Product Description: These are deeply felt poems focusing on the author's long experience as a judge. In these poems, James Clarke examines what it means to sit in judgement of other people. He challenges his conscience as he examines his life. These are poems which will resonate with anyone who cares about fairness and truth, and particularly anyone who is somehow involved with the legal profession...read more

Product Description: Reeds Superyacht Manual, published in association with Bluewater Training, is the first and best reference manual for everyone involved with yachts large and small, under sail or power, from deckhands to skippers and owners.There is extensive coverage for leisure and professional yachtsmen, including: - key information for all required courses at all levels from STCW crew basic training through RYA Yachtmaster™ Offshore to MCA Officer of the Watch (Yacht) - comprehensive treatment of safety, sea survival, first aid, fire fighting, navigation, seamanship, meteorology, marine radio, and general ship knowledge - additional section on marine law, including international and flag state requirements - easy guide to the Collision Regulations, as well as their full textWell-illustrated and user-friendly, this is the complete reference for all those involved with private or commercial yachts worldwide...read more

Product Description: Group prayer is a potent power. When multiple individuals bring the might of their thoughts and emotions together, the Law of Attraction may really shine. There are a lot of different ways to view the process of turning our ideas into realities, or experiencing them in the tangible world; but they all involve thinking of what you wish...read more

Product Description: Decent tools can make the difference betweena well done and easy experience and afrustrating and poorly finished job. This isone of the secrets of a good handyman, as matchingthecorrect tools to the job is part of getting thebest results and an overall satisfying experience...read more

Product Description: Motivation is the desire to do things. Do you want self-assurance, motivation and drive to go after your dreams and pave your route to success? Don’t agonize; you’re not unique! You may accomplish all you want in life if you develop limitless degrees of self-motivation by using your very own self-will! You’ll be able to confront all challenges and subdue all concerns without making excuses and putting things off...read more

Product Description: A one-stop handbook to the studio's work, discussing each film in great detailA major icon of cinema and pop culture more widely, Pixar Animation Studios has played a vital part in reminding audiences of animation's capacity as a major artform...read more

Product Description: In many parts of Africa a 'front line' has developed between humans and wild animals. People are stressfully aware of their vulnerability, whether from predators that eat their stock, or from marauders that trash their crops: elephants, hippos, bushpigs, baboons, cane rats, dense sun-blocking swarms of locusts and quelea finches that can wipe out an entire season's crop and leave a community starving...read more

Product Description: Introducing the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in film studies, this guide covers such ideas as authorship and genre, technological impacts and the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema’s emergence as a major art form that reflects and shapes the world...read more

Product Description: While traditional schools and traditional classes still have their place, there is so much that can be improved. Despite the funding available for rebuilding through the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, there are still significant barriers to change...read more

Offers guidance for those who are involved with large yachts, from deck-hands to captains, as well as for leisure boaters and sailors. This manual provides coverage of safety, sea survival, first aid, fire fighting, navigation and radar, seamanship, meteorology, and marine radio.

Product Description: The Atlantic Pilot Atlas provides a complete guide to the weather of the North and South Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Now revised for the fifth edition, it includes weather forecasting, global warming and hurricane avoidance information as well as wind and current charts, wave heights, tropical cyclone tracks and shipping routes...read more

Product Description: Upon its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major pop cultural event. Striking at the zeitgeist sensibility, the film reminded audiences of cinema's power to dramatize our most powerful emotions and dilemmas and of its capacity to transcend the screen and become part of wider cultural debate...read more

Product Description: A stunning collection of tender and insightful poetry, this compendium of heartfelt verse strives to directly understand and cope with suicide. These poems are an earnest approach to surviving the suicide of a loved one and understanding the motives behind taking one’s own life...read more

Product Description: War films have existed since the birth of cinema, typically gung-ho tales of macho derring-do. But war films are not always about bravado and bravery, they also detail the horrors of war, the sadness, the brotherhood of soldiers, and the comedy that can be found in the bleakest of situations, as well as the excitement of the battlefield...read more

Product Description: The Atlantic Pilot Atlas provides a complete guide to the weather of the North and South Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Now revised for the fifth edition, it includes weather forecasting, global warming and hurricane avoidance information as well as wind and current charts, wave heights, tropical cyclone tracks and shipping routes...read more

Product Description: Written by a Justice of the Ontario Court, this follow-up to his successful poetry collection contains further humorous yet painful reflections on the ambiguities of the law.

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. At the pinnacle of his career and entering his fourth decade as a director, Steven Spielberg is firmly established as the world's most popular filmmaker. Celebrated for his mastery of spectacle and fantasy, he has also proved his skill as a craftsman of compelling populist drama. Like the great directors of Hollywood's golden age, Spielberg has the facility to work across a range of subjects and genres, yet he always roots them in personal themes. This guide examines every Spielberg film since Duel and includes a complete overview of the work of this singular director.

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Product Description: Throughout his career Coppola has demonstrated an unerring belief in the power of digital technology to expand the potential of moviemaking and, with "Megalopolis" finally becoming a reality, he has reasserted his position as a Hollywood genius...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout his career Coppola has demonstrated an unerring belief in the power of digital technology to expand the potential of moviemaking and, with "Megalopolis" finally becoming a reality, he has reasserted his position as a Hollywood genius...read more