From steam engines and suspension bridges to canals, factories, and pubs, the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries transformed the social and material landscape of Britain. Yet how many of us know why our local pub looks the way it does or why a railway station might resemble a cathedral? This book reveals how, by 'reading' buildings, structures, and townscapes, we can understand their context and significance for the society that created them. Author Tim Cooper uses themes including transport, education, and religion to show how the geographical and architectural remains of industrial Britain have shaped us as a people. He sheds light on how and why the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution redesigned our towns and countryside, and draws on a wealth of British sites to explain, for instance, how canals were instrumental in the expansion of industry, or why affluent suburbs are usually situated in the west end of a town. This book is a joy for anyone wanting to investigate our industrial heritage and discover the secret history behind familiar, everyday features of our urban and rural landscapes.

How to Read Industrial Britain

Business & Money

Cooper, Tim

Industries

Ebury Press

Are you an aspiring landscape, architecture, interior, or real estate photographer? Do you struggle with a lack of detail in the highlight or shadow areas of your scene? Then the world of high-dynamic range (HDR) photography is for you. This guide by pro photographer Tim Cooper will help you understand how to capture your subjects and process them for amazing, realistic results. In HDR Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Tim takes you step by step through the capture process and provides his tips and techniques for producing natural-looking HDR images using Lightroom and Photomatix. In this guide you will: <ul>
<li>Learn what HDR is and when and why to use it</li> <li>Understand the equipment and camera settings required to capture your images</li> <li>Expose your images properly to bring out the important details in your scene</li> <li>Conquer nature/landscape, architecture/interiors, and night/low light shooting</li> <li>Master the processing of your images in Lightroom and Photomatix for advanced techniques and stunning results</li> </ul>
Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book for beginning-to-intermediate digital photographers will help you take control and get the image you want every time you pick up your camera. Once you have the shot, show it off and join the book’s Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/HDR_fromsnapshotstogreatshots.

HDR Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Computers & Technology

Peachpit Pr

Are you a night owl looking to make stunning images of streetscapes, fireworks, or the night sky? Do you like to bend time with long exposure photography? Do star trails or lightning strikes inspire you? Then this book is for you! In Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer Gabriel Biderman brings you the basics of digital night photography—exposure, composition, and light—and how to scout and capture different nocturnal locations once the sun goes down. Gabriel will help you understand the fundamentals and bring your unique artistic expression to any night situation. In this beautifully illustrated guide you will: <ul>
<li>Focus in the dark and master basic composition rules—and know when to break them</li> <li>Understand metering and switch to manual mode for more control over your exposure</li> <li>Set white balance, understand color temperature, and add flash or slow sync</li> <li>Explore color, light painting, and creative ways to play with light in your images</li> <li>Learn what gear works best for your style of shooting and strategies for operating your equipment in the dark</li> <li>Discover expert techniques for post-processing your nighttime images in Lightroom and Photoshop</li> </ul>
Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time. And once you have the shot, show it off and join the book’s Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/night_fromsnapshotstogreatshots

Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Arts & Photography

Biderman, Gabriel

Photography & Video

Peachpit Press

Sheffield's story is one of fierce independence and a revolutionary spirit, its industrial origins having their roots in the same forests as the legends of Robin Hood. From Huntsman's crucible steel in the eighteenth century, to Brearley's stainless steel in the twentieth, Sheffield forged the very fabric of the modern world. As the industrial age drew to a close the city's reputation for rebelliousness spawned its popular reputation as capital of the 'People's Republic of South Yorkshire'. Yet in the wake of the Miners' Strike and the Hillsborough Disaster, the early twenty-first century has seen Sheffield retain its unique character while reinventing itself as a centre of education, creativity and innovation.

The Story of Sheffield

History

Europe

The History Press

John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Formation of Nonconformity

John Owen (1616-1683) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691) were both pivotal figures in shaping the nonconformist landscape of Restoration England. Yet despite having much in common, they found themselves taking opposite sides in several important debates, and their relationship was marked by acute strain and mutual dislike. By comparing and contrasting the parallel careers of these two men, this book not only distils the essence of their differing theology, it also offers a broader understanding of the formation of English nonconformity. Placing these two figures in the context of earlier events, experience and differences, it argues that Restoration nonconformity was hampered by their strained personal relationship, which had its roots in their contrasting experiences of the English Civil War. This study thus contributes to historiography that explores the continuities across seventeenth-century England, rather than seeing a divide at 1660. It illustrates the way in which personality and experience shaped the development of wider movements.

Routledge

A central paradox of the English reformation is that the call to the Catholic priesthood was never more eagerly answered than on the very eve of religious upheaval. In this important new study, based on the records of the third largest diocese in the country, covering six counties of the midlands and north-west, Dr Cooper traces the careers of the pastoral clergy from their preparatory education, through ordination and job-hunting, to the writing of their wills, often in ripe old age and having served a single parish through the entirety of the main period of reform. In this highly `clericalised' society, in which ten new priests were ordained each year for every arising vacancy, it was those priests without livings who were the main point of contact between the church and its people. This `clerical proletariat', and, indeed, the majority of parochial incumbents, emerge as conscientious servants of their native communities, distinguishable from their neighbours by virtue of their sacramental function rather than their social backgrounds and general concerns. Throughout, the book argues that the parish clergy, whose services were in greater demand than ever before, were remarkably well integrated into the communities they served and that popular anticlericalism as an explanatory factor of the English reformation is difficult to sustain.Dr TIM COOPER has taught history at the universities of Sheffield, Manchester and Hull.

The Last Generation of English Catholic Clergy: Parish Priests in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield in the Early Sixteenth Century (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 15) (Volume 15)

Boydell Press

Advanced Mathematics for FPGA and DSP Programmers covers the mathematical concepts involved in FPGA and DSP programing that can make or break a project. Coverage includes Numbers and Representation, Signals and Noise, Complex Arithmetic, Statistics, Correlation and Convolution, Frequencies, The FFT, Filters, Decimating and Interpolating, Practical Applications, Dot Product Applications, and a glossary of DSP arithmetical terms. About the Author Tim Cooper has been developing real-time embedded and signal processing software for commercial and military applications for over 30 years. Mr. Cooper has authored numerous device drivers, board support packages, and signal processing applications for real-time-operating systems. Mr. Cooper has also authored high-performance signal processing libraries based on SIMD architectures. Other signal processing experience includes MATLAB algorithm development and verification, and working with FPGA engineers to implement and validate signal processing algorithms in VHDL. Much of Mr. Cooper's experience involves software development for systems having hard real-time requirements and deeply embedded processors, where software reliability, performance, and latency are significant cost drivers. Such systems typically require innovative embedded instrumentation that collects performance data without competing for processing resources. Mr. Cooper holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences and a Master's degree in Computer and Electronics Engineering from George Mason University.

Advanced Mathematics for FPGA and DSP Programmers

Programming

Leapin Leo Press

Religion & Spirituality

When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Crossway

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers is a completely updated edition of this insightful and practical guide to using Photoshop as your photographic editing tool. All of the new featurees of CS3 related to photography are thoroughly covered and wide variety of new photos and tutorials are used to teach you how to organize, enhance, correct, and retouch images; how to do creative things with those images; and how to output them. As with the previous editions, the book is designed and written especially for digital photographers: it teaches them how to use the tools and features of Photoshop, while explaining why and how Photoshop functions the way it does. Using Photoshop CS3 is essentially like having your own desktop digital darkroom, and with the help of tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to master this powerful tool. By working through the various projects, you'll explore the new and enhanced areas of Photoshop, including more in depth coverage of each of these features and how they are improved from the previous version. And to help you master these tools, the book teaches professional techniques for overcoming the many challenges you'll face. After working through the book, you'll be able to bring out the best from any photo, while establishing an efficient workflow. If you truly want to understand and master Photoshop CS3 for digital photography, this is the resource you need.

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers (Graphics Series)

Smith,Colin

Charles River Media

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