the past
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This title is an impassioned controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history
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Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal but she's learning to live with it. Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online.. .and he kills himself. Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. & she wants to take them down. A searing story of love revenge & betrayal from a bestselling author. ...

Undone by her Tender Touch Pippa should have known better. She knew that Cameron had built a fortress around his feelings. Yet here she was pregnant after an evening of passion with the enigmatic entrepreneur. He would surely offer her a financial arrangement. But given his tragic past would he ever want more? More Than Perfect When billionaire Lucius inherits his best friends child he needs a wife. Preferably one who fulfils his every need... So he checks out the Pretorius Programme since it had found him the perfect assistant... However Angie Colter makes a few tweaks to the programme so suddenly she is the perfect wife! But what if Lucius finds out the truth? ...

Its the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses ghosts good & bad patrol the streets & librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once & for all quickly ensues. Only Teo the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby can go between the linings to subvert evil & restore order. ...

Recently widowed attorney Paul Madriani is struggling to hold on to what is left of his family when he & his young daughter are caught up in yet another family tragedy. Pauls sister-in-law Laurel Vega is involved in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband Jack who wants to take their children to Washington DC. When her case disintegrates Jacks new wife is found dead in the family home. Laurel is arrested & charged with murder. Madriani takes on her defence but the evidence against Laurel is daunting & her own failure to cooperate
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The Special Operations Executive was one of the most secretive organizations of the Second World War its activities cloaked in mystery & intrigue. The fate therefore of many of its agents was not revealed to the general public other than the bare details carved with pride upon the headstones & memorials of those courageous individuals. Then in 2003 the first batch of SOE personal files was released by the National Archive. Over the course of the following years more & more files were made available. Now at last it is possible to tell the stories of all those agents that died in action. These are stories of bravery & betrayal incompetence & misfortune of brutal torture & ultimately death. Some died when their parachutes failed to open others swallowed their cyanide capsules rather than fall into the hands of the Gestapo many died in combat with the enemy most though were executed by hanging by shooting & even by lethal injection. The bodies of many of the lost agents were never found destroyed in the crematoria of such places as Buckenwald Mauthausen & Natzweiler others were buried where they fell. All of them should be remembered as having undertaken missions behind enemy lines in the knowledge that they might never return. ...