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Spawn: The Dark Ages Complete Collection reprints the journey of Lord Covenant, a 12th Century knight killed in a holy crusade far from his homeland, who returns to Earth as a HellSpawn. As a plague of violence and turmoil blankets the English countryside, the Dark Knight must choose whether to align himself with the innocent inhabitants of the once-thriving kingdom, or with the malevolent forces of evil and corruption. Featuring behind-the-scenes bonus art and a cover gallery, Spawn: The Dark Ages Complete Collection is the first time the series will be collected in a hardcover, oversized format. Reprints issues #1-28.

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small, off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones, Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of how to get the most out of these powerful tools in this indispensable guide, packed full of inspirational images and comprehensive diagrams of the lighting set ups used to capture them.

They are significantly more advanced, lighter and considerably cheaper than a standard flashgun, and have many advantages. They are small (and cheap) enough that a number can be carried in your kit, and they can be used in combination, triggered wirelessly. They use through-the-lens (TTL) metering, which allows you to use the in-camera LCD and histograms to calculate the required power/direction, rather than havng to use a light meter or trial and error. They use proprietary, dedicated technology (from Canon and Nikon) that means there are no compatability issues.

Getting the most out of them, however, remains a mystery - most photographers still just use their speedlights in the same way as a standard flash gun. This is where this book comes in.

Key Features

*Expand your creative potential by mastering your external flashgun

*Full of Professional, Inspirational images with full lighting diagrams to show you how they were taken

*Covers all of the best-selling Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world.

In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere rather than merely 'out there,' Jones links together seemingly disparate cultural events—the essential features of popular social media, the rise of motion-control gaming and mobile platforms, the controversy over the 'gamification' of everyday life, the spatial turn, fabrication and 3D printing, and electronic publishing—and argues that cultural responses to changes in technology provide an essential context for understanding the emergence of the digital humanities as a new field of study in this millennium.

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world.

In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere rather than merely 'out there,' Jones links together seemingly disparate cultural events—the essential features of popular social media, the rise of motion-control gaming and mobile platforms, the controversy over the 'gamification' of everyday life, the spatial turn, fabrication and 3D printing, and electronic publishing—and argues that cultural responses to changes in technology provide an essential context for understanding the emergence of the digital humanities as a new field of study in this millennium.

Over the past three years an elusive gang of bushwhackers has terrorized the San Juan range, killing twenty-six men, women, and children.

Sheriff Jeb Moses of Eleanor, Colorado is determined to bring these bushwhackers to justice. A reformed outlaw, Moses believes this is his chance to make amends for past sins.

But when the young son of Joshua Brand, Eleanor's most powerful man, is murdered, Brand hires the famous Pinkerton bounty hunter Paul Kirk to find the bushwhackers. This doesn't sit well with Moses. Neither does discovering that Brand and Kirk were once best friends, until some dark secret from the Civil War created bad blood between them. Could there be enough bad blood to drive a dangerous man like Kirk to murder?

We have found the most experienced guides in the business and asked them how they hunt for brown bears and grizzlies. These guides have been on hundreds of hunts and have seen all kinds of hunters, rifles, and calibers for their particular quarry, and they pass on their experience and knowledge to the reader in this extremely interesting book. If you want a brown or grizzly bear, you are well advised to listen to what they say. Combined, these guides have over three hundred years of accumulated guiding experience!

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Winning a sale doesn’t happen by accident. It requires thoughtful preparation and flawless execution. Because no two sales opportunities are exactly the same, a seller must develop a sales strategy for each opportunity that’s as unique as the opportunity itself.

Premeditated Selling provides a scalable five-step process and tools for developing the right strategy for each opportunity. The authors also explore strategic elements that exist in every major sales opportunity and use case studies to show best (and worst) practices in action. The end result is a book that gives readers a solid foundation for developing effective opportunity strategies.

Covering the financial topics all nurse managers need to know and use, this book explains how financial management fits into the healthcare organization. Topics include accounting principles, cost analysis, planning and control management of the organization's financial resources, and the use of management tools. In addition to current issues, this edition also addresses future directions in financial management.

• Nursing-focused content thoroughly describes health care finance and accounting from the nurse manager's point of view.
• Numerous worksheets and tables including healthcare spreadsheets, budgets, and calculations illustrate numerous financial and accounting methods.
• Chapter opener features include learning objectives and an overview of chapter content to help you organize and summarize your notes.
• Key concepts definitions found at the end of each chapter help summarize your understanding of chapter content.
• Suggested Readings found at the end of each chapter give additional reading and research opportunities.

• NEW! Major revision of chapter 2 (The Health Care Environment), with additions on healthcare reform, initiatives to stop paying for hospital or provider errors, hospice payment, and funding for nursing education; plus updates of health care expenditure and pay for performance; provide a strong start to this new edition.
• NEW! Major revision of chapter 5 (Quality, Costs, and Financing), with updates to quality-financing, Magnet organizations, and access to care, provides the most up-to-date information possible.
• NEW! Reorganization and expansion of content in chapter 15 (Performance Budgeting) with updated examples better illustrates how performance budgeting could be used in a pay-for-performance environment.
• NEW! Major revision of the variance analysis discussion in chapter 16 (Controlling Operating Results) offers a different approach for computation of variances that is easier to understand.
• NEW! Addition of comparative effectiveness research to chapter 18 (Benchmarking, Productivity, and Cost Benefit and Cost Effectiveness Analysis) covers a recently developed approach informs health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness of different treatment options.
• NEW! Addition of nursing intensity weights, another approach for costing nursing services, to chapter 9 (Determining Health Care Costs and Prices), lets you make decisions about what method works best for you.

Examines Darwin's lesser known works, showing how they provided the basis for other areas of modern biology, including soil science and comparative psychology.

The Focus workshop presents an engaging and inspirational learning experience and will change your life in ways you never thought possible. With this audiobook, you will begin a process and journey to a new way of thinking about personal and professional focus and accomplishment. You'll learn how to identify—and focus—on the tasks and priorities that matter most so that you can deliver maximum results every day. You'll learn to turn the things you have to do into the things you want to do. Dr. Covey and master facilitator Steve Jones introduce you to the FranklinCovey workshop that has already helped 10 million people become more productive.

This book draws on scholarship that in theoretical and practical terms focuses on the centrality of communicaton as a scholarly pursuit, as an intellectual enterprise and as a pervasive element of everyday life. The authors of the chapters herein examine the history and present contours of the field, bringing new insight and clarity tinto the role communication plays in academia and scholarship. The work represented in this text serves as a thought-provoking guide to the past, present and future of the field of communication

Selling ASAP combines both timely and timeless components of selling to help professionals achieve their sales objectives in today's fast-paced business world. As the authors demonstrate, rapidly changing customer expectations have led to a dramatic shift in the business of selling. Customers no longer want product experts -- they want trusted advisors. This invaluable guide stresses the importance of viewing a sale not as a one-time encounter but as an opportunity to build a long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationship.

Utilizing sound academic research and solid business practices, the authors provide strategies for better anticipating client needs and prescribing solutions that build value over time. The professional edition of Selling ASAP includes numerous practical tips, such as how to behave during a sales call, what language to use or avoid, and how to complete a transaction and begin a profitable business relationship. In addition to covering the fundamentals, Selling ASAP offers innovative sales techniques -- backed by extensive research -- for the modern salesperson.

The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development, signaled a turn away from fully immersive, time-consuming MMORPGs or forty-hour FPS games and back toward family fun in the living room. Players using the wireless motion-sensitive controller (the Wii Remote, or 'Wiimote') play with their whole bodies, waving, swinging, swaying. The mimetic interface shifts attention from what's on the screen to what's happening in physical space. This book describes the Wii's impact in technological, social, and cultural terms, examining the Wii as a system of interrelated hardware and software that was consciously designed to promote social play in physical space. Each chapter of Codename Revolution focuses on a major component of the Wii as a platform: the console itself, designed to be low-powered and nimble; the iconic Wii Remote; Wii Fit Plus, and its controller, the Wii Balance Board; the Wii Channels interface and Nintendo's distribution system; and the Wii as a social platform that not only affords multiplayer options but also encourages social interaction in shared physical space. Finally, the authors connect the Wii's revolution in mimetic interface gaming--which eventually led to the release of Sony's Move and Microsoft's Kinect--to some of the economic and technological conditions that influence the possibility of making something new in this arena of computing and culture.

Cal McDonald, the pill-popping, alcoholic anti-hero of the hit Criminal Macabre series is back! Teamed with his undead partner Mo'Lock, Cal protects the sin-infested streets of Los Angeles against a growing horde of zombies, vampires, and occultists!

Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated thirteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine remains a classic, world-leading introductory text in the field of forensic medicine.

It presents all that the generalist or student needs to know about the interface between medicine and the law, including: forensic toxicology, forensic science, forensic odontology, forensic anthropology and both the legal obligations and ethical responsibilities of those involved in the forensic setting.

*Clear, concise and comprehensive text, illustrated with colour photographs of the highest quality help you find key information at a glance

* It concentrates on key principles and is relevant to you whatever your legal system or country of origin

* New authors bring you a fresh, modern and a totally up to date perspective
* Now there is full and expanded coverage of forensic toxicology and forensic science as well as many important subspecialties of forensic medicine

Simpson's has a long and respected history, having been read by many of today's leading forensic practitioners at the start of the career. It remains the most indispensable guide to the practice of forensic medicine worldwide.

Make your brand a blockbuster with strategies perfected by the superstars of rock 'n roll

Brand Like a Rock Star takes you beyond the hype to reveal the core marketing strategies behind the success of the world's greatest bands.

Author Steve Jones has earned his street cred as a savvy marketer in an outrageous business. He combines insider stories from AC/DC, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Kiss, and many other legendary bands with sound business advice, to deliver a rockin' guide to building a breakthrough brand. Brand Like a Rock Star puts a new spin on the branding process.

From merchandising, to establishing a resonant core message, to developing an iconic logo, Steve Jones illustrates abstract concepts with actionable practices. How is Led Zeppelin like Nintendo's Wii? How does U2 resemble Proctor & Gamble? What do Johnny Cash and Old Spice have in common? The answers may have a profound impact on your business.

Marketers in any business will pump their fists and boost their bottom line with Brand Like a Rock Star.

In recent years, a new wave of scholarship has argued that democracies have unique advantages that enable them to compete vigorously in international politics. Challenging long-held beliefs--some of which go back to Thucydides' account of the clash between democratic Athens and authoritarian Sparta--that democracy is a liability in the harsh world of international affairs, many scholars now claim that democracies win most of their wars. [This research suggests that democracies emerge victorious because they prudently choose to fight wars that they can win, and because they can marshal more resources, make better decisions, and muster public support for their military campaigns.] Critics counter that democracy itself makes little difference in war and that other factors, such as overall power, determine whether a country tastes victory or defeat. In some cases, such as the Vietnam War, democracy may even have contributed to defeat.The book includes crucial contributions to the debate over democracy and military victory, presenting important theoretical, conceptual, and empirical arguments.

Walking down the dirt, cobblestone, or paved streets of downtown Cincinnati in the past, there is no telling whom a person would meet. Someone might rub elbows with future presidents, such as Hayes, Taft, or that visiting lawyer from Illinois--Lincoln; dine with Generals Wayne, Grant, or Sherman; have tea with Harriet Beecher Stowe; or share a mug of Hauck beer with Frank Duveneck, Stephen Foster, or that poet-warrior William Lytle. A person lingering in the opulent hotels may meet visiting artists such as Junius Booth, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Henry Irving, and his manager, Bram Stoker; hear a speech by abolitionist Salmon P. Chase or flirt with the pretty Confederate spy Lottie Moon. Once the furthest expansion of the western frontier, every street and corner of downtown Cincinnati has been tread by the famous and infamous. Historic Downtown Cincinnati is the story of America, of businessmen like the brothers-in-law Procter and Gamble, of visionaries like McGuffy, and powerful political bosses like George Cox.

This is a reference not a textbook, but there is enough introductory matter that graduate students and researchers new to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) statistical methods can become acquainted with the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. The first half looks at the foundations, methodology, and algorithms; the second half samples practical applications in a number of fields. Among the topics are reversible jump MCMC, MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics, estimating with confidence, spatial point processes, an MCMC-based analysis of a multilevel model for functional magnetic resonance imaging data, statistical ecology, educational research, fisheries science, and analyzing rural-urban migration in Thailand. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

It took an epic journey to get back to where he started from...

Arriving at his Uncle's house, David Balfour expects a warm welcome, a hearty meal and friendly conversation.
Instead he is jailed, kidnapped, lost at sea, falsely accused of murder and finds himself on the run with a smuggler called Alan Breck.

All that David wants is to return to his Uncle's home and exact revenge, but the path that leads him there will be fraught with terror and danger.

Join David as he fights to survive on a desert island, and journeys through the wild Highlands of Scotland encountering notorious outlaws and other strange characters.

Written by the author of Treasure Island (also published by Campfire), Kidnapped has enchanted readers since its first publication in 1886. Based on a true story, Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless adventure classic is now available to readers of all ages.

This second of two skull-crushing, re-mastered volumes collects - for the first time - the conclusion of the macabre Vertigo crime series by noted creators Steven T. Seagle and Kelley Jones! Collects The Crusades #10-20, plus exclusive, never-before-published extras including art, interviews, and behind-the-scenes material.