New Releases by Christopher Grey

This long-awaited field guide covers more than 2000 of the region's exceptionally diverse andimportant plant-life, from the most common species to local endemics. Illustrated throughout withcolour photographs, each species profile includes nomenclature, description, dimensions, habitat,flowering times and distribution.With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage sorted by habitat, this is the essential guide for students,professional botanists, scientists, gardeners and plant-enthusiasts alike.

When priests from the Temple of the Night Sun called for the most heroic adventurers in the land to help them with their dragon problem, they maybe expected a bit more than Shea, Shirtless, Tooth, Tinaris, and Ruby. But like it or not, this crew of foul-mouthed, incompetent, and surly murder hoboes go on a dragon hunt, racing a much more capable group of adventurers through undead wastes, treacherous forests, and the dreaded Mountains of Confrontation.Will the "heroes" find out what is behind the treachery in the Mountains of Confrontation? Will they stop bickering long enough to fight the big bad? Will they stop dropping f-bombs every third word?Read to find out.Goddamn F*cking Dragons: A Novel About Terrible Heroes is a tribute to the world's greatest roleplaying game, featuring fantasy heroes that behave like they do at our tables.This book was made possible by the amazing backers at Kickstarter, who funded it in August 2019.

Would you have the courage to find the answer to the question you fear the most? Dark forces are at work in the city of Bologna. A Black Magician, dead for two centuries, threatens to be resurrected. Rebellion is being stirred up by faceless conspirators. Amid this turmoil, the mysterious death of his father compels a young man, Orlando Novi, to set aside his fears and put himself in the greatest danger of all to discover the truth. A new fantasy thriller set in the Italian Renaissance by the award-winning author of Leonardo's Shadow, Christopher Grey.

The City of Sands module starts where the Domes of Ishaq-Zahur leaves off, sending the heroes from the peril of the desert tombs to the streets of the sandy metropolis, Archensheen. This 126-page adventure supports both the Pathfinder RPG system, and will take a party of 7th level characters to 9th level over 10 to 12 sessions of play.

Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force. Secrecy is a part of work, and keeping secrets is a form of work. But also, secrecy creates a social order—a hidden architecture within our organizations. Drawing on previously overlooked texts, as well as well-known classics, Jana Costas and Christopher Grey identify three forms of secrecy: formal secrecy, as we see in the case of trade and state secrets based on law and regulation; informal secrecy based on networks and trust; and public or open secrecy, where what is known goes undiscussed. Animated with evocative examples from scholarship, current events, and works of fiction, this framework presents a bold reimagining of organizational life.

The Children's Author Playbook is an in-depth exploration of creating high-quality and marketable children's book from Pre-K all the way to High School. The techniques discussed in this book deliver a no-nonsense approach to transforming inspiration into a product that publishers, parents and kids will want. Beginning with an exploration of the readers the author wants to attract and then exploring the best way to craft a story, including setting, plot and character, the book also dives into the different types of children's books ranging from picture books to Young Adult fiction. With detail on the publishing industry and marketplace included, authors will have all the information they need to create, publish and market the perfect children's book.

A completely revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive study of the genus Cyclamen ever undertaken, this book covers species both in the wild and in cultivation, along with analyses of the many culrtivars. The book is beautifully illustrated with 200 colour photographs as well as line drawings and maps showing the distribution of the various species in the wild. A chapter is specially devoted to the very important florists' cyclamen, Cyclamen persicum, as well as detailed notes on cultivation and propagation. Cyclamen have become ever more popular as garden plants, and the number of nurseries specializing in them has increased. However, in its natural habitat, the Mediterranean region and western Asia, the 22 known species of Cyclamen are increasingly under threat from development of various sorts. As a result conservation is a major issue in the study of the genus. Cyclamen is an ideal genus for the specialist gardener, having sufficient species to make a collection worthwhile and enough variety to sustain interest throughout the year. There is great diversity in the form and colour of the flowers as well as in the shapes and patterns of the leaves. Some are hardy enough to grow unprotected in the garden, while others make excellent plants for sheltered areas and conservatories, with one or more species in flower at almost every time of the year. This book is the best available source of information for gardeners and horticulturists, and is also invaluable to botanists and taxonomists. Using a minimum of botanical jargon, it tells all those with an interest in the subject everything that they may need or want to know about this fascinating genus.

In the fall of 1947, Will Shakespeare saw the world collapse around him. Shakespeare, a secret soldier for the Knights Templar, barely escapes the slaughter of his entire knighthood at the hands of a rogue militant arm of the Vatican in a small Montreal church. With orders to escort Templar business associate Dorothy Wilkinson back to her home in Bermuda, Will must locate and rescue the most important secret treasure in human history before it is devoured by a hurricane in the watery caves beneath her father's property. The spiraling quest sends Will and Dorothy into uncovering dark secrets that make up the origins of the knighthood as they confront the traps and puzzles that masterfully protect the world's most coveted treasure.

Light, vibrant and malleable, is the greatest tool at the disposal of portrait photographers. In this acclaimed book—with over 50,000 copies in print—Christopher Grey walks you through studio portrait lighting from start to finish. Dozens of image sequences and before/after pairings show you precisely how each change of light position and modifier affects the look of the lighting on the subject. From classic portrait lighting patterns to unexpected but powerful looks, Grey teaches you everything you need to know to control light effectively. Armed with these powerful skills, you’ll be able to create portraits that are more flattering, more marketable, and more creative.

There is no doubt that Meconopsis is one of the most distinctive and beautiful members of the poppy family, Papaveraceae. Distributed across the Sino-Himalaya region from Pakistan to India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet and western China, many of the species have a great deal of horticultural as well as botanical appeal, and yet there is no single major work on this plant group. The first monograph of the genus Meconopsis was written in 1934 by George Taylor, later Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop, easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera, and everything beyond. Inside, you'll find detailed explanations of every control and every feature, including full-color illustrations showing how changing each setting will affect your photos. But this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera; it's the detailed, easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take superior photographs. The lens, the subject matter, the light-all these variables are covered in depth, and always in the context of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D. Written by a widely acclaimed photographer and teacher, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. .Get up and running in five minutes with the quick start guide .Master your camera's many features and controls .Profit from dozens of tips and tricks .See first-hand how different settings affect your photos .Refine and manage your photos using the Canon software .Be inspired by hundreds of gorgeous, full color photographs, and learn how to get the same effects in your own shots

Want to offer your clients more to chose from? Here's how: award winning photographer, Christopher Grey, has developed techniques to enhance portrait photography, using the creative applications available in Photoshop. Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers contains detailed explanations of how to replicate many darkroom techniques with Photoshop (Dodging, Burning, Vignettes, etc.) as well as camera and earlier technology techniques (Short Focus, High Speed Film Grain, Hand Coloring, etc.). Grey has also developed almost two dozen ways to replicate traditional painterly and illustrative techniques such as Rough Charcoal Sketch, Wet Watercolor, Silkscreen, and Oil Chalk. Images available for downloading at http://www.ChristopherGrey.com/booksamples.

How was Bletchley Park made as an organization? How was signals intelligence constructed as a field? What was Bletchley Park's culture and how was its work co-ordinated? Bletchley Park was not just the home of geniuses such as Alan Turing, it was also the workplace of thousands of other people, mostly women, and their organization was a key component in the cracking of Enigma. Challenging many popular perceptions, this book examines the hitherto unexamined complexities of how 10,000 people were brought together in complete secrecy during World War II to work on ciphers. Unlike most organizational studies, this book decodes, rather than encodes, the processes of organization and examines the structures, cultures and the work itself of Bletchley Park using archive and oral history sources. Organization theorists, intelligence historians and general readers alike will find in this book a challenge to their preconceptions of both Bletchley Park and organizational analysis.

500 espèces de l’Europe tempérée.Une fiche par page comprenant :Une description de l’espèceDes photographies détourées (une vue générale et des détails), commentées, pour permettre une identification rapide et préciseDes informations complémentaires sur la distribution, l’habitat, etc.Avec plus de 5 millions d’exemplaires vendus, les guides de la collection l’Œil Nature sont des références, largement reconnus pour la richesse et la fiabilité scientifique des informations.

Renowned photographer and author Christopher Grey continues his highly successful series of lighting books by exploring the major components of designing beautiful portraits: posing, composition and cropping. Grey leads the reader seamlessly through the process, beginning from assessing a client's needs and objectives to the final finishing touches of a perfect portrait. Chapters focus on all aspects of posing, composition and cropping and with these techniques, the reader will be able to efficiently and effectively present their subjects in flattering ways.

As photography grew as an art form, so did the technology that backed it up. In particular, lighting styles changed to reflect both the advancing technology and the changing social mores of each decade. As fashion and society changed, so did photography. Moving from the 1910s to the 1960s, Christopher Grey walks readers step-by-step through several shoots designed to emulate the lighting styles of each period, providing practical guidance as well as a history of portrait photography.

China's rich flora is unrivalled in temperate latitudes of the world, with 30,000 species of plants. This exceptional pictorial flora to Western China describes and illustrates over 2,400 plants.

Milan, 1497. The height of the Renaissance. And for Giacomo, servant of the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, it's the most difficult time of all. His Master has been working on the Last Supper, his greatest painting ever, for nearly two years. But has he finished it? He's barely started! The all-powerful Duke of Milan is demanding that it be completed by the time the Pope visits at Easter. And Giacomo knows that if Leonardo doesn't pick up his pace, the Duke may invite a young genius -- Michelangelo -- to finish the painting instead. Which means that Leonardo won't be paid, which means that Milan's shopkeepers (to whom he owes massive amounts) will take drastic measures against him. It's all down to Giacomo, and whether he can come up with a brilliant solution. And if he does, will his Master go for it? After all, Leonardo still doesn't seem to trust him. He refuses to teach Giacomo how to paint; he won't help him find his parents; nor will he discuss the significance of the medallion, ring, and cross that Giacomo was carrying when Leonardo found him. But with the secret arrival of a powerful stranger, Giacomo is about to discover much more than the answers he has been looking for. And he will also receive an invitation to help arrange a meeting that could change his life. . . and the future course of history. With more twists and turns than a spiral staircase, this thriller is as unique as its two heroes -- the most celebrated artist who ever lived, and a young man without a past, who will stop at nothing to find the truth about his life.

Chris Grey takes readers beyond the basics of lighting and shows them the tricks professionals use to create more visually complex effects. Some of these tricks are complex strategies that rely on a sophisticated understanding of the physics of light, but more are simply inventive solutions that make it surprisingly easy to produce a very sophisticated result. Each chapter teaches one basic technique, explains the concept, demonstrates the set-up step-by-step and reveals the final results. Will appeal to both active professionals and students.

"Tricks of the trade for professional digital photographers"--Cover.

Shows how to use rock garden plants in a variety of garden situations, including mixed borders, window boxes, raised beds, and patio pots.