Lakes are one of the most challenging opportunities available to today\'s fly fisher. Stillwaters offer a long active season with numerous hatches and presentation challenges. Fish grow big and fat and many fishers find this appeal hard to resist. But the transfer from rivers and streams is often difficult, especially if a prolonged trial-and-error approach is adopted. This book examines the stillwater

David Busch\'s Nikon Z5 Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for getting the most out of your Nikon Z5 mirrorless camera. Nikon\'s most affordable full-frame mirrorless model boasts up-scale features, including dual memory card slots, five-axis image stabilization for sharp images even when using slow shutter speeds, and an advanced hybrid autofocus system

Including brand-new paintings, this is a fully illustrated new edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings. The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key

The book immerses you in the electric and tumultuous world of a local band scene during the vibrant sixties and seventies. Follow a group of individuals whose lives are intertwined by the forces of life, love triangles, heartache, and violence. In an era marked by free love and abandonment, the characters experience a rollercoaster of emotions and events that shape their destiny. The story weaves through

A surreal and entertaining children\'s tale that introduces big ideas to little kids, Pit shows us that often not everything is as it seems. One day the little chick Pit became enormous, even bigger than the sun. Scientists studied him and archaeologists measured his footprints. Everything was tight on him, even his own home. Narrated from a kids-eye view, this charming tale teaches young readers

Qatar 2022 is an insider\'s view of the country\'s ambitious plans for the FIFA 2022 World Cup, and the journey that led them to become the first World Cup hosts in the Arab world. From desert tribes to pearl divers, to being custodians of the third-largest gas reserve in the world, there are many fascinating facets to this great nation. The book reveals how an influx of wealth transformed the country\'s

John Skylitzes\' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them

Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Fight Club in this action-packed fantasy about a secret, underground magic fighting tournament.If the magic doesn\'t kill her, the truth just might.Aza Wu knows that real magic is dangerous and illegal. After all, casting killed her sister, Shire. As with all magic, everything comes at a price. For Aza, it feels like everything in her life has some kind of cost attached

Barbara Pyle\'s intimate behind the scenes photographs from 1975 and the recording, rehearsing and touring of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\'s Born to Run have been eagerly awaited for 40 years and are finally being published for the first time. \"I first saw Bruce and the E Street Band by accident,\" she writes, \"I was blown away by their music. For the next year, I drove to as many of

America\'s most renowned witch and eco-feminist offers a sequel to her bestselling classic The Spiral Dance, weaving together the latest findings in environmental science with magical spells, chants, meditations and group exercises to create the ultimate primer on our relationship to the earth.From the earliest times, respecting our interdependent relationship with nature has been the first step toward

From Mickey Mouse to the teddy bear, from the Republican elephant to the use of \"jackass\" as an all-purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how such images--sometimes affectionate, sometimes derogatory, always distorting--affect how real animals

One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John; he was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed. This book is the first full-length account of the Lamson case since the relevant \'Notable British Trials\' volume appeared back in 1912. Using contemporary newspapers, the police

Pour yourself a strong shot of rivalry, romance, and murder. Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, and is keen to explore the local distilleries with her videographer, Michael Erickson - especially since her new beau, Lieutenant Nick Harris, lives in the city. But the night before Jill\'s first tour at Parker\'s Distillery, she is shocked

\"We\'re still married...\"When her annoyingly gorgeous ex-husband walks back into her life eight years after their divorce, those are the last word Everley expects to hear.Their marriage only lasted a year. They burned bright and crashed - and they both thought they\'d moved on.Shame somebody forgot to file the papers.Now Dylan is back in town for a few months - taking a break from his work as a doctor

Shiro Kashiba stands atop any list defining Japanese food in Seattle. He\'s been called many things--culinary master, fisherman, mushroom forager and nature lover--but first and foremost he\'s the Sushi King. His eponymous debut cookbook is no chef-vanity affair, though, but a riveting and imaginative blending of East and West in the quest for high gastronomic art. --Shelf Awareness A fabulous read

What might happen, asks Charlie Bell if what we know about queer lives, loves and relationships was taken as read, rather than treated as a matter of debate? Queer Redemption looks to a future when the margins truly define the centre, where queerness is truly liberative for the whole

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Every day we are confronted with ethical challenges arising from machine-mediated decision-making. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate,

V této jedinečné antologii se spojilo třináct nejlepších autorů young adult literatury s třinácti vlivnými booktubery, aby společně sepsali příběhy z pohledu často nepochopených záporáků. Přesvědčí vás, že nic není černobílé. Dejte proto druhou šanci Sherlocku Holmesovi nebo Medúze a užijte si povídky Marissy Meyerové, Somana Chainaniho, Samanthy Shannonové, Victorie Swabové, Nicoly Yoonové a dalš