The h&-holding guide to computers is now updated to show seniors how to use & enjoy the devices sure to be given as gifts including tablets e-readers smart phones & iPods
- & to help them dip into social media & other sites for sharing including Facebook Skype & You Tube. Is This Thing On?" is the friendliest most jargon-free guide to the joy of using a computer. & the missing manual that every senior needs."
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Written for the reader who did not grow up with personal computers this book updates & expands on Stokes previous title Its Never Too Late to Love a Computer". It covers everything you need to get wired: how to select buy & set up a computer; how to sign up for e-mail & internet access & how to use the world wide web. Theres information on peripherals
- printers scanners wireless routers
- & basic software such as word processing programs. Plus this new edition delves further into the online world to cover search engines & web navigation information on online banking shopping travel planning & dating. It covers security issues "netiquette " instant messaging & blogs & theres an entire chapter devoted to digital photos
- transferring them from camera to computer & sending them as attachments. Abby Stokes
- who has a gift for taking the terrified by the hand & teaching old dogs new tricks
- branches out into other essential digital accoutrements: mobiles ipods & Blackberries. A companion website offers a safe place to practice & keep learning. The appendices include recommended websites a resource list & more."




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According to this reference from a leading authority who has worked with more than 7 000 couples women who have experienced difficulty conceiving or multiple miscarriages may be suffering from treatable dysfunctions of their immune systems. Providing details that are both technical & accessible this book explains how chemical therapy can temporarily regulate immune responses that might otherwise unleash natural killer cells. Sections cover the most common & adverse immune problems including tissue compatibility blood clotting defects & antibodies that fight sperm fetal cells hormones & neurotransmitters & also outline clinical protocol for comprehensive immune testing. The discussion incorporates the authors own dramatic account of his clinical breakthroughs the rejection of his ideas by mainstream medical practitioners & his research showing that failed in vitro fertilization (IVF) infertility & repeated miscarriages are often the result of abnormal immune reactions. ...

These are questions we all ask ourselves but its hard to get past conjecture or gut feeling to find any definitive answers. Now in this ground-breaking book David Hamilton looks at hard scientific evidence to bring us closer to understanding the balance between the forces of destiny & the power of free will. Exploring new cutting-edge scientific research into the nature of time & drawing on fields such as quantum physics epigenetics solar cycles & even reports of near-death experiences David explores how rather than being a question of one versus the other destiny & free will can in fact work simultaneously in his fascinating new theory The Tree of Probable Life. He shows how ultimately we create many of the conditions of our own lives & offers some powerful practical principles that can bring amazing results. ...

From one of the best writers on science a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe of science & of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light & motion; he effectively discovered gravity; he salvaged the terms 'time' 'space' 'motion' & 'place' from the haze of everyday language standardized them & married them each to the other constructing an edifice that made knowledge a thing of substance: quantative & exact. Creation Newton demonstrated unfolds from simple rules patterns iterated over unlimited distances. What Newton learned remains the essence of what we know. Newton's laws are our laws. When we speak of momentum of forces & masses we are seeing the world as Newtonians. When we seek mathematical laws for economic cycles & human behaviour we stand on Newton's shoulders. Our very deeming the universe as solvable is his legacy. This was the achievement of a reclusive professor recondite theologian & fervent alchemist. A man who feared the light of exposure shrank from controversy & seldom published his work. In his daily life he emulated the complex secrecy in which he saw the riddles of the universe encoded. His vision of nature was of its time; he never purged occult hidden mystical qualities. But he pushed open a door that led to a new universe. ...

Fletcher Christian & Isabella Curwen are first cousins who grow up together in the Lake District; kindred spirits who like Heathcliff & Cathy are bound to fall in love. But Isabella is promised to another cousin John & Fletcher dashing though he is comes from the poor side of the family. When Isabella an only child & heir to the Curwen fortune inherits & John becomes her guardian he & her relations conspire to prevent her & Fletchers union. Isabella marries John; Fletcher joins the Navy & later signs on for the Bounty voyage. & the rest you might think is history. In fact it is only the first act in the drama of Fletcher & Isabella... ...

Described by Christopher Marlowe as the She-Wolf of France Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins clutching the beating heart of her murdered husb&. But how did Isabella aquire this reputation? Born in 1292 she married Edward II of England but was constantly humiliated by his relationships with male favourites & she lived adulterously with Roger Mortimer 1st Earl of March. Had it not been for her unfaithfulness history might have immortalised her as a liberator- the saviour who unshackled England from a weak & vicious monarch. Dramatic & startling this first full-length biography of Isabella will change the way we think of her & her world forever. ...

When eleven-year-old Gwen ventures into the forest beyond her castle home she comes across the magical island of Avalon & her life changes forever. The lady of the lake Nineve asks Gwen to embark on a quest to protect the enchanted island of Avalon from the evil sorceress Morgana Le Fay. Morgana has imprisoned the eight Spell Sisters of Avalon throughout the kingdom & stolen their magical powers. It's up to Gwen her best friend Flora & a very special horse named Moonlight to find the sisters & return them to Avalon before its magic is lost forever. In their third adventure Gwen & Flora must find Isabella the Butterfly Sister. But with wolves under Morgana's magical control stalking them through the forest will the girls be able to find Isabella & return her safely to Avalon? ...

Isabella's toys have been hidden away for years until she discovers the lost key to the toy box. This is the start of the toys' new adventures & the discovery of lots of special secrets... With beautiful watercolour artwork adorable characters special flaps that reveal the toys secrets & a lovely padded cover this is a picture book to be treasured. ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Three names. Three people in one. Born in Portsmouth on 9 April 1806 there was Brunel the great engineer who would habitually throw out the rule book of tradition & established practice & start again with a blank sheet of paper taking the technology of the day to its limits
- & then going another mile. Then there was Brunel the visionary who knew that transport technology had the power to change the world & that he had the ability to deliver those changes. Finally there was Brunel the artist
- who rarely saw technology as just functional & strove to entwine the fruits of the Industrial Revolution with the elegance & grace of the neo-classical painter. His bridges tunnels & railway infrastructure have entered a third century of regular use & the beauty of their design & structure has rarely been equalled. The three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s saw an explosion of technical excellence & it was Brunel who in so many cases lit the blue touch paper. He did not always get it right first time & it was left to others to reap the fruits of his many labours. Nevertheless his actions fast-forwarded the march of progress by several decades.

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