New Releases by Steve Wright

This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects, demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should be managed from project ideation to completion. Readers will not only learn how things work, their capabilities and limitations, but also the Color Science that goes along with it, in an accessible and informative manner. Starting in the Real World with an understanding of light and our human perception of it, the book then explores how digital cameras "see" the scene and digitize it. From the capture of these images, the Author then explores the fundamental concerns of storage, editing and managing color images, including with OCIO and ACES. Written for the professional Photographer, Cinematographer, visual effects, motion graphics or CG artist, Editor and Colorist, this book will provide you with knowledge of the upstream and downstream technology to your job that will not only give you a competitive advantage and help you to make better images while giving you a real-world working knowledge of Color Science.

Democracy is at risk as trust in our government continues to decline. This book shows how to strategically and systemically advance a high-performance public service culture built on instilling meaning, purpose, and pride. The simple, yet incredibly powerful concept of bolstering organizational culture with inspired public service can be foundational to restoring trust in government, a pillar to reinforcing democracy. Leaders sincerely focused on the power of public service can improve government performance and build grassroots solutions to achieve bipartisan outcomes. Built on real-world experience, Wright provides instructive and entertaining guidance for public sector leaders-and potential leaders-about how to overcome negative societal perceptions, lead with time-honored values and informed decisions, and more broadly, rebuild confidence in government.

Could Steve Wright navigate the uneasy intersection between aggression and empathy without losing himself? The answer to this question determined the course of his NFL career and his life. Steve spent over a decade taping his knuckles and preparing for battle with the Cowboys, Colts, and Raiders. But his journey didn''t begin or end there. In a world where masculinity is a moving target, Aggressively Human exposes a deeply personal quest to become a healthy, well-adjusted man and fully realized human being. Steve''s experiences as a professional athlete, entrepreneur, reality television contestant, and spiritual seeker deliver an entertaining trial-and-error guide. It will take you into spaces no camera can go and bring you out in stitches.

No need to travel halfway round the globe to spot iconic wildlife - it''s right here on our doorstep in the UK and Steve Wright, keen amateur naturalist, travels from the Isle of Man to Norfolk, to the Orkneys and everywhere in-between on his various short holiday expeditions, clutching his specific wildlife wish-list for each trip. The result is an inspiring and engaging diary of his personal encounters with white-tailed eagles, otters, bottlenose dolphins, fulmars, puffins, osprey, sand lizards, even red-necked wallabies. And the characters he meets on the way. He hears snipe drumming, watches a shrew in Wales, admires pilot whales off Lewis. Steve''s wildlife travel diaries give excellent practical tips, such as bird-hide etiquette, how to identify birds on the wing, how to consult local wildlife rangers about what might be spotted on each outing and where to find that species. But most importantly his highly-readable wildlife travels are a call to others to book themselves in to pubs and small hotels the length and breadth of Britain and follow his example, for a series of fun British wildlife safaris.

Christians have been missing out on the richness and hidden mysteries of their Jewish faith through the Messiah. Jew and Gentile must come together to embrace the salvation of Yeshua (Jesus). Take a journey into the Jewish roots of the Bible and learn how it all points to the Messiah.

In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of the Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s, as they sought to organise amongst new subjectivities of mass rebellion.

In November 1981, I teamed up with guitarist''s John Clover & John Potter and bassist Steve Dyson and by April 1982, Huddersfield had a new band, The End. We prided ourselves on playing originally penned songs, but at some venues it was more about cover versions. So we accumulated a large amount in our locker from the 60s to the present day. Before the year was through, we had recorded at Cargo studios in Rochdale and Leader Sound in Greetland laying down ''Standing On The Platform'', ''Time'', ''She''s A Winner'' (all originals) and three covers. In Feb'' 1983, we qualified for the Yorkshire Supergroup comp'' in Wakefield, but by the end (no pun) of May I chose to leave. The story is fattened out with what we all got up to afterwards.

Whenever a camera shoots a scene, the lens adds a variety of effects to the captured image. These effects have to be duplicated and matched by the compositor when merging layers from different camera or CGI sources. Learn step-by-step procedures for replicating and simulating common lens effects-with any VFX software. This course documents nearly a dozen different techniques, including lens distortion, depth of field, soft focus, vignetting, spherical aberration, astigmatism, chromatic aberration, and glows and flares. For each lens effect, its optical cause, appearance, and the math to composite it into your shots are documented in a software-agnostic way. Many are illustrated with CGI animations. Instructor Steve Wright also provides an in-depth explanation of layering order, showing how to combine lens effects in the right order for maximum effectiveness. This course was created by Steve Wright. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

WP5 Testing and evaluation of SocialCar is concerned with the testing and evaluation of the SocialCar system. Within WP5 the SocialCar project undertook three different tests as follows: TEST A (Technical and functional testing of the SocialCar system for the system rollout), TEST B (Site specific simulated modelling to assess potential impacts and feasibility for different levels of uptake/use) and TEST C (On site real experiments based on real life testing at 4 sites). This deliverable D5.4 presents the outcomes from the final phases of Test A (step 3 and Step 4), the estimated impacts from the Test B modelling work, the results and findings from the Test C trial with users, and the process evaluation feedback relating to Test A and Test C. Previous Deliverables related to the testing and evaluation include D5.1, D5.2, D5.3.

Don''t Spend HOURS trying to figure out AMAZON ALEXA! Go from Beginner to EXPERT in 60 minutes Do you want to Buy an Amazon Alexa device and curious to understand how Alexa will add more convenience to your Life ? Have you ordered an Alexa device already and now wondering how to convert this sleek thing into your personal assistant? Maybe you have read a few Amazon Alexa guide books but all you got was stale information wrapped in fluffy jargon loaded words? ***Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Download Now!*** How will this Book help you? This book will take you from beginner to an Alexa EXPERT in less that 60 MINUTES. You will setup your new Alexa Device and start using all your Smart Devices and Applications EFFORTLESSLY. You will learn all the latest ADVANCED HACKS known to Expert Alexa Users only. And most of all, you will SAVE HOURS running errands and you will control your home and work life from a simple voice command "Alexa, .........." How is this Book Different? This book is a detailed in DEPTH guide to maximise your ALEXA experience. It has ACTIONABLE tips, tricks and hacks. It contains specific step-by-step instructions that are well organised and easy to read. After reading this book you will Make Calls, Stream Music and Read Books Control your Home and Kitchen Appliances using Alexa Setup IFTTT recipes for Advanced Hacks Use Alexa Skills to AUTOMATE your errands Connect your Google Calendar and Pandora Account to Alexa Make Amazon Alexa your Smart Personal Assistant! WAKE up to your favourite cup of COFFEE SHOP on Amazon PROGRAM Echo Dot to control your Thermostat, Lights and DOOR LOCKS Get the latest CUSTOMISED Weather, Traffic and News Updates Make and Receive CALLS or Send and Read MESSAGES on Echo UPDATE your CALENDAR, TODO and SHOPPING list Get ALEXA to tell you a JOKE GET the latest SCORES from your FAVOURITE TEAMS Use 500+ PRE-TESTED COMMANDS and Easter Eggs. Don''t hesitate, pick up your copy NOW by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page! ***Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Download Now!*** A Personal Note From the Author I am a hardware enthusiast and love to play with devices. In fact, figuring out all kinds of mechanical and electronic devices and understanding how they work has been a lifelong passion for me. I first started using Amazon Echo in 2014 came across and love the freedom it gives me. I have done a lot of research on Amazon Echo and other Alexa Enabled devices. This Amazon Alexa Advanced User Guide is the 5th in the series of books I have written on Alexa Devices. I hope that this guide helps you in setting up and using your Alexa device quickly and effectively.

Graham Bonnet was born in Skegness in 1947 and had his first hit single with The Marbles in 1968, "Only One Woman" which reached Number 5 in the UK Singles Chart¿.. So runs Graham Bonnet''s wikipedia entry. Of The Skyliners, The Peter Tomlinson Band, The Jimmy Aldred Band, The Jan Ramsden Band, The Missing Links, The Blueset, The Bluesect and The Graham Bonnet Set not a word. This new biography of the much travelled rock singer more than fills the missing gaps. After his work with The Marbles, Bonnet delivered a well-regarded solo album in 1977 which was the spring-board for his rock career, with Ritchie Blackmore''s Rainbow the first to call. After the chart album Down To Earth, Rainbow suddenly found themselves with well-crafted AOR hits in the shape of "Since You Been Gone" and "All Night Long". The band headlined the first Donnington Monsters Of Rock festival in 1980, but Bonnet quit to record a star-studded solo album and top ten single Night Games. Bonnet was then quickly snapped up by ex-UFO guitarist Michael Schenker in the Michael Schenker Group (MSG) for the powerful Assault Attack album. Bonnet''s most consistent rock project came in 1983 when he decided to put his own band together; Alcatrazz became a huge draw on the rock circuit for the next four years, with a number of albums to their name. They became particularly successful in Japan (where Bonnet remains very successful.) Now based in LA, the ever adaptable Bonnet continues to record and tour on a regular basis, with a new album issued just a few months ago. Watching Rainbow live in 1980, no lesser person than Ozzy Osbourne described Graham''s performance as the best by a rock vocalist he had ever witnessed

This book offers an account of the classical theory of quadratic residues and non-residues with the goal of using that theory as a lens through which to view the development of some of the fundamental methods employed in modern elementary, algebraic, and analytic number theory. The first three chapters present some basic facts and the history of quadratic residues and non-residues and discuss various proofs of the Law of Quadratic Reciprosity in depth, with an emphasis on the six proofs that Gauss published. The remaining seven chapters explore some interesting applications of the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, prove some results concerning the distribution and arithmetic structure of quadratic residues and non-residues, provide a detailed proof of Dirichlet’s Class-Number Formula, and discuss the question of whether quadratic residues are randomly distributed. The text is a valuable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as for mathematicians interested in number theory.

Don''t Spend HOURS trying to figure out AMAZON ECHO DOT! Go from Beginner to EXPERT in 60 minutes Do you want to Buy Amazon Echo Dot and curious to understand how this device will add more convenience to your Life ? Have you bought Echo Dot already and now wondering how to convert this cute little Hockey Puck into your personal assistant? Maybe you have read a few Echo Dot guide books but all you got was stale information wrapped in fluffy jargon loaded words? ***Buy the Paperback Copy and Get the Kindle Version FREE - Buy Now!*** How will this Book help you? This book will take you from beginner to an Echo Dot EXPERT in less that 60 MINUTES. You will setup Echo Dot and start using all your Smart Devices and Applications EFFORTLESSLY. You will learn all the latest ADVANCED HACKS known to Expert Echo Dot Users. And most of all, you will SAVE HOURS running errands and you will control your home and work life from a simple voice command "Alexa, .........." How is this Book Different? This book is a detailed in DEPTH guide to maximise your ALEXA experience. It has ACTIONABLE tips, tricks and hacks. It contains specific step-by-step instructions that are well organised and easy to read. After reading this book you will Stream Music and Read Books on Echo Dot Control your Home Appliances using Echo Dot Setup IFTTT recipes for Advanced Hacks Use Alexa Skills to AUTOMATE your errands Connect your Google Calendar and Pandora Account to Echo Dot Make ECHO Dot your Smart Personal Assistant! SHOP on Amazon for DIGITAL and PHYSICAL products WAKE up to your favourite cup of COFFEE PROGRAM Echo to control your Thermostat, Lights and DOOR LOCKS Get the latest CUSTOMISED Weather, Traffic and News Updates OPEN Google Docs and SIGN IN to your SLACK account UPDATE your CALENDAR, TODO and SHOPPING list Get ALEXA to tell you a JOKE GET the latest SCORES from your FAVOURITE TEAMS Use 100+ PRE-TESTED COMMANDS and Easter Eggs. Don''t hesitate, pick up your copy NOW by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page! ***Buy the Paperback Copy and Get the Kindle Version FREE - Buy Now!*** A Personal Note From the Author I am a hardware enthusiast and love to play with devices. In fact, figuring out all kinds of mechanical and electronic devices and understanding how they work has been a lifelong passion for me. Recently I came across this new revolutionary set of voice controlled Alexa Devices and love the freedom it gives me. I have done a lot of research on Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap and this prompted me to put down my learning in the form of a series of books. This Advanced User Guide for the Amazon Echo Dot is the 2nd in the series of books I have written on Alexa Devices. I hope that this guide helps you in setting up and using your Echo Dot.

We live in a broken world. And the gospel is how God puts broken people back together again. Once we repent and believe in Jesus, God’s Spirit helps us recover and pursue His design. God is the one who created the world and every human being in it. Authors Jimmy Scroggins and Steve Wright outline a reproducible method of sharing the gospel that has been tested in the real world. Turning Everyday Conversations Into Gospel Conversations is a simple strategy to train new and seasoned believers to join God in His reconciliation work. Turning Everyday Conversations Into Gospel Conversations equips believers to use the innovative "3 Circles," a user-friendly evangelistic tool for a new generation. Scroggins and Wright train readers to incorporate the biblical metanarrative, as well as our own personal stories, to tell the good news that Jesus has made a way out of the broken places we find ourselves. Churches around the world are training people to share the gospel using this method. It has proven appeal across generations and cultures. They''ve heard stories about an 8-year-old boy leading his 26-year-old cousin to repent and believe in Jesus and a 70-plus-year-old church member, who had never before shared his faith, leading his Spanish-speaking neighbor to Christ. It’s been used to train the Mixtec in Mexico, Maasai Warriors in Kenya, and prisoners in America. It’s been presented on napkins, in concrete, in the sand, and using tortillas. The 3 Circles work, and this book will train you and your church members to use it. It doesn’t matter if you have been a Christian for decades or days, you can learn to do what God asks us to do—to make His appeal to others through us (2 Cor. 5:20). This short training manual will empower and inspire millions of Christians to turn hundreds of millions of everyday conversations into gospel conversations.

Based on the remarkable true story of Taj Rowland. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu''s life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead to dead ends. Meanwhile, they simply love him, change his name to Taj, enroll him in school, make him part of their family -- and his story might have ended there had it not been for the pestering questions in his head: Who am I? Why was I taken? How do I get home? More than a decade later, Taj meets Priya, a girl from southern India with surprising ties to his past. Is she the key to unveil the secrets of his childhood or is it too late? And if he does make it back to India, how will he find his family with so few clues?

Biography of Graham Bonnet, much travelled rock singer. From The Marbles to Rainbow and the Michael Schenker Group to Alcatrazz, this detailed book brings much that even hardened fans will not have heard about.

We all know someone like Ronnie Gitt, moody, cranky, funny, opinionated, and not afraid to say what''s on his mind. The problem with this world is everyone is afraid to have an opinion because it might cause an outcry within the public, but Ronnie doesn''t care, he just says what''s on his mind and let''s the opinions flow. This book contains ten funny short reads that have been rated by our readers with an average of five stars, don''t take our word for it, have a look at these reviews. Yalmact Swillirs: "Hilarious! It''s very honest." - 5 Stars Source: Smashwords David H. Keith: "Love it. This fella Git is a man to be admired, I say. Sort of reminds me of me, y''know?" - 5 Stars Source: Smashwords

Apps have taken the world by storm, and now they''re taking SharePoint as well. The biggest new thing in SharePoint 2013, apps are the solution to creating custom code that runs on not just your own SharePoint deployment, but also on others'' implementations as well. Pro SharePoint 2013 App Development is your must-have guide to developing app solutions that run on the SharePoint 2013 platform. Using step-by-step tutorials, author Steve Wright creates a sample SharePoint app throughout the course of the book, and you can walk with him through the entire lifecycle of a SharePoint app. Get expert guidance and advice on creating an app, provisioning it for use in SharePoint, securing it from unauthorized use and from other applications, integrating your app with SharePoint search and other platform features, and much more. You''ll even discover how to present your app to users on mobile devices like iPads, smartphones, and Microsoft Surface tablets. Apps in SharePoint are here to stay. Don''t miss out - pick up a copy of Pro SharePoint 2013 App Development and get started on your own custom apps today. Introduces the architecture for creating and hosting SharePoint apps. Leads the reader through the creation and deployment of a complete solution. Provides an understanding of the security features in the SharePoint app model. Helps the organization leverage internal data securely over the network. Leverages SharePoint search and other services to create rich SharePoint solutions. Introduces the techniques for delivering data on a multitude of web and mobile platforms.

Presents a comprehensive tutorial on the core SQL Server concepts needed to understand the Sharepoint business intelligence investments offered in the text, which include Visio services, Excel services, business connectivity services, and Power View and PerformancePoint services.

The third edition of Banksy''s Bristol has been fully updated to include Banksy vs Bristol Museum, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Simpsons intro, the Tesco Value Petrol Bomb and more. Includes exclusive pictures of Banksy at work.

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations, and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. Beginning with an inspirational tour of the scope and magnitude of digital compositing, you get a solid overview of the kinds of digital effects routinely executed today. See how CGI is composited with live action, how set extensions are done, and what a match-move shot is. Following that you learn each of the key applications of digital compositing, which include bluescreen compositing, bullet-time shots, motion tracking, and rotoscoping. The subsequent chapters dig down into each of the major digital compositing applications, introducing the fundamental concepts, and processes behind them. Learn what is easy and hard, possible and impossible, and what to expect when working on a job that entails digital compositing. New to this edition are 4 new chapters on: * 3D compositing, with lessons on what camera tracking is, how it is used to put CGI into a live-action plate, as well as live action into a 3D scene. * Stereo compositing, with descriptions of key stereoscopic terms and concepts, lessons on compositing shots that were filmed in stereo (both bluescreen and CGI), as well as the stereo conversion process when a flat 2D movie is converted to a stereo 3D movie * RED and Digital Capture with Log Images, including log image formats. This is a very hot topic these days. Colleges hang around video because it is cheaper. Film is still big in the real world of production. * Tracking an entire project from start to finish This is in addition to robust updates on topics such as: * planar tracking, Z compositing, working with Anamorphic HD formats, mocap, and more This edition also includes a companion website with images from the book for you to work with in your own compositing exercises. An accessible introduction to a complex subject for novice and aspiring compositors, from experienced author and compositing whose compositing credits include Night at the Museum 2, Shutter Island, Solaris, Traffic, and more Full color presentation illustrating the art and techniques of the practice, provides inspiration along with instruction New to this edition is a companion website, new chapters on 3D compositing, stereo compositing, RED and digital capture with log images, and more will have you understanding the latest in compositing technology in no time

This practical, hands-on guide addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis. You are presented with tips, techniques, and solutions for dealing with badly shot elements, color artifacts, mismatched lighting and other commonly-faced compositing obstacles. Practical, in-depth lessons are featured for bluescreen matte extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, as well as color-correction. The book is presented entirely in an application-agnostic manner, allowing you to apply lessons learned to your compositing regardless of the software application you are using. The DVD contains before and after examples as well as exercise files for you to refine your own techniques on. New to the 3rd edition is an entirely new chapter entitled ''CGI Compositing Techniques'', covering how the modern CGI production pipeline is now pushing many tasks that used to be done in the 3D department into the compositing department. All technological changes that have occurred between now and the publication of the 2nd edition are covered, as well as new media on the DVD and corresponding lessons within the book.

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures, illustrations, and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in which digital compositing plays a key role. Beginning with an inspirational tour of the scope and magnitude of digital compositing, you get a solid overview of the kinds of digital effects routinely executed today. See how CGI is composited with live action, how set extensions are done, and what a match-move shot is. Following that you learn each of the key applications of digital compositing, which include bluescreen compositing, bullet-time shots, motion tracking, and rotoscoping. The subsequent chapters dig down into each of the major digital compositing applications, introducing the fundamental concepts, and processes behind them. Learn what is easy and hard, possible and impossible, and what to expect when working on a job that entails digital compositing. New to this edition are 4 new chapters on: * 3D compositing, with lessons on what camera tracking is, how it is used to put CGI into a live-action plate, as well as live action into a 3D scene. * Stereo compositing, with descriptions of key stereoscopic terms and concepts, lessons on compositing shots that were filmed in stereo (both bluescreen and CGI), as well as the stereo conversion process when a flat 2D movie is converted to a stereo 3D movie * RED and Digital Capture with Log Images, including log image formats. This is a very hot topic these days. Colleges hang around video because it is cheaper. Film is still big in the real world of production. * Tracking an entire project from start to finish This is in addition to robust updates on topics such as: * planar tracking, Z compositing, working with Anamorphic HD formats, mocap, and more This edition also includes a companion website with images from the book for you to work with in your own compositing exercises. An accessible introduction to a complex subject for novice and aspiring compositors, from experienced author and compositing whose compositing credits include Night at the Museum 2, Shutter Island, Solaris, Traffic, and more Full color presentation illustrating the art and techniques of the practice, provides inspiration along with instruction New to this edition i ...

Pro SharePoint 2010 Governance is the first book on the market focusing exclusively on the essential guidance necessary for leveraging SharePoint 2010 within your organization''s intranet, extranet or Internet environment for maximum business value. Effective governance allows your organization to promote the adoption of SharePoint’s productivity-enhancing features while maintaining security and control over your organization''s most vital information. Pro SharePoint 2010 Governance presents comprehensive guidance, from the basics of "What is governance?" to the detailed considerations of IT, information and application management. Using the conceptual framework promoted by Microsoft and augmented with detailed discussions, recommendations and checklists, you will have all the information you need to streamline the governance of your SharePoint sites. Teaches the concepts and benefits of SharePoint site governance. Discusses advanced features and techniques for implementing governance in your organization. Provides detailed recommendations, templates and checklists for jump-starting your governance effort.