Have you prepared your legacy? Get peace of mind for you and your loved ones tomorrow by planning your estate today.Wills and Estate Planning: The Essential Guide for Australians will help you make a plan to leave your wealth to your selected beneficiaries, protect your financial legacy and avoid family disagreements. This plain-English guide makes estate planning easy, providing exactly what you need to know to get started.You have spent substanti...

Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world and how the growth of major national and official languages is threatening the continued existence of smaller, minority languages. As individuals adopt new ways of speaking, many languages are disappearing, others are...

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Manchester offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the Great War. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it explores the city's regiments, the background and fate of the men on the frontline, the changing face of industry, the vital role of women, conscientious objectors, hospitals for ...

This book sets out to chart the role that language plays, and has played, both positively and also negatively, in the attempted construction, maintenance, and strengthening of national cohesion and identity in a broad range of states in modern Africa.Language as a communicative system varying among different populations is commonly acknowledged to function as an important symbol of group identity, often stimulating a natural sense of solidarity among communities sharing a single va...

'I read that a woman has left her husband and children to go and live with a Red Indian she met on the internet. Could it be said that her marriage was going through a bad Apache?'Thousands of letters to the Daily Mail go unpublished every week - until now. Included in this collection of 'the best of the rest' are pithy notes from grammar pedants, serious contributions to debates of the day and hilarious misunderstandings, observations and experiences.Corr...

The Museums and Collections of Higher Education provides an analysis of the historic connections between materiality and higher education, developed through diverse examples of global practice.Outlining the different value propositions that museums and collections bring to higher education, the historic link between objects, evidence and academic knowledge is examined with reference to the origin point of both types of organisation. Museums and collections bring institutio...

Written for leisure boat owners, the RYA Diesel Engine Handbook is essential reading for anyone doing the one-day RYA Diesel Engine Course. This digital version is enhanced with animation and extracts from the DVD that accompanies the printed version, giving expert instruction and top tips from Nick Eales of Seastart.Easy to follow text and beautifully detailed colour illustrations enable the reader to develop the knowledge and confidence required by all diesel engine boat owners. ...

Written by respected nautical Journalist Andrew Simpson, RYA Electrics Handbook is the ideal reference point for all boaters and their boat electrics.Following on from the popular RYA Diesel Engine Handbook, this title helps expand the RYA maintenance handbook series, giving all boaters superb information and advice on the difficult task of keeping their boats in tip-top condition.This is where this eBook comes to the fore; providing a comprehensive guide to all aspects of ...

If Dreams Came True is a story very loosely based on a dream Andrew Simpson had when he was ill. In the dream, he thought he had been kidnapped and hidden away. When he woke in the dream, it was many years later, and everything was strange. There had been a war, and now there was a world government. He was in serious condition, but great advances had been made it the medical field, so he was able to be cured.Once he was able to get around, he searched for his family, found his gran...

There have been some fine histories of Didsbury compiled over the last 150 years since the publication of A History of the Chapels of Didsbury & Chorlton by Revd John Booker in 1859. But now it is time for a new book, which does not attempt to revisit or repackage what already has been published but to do something different, viewing the history of Didsbury from another angle. Local painter and author Peter Topping and author and historian Andrew Simpson invite readers to dip into the page...

This book describes best practices for successful FPGA design. It is the result of the author’s meetings with hundreds of customers on the challenges facing each of their FPGA design teams. By gaining an understanding into their design environments, processes, what works and what does not work, key areas of concern in implementing system designs have been identified and a recommended design methodology to overcome these challenges has been developed.This book’s content has a strong...

The Beetle is a horror novel that was published in 1897 and significantly outsold Dracula, which appeared in the same year. A polymorphous Egyptian creature the Beetle seeks revenge on the eminent British politician Paul Lessingham for crimes committed against the disciples of an ancient cult. Although it is less well-known than Dracula to modern readers, The Beetle remains a leading example of the Gothic novel.