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UNINA9910451529103321 |
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Woolf Alex <1963-> |
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From Pictland to Alba [[electronic resource] ] : 789 - 1070 / / Alex Woolf |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 |
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0-7486-7216-8 |
1-281-08919-2 |
9786611089191 |
0-7486-2821-5 |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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New Edinburgh history of Scotland ; ; v. 2 |
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Scotland History To 1057 |
Alba (Kingdom) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Maps and Genealogical Tables; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Note on Spelling and Pronunciation; Introduction Land and People: Northern Britain in the Eighth Century; PART ONE: Events (789–1070); Chapter 1: The Coming of the Vikings; Chapter 2: The Scaldingi and the Transformation of Northumbria; Chapter 3: Last Days of the Pictish Kingdom (839–89); Chapter 4: The Grandsons of Cinaed and the Grandsons of Ímar; Chapter 5: The Later Tenth Century: A Turmoil of Warring Princes; Chapter 6: The Fall of the House of Alpín and the Moray Question |
PART TWO: ProcessChapter 7: Scandinavian Scotland; Chapter 8: Pictavia to Albania; Table of Events; Guide to Further Reading; The Principal Medieval Chronicles used in this Volume; Bibliography; Index; |
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In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hundred years they had become distant memories. This book charts the transformation of the political |
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landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of |
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UNINA9910457743903321 |
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Gookin Dan |
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Power Excel and Word [[electronic resource] /] / Dan Gookin |
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San Francisco [Calif.] ; ; London, : SYBEX, c2004 |
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1-280-64987-9 |
9786610649877 |
0-470-11381-2 |
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1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Electronic spreadsheets |
Word processing |
Electronic books. |
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Power Excel and Word; Contents at a Glance; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; About This Book; About You!; What Now?; Chapter 1: Life beyond the Basic Word; Saving and Opening Documents Can Be Torture if You Don't Know a Few Things; Can I Password-Protect My Document?; A Gaggle of Nifty Word Formatting and Editing Tricks; Printing Fun; Chapter 2: Alas, There Is No Such Thing as a "Simple" Document; Measuring Your Way around a Document; Stuff You Can Do Better When You're Writing a Simple Letter; Various Spacing Tricks for Making Your Document Longer or Shorter |
Chapter 3: Making Your Documents and Reports More FancyHow Do You Know a Special Page When You See One?; The Woes of Numbering Pages; Chapter 4: Oh the Sacrilege of Drawing in a Word Processor!; Adding Pizzazz with a Text Box; Toss In an Image or Two; Simple Drawing Stuff; Chapter 5: Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles of Time; Why Bother with Styles?; Some Style Tricks, Tidbits, and Advice; |
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Holy Templates, WordMan!; Chapter 6: Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay; What the Heck Is Outline Mode?; Organizing Your Work ( after Outlining); How Does Indexing Work? |
Ideas for Various Creative ProjectsChapter 7: The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables; Getting the Most from Tabs; Stumbling over Tables; Lovely Labels; Dreaming of Fields; Chapter 8: Sharing Your Work with Others; Collaboration Tools; Revealing the Offenses of Others; Chapter 9: Making Your Own Custom Word; To Hell with the Interface!; Belly Up to the Toolbar; An Introduction to Macros; Peeling Personal Information from a Document; Chapter 10: Why the Hell Would Anyone Other than an Accountant Use Excel?; Some Information for Excel Newbies; Worksheet Tricks, Stunts, and Tomfoolery |
I Don't Want My Data to Just Sit There! Any Way to Make Cells Do Things to Each Other?The Common "I Am Stupid" List of Excel Error Messages; Plopping an Excel Thing into a Word Thing; Chapter 11: It's Super Dooper Grid Time!; Why Bother with the Extra Worksheets?; Letting Excel Do the Work for You; Letting Excel Be a Database of Sorts; PivotTable Is Designed to Make Me Go Insane, Right?; Chapter 12: Some Excellent Formatting Tricks; The Narrow and Wide of Things; Beyond Simple Formatting; Printing Woes and Worries; Chapter 13: Oh No! The Horrible Math Chapter!; Basic, Annoying Math |
The SUM of All ThingsIf Math Gives You a Headache, Wait Until You Start Adding and Subtracting Text; Chapter 14: Fun with Charts and Graphs; Basic Chart Tricks; Yes, Indeed, I'm Grossly Unhappy and Must Redo the Chart; Chapter 15: Excel Templates, Samples, and Web Mischief; The Document You Use Over and Over: The Template; Some Simple Sample Documents; Can I Grab Data from the Web and Use It in a Worksheet?; Index |
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""Best-selling author Gookin...keeps readers laughing while he takes them from being a ho-hum user to an advanced Office maven.""-Charles Carr, ComputorEdge Magazine, www.computoredge.com Just about anyone can slap together a Word document or fill an Excel grid with numbers, but power users understand how to tap into the full functionality of these applications. Best-selling author Dan Gookin skips what you already know and takes you directly to the best and most useful parts of Word and Excel--the commands, shortcuts, and combinations of functions that will give your creations th |
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