Jim Miotke écrit avec une profonde compréhension des thèmes de l'amour, de la famille et de la croissance spirituelle. Son style est captivant et accessible, permettant aux lecteurs de se connecter profondément à son message. À travers ses œuvres, il offre une perspective unique sur la recherche de sens et d'épanouissement dans la vie quotidienne. Son écriture reflète sa conviction quant au pouvoir de la pensée positive et des principes spirituels pratiques.
Suitable for amateur photo enthusiasts of various levels who want to learn design and composition techniques for stronger, more compelling photographs, this title shows them how classic design and composition principles can be applied to a range of photographic situations to create images with impact.
The guide demystifies digital photography for all camera types, from simple point-and-shoots to DSLRs. It breaks down complex terminology, icons, and software, transforming them into accessible tools for capturing stunning images. With clear explanations and practical tips, readers can confidently navigate the world of photography and enhance their skills.
Provides instructions on ways to create beautiful photographs of children and infants in a variety of styles and settings, covering such topics as lighting, composition of photographs, evoking expression and emotion, equipment and lenses, and posing.
The Absolute Beginner's series from Prima was created to provide you with a fun and friendly approach to mastering the basics of your newest hobby or interest -- from the very first step to the last. If you can press a button, then you can take great pictures. With a few simple tips and guidelines, as well as answers to your most common picture-taking questions, The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Taking Great Photos will show you how. Book jacket.
Women confuse, frustrate, and excite Kirk. His sexy stepmother tries seducing him. His childhood sweetheart cheats with his bully boss. In disgust, he runs to a new life. A life where he is the seducer. No woman will claim his heart again.Sex, his tormenter, is now his weapon. His singer stage presence brings a regular shower of room keys and lingerie. Kirk holds the record for bedroom calisthenics, but sometimes worries that he cant remember their names or faces.His surrogate father agent fails his virility test with a fatal heart attack. That tilts Kirks world. His new agent is the mysterious, beautiful Adriana. She seduces him. He cant tear away from her gravitational pull. This goddess comes with a past she reveals one thrill at a time.Three killers from California hunt them. They flee to Wisconsin from Las Vegas a day before Kirks lawyer is brutally murdered. Kirks stepmother has seduced an attack gorilla that will charge at her command. Will she make the killers an ally? Kirk meets a gun-happy local deputy, and a man who just beat his enemy to death for insulting his sister. Theyre done running. Kirk unpacks his Glock 17.
Riley quit his boring accountant job for a showbiz job for a traveling circus. He was a dung picker-upper. He convinced two marijuana-growing crash dummies that the dung would make a faster, sweeter plant. To his amazement, it worked, and they followed the circus around to buy more dung. Riley's life became complex when he seduced Veronica, the bearded lady. Even more complicated when he falls in love with Maria, the shotgun-toting circus owner's daughter.
Jim Dancer is a rarity, a successful freelance writer. His comfortable life is cursed with a raging libido, and yet he is surrounded by beautiful, desirable women. He stumbles into a confrontation with three men who are eager to kill again. He turns from a Filipina man-eater who happily takes his blood to a gorgeous Greek girl who tips his personal planet. Suddenly he is surrounded by hot and cold running Greeks. The big man he turns to for advice is the most dangerous of all.
Jeff Stankys career is dead. Hes tossed out of his office by Gunny, an ex-Marine security guard. His wife Sheila, loves Atlanta, but Jeff cant stay. After his Boston interview, Sheila is gone with their life savings, and her lover. Black-balled in his field, he gives away his house, and points his BMW toward Key West. He is car-jacked in Valdosta, Georgia, robbed, and beaten into temporary amnesia. Escaping the care of a gay Valdosta doctor, he does manual labor, until his memory returns. He continues south to Orlando. He meets Joshua, a zealot hauling an eight-foot wooden cross to Elviss grave. Taking Joshuas trailer-park handyman job, he romances the parks divorcee owner. Later, he rescues an elderly Greek woman from a mugger. Hes adopted by the Mafia-type Greek family. Although fearing her three brothers, he falls in love with the virginal daughter. Sheila returns with a new lover to hunt down Jeff for more cash. Gunny learns that Jeff killed his brother. He attacks, and rapes Sheila. She plans revenge on Gunny, and hunts down Jeff. Gunny follows, feeling Jeff must die. Blood will flow. Jeff would run, but learns he is soon to be a father.
Karl Gunther's accident and long coma left him with a periodic sudden loss of one of his senses or motor skills, accompanied by burst of super-powered ESP. He escaped from treatment by the beautiful doctor, Elena Straphos, who he's beginning to love. Now he feels doomed to a life of menial jobs as a homeless vagrant. The Atlanta police are hunting a serial killer who has been dubbed "Stinky" because he douses his female victims with Bay Rum. Stinky becomes obsessed with Elena. Karl has been struck blind on his night run and slides down into a roadside ditch to wait his sight's return. Stinky has just killed again and discards the body in the same roadside ditch. The bloody corpse rolls onto the blind Karl, who leaves his fingerprints in pushing the body away. The police immediately suspect Karl but can't locate him. Karl returns to Elena for help. Stinky attacks a policewoman guarding Elena and Karl is also wounded defending her. Now Stinky has two potential witnesses in Elena's hospital. He decides he has only one option. Kill them all!
For years "The Hunter" has been stalking and assaulting beautiful young women. His hunting is easier with access to the university's computer system that reveals photographs, and addresses of female students. Each attack is more brutal than the last. The black policewoman on his trail is desperate and haunted by her own past memories of a similar attack. Student Jill Denton becomes his next victim while night-running on the campus trail. He marks her psyche with terror-filled nightmares and a burning desire for vengeance. Her thoughts are confused by the presence of the mysterious karate instructor who seems to worship her.