How-To Book List Addition: Photoshop Elements

Now that you've bought that new DSLR and taken some amazing shots, you need a simple guide for processing and enhancing those great images.

For photographers using Photoshop Elements (including the brand new Elements 10), this book by pro photographer Jeff Revell will help you conquer the fundamentals of downloading, editing, and enhancing their work to create stunning hang-on-the-wall images.

Revell starts with the basics–from importing images, handling Camera Raw files, making basic fixes and local edits, to creating special effects and fine-tuning. He covers the key software features that affect and improve your image, including: removing blemishes with the Spot Healing Brush, using masks to isolate effects, sharpening with High Pass, darkening blue skies and using gradients, creating black and white images, going wide with a Panorama, and removing people with Photomerge Scene Cleaner.

Photoshop Elements
From Snapshots to Great Shots
by Jeff Revell
Peachpit Press, 2011

How-To Book List Addition: The Google+ Guide

This approachable, four-color book will offer readers a thorough guide to using Google+, Google's answer to the challenge it faces from Facebook, Twitter, and all other ways people are being social on the web.

After covering the fundamentals of being social on the web, the book digs into how to set up and manage Circles, control the Stream, share photos and video, use Hangouts, get the most out of Sparks, and use games.

The Google+ Guide
Circles, Photos, and Hangouts
by Scott McNulty
Peachpit Press, 2011


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Baseball Book List Addition: Top of the Heap

Perhaps more has been written about the New York Yankees than about any other sports team. And the magic that has played out on the field over the years has been rivaled only by baseball scribes' prowess on the page. Excellence breeds excellence, and for 100 years some of the best writers in America have chronicled the New York Yankees, taking a single swing or game and somehow making it singular.

This anthology from the series editor of The Best American Sports Writing and author of Yankees Century collects the best writing about the Yankees over the course of their long history. Published to coincide with the team's centenary celebration, this is a must-have volume for fans the world over who claim the New York Yankees as their own.

Top of the Heap

A Yankees Collection

by Glenn Stout

Mariner Books, 2003

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How-To Book List Addition: Dollar Origami

Dollar Origami teaches you how to turn your currency into almost anything with just a few folds.

With simple instructions, full-color photos, and 100 sheets of paper to practice on before you use your own money, you'll be crafting beautiful butterflies, adorable penguins, and more in your own home in no time.

Dollar Origami

15 Origami Projects Including the Amazing Koi Fish

by Won Park

Thunder Bay Press, 2011

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Nature Book List Addition: Twelve Owls

Meet the saw-whet, the tiniest of Minnesota’s owls, a mere eight inches from the tip of its blunt tail to the top of its rounded head. The simplest way to find one is to listen for the scolding calls of a flock of agitated chickadees. Or, if you’re lucky, you might witness the male throwing all caution to the wind and “co-co-co-co-ing” for a mate, inching forward on every note like the bird in a cuckoo clock.

From this fetching little creature to the magnificent great gray, the owls of Minnesota have found the perfect spokeswoman in this book, which is as charming as it is informative.

Twelve Owls

by Laura Erickson

University of Minnesota Press, 2011

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Review: Canyon Crossing

A narrative about the author's exploration of the corridor trails of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, this book introduces the inner recesses of the national park with a mixture of storytelling, interviews and descriptive
prose.

The National Park Service defines "corridor trails" as those receiving regular maintenance and patrols by park rangers. At the Grand Canyon, there are three such trails. On the South Rim, there are the Bright Angel Trail, the River Trail and the South Kaibab Trail; on the North Rim, visitors hike the North Kaibab Trail.

"People travel from all over the country and the world for the chance to walk or run from one side of the canyon to the other - or from either rim to the very bottom on foot or mule," Seth Muller explains. "The journey etches itself into the memory of its travelers, to radiate for years. Grand Canyon guides speak of clients contacting them five, ten, and fifteen years after a trip to reconnect with their fond memories of the
grandest of chasms."

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Canyon Crossing

Experiencing Grand Canyon from Rim to Rim

by Seth Muller

Grand Canyon Association, 2011

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