Never mind the big renos, it's all the little jobs around the house that can end up costing you a fortune - unless you can do them yourself!Find out how, with handyman and DIYer Scott McGregor, in this essential guide to fixing everything around the home. Full of step-by-steps, simple instructions and lots of inside tips, Fix It will show you how to do all those tricky little jobs you'd rather not pay a tradie for. Get the good oil on: tools; products; materials; greening ...

In The Mosaic Effect, the authors chronicle how they assembled a formidable team of intelligence collectors, including seasoned journalists, former agents, law enforcement experts, dedicated researchers, and incognito informants within the Chinese diaspora. With precision and dedication, they employ a fusion of modern investigative techniques and age-old tradecraft. Together, they assemble a captivating mosaic of intelligence, piecing together the intricate web of CCP influence th...

It is early morning on a warm day in Roman Italy. Sixteen-year-old Tiro gets the water, makes breakfast, and works in the kitchen – like he does day after day. Tiro is a slave. He can never be free, never eat when he wants to eat, or sleep when he wants to sleep. But today is different. He is going to Pompeii for the first time. He is excited, but it is AD 79: and on Mount Vesuvius, near Pompeii, very bad things are beginning to happen…

‘I can see wonderful things!’ said Howard Carter, when he opened the tomb of the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, in 1922. In the tomb were gold chariots, statues, and Tutankhamun’s 3,000-year-old body. People learned many things from the tomb, and suddenly Tutankhamun was famous. This is Tutankhamun’s story, told by his friend Aziru. Aziru goes to live in the pharaoh’s palace as a young boy, and he and Tutankhamun are soon great friends. Pharaoh from the age of nine, Tutankhamun rebuilds hi...

In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation, governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may face additional barriers. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this trend.Voting Online focuses on Canada, where the technology has been widely embraced by municipal governments with one of the highest rates of use in the ...

A Legal Guide to Recovering for Flood Losses is a comprehensive compendium of the law on recovery for flood loss. It has four parts.The first part begins with an analysis of the components parts of the standard water/flood exclusion in property policies. That is followed by a discussion of discrete clauses in property policies that provide limited coverage for flood losses.The second part explores coverage under private flood insurance - both primary and excess - a...

Insurance Law for Common Interest Communities: Condominiums, Cooperatives and Homeowners Associations offers comprehensive coverage of insurance-related topics involving common interest communities.This book discusses and analyzes statutes, court decisions and policies on those topics and more. It is not only a useful reference tool for attorneys who represent common interest communities, but is also a valuable resource for community association managers, insurance producer...

New authors and collections. Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber warfare but the subtle, lethal methods of agents and spies remain the same, and so has the power of great writing, with stories here to chill and intrigue every reader.New, contemporary and notable writers f...

The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.