Best Selling Books by Steve Wright

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.

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.

Parents, you have the greatest privilege of your lives in front of you every day: raising your children. Pointing your children to Christ, modeling the Gospel, and talking about God''s grace shouldn''t be a burden. It is a privilege. ApParent Privilege provides biblical understanding and the latest research to encourage you in the unparalleled opportunity you have to be the primary disciplers of your children.

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.

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.

Is student ministry accomplishing what we think it is? Roughly two-thirds of students leave the church after graduation. Baptisms are down, and student pastors are walking away from ministry at startling rates. It''s time to rethink student ministry. This book pairs the most up-to-date research available with an overview of a biblical framework for ministry. It will arm you with facts, Scripture, and real ideas that will help you find new ways to invite parents back into the equation and help you escape the busy, bigger-and-better, number-driven model of student ministry.

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.

Aimed at both those who are on the point of taking up falconry as well as those who already have hawks, this guide examines all aspects of the sport and is packed with practical advice and information. The author''s enthusiasm for his subject is infectious and the text is written in a clear, accessible style. His realistic approach to falconry is demonstrated by his assertion that we should "not let people over-complicate the theory" and that we should "stick to common sense and consistency."

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 ...

Join Steve Wright, a 20 year visual effects veteran and visual effects master trainer, for a comprehensive course on Mocha 2.6, the awesome roto program with a tightly integrated planar tracker. Planar tracker is not only used as a "roto assist" to speed up the roto process but the tracking data can be exported to a wide variety of programs such as Nuke, After Effects, Combustion and many more for corner pinning, stabilizing, and match move. Beyond teaching Mocha, this course includes tips and techniques for creating feature film quality rotos.

The Advanced course covers Nuke''s powerful 3D compositing world. After learning how to navigate the 3D user interface you will learn how to combine and composite 3D elements with 2D images. Classic 3D operations are covered such as texture mapping, lighting, and creating shaders. From there you will learn how animate and deform 3D geometry as well as how to import 3D geometry from external packages such as Maya. Finally, there are four examples of classic 3D production setups such as camera projection and pan-n-tile shots.

This is a family story about the quest for happiness ... And about sex, greed, gluttony and revenge. Meet the Rileys: DERMOTT: is obsessed with developing and marketing his contraceptive device, The Clip. Comparisons with Pasteur would be appropriate, Dermott thinks, for the importance of his invention. He is dedicated, single-minded, possessed of very large testicles ... and obsessive, stubborn, self-seeking and paranoid. EDITH: from the moment she was born Edith was unpopular, and things don''t seem likely to change - until she joins the mysterious TW2 cult. JUDITH: Judith never really got over the divorce; but she''s never really got over having Maude Acacia for a mother, either. But there are consolations: lunches, parties, and the heady social whirl. FIONA: for Fiona happiness is a physical thing - a very physical thing. And when it nearly kills her husband, she moves beyond the family. YOUNG JOSEPH: As far as Young Joseph can see his family is the one thing that stands between him and a life of eternal bliss. MARY: already has everything she ever wanted: a loving husband, a baby on the way ... So when a television documentary crew offer to make a film about her family, she can see no reason to refuse -- until it becomes clear that it is turning into another Sylvania Waters. MAUDE ACACIA: grandmother of the clan, who feels it''s about time everyone sat up and took notice. Every year the Rileys gather around Granny Maude for Christmas at ''Little Mornington'', the family mansion. But this year is different. This year Granny gives them an ultimatum: they have one year to achieve happiness, or they''re out of the will. In the classic tradition of COLD COMFORT FARM and P.G. Wodehouse comes a hilarious tale of family life, feuding, and the meaning of happiness ... ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steve Wright is a novelist and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for LILIAN''S STORY (adapted from Kate Grenville''s novel), and has published three private eye novels. Steve lives in Sydney with his wife and two boys. SELLING POINTS: ** Great fun. ** Family relationships are endlessly fascinating and here is a particularly eccentric family ** Classic comedy In the tradition of Wodehouse, Cold Comfort Farm -- but with an Australian twist.