Conor Morgan has the perfect plan: recruit a team with hearts of larceny to pull off the greatest techno-heist in modern banking history. The stakes: close to a trillion dollars. The target: neXus, the world's premier credit and debit card payments system, operated by the power of invisible money. With futurist weapons inspired by Zulu and Mongol battle strategies, the crew crashes neXus computer systems worldwide in a daring transcontinental robbery. But a Delta hit team of Enforcers hunt them down as Morgan's plan unravels. Dancing on the Brink of the World is interwoven with elements of the mysterious. Recurrent prime numbers and echoing supersymmetries converge in a morality tale of friendship and trust, betrayal and vengeance. In San Francisco and London, Morgan's team is on the run from the most sinister assassin since Jack the Ripper, with a ransom of untraceable diamonds, a dazzlingly erotic heroine and the ghostly messengers of ancient Celtic gods. 'Authentic as today's dispatches from the 21st century battleground of cyber warfare, chilling and funny and brilliantly observed. A tour de force, infused with the carousing spirits of dreamy Irish rebels. Gravity

This Field Guide provides a concise summary of the photographic imaging chain and explains the connections between the science and photographic practice. It summarizes the fundamental optics required for understanding photographic formulae. The relationship between the photometric exposure distribution at the sensor plane and the resulting digital raw data produced by the camera is described, as are the steps required to convert raw data into an output color image for a display. Other topics include focusing, framing, depth of field, photometric exposure, lighting, strategies for obtaining a suitable exposure, and camera image quality.