Learn the beautiful and ancient art of calligraphy!

Calligraphy is a timeless practice. Whether you want to improve your penmanship, practice calligraphy as a hobby, or create your own hand-lettered art, this informative, gorgeously illustrated calligraphy guide is a go-to for anyone interested in learning the art of hand lettering. A calligraphy kit designed for self-teaching, it contains 100 sections, each complete with an A-to-Z calligraphy alphabet, lessons on correct pen strokes, and advice on avoiding errors. Beginners will find sound basic instruction, while experienced calligraphers can extend their repertoire with letter styles that range from classic Roman to clean and elegant contemporary styles. In addition to an analysis of each alphabet's features, the book provides information on:

• Tools and materials
• Layout basics
• Numerals and punctuation
• Illumination and ornamentation
• Tips for the left-handed calligrapher
• and more!

Including a brief history of the art form and examples by master calligraphers through the eras, this book is ideal for adults who want to practice their handwriting or who love crafts. This book's spiral binding ensures that pages lay flat when opened, allowing calligraphers to study and copy each pen stroke with ease. The perfect gift idea for adults who love crafts, bullet journals, activity books, or design, The Calligrapher's Bible is for everyone.

Explore the San Gabriel Mountains with This Authoritative Hiking Guide

Escape the rapid-paced urban life of Southern California, and step into the open, rugged terrain of the San Gabriel Mountains. Here, amid forest, chaparral, and stream, you'll revitalize yourself in nature's unhurried environment. Visit Eaton Canyon Falls, the most popular waterfall in the Angeles National Forest. Enjoy a family-friendly hike to a historic fire lookout site on Vetter Mountain. Challenge yourself on the San Antonio Ridge, the hardest traverse in the Angeles.

Now in its 10th edition, Trail of the Angeles by David Harris and John W. Robinson has been the region's trusted hiking guide for more than 45 years. It describes 100 spectacular trails--ranging from one-hour strolls to challenging two-day backcountry trips--in the mountain range that looms large over the Los Angeles Basin. Featuring 18 new hikes, Trail of the Angeles guides you into almost every corner of the San Gabriels.

Inside You'll Find:

• Descriptions of 100 hikes, including 18 new outings
• Trip difficulty evaluations, season recommendations, length, and elevation gain/loss
• Historical photos and descriptions, including the first American Indian footpaths, early pioneer homesteads, and landmarks still visible from the Great Hiking Era
• Trails That Used to Be ghost trails that have vanished or are now impassable
• BONUS: A folded full-color map detailing all the hikes described in the book

Discover 101 of the best hikes in Southern California, from family outings to 50-mile treks.

The Southland is unparalleled for its beauty and diversity. A coastal trail, a desert hike, and a mountain trek are always just an hour or two away. Experience 101 of the region's best hiking trips with authors David Harris and Jerry Schad. See a spectacular geological showcase cradled between two faults at the Devil's Punchbowl. Find the ruins of a once grand Malibu mansion, now Solstice Canyon Park. Enjoy the natural hot springs alongside a mountain stream at Deep Creek.

Take the guesswork out of choosing a trail that's right for you. Each entry in this guidebook provides vital information like total distance, elevation gain or loss, hiking time, highlights, and difficulty--not to mention a full description of the route. You can take the entire family on a 1-mile stroll, or challenge yourself with a 52-mile backpacking trip.

Inside you'll find:

• 101 spectacular hikes, ranging from 1 to 52 miles
• Essential details such as distance, elevation change, and difficulty


• Route descriptions and directions to the trailheads


• Full-color maps and photographs

Leave the urban world behind and discover the natural splendor of Southern California--from the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains to the Laguna Mountains and Anza-Borrego Desert, from the Torrey Pines beaches to the summit of San Jacinto Peak.

Healers Versus Stealers describes the never-ending desire of thieves to separate dentists from their money. Forensic CPA and private investigator David Harris peels away the mystery and misinformation surrounding embezzlement in dental practices. In the first half of this book, David profiles embezzlers in dental practices, exposes the rationalizations they use to justify what they know is wrong, shows a thief's decision process when they decide to steal from you, and outlines some key areas of vulnerability for practices.

Then David lays out the simple, practical steps a practice owner can take to protect themselves against embezzlement, including an innovative and timesaving approach to financial oversight. This book is packed with nuggets that practice owners can put to work immediately that will help them recognize if they have an embezzlement issue and deal with it if they do.

With almost three-quarters of dentists suffering embezzlement in their careers, this book should be on every practice owner's bookshelf.

Do you want to double or triple the amount of deals you close every year?

The struggle of generating new leads in your brokerage can be very frustrating without following a winning strategy. You'll often find in any company a few sales people at the top who seem to close deals effortlessly. This audio program aims to identify and replicate those strategies.

More often than not, real estate agents find themselves wasting time on finding weak leads and end up getting discouraged. Whether your an introvert or extrovert, real estate sales is all about following step-by-step formulas until you understand the process perfectly.

Inside this book, you will discover:

• Choosing the right company to deal with
• Digital marketing strategies
• Sales prospecting
• Winning the deal
• Getting the home ready for showings
• Listing presentation strategies
• And much, much more...

Get started today on your real estate sales education journey by getting the book now!

What if I told you that there is probably an 80% chance that an employee or business partner will steal from you at some point in your career?

Sadly, that is true.

And as daunting as that probability is, you are far from helpless in the battle to protect your wealth. However, to prevail, you need to ignore some of the conventional wisdom on protecting yourself from embezzlement.

In this ground-breaking book, Dentistry's Embezzlement Expert David Harris will help you understand why and how people steal, and give you some simple but powerful tools to protect yourself.

The most sought out assets that wealthy hold onto are scarce, in-demand rental properties that are positive cash-flow machines. Your real estate empire starts today!

It's no surprise that most millionaires in North America are owners of real estate. Property has significant advantages over other investment vehicles such as stocks or actively-managed businesses such as tax benefits, leverage, cash-flow, and so much more.

It can be a pain to know where to start and what kind of real estate to begin looking at to get yourself ahead in your financial life. This audio program aims to address the biggest mistakes most beginners make and also the most proven strategies wealthy people have used to create a rental property empire.

In this book, you will discover...

• The different types of real estate and how to choose one over another
• Buying strategies
• Analyzing your investments
• Day to day operations
• Dealing with tenants
• Dealing with contractors
• And so much more...

Begin your real estate journey today by getting your copy now!

Discover more than 250 hikes in Southern California!

The Inland Empire is truly a hiker's paradise. This vast region east of Los Angeles, encompassing Riverside and San Bernardino counties, brims with cactus-studded deserts, snow-capped summits, shady forests, sparkling lakes, and lush palm oases. Updated with more than 60 new hikes, Afoot & Afield: Inland Empire offers a comprehensive collection of hiking adventures for everyone from families with young children to experienced mountaineers seeking the ultimate challenge. This guide covers the millions of acres of public lands in the region, including the Mount Baldy Area, San Bernardino Mountains (Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead, and San Gorgonio Wilderness), Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, the Palm Springs Area, Urban and Desert Parks and Preserves, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Mojave Trails National Monument.

Inside the book, you'll find at-a-glance basics including distance, hiking time, and difficulty. Trail maps with GPS waypoints, as well as accurate and precise hiking and driving directions, help to ensure that you know where to go. Notes on which trails are suitable for kids, mountain bikers, equestrians, dogs, and backpackers allow you to find the perfect trails for your interests. Plus, stories of the area's human history, botany, and geology provide fascinating and entertaining information. Most trips are an easy drive from San Bernardino, Ontario, Riverside, and other Southland communities--so go afoot and get afield!

This book is a collaboration between the author and a bariatric surgery patient's first-hand, and very personal account of the experience. It is comprehensive: From researching gastric sleeve surgery, to guiding you through the entire process as experienced by a former patient whose detailed accounting paints a reliable picture of pre- and post-op expectations.

The benefits of bariatric surgery are immense. So many mid- to late-life health problems stem from medical complications due to excess weight. From diabetes and heart disease, to increased risks of cancer, the truth is clear: Being overweight is simply not a healthy lifestyle. In addition to physical ailments, there is the significant mental toll to consider. Depression and anxiety are highly correlated with obesity and these psychological issues often go untreated through either patient ignorance or denial.

Contemporary gastric sleeve surgery serves the primary function of aiding a patient to lose weight by reducing the total size of their stomach. The degree of reduction varies, but in extreme cases it can be up to eighty five percent. The end result is that the patient is physically unable to ingest as much food, but there is a far more important change that takes place. The procedure also reduces the production of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates hunger. Ghrelin reduction yields a suppressed craving for food to further promote weight loss.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for those considering bariatric gastric sleeve surgery for themselves, or for those who have already been approved for the procedure. If you are not undertaking bariatric surgery yourself, then the book serves as a research tool and aid to the decision-making process for a loved one who might be considering the procedure.

Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...

A Real Patient's Personal Success Story
Background & History of the Procedure
Obesity Risk Factors
How the Procedure is Performed
Patient Qualifications for Surgery
Advantages and Effectiveness of the Surgery
Insurance and Cost Considerations
How to Prepare for Surgery
Diet Requirements Before and After Surgery
What to Expect on the Day of the Surgery
The Recovery Process Post-Surgery
Overview of the Medical Professionals Involved in the Treatment
Mental Health Factors Personal Tips, Advice, and Suggestions From a Former Patient Who Already Went Through the Entire Process And Much More

Information is the First Step Towards Treatment, and You Can Start Right Now With This Book

Sierra Leone examines 225 years of its history and fifty years of independence, placing state- society relations at the centre of an original and revealing investigation of those who have tried to rule or change Sierra Leone and its inhabitants and the responses engendered. It interweaves the historical narrative with sketches of politicians, anecdotes, the landscape and environment and key turning-points, alongside theoretical and other comparisons with the rest of Africa. It is a new contribution to the debate for those who already know Sierra Leone and a solid point of entry for those who wish to know.

Digital Design and Computer Architecture, Second Edition, takes a unique and modern approach to digital design, introducing the reader to the fundamentals of digital logic and then showing step by step how to build a MIPS microprocessor in both Verilog and VHDL. This new edition combines an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design. It presents new content on I/O systems in the context of general purpose processors found in a PC as well as microcontrollers found almost everywhere.

Beginning with digital logic gates and progressing to the design of combinational and sequential circuits, the book uses these fundamental building blocks as the basis for the design of an actual MIPS processor. It provides practical examples of how to interface with peripherals using RS232, SPI, motor control, interrupts, wireless, and analog-to-digital conversion. SystemVerilog and VHDL are integrated throughout the text in examples illustrating the methods and techniques for CAD-based circuit design. There are also additional exercises and new examples of parallel and advanced architectures, practical I/O applications, embedded systems, and heterogeneous computing, plus a new appendix on C programming to strengthen the connection between programming and processor architecture.

This new edition will appeal to professional computer engineers and to students taking a course that combines digital logic and computer architecture.

Remove stress and anxiety out of your life and get a sound restful sleep.

Do you want to develop a meditation style that will garner stress and anxiety relief to live healthy? Do you want to learn how meditation facilitates an improvement in health and a wide variety of health conditions? Do you want to experience greater clarity, happiness, and peace? If your answer to any of the above questions is a yes, then the information inside this book is your answer. Here's the deal. You've tried different ways to relief stress, anxiety and pain, then gave up because everything is not working and you want something easier you can do and still get the results.

Through this mindful guided meditation book, the possibilities of a spiritual process are now being offered to all in the comfort of their own home. It will integrate the thought process and your awareness into one dynamic spiritual process, which will significantly reduce stress and anxiety - the by-products of living in the world today. If there is any struggle in your life, it is because you identify yourself with these limited aspects of yourself.

• An Explanation of Meditation
• How Meditation Benefits Everyone
• Meditation and the Human Brain
• Delving Deeper into Meditation
• Meditation Techniques (For: Sleep, Stress, Anger, Anxiety, Sports, Kids, and more)

If you want to learn more about how to meditate and experience great peace without any form of anxiety then simply click the BUY NOW button on this page to get started.

In this book will help you to know about: Mindfulness, The Benefits of Meditation, Decreased Memory Loss, Fight Chronic, Pain, Cycle of Addiction, Mindfulness Meditation, Buddhist Techniques, Zazen, Vipassana, Hindu, Techniques, Mantras, Japa, Transcendental Meditation, Chakra Meditation, Third Eye Meditation, Traṭaka, Kundalini Meditation, Kriya Yoga Meditation, Nada Yoga Meditation, Self-Inquiry Meditation, Chinese Techniques, Taoist, Qigong, Christian Techniques, Sufi Techniques, Guided Meditation, Neuroplasticity.

Meditation Benefits: Men, Women, Children, Students, Seniors, Athletes

Meditation Techniques, Meditation for Better Sleep, Meditation for Pain Management, Meditation for Kids, Meditation for Better Concentration, ZEN, Meditation for Better Health, Meditation to Awaken Compassion, Meditation to Reduce Stress, Living Mindfully, Changing Perspective, Healing the Body, Cultivating Compassion.

For thirty years, Eug ne Atget photographed the historic core of Paris, its buildings and monuments, its ancient streets and civic spaces, its public parks and gardens. With the exception of his earliest photographs, he chose not to represent a particular site by a single, definitive photograph but produced sequences of interrelated images that create a cumulative portrait.

A collection of case studies of archetypal urban settings, this book examines Atget's approach to photography. It features 240 of his photographs--nearly all of which have never been published--assembled to display the integral relationship between the photographer's working method and his subject matter, revealing the character of Le Vieux Paris itself.

A natural companion to the New Press's Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, Eug ne Atget is the product of an exhibit mounted in response to Abbott's work and reflective of the two photographers' shared vision.

Autism is a disorder that affects a person's communication, interests, and social interactions. The polyvagal theory shows us that autistic individuals are unable to communicate, interact with people or analyze social data normally. As a result, their bodies often read fight-flight-freeze responses and shut down. During childhood, their body remains in immobilization mode. The consequence is that they become agitated, have difficulties digesting food, and their interactions with the outside community is distorted. Their social engagement system has not been fully integrated. This condition may occur as a result of emotional trauma, fear at birth, or their vagus nerve was silence or damaged, leading to their nervous system not fully developing.

Within this book, you will find:

● A working definition of both emotional intelligence and cognitive behavioral therapy

● Why emotional intelligence is so critical and how it directly influences every aspect of life

● The pillars of emotional intelligence and the skills each entails

● Emotional intelligence as it relates to the narcissist

● How CBT took the best of both cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy to create an entirely new school of therapy

● A working guide of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and anger, and how to deal with all of them using CBT-approved methods

● How to develop social skills that will help you thrive in any situation that you find yourself in

● AND MORE!

It is time to talk a little biology and physiology. There is a part of your nervous system that is very important to learn about; your Vagus Nerve. This is one of the 12 cranial nerves in your body. And it is also the longest cranial nerve. It starts in your brainstem, and wanders down your body. It passes through your neck, through your lungs and heart, into your stomach, and through your digestive tract. And this nerve uses the length and connection to benefit your body when it is working properly.