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Digital Masters Travel
Photography: Documenting the World’s People and Places
By Bob Krist
P899
Want to advance to the next level of travel photography? Here’s how to shoot digital images like a pro. Part of the fun of traveling is documenting your trip in photographs. But do your digital images capture the thrill of actually being there? Acclaimed travel photographer and Nikon “Legend Behind the Lens” Bob Krist will help ensure that they do. He’ll show you how to choose the right camera and take advantage of all its technical capabilities, give you professional advice on finding interesting subjects and creating eye-catching compositions, and outline the best ways to use your computer and printer to share your pictures with the world. In addition, this user-friendly guide is illustrated with many dramatic travel photos — the types of shots you could be taking on your next trip.
Devil May Care
By Sebastian Faulks as Ian Fleming
P335
Bond is back. With a vengeance. Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy — an electrifying new chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of literature and film, written to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth on May 28, 1908. Sebastian Faulks takes Bond back to the height of the Cold War in a story of almost unbearable pace and tension. Devil May Care not only captures the very essence of Fleming’s original novels but also shows Bond facing dangers with a powerful relevance to our own times.
Wine at Your Fingertips
By Jennifer D. Frank
P715
Make it a very good year for your wine cellar. Unless you are a wine “expert” with years of tasting experience, the dozens of varieties, the globalization of vineyards, and the wide range of prices can make a trip to the wine shop daunting. Now, sommelier and seasoned wine expert Jennifer D. Frank distills the mysteries and pleasures of wine for every kind of wine lover from novice to connoisseur.
Who Killed Change?
By Ken Blanchard
P929
Everyday organizations around the world launch change initiatives — often big, expensive ones — designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization’s resources, energy and morale. That’s what you’ll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who’s investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters.
Jump Start: A Technopreneurship Fable
By Dennis Posadas
P639
Find out how to raise funds for your venture, how to sell your product, how to treat your workers and even what your attitude should be towards your business. Why let yourself be stuck on the middling ground when you can take a confident leap to become a technopreneur? Jump Start can show you how.
Medusa
By Clive Cussler
P1,175
In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, US government-sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers — including Zavala — left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments… an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization… a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to save— it’s the lives of millions. Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Medusa is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.
