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Brilliant Windows 8 for the over 50s is a visual quick reference book that shows you how master all of the features of the new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. Specifically written for those who didnt necessarily have significant contact with computers in their working lives but who now have the time to explore the possibilities of technology. It provides an easy-to-use guide to anyone wanting to get the most out of their computer. Whether youve used Windows as an operating system on a computer before in one of its earlier versions or have bought your first PC or laptop which uses Windows 8 gaining a good solid grounding on how to use Windows 8 to your best advantage & discovering how to navigate around its various features to set up & use your computer exactly to your

Specification will make your life easier & more productive! Brilliant Windows 8 for the Over 50s will give you a good grounding in the essentials enabling you to tackle new activities with complete confidence. & it will do this through clear step-by-step guides with expert tips & trouble-shooters to help you through the trickier parts. Spend less time reading & more time doing with a simple step-by-step approach to beginner & intermediate level computing tasks. Brilliant guides provide with the quick easy-to-access information that you need using: * Detailed index & troubleshooting guide to help you find exactly what you need to know * Each task is presented on one or two pages * Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem * Numerous screenshots illustrate each step * See Also.. ." boxes point you to related tasks & information in the book * " Did you know ?..." sections alert you to relevant expert tips tricks & advice"

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What you need to know & how to do it When you are working on your PC & come up against a problem that you are unsure how to solve or want to accomplish something in application that you aren't sure how to do where do you look? Manuals & traditional training guides are too unwieldy & make it hard to get to the info you need right away & helplines are rarely that helpful! Brilliant guides allow you to find the info you need easily & without fuss & guide you through the task using a highly visual step-by-step approach -- providing exactly what you need to know when you need it!! Brilliant Windows XP will show you how to.. .* Master the Windows XP user interface file management & Windows XP applications * Create your own movies with Movie Maker 2 * Rip manage & play digital music & video with Media Player 9 * Protect your computer from Internet or network intruders using Windows Firewall * Explore the Internet & send email with Windows XP's built-in tools * Customize & fine-tune Windows XP * Set up multiple users & maintain security ...

Brilliant guides allow you to find the info you need easily & without fuss & guide you through the task using a highly visual step-by-step approach providing exactly what you need to know when you need it!! Brilliant Word 2007 will show you how to. * Create documents more efficiently using the new results-oriented interface * Use formatting editing reviewing & publishing tools to create documents in print & online * Create great-looking documents faster using themes styles & templates * Organize information & add impact with clip art Smart Art diagrams tables & charts * Create customized letters labels & envelopes * Use the Full Reading view to comfortably read documents on screen * Use Outline & Draft views to develop your documents * Use Groove & Share Point Team Services to collaborate & share documents & information ...

When you are working on your PC & come up against a problem that you are unsure how to solve or want to accomplish something in application that you arent sure how to do Brilliant guides give you the answers. Brilliant Word 2010 means that you can find the information you need easily & without fuss. It guides you through all tasks & applications using a highly visual step-by-step approach. It tells exactly what you need to know when you need to know it. Brilliant Word 2010 will show you how to. * Create documents more efficiently using the new results-oriented interface * Use formatting editing reviewing & publishing tools to create documents in print & online * Create great-looking documents faster using themes styles & templates * Organize information & add impact with clip art Smart Art diagrams tables & charts * Create customized letters labels & envelopes * Use the Full Reading view to comfortably read documents on screen * Use Outline & Draft views to develop your documents * Use Groove & Share Point Team Services to collaborate & share documents & information Spend less time reading & more time doing with a simple step-by-step approach to beginner & intermediate level office tasks. Brilliant guides provide the quick easy-to-access information that you need
- Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem Numerous screenshots illustrate each step Cross reference boxes point you to related tasks & information in the book Did you know ?..." sections alert you to relevant expert tips tricks & advice"
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Tom Gates is the master of excuses for late homework: dog attacks; spilt water; & lightning. Tom's exercise book is full of his doodles cartoons & thoughts as well as comments from his long-suffering teacher Mr Fullerton. After gaining five merits for his Camping Sucks" holiday story Tom's work starts to go downhill
- which is a pity as he's desperate to impress Amy Porter who sits next to him..."
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We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates confounds & on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather but how much do we really know about it? In Bring Me Sunshine Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession. He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics geniuses rainmakers & cloud-busters & brings vividly to life great weather events from history. He sheds light on Britains weirdest wind why we have the wettest place in England to thank for the trusty pencil the debt that umbrella owners owe to Robinson Crusoe & why people once thought firing cannons at clouds was a great idea. Having adventured round the shipping forecast areas for his bestselling Attention All Shipping Connelly is the perfect guide through a melange of gales blizzards mists heatwaves & the occasional shower of fish. By turns informative entertaining & hilarious Bring Me Sunshine answers all your weather questions as well as helping you to distinguish your graupel from your petrichor. ...

Caused me to laugh out loud The Times As a teenager Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. & then one day he walked away. But as he got older those dreams kept coming back. Perhaps it was turning thirty perhaps it was having his first hole in one but he decided it was time to start again to live the dream for real. So he switched off his computer grabbed his checked trouser & headed for the golf course. To turn pro. The Open Championship was only five of the best rounds of his life away & given a few warm-up tournaments how hard could it be? Cox may not have much to boast about in the field of sporting achievement but he has what many of his rivals palpably lack: an inner landscape an imagination. These are terrible handicaps for a golfer but pretty darn useful in a writer. A very very good book Daily Telegraph Im not a golf fan myself but Cox is such an enthusiastic writer that hes made me see the sport in a new light Mail on Sunday Tom Cox writes brilliantly about golf. He knows the game inside-out: its potent allure its absurd comedy & its mind-bending frustrations. If they had a handicap-system for golf-writers Tom Cox would be scratch William Boyd ...

West Ham United last won a major trophy in 1980 but the roller-coaster ride of the past three decades has produced enough twists & turns heroes & villains & contrasting emotions to grace the script of the most thrilling TV soap opera. Since Trevor Brooking headed home the FA Cup final winner against Arsenal the Hammers have experienced delight & despair in not so equal measure with a cast of controversial characters
- either adored or abhorred
- playing the key roles in a tale of fact rather than fiction. The saving of the club by David Sullivan & David Gold as West Ham stared into the financial abyss following the ill-fated Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson reign is the latest chapter in a saga that

Includes:: numerous promotions & relegations great escapes contentious changes of ownership & management internal feuds bust-ups & power struggles the Carlos Tevez affair & the passing of legends Ron Greenwood John Lyall & Bobby Moore as well as several false dawns in the endless quest for success. Including exclusive interviews with key protoganists Bring Me the Head of Trevor Brooking" tells
- for the very first time
- the inside story behind 60 of the most significant developments at Upton Park in the modern era. Whether examining the contributions of Paolo Di Canio Harry Redknapp & Frank Mc Avennie or Gianfranco Zola Marco Boogers & Iain Dowie the book celebrates the good the bad & the ugly of West Ham United."





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Here is Niven at his best. He & Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director Michael Curtiz 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all'. High on the rostrum he decided the moment had come to order the arrival on the scene of a hundred riderless chargers. Okay " he yelled into a megaphone " Bring on the empty horses!" ' BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven's internationally bestselling autobiography following the superbly entertaining THE MOON'S A BALLOON. Both books were highly acclaimed by the critics & remain as wonderful reminders of a much-loved actor who epitomised for many the essential British gent even when surrounded by the stars of Hollywood." ...