Product Description: China, long dormant in the world of design and residential architecture, has recently burst onto the world stage. Like everything else in China today, contemporary Chinese design combines elegant and deep-seated traditions with the exploratory ideas of a younger generation of designers...read more

Product Description: Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought...read more

Product Description: Without money, terrorists cannot function as organizations and cannot conduct attacks. Yet the questions remain, how vulnerable are terrorists to financial disruptions? Can governments put pressure on their finances in meaningful ways or are they too resilient and adaptive to be affected by state actions? These and other questions about terrorism financing are vigorously debated by scholars and policymakers, particularly since the attacks of September 11th 2001...read more

Product Description: Michael Freeman's popular Pro-Photographer's DSLR Handbook is now retitled and fully updated for the digital age! Freeman simply, clearly, and effectively lays out the concepts behind digital image-making, including all the technical and artistic fundamentals that turn good photos into great ones...read more

Product Description: In bright light, it is far easier for a photographer to take a beautiful photograph with their DSLR.  When the sun starts to go down or perhaps they are shooting indoors, a whole new skill set is needed.  This new addition to the successful Field Guide Series will help photographers shoot what potentially could be the most lovely image without the help of the sun...read more

For minor league baseball player Jake O'Brien, baseball is as much a refuge from the implications of a tragic past as it is a chosen profession. Fate has teased the athlete with success in an obscure venue but denied him entry to the grand stage of the major leagues. That changes in 1957 when the Cleveland Indians call the 37-year-old outfielder up from the Pacific Coast League franchise to provide offensive punch in their pennant race with the Yankees. After a hesitant start, O'Brien achieves heroic stature on the diamond. However, the roller coaster ride he and his teammates endure during their run to the season-ending playoff game and the anxieties incited by his tempestuous romance with the beautiful divorcee Helen Simopoulos convince him that he will never be happy until he confronts the issues invoked by events he would like to forget. The novel is a celebration of baseball as national mythology, the history of a passionate love affair, and the coming of age story of a heroic figure struggling to find his identity as a human being.

Product Description: A source of fascination to the West, China's renowned art objects and traditional manufactured products have long been sought by collectors. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items that are typical of Chinese culture and together present a window onto the people, the history and the society of the world's largest nation...read more

Product Description: In The Photographer's Eye, Michael Freeman showed what a photographer needs to do in the instant before the shutter is released. In the sequel, The Photographer's Mind, he explained the way that professional photographers think a picture through before taking it...read more

Product Description: Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought...read more

Product Description: Things Thai presents over 60 different items from Thailand, each a collectible with cultural relevance or a story to tell. Each object represents an aspect of Thai life, from devotional objects to examples of the country's strong crafts tradition to pieces of clothing or jewelry...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive visual documentation of the Tea Horse Road that takes the audience on a journey from the birthplace of the tea plant along the oldest trade route of tea in the world. It is also one of the oldest and highest trade routes...read more

Product Description: The book starts with an inspiring introduction followed by a history from the first cameras to the digital future. The technical side is taken up with separate chapters on Light, Composition and the Camera before the main section of the book, The Journey, examines different areas of travel photography from Mountains and Deserts to Cityscapes and Festivals, with a close-up look at some personal experiences of contributors as well as special features ranging from Underwater Photography to Extreme Destinations...read more

Product Description: The most comprehensive book on digital photography is now completely updated and in its fifth edition! Best-selling author Michael Freeman covers every significant aspect of digital photography in detail, from essential image-making hardware and software to advanced shooting techniques and travel tips...read more

Product Description: No one knows better than world-renowned travel photographer Michael Freeman how important it is to achieve great exposure in each and every image. In this handy field guide that you can tuck in your pocket and take along on your next photo adventure, he shares his secrets for getting a good exposure every single time - tips that are just as relevant for the hobbyist and home shooters as they are for someone with expertise ability...read more

Product Description: With the advent of bigger and better cameras at increasingly reasonable prices, more and more amateurs are upgrading their equipment to fancy DSLRs. Without the proper knowledge of how to work those cameras, though, the resulting images won't be much better than what you'd get from the average point-and-shoot...read more

Product Description: The source of any photograph is not the camera or even the scene viewed through the viewfinder--it is the mind of the photographer: this is where an image is created before it is committed to a memory card or film. In The Photographer's Mind, the follow-up to the international bestseller, The Photographer's Eye, photographer and author Michael Freeman unravels the mystery behind the creation of a photograph...read more

Product Description: The source of any photograph is not the camera or even the scene viewed through the viewfinder--it is the mind of the photographer: this is where an image is created before it is committed to a memory card or film. In The Photographer's Mind, the follow-up to the international bestseller, The Photographer's Eye, photographer and author Michael Freeman unravels the mystery behind the creation of a photograph...read more

Product Description: The global exchange of design and taste is at its most fertile between Asia and the West. Leading Asian designers and architects have reprocessed international ideas and functionality into the idiom of Asian cultures, from India to China, Japan to Southeast Asia...read more

Amazon.com Review: Selected Images from the Michael Freeman Digital Photography Reference System Just fitting the frame: two Sudanese boys using simple but effective guinea-worm filters. A slightly weird portrait: one of hundreds of cosplay enthusiasts gathered in Tokyo, dressed as their favorite anime characters...read more

Product Description: This volume collects together Michael Freeman's work on the family and society, and the part law plays in defining, structuring and controlling it. He questions the role of family law and its interface with family values, as well as the rights and best interests of children...read more

Product Description: With a number of public health panics emerging in the past few years, most recently the panic over 'swine flu' in 2009, the publication of this two volume collection is extremely timely. These two volumes cover the complete range of issues relating to the ethics of public health...read more

Product Description: Michael Freeman—our top digital photography author and a worldwide name—presents the most comprehensive book yet on black-and-white digital photography. Oversized, beautifully illustrated, and far-reaching in scope, this guide is destined to be a standard reference for years to come...read more

Product Description: Whether on a weekend city break or a month-long trekking vacation, this handy litle guide will be your indispensable companion. Taking photos that really capture the essence of your time away is a real skill, and swamped with a multitude of choices, it can be hard to organise your time and focus on the shots that really matter...read more

Product Description: Are you a photographer looking to either print and sell your photographs, or print your photos for your own creative expression? The Art of Printing Photos on Your Epson Printer is a comprehensive guide to the techniques of fine-art photographic printing and the first book to focus on both the technical and creative aspects together...read more