Most Popular Books by Christopher Grey

A handy practical guide to growing and caring for these beautiful and hardy plants, with ideas for constructing rock gardens and planting alpines in troughs and pots, and a full photographic directory of best cultivars to try.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Making Up Accountants: The organizational and professional socialization of trainee chartered accountants explores the training and socialization of trainee accountants in two Big Six firms in the UK.

Stem cell research is one of the most promising and cutting-edge fields in the medical sciences. It is believed that this innovative research will lead to lifesaving treatments in the coming years. As part of their work, stem cell researchers must first determine which of their stem cell colonies are of sufficiently high quality to be suitable for experimental studies and therapeutic treatments. Since colony texture is a major discriminating feature in determining quality, we introduce a non-invasive, semi-automated texture- based stem cell colony classification methodology to aid researchers in colony quality control. We first consider the general problem of textural image segmentation. In a new approach to this problem, we characterize image texture by the subband energies of the image''s wavelet decomposition, and we employ a non-parametric support vector machine to perform the classification that yields the segmentation. We also adapt a parametric wavelet-based classifier that utilizes the Kullback-Leibler distance. We apply both methods to a set of benchmark textural images, report low segmentation error rates and comment on the applicability of and tradeoffs between the non-parametric and parametric segmentation methods. We then apply the two classifiers to the segmentation of stem cell colony images into regions of varying quality. This provides stem cell researchers with a rich set of descriptive graphical representations of their colonies to aid in quality control. From these graphical representations, we extract colony-wise textural features to which we add colony-wise border features. Taken together, these features characterize overall colony quality. Using these features as inputs to a multiclass support vector machine, we successfully categorize full stem cell colonies into several quality categories. This methodology provides stem cell researchers with a novel, non-invasive quantitative quality control tool.

Informações práticas sobre o cultivo de plantas anuais e bienais - Planear e manter canteiros; Jardins de casas de campo e arranjos de canteiros formais; Ideias para vasos; Planear em função da cor e do perfume; Semear dentro de casa e ao ar livre, e mais.

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