New Releases by Aaron Miller

Fourteen-year-old Mary Lanham lives an unremarkable life in an unremarkable small town, until the day a man in a long, gray cloak creeps out of the forest, and a centuries-old mystery begins to unfold. What is the terrible secret Mary''s father is hiding, a secret that has put both of their lives in danger? What is the truth about Mary''s past that has awakened a great evil? And how can she win the heart of the boy she loves when the whole world is falling apart?

Apple''s video-editing program is better than ever, but it still doesn’t have a printed guide to help you get started. That''s where this gorgeous, full-color book comes in. You get clear explanations of iMovie''s impressive new features, like instant rendering, storyboarding, and one-step special effects. Experts David Pogue and Aaron Miller also give you a complete course in film editing and DVD design. Edit video like the pros. Import raw footage, add transitions, and use iMovie’s newly restored, intuitive timeline editor. Create stunning trailers. Design Hollywood-style "Coming Attractions!" previews for your movies. Share your film. Distribute your movie in a variety of places—on smartphones, Apple TV, your own site, and with one-click exports to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, CNN iReport, and MobileMe. Make DVDs. Design the menus, titles, and layout for your DVDs, and burn them to disc. This book covers version 9 of Apple''s iMovie software.

So, you have your Kindle and are ready to start reading. Great! But did you know that you can play music on the Kindle while you are reading that new bestselling novel? How about sharing your thoughts about the book with friends via Facebook and Twitter? More than just an e-reader, Amazon''s popular device lets you do those things and much more. You can create a custom calendar to help plan your day or remember your mom''s birthday, calculate the tip at your favorite restaurant, and waste a little time and have fun playing games or surfing the web. Check out Kindle: The Mini Missing Manual to learn how to get the most out of your device.

Bursting with new features, Apple''s iMovie ''09 is vastly more usable and complete than iMovie ''08 -- amazing right out of the box. But the box doesn''t include a good user''s guide, so learning these applications is another matter. iMovie ''09 and iDVD: The Missing Manual gets you up to speed on everything you need to turn raw digital footage into highly creative video projects. You get crystal-clear, jargon-free explanations of iMovie''s new video effects, slow & fast motion, advanced drag & drop, video stabilization, and more. Author and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue uses an objective lens to scrutinize every step of process, including how to: Organize your videos just like your photos, and precisely edit with ease Work on multiple iMovie projects at once and drag & drop clips among them Integrate with other iLife programs to use songs, photos, and an original sound track Output your creation to a blog, its own web page, or as a video podcast with iWeb Understand basic film techniques to improve the quality of the video you bring to iMovie From choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs, posting it online, or creating versions for iPod and iPhone, iMovie ''09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual helps you zoom right in on the details.

Since his death in 2006, Reuben "R. A." Miller (19122006) has been recognized as one of the great self-taught artists of the South. In the fall of 2009, the Georgia Museum of Art organized an exhibition of his work for the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, Georgia,. Featuring many of Miller''s best-known themes-God, country, popular culture, and animals-this full-color companion catalog includes more than twenty-five reproductions of Miller''s works. Also included are an essay by curator Paul Manoguerra; an interview with collector Carl Mullis and Durwood Pepper, Miller''s friend and collaborator; and a checklist of the exhibition.

For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today. Here is a look at the peace process from a place at the negotiation table, filled with behind-the-scenes strategy, colorful anecdotes and equally colorful characters, and new interviews with presidents, secretaries of state, and key Arab and Israeli leaders. Honest, critical, and often controversial, Miller’s insider’s account offers a brilliant new analysis of the problem of Arab-Israeli peace and how it still might be solved.

The Mojave Desert is experiencing summer-like conditions earlier in the year due to a 2--3°C increase in the average spring temperature, while temperatures are also increasing during the summer. Thus, a longer and hotter summer season is occurring throughout the Mojave.

Examination of the scope of the [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic substitution reaction as well as the development of a domino [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic alkylation/Pauson Khand reaction is described. A number of experiments were carried out in order to explore the novel regioselectivity in the [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic substitution reaction, and the [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic substitution reaction was found to give products resulting from attack of the nucleophile on the carbon bearing the leaving group in a highly regioselective fashion in most cases. Examination of allylic carbonate substrates containing similar substitution at each allylic site was carried out, and conditions that minimize equilibration of active intermediates were determined. Intramolecular [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic alkylation was accomplished to synthesize challenging eight-membered lactone ring systems. Nucleophile scope was explored with regards to the [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic substitution reaction, and malonates, substituted malonates, aliphatic amines, and ortho-substituted phenols were all determined to be effective in the reaction. A domino [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed allylic alkylation/Pauson-Khand reaction was developed which allows the rapid synthesis of bicyclopentenone products from simple, readily available starting materials. The first application of the Pauson-Khand reaction to the synthesis of azabridged bicyclic structures is also described. Various cis-2,6-disubstituted piperidines were cyclized to the corresponding azabridged bicyclopentenones is high yields often in high diastereoselectivities. The effect of ring size, nitrogen substituent, and remote functionality on the Pauson-Khand substrates was studied. The methodology developed was applied to the concise, enantioselective total synthesis of the antimalarial and anticancer indole alkaloid ( - )-alstonerine. Pauson-Khand reaction of a readily available enyne synthesized in four steps from L-tryptophan provided a cyclopentenone in high yield as one diastereomer. Elaboration of the Pauson-Khand product required the development of a one pot conversion of a five-membered cyclic silyl enol ether to a sixmembered lactone and the mild acylation of a glycal.

Because multiple sclerosis is a variable, unpredictable condition of unknown aetiology and poorly understood pathogenesis, a condition that places an enormous burden - physical, psychological, social and financial on those affected by it (patients, family, careers and friends), unanswered questions need addressing. Popular television shows like "West Wing" have brought MS to the attention of millions of viewers. Multiple Sclerosis in Clinical Practice provides answers for those in family practice when being interviewed by patients and family. Clinical trial data are analyzed and presented in a clear, concise style so that those diagnosing and treating MS patients can do so in an effective manner. This is a practical guide for all those working in clinical practice.

This history of The Morning call is David A. Miller''s own story of the development of the newspaper as told to members of its staff little more than a year before his death on January 22, 1958. It was originally published as Chapter IX of The Line of Christian Miller, a family history of which Mr. Miller and his nephew, Frederick C. Miller, are co-authors.