New Releases by Neil Philip

The smartphone movie-making revolution is here! With the right knowledge and minimal equipment, everyone now has the power to make great films with their smartphone. Whether you''re an aspiring filmmaker, vlogger, journalist, educator, charity worker, student, business professional, or an individual with a passion for making films, you''ll find the information in this book to be an invaluable resource. You too can make great movies with the smartphone you already own and produce award-winning films for minimal cost. This book includes 28 chapters filled with expert knowledge on various topics, such as the best equipment for your budget, choosing the right camera and editing apps, lighting, sound, camera techniques, technical advice on smartphone movie-making, guides to the best video camera and editing apps, reviews on the top smartphone movie-making equipment, digital video concepts, detailed information on composition, lighting, sound recording, video editing, going live, and posting videos to the web. Additionally, the book covers how to transfer smartphone videos to a computer, filming for broadcast television and cinema, the best social media platforms for video, and budget smartphone filmmaking kits. With this comprehensive guide, you''ll have all the tools and knowledge necessary to unleash your creativity and produce professional-quality films using your smartphone.

The iPhone movie-making revolution is here! With the right knowledge and minimal equipment, everyone now has the power to make great films with their iPhone. Whether you''re an aspiring filmmaker, vlogger, journalist, educator, charity worker, student, business professional, or an individual with a passion for making films, you''ll find the information in this book to be an invaluable resource. You too can make great movies with the iPhone you already own and produce award-winning films for minimal cost. This book includes 27 chapters filled with expert knowledge on various topics, such as the best equipment for your budget, choosing the right camera and editing apps, lighting, sound, and camera techniques, technical advice on iPhone movie-making, guides to the best video camera and editing apps, reviews on the top iPhone movie-making equipment, digital video concepts, detailed information on composition, lighting, sound recording, video editing, going live, and posting videos to the web. Additionally, the book covers how to transfer iPhone videos to a computer, filming for broadcast television and cinema, the best social media platforms for video, and budget iPhone filmmaking kits. With this comprehensive guide, you''ll have all the tools and knowledge necessary to unleash your creativity and produce professional-quality films using your iPhone.

The iPad movie-making revolution is here! With the right knowledge and minimal equipment, everyone now has the power to make great films with their iPad. Whether you''re an aspiring filmmaker, vlogger, journalist, educator, charity worker, student, business professional, or an individual with a passion for making films, you''ll find the information in this book to be an invaluable resource. You too can make great movies with the iPad you already own and produce award-winning films for minimal cost. This book includes 26 chapters filled with expert knowledge on various topics, such as the best equipment for your budget, choosing the right camera and editing apps, lighting, sound, and camera techniques, technical advice on iPad movie-making, guides to the best video camera and editing apps, reviews on the top iPad movie-making equipment, digital video concepts, detailed information on composition, lighting, sound recording, video editing, going live, and posting videos to the web. Additionally, the book covers how to transfer iPad videos to a computer, filming for broadcast television and cinema, the best social media platforms for video, and budget iPad filmmaking kits. With this comprehensive guide, you''ll have all the tools and knowledge necessary to unleash your creativity and produce professional-quality films using your iPad.

This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit Tot” and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms’ “Little Snow White” – as well as bedtime frighteners, including “Captain Murderer”, as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale’s journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.

A festive collection of classic seasonal folktales and fairy stories, retold by a renowned folklorist, and beautifully illlustrated with intricate paintings by Isabelle Brent.

The Smartphone Filmmaking HandbookRevealing the secrets of Smartphone movie makingThe Smartphone movie making revolution is here! With the right knowledge and minimal equipment everyone now has the power to make great films with their Smartphone. If you are an aspiring filmmaker, vlogger, journalist, educator, charity worker, student, business professional or individual with a passion to make films with your Smartphone, you will find the information in this book an invaluable resource. You too could be making great movies with the Smartphone you already own and producing award-winning films for minimal cost. Includes 30 chapters with expert knowledge on: The best equipment for your budgetWhich camera and editing apps to chooseLighting, sound and camera techniquesTechnical advice on Smartphone movie makingGuides to all the best video camera and editing appsReviews on the best Smartphone movie making equipmentDigital video concepts The key differences between iPhone, Android and Windows Smartphones for movie making Detailed knowledge on composition, lighting, sound recording, video editing, going live and posting video to the webHow to transfer Smartphone video to a computer Filming for broadcast television and cinema The best social media platforms for videoBudget Smartphone filmmaking kits

Rajahs, brahmins and tigers abound in evocative stories, retold with context notes and vibrant illustrations.

Vivid traditional tales, simply retold and with context notes, gorgeously illustrated in hand-stitched folk-art style.

Explore the Norse myths in exciting retellings, with context notes, evoked in bold, eloquent illustrations.

Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, the great myths are the templates for all our stories, with their eternal themes of creation and destruction, fate and cunning, heroism and cruelty, sensuality and war. Retold here are nearly 200 myths--from Prometheus defying Zeus to create man, to the destruction of Troy; from the reign of the sun god Ra in Egypt to the one-eyed, raven-flanked Odin of the icy North; and from valiant battles against Frost Giants and Cyclopes, to the heroic quests for the Golden Fleece and the Holy Grail--all accompanied by commentaries on their origins, common themes, and meanings. Compellingly written, concise, and with each myth illustrated with an iconic image, Myths in Minutes is the perfect way to understand and enjoy the world''s great fables.

DK Eyewitness Books: Mythology is an intriguing and captivating introduction to the culturally diverse world of mythology. Stunning photographs of masks, jewelry, and sculptures offer a unique eyewitness view of mythology and its gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters. See Quetzalcoatl''s spectacular headdress, Native American love dolls, a fire-breathing dragon, African trickster Eshu, the one-eyed Cyclops, and much, much more in DK Eyewitness Books: Mythology!

Integrates works of art and artifacts with text while examining fifty of the most popular myths and legends from cultures and civilizations around the world.

Presents a collection of the world''s most popular myths divided into such categories as creation, fertility and cultivation, gods and people, and visions of the end, and accompanied by historical information.

This case study examined the spread of ideas in a Gr. 5/6 classroom in which the teacher was attempting to foster a knowledge building community. The goal of the research was to explore the relationship between the social network of the classroom (in terms of face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions), the teacher''s role, and the spread of ideas. Further, the thesis examined how social network tools may help teachers better understand the pedagogical implications of Scardamalia and Bereiter''s (1991) Teacher A, B, C models. Analyses of videotaped lessons revealed the teacher used a complex mix of traditional instructional methods and knowledge building strategies while trying to shift the locus of control of learning to students. Critical teacher-driven processes included the class-wide adoption of knowledge building vocabulary and practices, and efforts to foster higher levels of student-student discourse. Analyses of online interactions provided strong evidence of highly interconnected student-student online networks, with the note reading network being especially dense. Longitudinal studies revealed these network established themselves early in the unit, and persisted during the course of the inquiry. There was evidence that idea improvement was present in addition to idea spread. In face-to-face classroom communication, the teacher''s role was more central, particularly in "Knowledge Building Talk" sessions. However, here too, the teacher made efforts to shift the locus of control. Overall the analyses suggest that social network tools are potentially useful for helping teachers make the difficult transition from "Teacher A" and "Teacher B" strategies, in which the locus of control is with the teacher, to "Teacher C" strategies, in which strategic cognitive processes are turned over to students. This dissertation proposes that movement toward Teacher C practices may be illustrated, in part, by a shift in classroom network topologies from that of a star-shaped network, centered on the teacher, to a highly interconnected student-student network. Finally, the thesis recounts a number of ways in which the use of social network tools uncovered discourse patterns of which the teacher was unaware, including gender differences in reading, building-on, and contribution patterns.

Fables are short tales with a moral, often featuring animal characters. Aesop''s fables from Ancient Greece are the best-known, and Jean de la Fontaine elegantly reworked their themes to the taste of 17th century France. Oral storytellers have kept the fable alive all over the world.Aesops'' fables include: Sour Grapes, The Lion''s Share, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, King Log, The Dog in the Manger and The Wind and the Sun.The fables of La Fontaine include: The Cicada and the Ant, The Frog Who Wanted to be as Big as the Ox, The Fox and the Stork, The Lion and the Goat and The Rat and the Elephant.This enchanting collection of best-loved fables is illustrated with work by many of the great names of the golden age of illustration, including Walter Crane, Charles H. Bennett, Charles Robinson, Richard Heighway, Frederick Burr Opper, J M Conde and others.

This beautifully presented book offers a stimulating approach to the timeless, universal stories that are central to every culture. More than 50 compelling myths and legends from around the world are explained through stunning works of art and ancient artefacts, each supported by informative text and comprehensive annotation. Presented country by country, the book offers a fascinating guide to the amazing characters of world mythology and to the cultures that created them. The fantastic world of fables and sagas this book discusses will delight enthusiasts and general readers alike.

An attitude control system for the BRITE and CanX-4&5 nanosatellites is developed. BRITE and CanX-4&5 are research satellites based on the Space Flight Laboratory''s Generic Nanosatellite Bus, devoted to the study of star brightness and formation flying, respectively. Novel low-cost testing procedures are developed and used to characterize satellite sensor and actuator performance. The algorithm governing the pointing of CanX-4&5 is enhanced based on preliminary simulation results. A linear-time invariant controller architecture, applicable to both BRITE and CanX-4&5, is designed based on simulation of several competing controllers. Testing information is combined with control laws and controller to simulate the attitude performance of the satellites throughout their missions.

Originally told to explain the mysteries of the world—such as creation, divine will, fertility, death, and love—myths are a major part of many cultures throughout the world, and each area has its own myths. Organized by geographic region, each myth is placed within the civilization’s history and context. The key elements of world mythology, such as the hero, his divine connection, the labyrinth, the initiation, and the transformation,are explored in boxes and features throughout the book. Philip Wilkinson has more than 50 titles to his credit in the fields of mythology, history, and the arts, including DK’s Illustrated Dictionaries of Mythology and Religions. Neil Philip is the author of many books on folklore and mythology, including The Illustrated Book of Myths and Myths and Legends Explained. Synopses of the great myths that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present Covers mythology around the globe, from the classic Greek to lesser known Malaysian Catalogs of gods by subject enable comparisons of distant civilizations

Explores the long history of the Native American tribes of North America, discussing their culture, their struggles against white immigrants, and the recent resurgence of their customs. American history with a difference, this is a lively and authoritative history of the Native American nations, from pre-Columbian times to the reclaiming of traditions that is taking place today. Neil Philip explores Native American ideas about land and society, religion, science, and history, and shows how the differences between these and the ideas of the whites resulted in the sad catalog of misunderstandings and betrayals in treaty talks and settlements. It is also a tale of resilience and renewal, including a positive assessment of Native American cultures as they enter the new millennium. Spoken and written accounts by Native Americans are drawn on extensively, and the volume will be illustrated with archival photographs.

Presents a full-color illustrated history of ancient mythology from Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other parts of the world and includes creation and flood stories, worship of the sun and stars, gods and goddesses, and more.

Collects seven legends and parables of Yiddish and Slavic folktale tradition created in the early nineteenth century by a Ukrainian Hasidic rabbi.