Bryan Peterson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

Creative Action and Low-Light Photography Beyond 1/125 Second

The first book in the Understanding Photography series, Understanding Exposure, was a runaway best-seller, with more than 250,000 copies sold. Now author Bryan Peterson brings his signature style to another important photography topic: shutter speed. With clear, jargon-free explanations of terms and techniques, plus compelling “before-and-after” photos that pair a mediocre image (created using the wrong shutter speed) with a great image (created using the right shutter speed), this is the definitive practical guide to mastering an often-confusing subject. Topics include freezing and implying motion, panning, zooming, exposure, Bogen Super Clamps, and rendering motion effects with Photoshop, all with helpful guidance for both digital and film formats. Great for beginners and serious amateurs, Understanding Shutter Speed is the definitive handy guide to mastering shutter speed for superb results.

Understanding Shutter Speed

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Creative People Photography

Great portraits go beyond a mere record of a face. They reveal one of the millions of intimate human moments that make up a life. In Beyond Portraiture, renowned photographer Bryan Peterson shows how to spot those “ah-ha!” moments and capture them forever. A teary child...old people laughing together...a smiling girl with big, big hair. Everyone remember pictures like these, usually taken by a mother, a father, a friend holding a camera, forever preserving small yet revealing vignettes of our personal histories. But we always relied on pure luck and chance to catch those moments. Peterson’s approach explains what makes a photo memorable, how to spot the universal themes that everyone can identify with, and how to use lighting, setting, and exposure to reveal the wonder and the joy of everyday moments. Beyond Portraiture makes it easy to create indelible memories with light and shadow.

Beyond Portraiture

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Creative Close Encounters with or Without a Macro Lens

In his sixth book, renowned photographer, popular instructor, and best-selling author Bryan Peterson challenges and inspires us to see close-up photography in new ways when we view it through his eyes. You’ve seen the dewdrops, but what about dewdrops on a bird’s wing or raindrops on a car windshield? You’ve seen the bumblebees on vibrant flowers, but what about the fluid edge of just one petal or the colorful rusting metal at industrial sites? Even when Peterson does capture the more traditional subjects, it's done in untraditional ways–and often with minimal specialized equipment! Most important, he moves beyond the commonplace to inspire new ways of getting close, using your lenses, and discovering unconventional subjects.

Understanding Close-Up Photography

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Techniques for Getting Great Pictures

Using his popular bad image/good image pairings of real-life examples, Bryan Peterson takes the reader through all the techniques needed to succeed with digital photography in every popular genre: nature, people, sports, interiors, travel, low-light conditions, travel, weather, commercial portraits, macro, and wildlife—even how to use creative tricks such as reflections. As a bonus, Peterson explains, in straightforward text, the techniques of Photoshop as well as the basics of publishing, printing, and archiving and storing for personal or professional use. Full of great examples for beginners and serious photographers,Understanding Digital Photographymakes it easy to create great digital pictures every time.

Understanding Digital Photography

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Bryan F. Peterson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera

More than 100 vivid, graphic comparison pictures illustrate every point in this classic and can help any photographer maximize the creative impact of his or her exposure decisions. Peterson stresses the importance of metering the subject for a starting exposure and then explains how to use various exposure meters and different kinds of lighting. The book contains lessons on each element of the triangle and how it relates to the other two in terms of depth of field, freezing and blurring action, and shooting in low light or at night. A section on special techniques explores such options as deliberate under-and over-exposures, how to produce double exposures, bracketing, shooting the moon, and the use of filters. Understanding Exposure demonstrates that there are always creative choices about how to expose a picture - and that the decision is up to the photographer, not the camera.

Understanding Exposure

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Design, Color and Composition in Photography

"Almost everyone can see in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice. Learning to See Creatively helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light. ow totally rewritten, revised, and expanded, this best-selling guide takes a radical approach to creativity. It explains how it is not some gift only for the chosen few but actually a skill that can be learned and applied. Using inventive photos from his own stunning portfolio, author and veteran photographer Bryan Peterson deconstructs creativity for photographers. He details the basic techniques that went into not only taking a particular photo, but also provides insights on how to improve upon it - helping readers avoid the visual pitfalls and technical dead ends that can lead to dull, uninventive photographs. his revised edition features the latest information on digital photography and digital imaging software, as well as an all-new section on color as a design element. Learning to See Creatively is the definitive reference for any photographers looking for a fresh perspective on their work."

Learning to See Creatively

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Terry Cortés-Vega

Practical Meditations, Mantras, and Rituals for Balance and Harmony

Learn to heal your heart and soul through Buddhism

Discover a greater sense of peace, strength, and happiness through the healing possibilities of Buddhism. Filled with straightforward guidance and simple explanations of Buddhist beliefs and concepts, Buddhism for Healing teaches you accessible and effective ways to heal from stress, anxiety, and deeper feelings of loss.

Beginning with fundamental Buddhism traditions and progressing to step-by-step meditations, rituals, mantras, and prayers, this beginner-friendly guide provides you with everything you need to start healing. Whether you're easing stress through easy yoga poses or achieving calm in the moment with mindfulness, you will find ways to achieve a greater sense of peace and serenity no matter what challenges you face now or in the future.

Buddhism for Healing features:

 * Healing meditations--Learn how meditation can help you better understand yourself and foster a healing mindset as you come to know your vulnerabilities and your strengths.
 * Beginner-friend guidance--Whether you're familiar with Buddhism or just curious, you'll discover explanations and ways to encourage healing that are easy-to-understand and implement.
 * A focused approach--Explore chapters dedicated to helping address specific concerns, like healing from grief, becoming more contented, and fostering compassion for yourself and others.

A true feeling of peace is achievable--let Buddhism for Healing show you the way.

Buddhism for Healing

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Jo Schaalman

Julie Pelaez

Lose Weight, Heal Your Body, and Transform Your Life in 14 Days

Outlines a dramatic two-week cleansing program for weight loss and healing based on whole foods and conscious eating, providing shopping lists, recipes and post-cleanse lifestyle recommendations while citing improvements reported by the authors' clients. Original. 10,000 first printing.

The Conscious Cleanse

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Mandy Aftel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Secret Life of Scent

Winner of the 2016 Perfumed Plume Award The “Alice Waters of American natural perfume” (indieperfume.com) and author of the Art of Flavor celebrates our most potent sense, through five rock stars of the fragrant world Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the world and creating artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative power of scent. In Fragrant, through five major players in the epic of aroma, she explores the profound connection between our sense of smell and the appetites that move us, give us pleasure, make us fully alive. Cinnamon, queen of the Spice Route, touches our hunger for the unknown, the exotic, the luxurious. Mint, homegrown the world over, speaks to our affinity for the familiar, the native, the authentic. Frankincense, an ancient incense ingredient, taps into our longing for transcendence, while ambergris embodies our unquenchable curiosity. And exquisite jasmine exemplifies our yearning for beauty, both evanescent and enduring. In addition to providing a riveting initiation into the history, natural history, and philosophy of scent, Fragrant imparts the essentials of scent literacy and includes recipes for easy-to-make fragrances and edible, drinkable, and useful concoctions that reveal the imaginative possibilities of creating with—and reveling in—aroma. Vintage line drawings make for a volume that will be a treasured gift as well as a great read.

Fragrant

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Donna Eden

David Feinstein

Christiane Northrup

Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health and Vitality

"Even the most hard-nosed doctor will admit that some people have a healing presence that makes us--and our immune systems--better than before. Donna Eden is one of those rare healers." --Gloria Steinem Energy Medicine for Women was awarded the prestigious 2009 Nautilus Gold Award in the Health, Healing & Energy Medicine category. A women’s guide to using energy medicine to promote and maintain optimal physical and mental well-being. For more than three decades, Donna Eden has been teaching people to understand the body as an energy system, to recognize their aches and pains as signals of energy imbalance, and to reclaim their natural healing capabilities. In this long-awaited new book, Eden speaks directly to women, showing them how they can work with energy to tackle the specific health challenges they face. Hormonal health is essential to a woman’s well-being, and in this groundbreaking book Eden reveals that a woman can manage her hormones by managing her energies. In fact, energy medicine is effective in treating a host of health issues. From PMS to menopause, from high blood pressure to depression, it offers solutions to women’s health issues that traditional medicine often fails to provide. In Energy Medicine for Women, Eden shows women how they can work with energy to strengthen their immune, circulatory, lymphatic, and respiratory systems to promote health, vitality, and inner peace. Blending a compassionate voice with a profound grasp of how the female body functions as an energy system, Eden presents what is sure to become a classic book on the subject of women’s health.

Energy Medicine for Women

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Balancing Your Body's Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality Updated and Expanded

In this updated and expanded edition of her alternative-health classic, Eden shows readers how they can understand their body's energy systems to promote healing.

Energy Medicine

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Cyndi Dale

Activate the Transformative Power of Your Energy Centers

Cyndi Dale's New Chakra Healingestablished a new standard for healers, intuitives, and energy workers worldwide. It expanded the seven-chakra system to thirty-two, including twenty spiritual points serving as catalysts for dynamic change. This comprehensive expanded edition of her classic guide, with more than 150 pages of new information, features an abundance of original material and illustrations:

 * A new introduction with true stories from Cyndi Dale's healing practice
 * Illustrations of the energetic nature of diseases, so they can be better understood and addressed
 * Detailed descriptions of energetic bodies and fields found nowhere else, such as the energy egg, zones of existence, a three-part kundalini system, and dozens of others

A wealth of information on healing the earth as you heal yourself

The Complete Book of Chakra Healingwill help you integrate the powerful forces of your energy body into your everyday life for better health, increased happiness and creativity, and a stronger awareness of your life's true purpose.

The Complete Book of Chakra Healing

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Michelle Tea

Connecting with Your Higher Self Through the Wisdom of the Cards

Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves.

 

Long before Michelle Tea was winning awards for her poignant memoirs, she was a scrappy misfit on the streets of San Francisco, supporting herself by giving eerily prescient tarot readings. As her reputation as a writer grew, she stopped publicly reading the Tarot, though she never stopped doing it privately. Based on over twenty-five years of experience and a deep and abiding love of the cards, Modern Tarot brings the full force of Tea's unique insight, inviting pop sensibility, and wicked humor to bear on the tradition of the Tarot in a fascinating journey through the cards that teaches us how to use this tradition for radical self-growth.

 

Whether you're a dyed-in-the-wool seeker or a digital-age skeptic--or a little of both--the power of tarot is open to you. Modern Tarot doesn't require you to believe in the supernatural or to focus narrowly on using the tarot as a divination tool. Instead, it offers fiercely insightful descriptions of each of the seventy-eight cards in the tarot system (each one fully illustrated by Amanda Verwey) and specially designed rituals to guide readers on a path toward transformative personal growth.

 

Grounded in Tea's decades of tarot wisdom and personal experience, this is a guide that beginners will fall in love with and experienced readers will learn from anew. With her trademark one-of-a-kind insight and wit, Tea shows how tarot offers moments of deep, authentic connection during a time when "connection" is ubiquitous but rarely delves beneath the surface--and how the affirming and personal nature of the Tarot offers a spiritual experience that is gentle, individual, and aspirational.

Modern Tarot

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Sez Kristiansen

Poetry That Heals the Soul Through Divine Surrender

Healing HER

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Poetry That Nourishes the Soul Through Feminine Energy

Feminine energy has been used for centuries to heal the soul. It is a conduit for self-love to return back into your life and heal you through intuitive alignment.This book is a collection of intention-based poetry and prose that will align you with your own self-healing superpowers. By intuitively resonating with the nurturing qualities of the feminine psyche, you will be able to recalibrate your mind, body and soul back into a nourishing state of wholeness, from which even the deepest wounds can be healed. This book was created as a conduit for your own journey back to self-love - and allows you to hold space for the darkness, those peaty, blackened soils that provide the most richness for personal growth. Through this book, you will engage in the emotions that do not only bear witness your pain - but show you a way through them, and to the other side. This collection will nurture, allow & gently restore your intuitive healing abilities through the emotions that connect with subtle, yet infallible, feminine energy."Sez articulates the words of our feminine soul by creating poetic pieces that nourish, align and leave you feeling deeply inspired by all shades of life. This is the work of an emotional alchemist and has the power to truly change your life." Conscious Living, dk★★★★★"My favourite podcast guest yet! Deep, raw & profound." Tayo Rockson, As told by Nomads.

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Maribeth Coye Decker

Comfort for Loving Humans During Animal Transitions

Does grief still grip your heart whenever you think about the loss of a beloved animal? Or, when you anticipate losing an animal that is starting to decline? Losing our animals is one of the most difficult parts of loving them. In Peace in Passing, Maribeth Decker debunks the myths about animals' passing which leave us crippled with grief, unable to find peace. She offers instead a roadmap to support you as you negotiate the treacherous path we walk before, during, and after our animals' transition. This book will help you find peace amidst the enormous loss of your beloved animal companion. This second edition is expanded to include information on ways to ease their physical decline; energetic techniques to connect you with your animal; and how to view the timing of their death through a spiritual lens.

Peace in Passing

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A Guided Companion for Emotional Healing

The Daily Heal Journal

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Sarah Kristiansen

The Empowered Mother's Guide to an Intentional Life

Inspired Mama is the ultimate mind, body, and lifestyle guide for women seeking to live their best life in motherhood. As mothers, women tend to give up on their personal dreams and emotional self-care in order to take care of their families. Too often, we end up giving in to social pressures and external expectations rather than living the life we dream about, a life of freedom and inspiration. The truth is freedom is the highest vibrational element that every woman must embody to live an extraordinary life, but it's harder than ever to embody freedom as a mother. Inspired Mama empowers women to align with their best life through self-reflection, intentional manifestation, and wanderlust, so you can heal yourself and your family through your own spiritual self-care. In this book, you'll discover how to free your mind, body, and spirit so you can live an authentic lifestyle customized for the amazing woman you are. You'll discover: How to replace old habits with nourishing new ones Simple and practical actions that free you emotionally, physically, and financially High vibrational living that gets you into alignment with your highest self How to dive deep into adventures that break you out of your restricted comfort zone You will be supported in making incremental, potent changes to your life that awaken you to the unbridled joy of inspired, intentional, and conscious living. After reading this book, you will re-discover yourself as a woman in motherhood and learn how to align with the infinite abundance of the Universe. You will also learn how to live by your own unique energetic blueprint, and start intentionally manifesting the life of your dreams. Motherhood is the ultimate balancing act, and freeing the woman within is essential to finding fulfillment and purpose with your family and beyond.

Inspired Mama

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Symbolic Remedy for Every Soul-Sickness

Story Medicine

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Healing our Way Home Through the Body’s Wisdom

Whole in the Body

Blome Götz

A Scientific Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

This reference book marks a major advancement in the scientific use of flower essences, detailing 200 clinically proven combinations of Bach Flower essences for treating hundreds of psychological conditions at their source.

Advanced Bach Flower Therapy

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Nora Weeks

In 1912 Edward Bach qualified as a medical doctor and embarked upon a career which not only had a profound efffect on medical science, but brought to ordinary people the world over, a simple, safe and effective system of healing. Dr Bach made a detailed study of bacteriology, immunology and homoeopathy and found a clear connection between chronic disease and negative mental attitudes. It was the relationship between mind and body which formed the basis of his further research and as he became increasingly convinced that emotional harmony was the key to good health, he was determined to find a simple, non-invasive and harmless method of healing which could be used safely by everyone. 'The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach' tells how Dr Bach's work developed, from his childhood hopes and dreams of a healthy society, to the discovery of a complete system of 38 remedies which address all aspects of human nature, emotional outlook and personality. Edward Bach was an eminent physician whose remarkable contribution to medicine, healing and humanity has yet to be fully realised.

The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach Physician

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Henry David Thoreau

W. S. Merwin

William Howarth

Presents "Walden," in which Thoreau describes his two-year residence at Walden Pond in a small house of his own construction, and "Civil Disobedience," a protest against governmental interference with individual rights and liberty.

Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Barbara Close

Susie Cushner

50 Recipes for Relaxation and Rejuvenation

With cards divided into three categories--remedy rituals, rejuvenation rituals, and beauty rituals--and treatments ranging from Lavender & Tea Tree Blemish Remover to Papaya Body Butter, this deck will meet the pampering needs of any body. The recipes and beauty treatments are easy to prepare and use. With ingredients available at any health food store and easy-to-follow recipes, nurturing and enriching your mind, body, and spirit has never been so simple. Grab this practical and portable deck and you're on your way to a complete spa experience in your own home!

The Spa Deck

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Bryan Peterson

Understanding Shutter Speed

Bryan Peterson

Beyond Portraiture

Bryan Peterson

Understanding Close-Up Photography

Bryan Peterson

Understanding Digital Photography

Bryan F. Peterson

Understanding Exposure

Bryan Peterson

Learning to See Creatively

Terry Cortés-Vega

Buddhism for Healing

Jo Schaalman; Julie Pelaez

The Conscious Cleanse

Mandy Aftel

Fragrant

Donna Eden; David Feinstein; Christiane Northrup

Energy Medicine for Women

Donna Eden; David Feinstein

Energy Medicine

Cyndi Dale

The Complete Book of Chakra Healing

Michelle Tea

Modern Tarot

Sez Kristiansen

Healing HER

Sez Kristiansen

Healing HER

Maribeth Coye Decker

Peace in Passing

Sez Kristiansen

The Daily Heal Journal

Sarah Kristiansen

Inspired Mama

Sez Kristiansen

Story Medicine

See Kristianson

Whole in the Body

Blome Götz

Advanced Bach Flower Therapy

Nora Weeks

The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach Physician

Henry David Thoreau; W. S. Merwin; William Howarth

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Barbara Close; Susie Cushner

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