This comprehensive primer walks the reader through the basics of using a personal computer: how to use a mouse installing antivirus software email surfing the web Internet shopping online banking buying & selling on e Bay playing games creating a personal letterhead transferring images from a digital camera playing & storing music & other useful topics. ...

Computing for the Older & Wiser is a simple-to-follow user friendly guide aimed at the older generation introducing the basics of mastering a computer. Covering the latest release of Windows Vista Home Premium (TM) & Windows XP (TM) this book is designed for people who want straightforward instructions on how to use their home PC. Written in plain English using no unintelligible computer speak Adrian guides you step-by-step through the basics of computing including chapters on: Use of the keyboard & mouse Email & the Internet Customising your desktop Word processing Digital photography Useful websites & much more Useful tips & tricks & a question & answer revision section in each chapter will build your confidence get you up-to-date & technologically savvy in no time! If you want to learn how to search & shop online email or chat to family & friends & you have the enthusiasm to learn a new skill then this book is for you. With explanatory screenshots in full colour Easy to read font Supplementary website
- including additional exercises to help improve your PC skills further online hints & tips & a directory of useful resources. www.pcwisdom.co.uk Computing for the Older & Wiser will take readers comfortably through getting started on their home PC. The content is similar to what we would take our clients through if they were to attend a class which is exactly the right level." -Faye Lester Computer Training Coordinator Age Concern Camden UK "I have not had so much fun for years" -Renee Moore 79 pupil at Age Concern Colchester UK"
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Starting from the very beginning & assuming no prior computing knowledge Computing Made Easy for the Over 50s: Windows 7 Edition teaches you everything you need to know to help you gain confidence using your PC. Easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials show you how to complete common computing tasks including sending emails finding information on the internet using Microsoft Word & Excel to create documents as well as editing & organising photos staying safe online & how to upgrade from Windows XP or Windows Vista. Written in straightforward language & fully illustrated throughout Computing Made Easy for the Over 50s: Windows 7 Edition will help you master the basics & get to grips with your computer & with Windows 7. ...

Computing with Windows (r) 7 for the Older & Wiser is a user friendly guide that takes you step-by-step through the basics of using a computer. Written in an easy-to-understand jargon free language it is aimed at complete beginners using PCs running on Microsoft Windows (r) 7. Inside you will find step-by-step guidance on: Using the keyboard & the mouse Navigating files & folders Customising your desktop Using Email & the Internet Word processing Organising your digital photos Safely downloading files from the Internet Finding useful websites & much more ...

The book stands comparison with A.L. Mortons Peoples History & G.D.H. Coles Common People. But it is more than just this. It is in a real sense a history for our own times. John Foster Emeritus Professor University of the West of Scotland This book is ideal for its purpose. I only wish it had been available in the decades when I was teaching trade union courses. Jim Fryth Labour History Review At last a readable & accessible general history of the labour movement.. . Highly recommended. Manchester TUC Newsletter --A revised updated & expanded edition of this classic feminist account of British labour history-- Critical & iconoclastic Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society up to the end of the twentieth-century. Written by a leading activist in the labour movement the book redresses the balance in much labour history writing. It examines the place of women & the influence of racism & sexism as well as providing a critical analysis of the rival ideologies which played a role in the uneven development of the labour movement. ...

John Bookman
- Book to his friends
- is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He's thirty-five handsome

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Before Robert Jordan conquered the bestseller lists with his phenomenally successful Wheel of Time series he revived the legendary fantasy hero Conan the Cimmerian. These widely acclaimed adventures introduced the world-famous barbarian to a new generation of readers. This volume contains three tales CONAN THE DESTROYER CONAN THE MAGNIFICENT & CONAN THE TRIUMPHANT all of which feature the storytelling magic & epic splendour that have made Robert Jordan one of the best-loved fantasy authors of all time. This edition also contains CONAN THE INDESTRUCTIBLE: a history of Conan & his times by L. Sprague de Camp. ...

Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa & Ron Perlman the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories. Presented in chronological order over three books all of Conan's life is here from his wild adventures as a youth to the final tale of Conan the King. Howard's tales of the wanderer the reaver the thief the Barbarian have never been surpassed. In this volume Conan learns the secrets of THE SCARLET CITADEL & THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON & meets THE BLACK STRANGER & THE PHOENIX ON THE SWORD. A selection of other tales & fragments round out this new collection of a classic character. ...

Robert E. Howard was a pulpwriter who turned his hand to everything from historical adventure & detective stories to Western & boxing fiction
- & invented the genre now known as sword-&-sorcery: it is for these tales of heroic fantasy & horror that he is best remembered. His mighty heroes
- including an English Puritan adventurer sent on redressing grievous wrongs the king of a mythical antediluvian empire contemporary with Atlantis a Pictish warrior-king
- all these brothers of the sword & more bestrode the pages of WEIRD TALES & the other pulp magazines of the twenties & thirties. This companion volume follows on from the success of the first Gollancz Big Black Book featuring Howards world-famous barbarian king & contains all the stories featuring his brothers-in-arms collected together in chronological order as fresh & atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than eighty years ago. Compiled by & with an Afterword by award-winning writer & editor Stephen Jones & with cover image frontispiece & internal pictures by the award-winning artist Les Edwards.


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Fifty years on from its original publication HLA Harts The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century & remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time. In this third edition Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in social & political philosophy clarifying misunderstandings of Harts project & highlighting central tensions & problems in the work. ...