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The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner

A Complete Organizer, Journal, and Keepsake for Your Unforgettable Vacation

By: Susan Veness,Simon Veness

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The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner

A Complete Organizer, Journal, and Keepsake for Your Unforgettable Vacation

By: Susan Veness,Simon Veness

Start the family fun before you even pack your bags! The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner is more than just a place to keep your important phone numbers and schedules. This all-the-fun-in-one journal is a celebration of the happiest place on earth—and a peek inside its magic! You can keep this planner full of your personalized notes handy in your backpack and with its help, you'll make exciting discoveries, like where in Epcot to find Mickey-shaped tomatoes and the blink-and-you'll-miss-it eerie surprise on the Tower of Terror. In addition to these never-before-revealed secrets, you'll also discover: -The best places to stay and eat for every budget -Scheduling strategies to cut your waiting time in long lines -Prime viewing spots for parades -And hundreds of money, time-saving, fun-maximizing tips Complete with journal pages to record your memories, fold-out maps to help you find your way, and pockets to hold your keepsakes, The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner helps you step into your own "Once Upon a Time" and make your Disney dreams come true!

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Simon and Schuster

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1440528101

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9781440528101

Defying Expectations

Phil Rawlins and the Orlando City Soccer Story

By: Simon Veness,Susan Veness

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Defying Expectations

Phil Rawlins and the Orlando City Soccer Story

By: Simon Veness,Susan Veness

As an expansion Major League Soccer team, the Orlando City Soccer Club marked the return of professional soccer to Florida for the first time since 2001, selling out the sixty-thousand-seat Citrus Bowl for its home opener and going on to have the second‐highest home attendance for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. It was the successful culmination of a nine-year process orchestrated by the team’s owner, Phil Rawlins, who sold his successful sales consultancy company for a shot at sports ownership and a chance to tap into America’s growing interest in pro soccer. Rawlins was relentless in building a franchise from the ground up, overcoming crippling setbacks, devious politics, and near financial ruin. Underpinning his efforts was a deep commitment to re-creating the tribal passion and community spirit of his hometown team in the United Kingdom, Stoke City, for which he served as board member for fourteen years. The payoff was the Orlando City Soccer Club, an attractive new team that galvanized the region. The subsequent acquisition of international superstar Ricardo Kaká catapulted the club to celebrity status and ensured that its debut season defied expectations. Defying Expectations gives insight into the challenges faced on the road to success, challenges through which Rawlins has remained focused on the six core values that he and his wife formulated at their kitchen table years ago, continuing to foster a community institution that gives back as much as it receives.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496204921

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9781496204929

Unlawful Killing

The death of Princess Diana

By: Simon Tomlin

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Unlawful Killing

The death of Princess Diana

By: Simon Tomlin

Was Princess Diana, arguably the most famous woman of the modern age, really murdered or was her death a tragic accident? "I found it difficult simply to accept that what happened in Paris was 'just one of those tragic things' and has it happened, the jury at the inquest agreed." - Michael Mansfield QC

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Hakon Books

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1471716074

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9781471716072

Deakin and Morris’ Labour Law

By: Zoe Adams,Catherine Barnard,Simon Deakin,Sarah Fraser Butlin

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Deakin and Morris’ Labour Law

By: Zoe Adams,Catherine Barnard,Simon Deakin,Sarah Fraser Butlin

Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a comprehensive analysis of current British labour law which explains the role of different legal and extra-legal sources in its evolution, including collective bargaining, international labour standards, and human rights. The new edition, while following the broad pattern of previous ones, highlights important new developments in the content of the law, and in its wider social, economic and policy context. Thus the consequences of Brexit are considered along with the emerging effects of the Covid-19 crisis, the increasing digitisation of work, and the implications for policy of debates over the role of the law in constituting and regulating the labour market. The book examines in detail the law governing individual employment relations, with chapters covering the definition of the employment relationship; the sources and regulation of terms and conditions of employment; discipline and termination of employment; and equality of treatment. This is followed by an analysis of the elements of collective labour law, including the forms of collective organisation, freedom of association, employee representation, internal trade union government, and the law relating to industrial action. The seventh edition of Deakin and Morris' Labour Law is an essential text for students of law and of disciplines related to management and industrial relations, for barristers and solicitors working in the field of labour law, and for all those with a serious interest in the subject.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509943560

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9781509943562

In the Front Row

How Australian Fashion made the World Stage

By: Simon P Lock

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In the Front Row

How Australian Fashion made the World Stage

By: Simon P Lock

In the Front Row charts the rise of Australian Fashion Week, from one man’s ambition to take Australian fashion to the world, to the glittering international event it is today. Simon P. Lock’s determination placed Sydney on the international fashion week circuit, up there with New York, London, Milan and Paris. Lock’s story takes you backstage for the twenty years that Fashion Week has wowed the world. It tells the story of daring designers, supermodels and celebrities and details how Australia’s biggest fashion stars—Akira Isogawa, Collette Dinnigan, Peter Morrissey, Wayne Cooper, sass & bide, Zimmermann, Dion Lee and Ellery—got their start. He reveals the parts Miranda Kerr, Elle Macpherson, Linda Evangelista, Dita Von Teese and Cate Blanchett played in this often drama-filled adventure. In the Front Row reveals the feuds, frustrations and triumphs of producing one of Australia’s most fabulous international events.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522867928

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9780522867923

General Video Game Artificial Intelligence

By: Diego Pérez Liébana,Simon M. Lucas,Raluca D. Gaina,Julian Togelius,Ahmed Khalifa,Jialin Liu

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General Video Game Artificial Intelligence

By: Diego Pérez Liébana,Simon M. Lucas,Raluca D. Gaina,Julian Togelius,Ahmed Khalifa,Jialin Liu

Research on general video game playing aims at designing agents or content generators that can perform well in multiple video games, possibly without knowing the game in advance and with little to no specific domain knowledge. The general video game AI framework and competition propose a challenge in which researchers can test their favorite AI methods with a potentially infinite number of games created using the Video Game Description Language. The open-source framework has been used since 2014 for running a challenge. Competitors around the globe submit their best approaches that aim to generalize well across games. Additionally, the framework has been used in AI modules by many higher-education institutions as assignments, or as proposed projects for final year (undergraduate and Master's) students and Ph.D. candidates. The present book, written by the developers and organizers of the framework, presents the most interesting highlights of the research performed by the authors during these years in this domain. It showcases work on methods to play the games, generators of content, and video game optimization. It also outlines potential further work in an area that offers multiple research directions for the future.

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Springer Nature

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3031021223

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9783031021220

Growth determinants in East and Southeast Asian economies

By: Hans-Jacob Krümmel,Simon Koppers

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Growth determinants in East and Southeast Asian economies

By: Hans-Jacob Krümmel,Simon Koppers

Already in the 1960s the four little dragons Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan started their industrialization moving steadily upwards with increasing growth rates, some of them double-digit in the 1980s. Most significant for these results has been their export-oriented growth strategy capitalizing on low labour costs and opening them up to the world market with all its benefits and pressures. Until today they have attracted quite a lot of foreign investors bringing technology and skills beside the pure capital. Thus, all four countries have reached a more sophisticated level of production and partly even developed into service and financial centres.Combining these developments with the already advanced Japan, the entire Asia-Pacific Region must be seen as an extremely dynamic area often also mentioned as the Pacific Challenge. Thus it is of high interest to examine the determinants of growth behind this challenge, behind the economic success.Because of the specific Asian dimension of the success, especially the Asian mentality, a transfer of the growth strategy can only be possible to a very limited degree. But the Asian experiences can at least be helpful to the formulation of a country related development strategy showing up generally important growth factors.The contributors to this book analyze important factors such as development planning, foreign investment, deregulation, government intervention, human capital, finance and banking (service sector), technology transfer and promotion, trade (export promotion), agriculture and regional cooperation. For this purpose experts in Science and Economics report from their experiences.

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Duncker & Humblot

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3428472659

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9783428472659

Nonlinear Filters

Theory and Applications

By: Peyman Setoodeh,Saeid Habibi,Simon Haykin

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Nonlinear Filters

Theory and Applications

By: Peyman Setoodeh,Saeid Habibi,Simon Haykin

NONLINEAR FILTERS Discover the utility of using deep learning and (deep) reinforcement learning in deriving filtering algorithms with this insightful and powerful new resource Nonlinear Filters: Theory and Applications delivers an insightful view on state and parameter estimation by merging ideas from control theory, statistical signal processing, and machine learning. Taking an algorithmic approach, the book covers both classic and machine learning-based filtering algorithms. Readers of Nonlinear Filters will greatly benefit from the wide spectrum of presented topics including stability, robustness, computability, and algorithmic sufficiency. Readers will also enjoy: Organization that allows the book to act as a stand-alone, self-contained reference A thorough exploration of the notion of observability, nonlinear observers, and the theory of optimal nonlinear filtering that bridges the gap between different science and engineering disciplines A profound account of Bayesian filters including Kalman filter and its variants as well as particle filter A rigorous derivation of the smooth variable structure filter as a predictor-corrector estimator formulated based on a stability theorem, used to confine the estimated states within a neighborhood of their true values A concise tutorial on deep learning and reinforcement learning A detailed presentation of the expectation maximization algorithm and its machine learning-based variants, used for joint state and parameter estimation Guidelines for constructing nonparametric Bayesian models from parametric ones Perfect for researchers, professors, and graduate students in engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, and artificial intelligence, Nonlinear Filters: Theory and Applications will also earn a place in the libraries of those studying or practicing in fields involving pandemic diseases, cybersecurity, information fusion, augmented reality, autonomous driving, urban traffic network, navigation and tracking, robotics, power systems, hybrid technologies, and finance.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119078156

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9781119078159

Understanding Deep Learning

By: Simon J.D. Prince

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Understanding Deep Learning

By: Simon J.D. Prince

An authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of deep learning that strikes a pragmatic middle ground between theory and practice. Deep learning is a fast-moving field with sweeping relevance in today’s increasingly digital world. Understanding Deep Learning provides an authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of the subject, covering all the key topics along with recent advances and cutting-edge concepts. Many deep learning texts are crowded with technical details that obscure fundamentals, but Simon Prince ruthlessly curates only the most important ideas to provide a high density of critical information in an intuitive and digestible form. From machine learning basics to advanced models, each concept is presented in lay terms and then detailed precisely in mathematical form and illustrated visually. The result is a lucid, self-contained textbook suitable for anyone with a basic background in applied mathematics. Up-to-date treatment of deep learning covers cutting-edge topics not found in existing texts, such as transformers and diffusion models Short, focused chapters progress in complexity, easing students into difficult concepts Pragmatic approach straddling theory and practice gives readers the level of detail required to implement naive versions of models Streamlined presentation separates critical ideas from background context and extraneous detail Minimal mathematical prerequisites, extensive illustrations, and practice problems make challenging material widely accessible Programming exercises offered in accompanying Python Notebooks

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MIT Press

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0262048647

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9780262048644

Honeyball & Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law

By: Simon Honeyball

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Honeyball & Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law

By: Simon Honeyball

Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law is an approach to employment law with strong critical analysis whilst placing it in its wider contexts, in a concise and user-friendly format. Fully updated to take into account the recent significant developments in this area, including the Equality Act 2010, the key topics on most employment law courses are addressed in detail. An extremely clear writing style allows this text to remain accessible and student-focussed, while providing detailed explanations and analysis of the law. The text also includes diagrams and chapter summaries throughout to aid student understanding, while further reading suggestions assist with essaypreparation and research. Setting employment law in context, this book considers both industrial and collective issues as well as examining the increasing role of the EU in UK employment law. A separate chapter on human rights also enables students to understand the role human rights legislation plays in the development of employment law. This book also contains cross referencing to Painter & Holmes' Cases & Materials on Employment Law, ensuring that these two texts continue to complement one another and provide the perfect combination of textbook analysis and the most up-to-date cases and materials. This text is accompanied by a free Online Resource Centre (www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/honeyball12e/) which contains updates to the law and useful weblinks.

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Oxford University Press

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0198748361

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9780198748366

Taking Popular Music Seriously

Selected Essays

By: Simon Frith

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Taking Popular Music Seriously

Selected Essays

By: Simon Frith

As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection address these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, dispute and agreement between the individual actors who make up a music world. The emphasis is always on discourse, on the way in which people talk and write about music, and the part this plays in the social construction of musical meaning and value. The collection includes nineteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field, along with an autobiographical introduction.

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Routledge

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1351547186

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9781351547185

Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law

By: Simon Honeyball

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Honeyball and Bowers' Textbook on Employment Law

By: Simon Honeyball

This textbook now includes more diagrams and flowcharts, and the discrimination and unfair dismissal sections have been thoroughly updated in light of recent legislation. This work remains a concise yet analytical introduction to employment law.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199685622

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9780199685622

Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960-1990

By: Simon Langlois,Baillargeon

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Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960-1990

By: Simon Langlois,Baillargeon

Readers will follow an intense period of social change in Quebec, during which there was a remarkable increase in the level of modernization. They will note a massive entry of women into the labour force and a growing service sector that now constitutes seventy percent of all economic activity. They will observe also that the Québécois have dramatically increased their television viewing and that, while they express a generally high level of satisfaction with life, the Québécois must contend with escalating crime and suicide rates.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773563172

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9780773563179

Business Purpose Design

An essential guide for human-centric and holistic businesses

By: Monika Smith,Shermin Voshmgir,Scot Carlson; Don Spampinato,Steffan Heuer,Curt Simon Harlinghausen,Friedericke Rode,Philip Siefer,Martin Sinner,Christian Solmecke,Daniel Heltzel; Maren Beverung; Katharina Zwielich

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Business Purpose Design

An essential guide for human-centric and holistic businesses

Business Purpose Design is an essential guide for a human-centric and holistic purpose for businesses. Discontinuity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are driving forces of our world. Entire markets, industries, departments, and specialist areas interact and correlate with each other - unplanned and open-ended. In our world, orientation and a common driver is key to navigate, to distinguish relevant information from irrelevant, to take decisions and lead companies to create a positive future. Together with 32 outstanding personalities, from thought leaders, executives, founders, designers, and scientists, Monika looks at the 30 most relevant topics für purpose entrepreneurship. Bonus: Many examples, trend outlooks, and conceptional images inspire new thoughts and ideas - and reassure existing developments. Furthermore, takeaways for every topic offer a hands-on guide to act right away. With the Business Purpose Design model, organizations of any size can design, build, and grow their business towards becoming impact-driven. It provides a toolkit, and over 90 practical tips to design or and implement purpose within an organization right away. It allows for many perspectives. Co-created by over 32 practitioners from 30 disciplines. Illustrated with a critical eye by one of Europe's most sophisticated graphic-recording duo. Specially designed for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, coaches, managers, designers and leaders of all types of organizations. www.business-purpose.com

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3981924940

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The Terrorist Trap, Second Edition

America's Experience with Terrorism

By: Jeffrey D. Simon

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The Terrorist Trap, Second Edition

America's Experience with Terrorism

By: Jeffrey D. Simon

The bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and of the World Trade Center in New York City have joined a long history of terrorists acts against the United States. In this newly updated edition of his book, Jeffrey Simon reaches back to the founding days of the Republic to tell a story that is both instructive and alarming. Simon uncovers the dynamics of a deadly conflict that affects all Americans. His in-depth interviews with terrorists and their victims, with reporters, government officials, and others bring to life a tale of presidents and terrorists, media and society, all entangled in a drama of international violence. The Terrorist Trap traces the government response to terrorism from the days of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates to William Jefferson Clinton's confrontation with homegrown terrorism. It explores the terrorist trap: the psychological, political, and social elements that make terrorism unlike any other conflict. With the end of the Cold War and the defeat of Saddam Hussein's army in the Gulf War, many believed that the threat of terrorism had been significantly reduced. But Simon shows how terrorism grows out of political, economic, and social grievances that can never be fully resolved, as events in Israel and elsewhere continue to demonstrate. Living with terrorism will be an inescapable part of life in the twenty-first century. Simon calls on officials to move away from the useless rhetoric of defeating terrorism and to focus instead on achievable goals in combating this global problem.

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Indiana University Press

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0253214777

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9780253214775

The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner

A Complete Organizer, Journal, and Keepsake for Your Unforgettable Vacation

By: Susan Veness,Simon Veness

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The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World Planner

A Complete Organizer, Journal, and Keepsake for Your Unforgettable Vacation

By: Susan Veness,Simon Veness

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Simon and Schuster

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1440528101

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Defying Expectations

Phil Rawlins and the Orlando City Soccer Story

By: Susan Veness

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Defying Expectations

Phil Rawlins and the Orlando City Soccer Story

By: Susan Veness

The inside story of the birth of the Orlando City Soccer Club"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496201760

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9781496201768

Silver Surfers' Colour Guide to Travel & Holidays

By: Simon Veness

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Silver Surfers' Colour Guide to Travel & Holidays

By: Simon Veness

The Internet has transformed the travel industry. It is brilliant for silver surfers because it offersmore competition in immediate deals, options and prices. However, it can raise difficulties too,because you don?t always know who you can trust. We take care of this problem.Silver surfers respond to our simple step-by-step learning approach. It just gets the job done, fillsthem with confidence and spurs them on to better things. So this book is very different. It is projectand achievement led. Button by button, screen shot by screen shot, it shows what to do, what hashappened and what to do next. It produces what you want, where you want it, every time!

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Foulsham

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0572033672

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9780572033675

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