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Take a tour of the burgeoning world of plastic cameras and low-tech photography in this fun and funky guide to creating the most artistic pictures of your life! Whether you're an experienced enthusiast or toy camera neophyte, you'll find this guide full of tantalizing tips, fun facts, and absolutely striking photographs taken with the lowest tech tools around. You'll learn how to prep your plastic camera, their advantages and quirks, and what film to feed it. You'll also explore what makes a good subject, vignetting, multiple exposures, panoramas, close-ups, night photography, color, flash, problems and solutions, and so much more. Michelle Bates also takes you from a negative to either prints or pixels so that you can show off your photos and jump on the toy-camera revolution! Contributors include: Michael Ackerman, Thomas Michael Alleman, Erin Antognoli, Jonathan Bailey, James Balog, Michelle Bates, Phil Bebbington, Gyorgy Beck, Susan Bowen, Laura Corley Burlton, David Burnett, Susan Burnstine, Nancy Burson, Perry Dilbeck, Jill Enfield, fotovitamina, Annette Elizabeth Fournet, Brigitte Grignet, Eric Havelock-Bailie, Christopher James, Michael Kenna, Wesley Kennedy, Teru Kuwayama, Louviere & Vanessa, Mary Ann Lynch, Anne Arden McDonald, Ted Orland, Sylvia Plachy, Dan Price, Becky Ramotowski, Nancy Rexroth, Francisco Mata Rosas, Richard Ross, Franco Salmoiraghi, Rosanna Salonia, Jennifer Shaw, Nancy Siesel, Mark Sink, Kurt Smith, Sandy Sorlien, Pauline St. Denis, Harvey Stein, Gordon Stettinius, Ryan Synovec, Rebecca Tolk, Marydorsey Wanless, Shannon Welles, Matthew Yates, Dan Zamudio.

Jess can hardly believe it, but she really is the proud owner of Skylark. There's only one problem. Skylark must be kept at Rychester, a rival stables. Rychester couldn't be more different from Sandy Lane--and neither could it's riders. Jess's dream is about to turn into a nightmare.

Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control provides a sociological examination of deviance and social control in society. Derived from the same author team’s successful text/reader version, this concise and student-friendly resource uses sociological theories to illuminate a variety of issues related to deviant behavior and societal reactions to deviance. The authors briefly explain the development of major sociological theoretical perspectives and use current research and examples to demonstrate how those theories are used to think about and study the causes of deviant behavior and the reactions to it. Focusing on the application—rather than just the understanding—of theory, the Second Edition offers a practical and fascinating exploration of deviance in our society.

Magic mushrooms are hallucinogenic drugs, meaning they can cause you to see, hear, and feel sensations that seem real but are not. The effects of magic mushrooms, however, are highly variable and believed to be influenced by environmental factors.Shrooms have a long history of being associated with spiritual experiences and self-discovery. Many believe that naturally occurring drugs like magic mushrooms, weed, and mescaline are sacred herbs that enable people to attain superior spiritual states. Others take magic mushrooms to experience a sense of euphoria, connection, and a distorted sense of time.The psilocybin found in shrooms is converted to psilocin in the body and is believed to influence serotonin levels in the brain, leading to altered and unusual perceptions. The effects take 20 to 40 minutes to begin and can last up to 6 hours the same amount of time it takes for psilocin to be metabolized and excreted.Magic mushrooms are a variety of mushroom known for producing strong psychedelic effects when ingested. Mushrooms are a fungus, meaning they grow from spores that establish mycelium networks in the ground or decaying plant material, such as old logs. When the conditions are just right, a fungus will bloom similar to a flower. These blooms are the mushrooms that we harvest.The most common varieties of psychoactive mushrooms fall under the Psilocybin genus. This genus encompasses over 200 varieties of mushrooms, all of which contain psilocybin, the main active compound responsible for producing psychoactive effects. There are other varieties of mushrooms which also produce psychedelic effects, such as the fly amanita, for example. However, Psilocybin mushrooms are by far the most common. On average, a single mushroom will contain between 0.2 to 0.4% Psilocybin.Today, magic mushrooms are still treasured for their powerful psychoactive effects, producing euphoria, altered thinking processes, hallucinations, synesthesia, an altered perception of time, and more. The main active compounds in magic mushrooms are psilocybin and psilocin. Some species of mushrooms also contain other, weaker psychoactive compounds, such as baeocystin and norbaeocystin.When psilocybin is ingested, it is broken down into in psilocin, which is responsible for producing the main psychedelic effects associated with a mushroom trip. Psilocin has multiple effects on the human brain.

Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective, Second Edition serves as a guide to students delving into the fascinating world of deviance for the first time. Authors Michelle Inderbitzin, Kristin A. Bates, and Randy Gainey offer a clear overview of issues and perspectives in the field, including introductions to classic and current sociological theories as well as research on definitions and causes of deviance and reactions to deviant behavior. The unique text/reader format provides the best of both worlds, offering both substantial original chapters that clearly explain and outline the sociological perspectives on deviance, along with carefully selected articles on deviance and social control taken directly from leading academic journals and books. The Second Edition features updated research, examples of specific forms of deviance, and discussions of policy, as well as a new chapter and readings on global perspectives on deviance and social control.

A young reading fiction title. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme.

Jess is thrilled to discover that a film is being shot just down the road from Sandy Lane. She can't wait to meet the lead actress who's coming to the stables to learn hose to ride for the film. But when she arrives and sets her sights on Jess's pony, suddenly Jess has to face a very difficult decision.

"Kate is determined to win the Mapletree horse show and prove herself at Sandy Lane. But then the mysterious midnight horse arrives at the stables. Unluckily, for Kate, his owner, Izzy, has entered Mapletree too -- and Izzy needs to win.

When a stable girl is left in charge of the Sandy Lane Stables, all the regular riders promise to help, and everyone is confident that life at the stables will run smoothly. But disaster strikes when a mysterious couple arrives, supposedly sent to help.