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Exploring Apple iPad is the perfect companion for your new iPad, iPad Air or iPad mini. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Apple iPad is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos.
Updated to cover the iPadOS update, Exploring Apple iPad will help you :
• Upgrade your iPad to iPadOS
• The new features introduced in iPadOS
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The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it's hard to keep up.
Essential Office 365 is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...
• Downloading and Installing Microsoft Office Suite
• Getting started with Office Online: using Sway, OneDrive, Mail & Calendar
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Make the most of your computer with this illustrated, easy to follow guide to Microsoft Windows 11. Updated for 2023, Exploring Windows 11 is the essential guide for those who want to get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Windows 11. Written in a clear and practical way with 500 pages of full color illustrations, screenshots, and easy to follow instructions along with video demos to help you understand. Exploring Windows 11 will help you:
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Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider-a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted....
46) The Law
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Although the Ten Commandments have been the center of much recent controversy in American politics, scripture contains many laws about which Christians are perplexed. If the Bible contains laws, shouldn't those laws be followed? What does the law that prohibits reaping a harvest to the very edges of your field mean in modern times? Or, what about God's prohibition, in Leviticus, not to round off the hair on your temples or to mar the edges of your...
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"Written as an illustrated, step-by-step guide, this book will introduce you to Python with examples using the latest version of the language. You'll begin by learning to set up your Python environment. The next few chapters cover the basics of Python such as language classifications, Python language syntax, and how to write a program. Next, you will learn how to work with variables, basic data types, arithmetic, companion, and Boolean operators,...
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"Learn how to use and navigate Microsoft Office 365 a new revolutional technology that allow users and businesses to work in a 'virtual office' in the cloud. This visual guide covers basics of the core applications. With plenty of screen prints, photographs and illustrations."--Back cover.
50) The bird's nest
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Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn...
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson’s characteristic chill, we learn...
51) The family fang
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Adult siblings Baxter and Annie, scarred from an unconventional upbringing, return to their family home. When their parents, performance artists famous for elaborate public hoaxes, go missing under troubling circumstances, Baxter and Annie investigate. Unsure whether it's foul play or just another elaborate ruse, nothing can prepare them for what they discover.
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Criterion collection volume 301
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"The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, international literary fame"--Container.
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In The Electric Vehicle Revolution, automotive journalist Kevin Wilson provides a thorough, engaging overview of where EV technology is today, how it got there, and where it's going. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, EVs have gone from wonky who-cares vehicles like GM's EV1 and early Teslas to every manufacturer's must-have future. Electric propulsion preceded fossil-fuel cars by decades and even vied for prominence in the early twentieth...
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This full-color book is an essential guide to getting started with Adobe Photoshop. It's packed with tutorials, illustrations, and practical exercises to help you make sense of this complex and powerful software. You'll start with the basics of Photoshop, including an overview of its myriad tools and other options. Next, you will learn about some of the common tasks that can be performed in Photoshop, such as how to touch up images and basic applications...
56) The absolute beginner's guide to HTML and CSS: a step -by-step guide with examples and lab exercises
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Written as an illustrated, step-by-step guide for beginners, this book will introduce you to HTML and CSS with lab exercises and examples of code. You'll begin by setting up the development environment such as local web server and html editor. The next few chapters cover web servers, the basics of HTML such as language syntax, tags, and how to write a program. Next, you'll learn how to put together simple web pages demonstrating how the code works...
57) Nic tu po was
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"Wydawało się, że Lillian i Madison do siebie nie pasują: pierwsza - utalentowana, ale biedna jak mysz kościelna; druga - piękna i bogata. A jednak w elitarnym liceum z internatem były nierozłącznymi przyjaciółkami. Ich ścieżki rozeszły się, gdy Lillian w wyniku skandalu musiała opuścić szkołę, ale kontakt nigdy całkiem nie ustał. Po latach Lillian otrzymuje list, w którym Madison błaga o pomoc: chce, by przyjaciółka zajęła...
58) La familia Fang
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La premisa parece una broma: los Fang son una pareja de artistas que se gana la vida haciendo performances, y en ellas utilizan a sus dos hijos. Años más tarde, las circunstancias obligan a los vástagos a volver al hogar familiar, y se sorprenden al descubrir que los padres han desaparecido sin dejar rastro. ¿Ha occurido algo o es su performance definitiva? Bajo la forma de una comedia tremendamente original y provocadora, La familia Fang, es...
59) A gentle rain
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You have come to the lake hoping to see a rare and beautiful sight. The lilies of the lake only open their blossoms in the rain, and only rarely do all eight kinds of lily bloom at once. The goal of A Gentle Rain is to place the lake tiles in such a way to cause all eight types of lilies to bloom before you run out of tiles and the rain ends. Place each new tile you draw next to a tile already in play, making sure to match the colors of all the tile...
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"In this celebration of the comfort and community to be found in a warm, well-made cup of chai, Kevin Wilson offers readers his famous chai recipes alongside meditations on how to live a simple yet full life. Dubbed "the CEO of Chai" by Bon Appétit magazine, Kevin Wilson is an expert on all things chai. When Wilson was a teenager, his family in Sri Lanka applied to come to America, but his was the only visa approved. A world away from his country...