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The complete guide to Excel 2019Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, the Excel 2019 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for all your Excel 2019 needs. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more.Navigate this powerful tool for business, home management, technical work, and much more with the only resource you need, Excel 2019 Bible.* Create functional spreadsheets that work* Master formulas, formatting, pivot tables, and more* Get acquainted with Excel 2019's new features and toolsWhether you need a walkthrough tutorial or an easy-to-navigate desk reference, the Excel 2019 Bible has you covered with complete coverage and clear expert guidance.

Your personal, hands-on guide to the latest and most useful features in Microsoft Excel 365Excel 365 is Microsoft's latest cloud-based version of its world-famous spreadsheet app. Powerful and user-friendly, it's an ideal solution for businesses and people looking to make sense of--and draw intelligence from--their data.The Excel 365 Bible carries over the best content from the best-selling Excel 2019 Bible while reflecting how a new generation uses Excel in Excel 365. The authoring team with their decades of Excel and business intelligence experience and recognition from the Excel community as Excel MVPs delivers an accessible and authoritative roadmap to Excel 365. Interested in the basics? You'll learn to create spreadsheets and workbooks and navigate the user interface. If you're ready for more advanced topics you can skip right to the material on creating visualizations, crafting custom functions, and using Visual Basic for Applications to script automations.You'll also get:* Over 900 pages of powerful tips, tricks, and strategies to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel 365* Guidance on how to import, manage, and analyze large amounts of data* Advice on how to craft predictions and "What-If Analyses" based on data you already havePerfect for anyone new to Excel, as well as experts and advanced users, the Excel 365 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for everything you need to know about the world's most popular, easy-to-use spreadsheet software.

Has anyone ever told you that you have great potential? Michael Alexander had heard that for most of his life. At first, like most people, he took it as a compliment. But as the years went by, and he kept getting the same "compliment," something became very clear: If he still had so much potential - that meant he hadn't reached it. In his first book, Improve Your Position, Michael Alexander - Color Commentator on UFC's Fight Pass, and a very successful business leader - shares his incredible rags-to-prison-to-riches story. Written in an unapologetic, easy-to-read style, its readers will see how possible it is for them to improve their lives. Your Past is Behind You Too many people are stuck crying about, replaying, and blaming their past on their current position. They feel as if their paths have been laid out in front of them and are powerless to improve their position in life. Don't believe it! If you have breath in you, you can change your life. Michael Alexander had less than a 1% chance of amounting to anything. To beat the odds, he had to beat his negative way of thinking. "I used to think, 'no one in my family has ever made a million dollars. Who am I to think I can?' Then I saw that no one had ever run a 4-minute mile before until Roger Bannister did it. I realized that what's possible is not limited. There are 53,000 people in the Guinness World Record book. That's the equivalent of every day, for 145 years, someone breaking a record; doing what many people thought was impossible!It was time to stop hearing about potential, grab it in a choke hold and convert it to reality."Michael Alexander Your Time is Now! Change is hard, but it's easier when you see other people doing it. Michael Alexander did it and paved the way for you to do it, too. Buckle up. Hang on to your hat. Improve Your Position is a wild ride that will leave you at one of the best places on earth - a crossroad.

It would be fair to say that 13 year old Alec's life is definitely not going to plan. His wheelchair bound dad is suffering more each day, and three bullies seem determined to make things as difficult as possible for him at school. Then, the discovery of an odd scratch card, and a visit to a shop that doesn't actually exist, changes his life completely. Magic, it seems, has decided to take an interest in Alec's life and that means all sorts of things are about to happen. But with the bullies giving him more and more attention, and the frighteningly mysterious 'shadow creatures' after him, can things really turn out as he wants them? And where exactly did the talking cat come from? Follow Alec as he casts spells, meets ghosts, takes midnight train journeys into the past, and tries his best to deal with all the problems in his difficult life.

Magic; the art of a true gentleman, its secrets lost in the mists of time.An evil man, cast from this world to the world of the dead for using magic of life to kill another human.A true Earth Wand, born on All Hallows' Eve, and cut during the chimes of midnight.Mr Slive finally has one of the great, lost Earth Wands, and has returned to destroy those who stood against him, and take all of the world's power for himself. Only a circle of magic has any chance of stopping him, and only two teenagers and a cat now stand between him and domination of mankind.For Holly, Alec and Charlie, it is a race between worlds to the secret caves of a lost civilisation, and back through time to ancient, haunted forests, and a strange land lost between cliffs and sea.From dragons, ghosts and deadly shadow creatures, to magic tunnels that can trap a person within them forever. It can only end in a confrontation between one of the most powerful magicians who ever lived, and two children and a cat who know they must not fail!

There are thousands of books in the marketplace on the topic of Selling. Some are excellent and worth the read, but most teach outdated methods that do not work in today's business climate. The sales profession has been under tremendous pressure in the last few years to produce more results, but in today's economic environment we need to equip our sales teams with better knowledge and strategies in order for companies to succeed. The purpose of this book is to help sales professionals and sales managers understand that successful selling is not complicated and that there are easy solutions to help achieve better results. We will show you how to develop simple selling strategies and utilize our unique motivational tips to keep you focused. This book offers the reader an inside look at the skills and strategies used by the some of the world's most successful salespeople. This unique book unveils proven, practical sales strategies that can be implemented quickly for immediate success and offers life changing motivational tips that will have you re-energized and ready to tackle your next sales call or re-focus your sales team. It is designed for the on-the-go salesperson and sales manager and will not slow you down with long theory or case studies. These outstanding, unique tips will assist you in making your selling careers even more successful. Whether you are selling B2B or B2C, you will want to continually reference this book to help keep you motivated on your journey to sales success.

Being on the witness stand can be frightening, the stakes are high and most people are nervous, scared, anxious, and under prepared for the ordeal ahead. Many lawyers, even good ones, don't prepare their witnesses properly. Whether you are a profession witness, a witness in a criminal or civil case, or even in a divorce or child custody battle, this book will help you feel comfortable and more importantly help your side to win in whatever legal case you find yourself involved in.

The two volumes LNCS 8805 and 8806 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 18 workshops held at the 20th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2014, in Porto, Portugal, in August 2014. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The volumes include papers from the following workshops: APCI&E (First Workshop on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry and Engineering - BigDataCloud (Third Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds) - DIHC (Second Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds) - FedICI (Second Workshop on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures) - Hetero Par (12th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) - HiBB (5th Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine) - LSDVE (Second Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P) - MuCoCoS (7th International Workshop on Multi-/Many-core Computing Systems) - OMHI (Third Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and Interconnects) - PADAPS (Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations) - PROPER (7th Workshop on Productivity and Performance) - Resilience (7th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing with Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) - REPPAR (First International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing) - ROME (Second Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many Core Era) - SPPEXA (Workshop on Software for Exascale Computing) - TASUS (First Workshop on Techniques and Applications for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems) - UCHPC (7th Workshop on Un Conventional High Performance Computing) and VHPC (9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing.

Learn to use Excel dashboards and reports to better conceptualize dataUpdated for all the latest features and capabilities of Excel 2013, this go-to resource provides you with in-depth coverage of the individual functions and tools that can be used to create compelling Excel reports. Veteran author Michael Alexander walks you through the most effective ways to present and report data. Featuring a comprehensive review of a wide array of technical and analytical concepts, this essential guide helps you go from reporting data with simple tables full of dull numbers to presenting key information through the use of high-impact, meaningful reports and dashboards that will wow management both visually and substantively.* Details how to analyze large amounts of data and report the results in a way that is both visually attractive and effective* Describes how to use different perspectives to achieve better visibility into data, as well as how to slice data into various views on the fly* Shows how to automate redundant reporting and analysis processes* Walks you through creating impressive dashboards, eye-catching visualizations, and real-world What-If analysesExcel Dashboards and Reports, Second Edition is part technical manual, part analytical guidebook, and exactly what you need to become your organization's dashboard dynamo!

Parallelanddistributedprocessing,althoughwithinthefocusofcomputerscience researchforalongtime,isgainingmoreandmoreimportanceinawidespectrum of applications. These proceedings aim to demonstrate the use of parallel and distributed processing concepts in di?erent application ?elds, and attempt to spark interest in novel research directions to advance the embracing model of high-performance computing research in general. The objective of these workshops is to speci?cally address researchers c- ing from university, industry and governmental research organizations and application-oriented companies, in order to close the gap between purely s- enti?c research and the applicability of the research ideas to real-life problems. Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotionandadvancementofallaspectsofparallelanddistributedcomputing. The 2007 event was the 13th issue of the conference. Euro-Par has for a long time been eager to attract colocated events sharing the same goal of promoting the development of parallel and distributed computing, both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. Since 2006, Euro-Par o?ers researchersthe chance to colocate advanced technical workshops back-to-back with the main conference. This is for a mutual bene?t: the workshops can take advantage of all technical and social facilities which are set up for the conference, so that the organizational tasks are kept to a minimal level; the conference can rely on workshopstoexperimentwithspeci?careasofresearchwhicharenotyetmature enough, or too speci?c, to lead to an o?cial, full-?edged topic at the conference.

Spanning the Mogul Empire and the British Raj through to the struggle for Indian independence, this collection takes the reader on a journey through Delhi and Agra, recreating the key events, customs and lives of residents and visitors.

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.After sixteen years of high-pressure nursing, Michael Alexander has traded in his hospital uniform for the fresh air, comfort and routine of an International private school in the French Alps. Bliss! But it's not long before he discovers that school nursing is not all permission slips, sniffles and gift baskets. Disastrous school trips; after hours dorm sleepovers; awkward sex education classes; culture clashes; swine flu panic; and kids with six-figure bank balances and a taste for bribery. This is nursing as you've never seen it before.What goes on behind the gates of one of the world's most elite boarding schools? What happens when kids from all over the world - Russia, Africa, America, Saudi Arabia - live, learn and grow under one roof? What happens when it's left to school staff to teach children the facts of life, and lust?Following on from the hugely successful Confessions of a Male Nurse, Michael Alexander is back with more touching, shocking and often laugh-out-loud funny tales of nursing. In Confessions of a School Nurse, Alexander tells all on boarding school life - as a nurse, parent, and Average Joe, he offers a unique perspective on this strange world.

This comprehensive text traces the development of one of the world's richest literatures from the Old English period through to the present day, discussing a wide range of key authors without losing its clarity or verve. Building on the book's established reputation and success, the third edition has been revised and updated throughout. It now provides a full final chapter on the contemporary scene, with more on genres and the impact of globalization.This accessible book remains the essential companion for students of English literature and literary history, or for anyone wishing to follow the unfolding of writing in England from its beginnings. It is ideal for those who know a few landmark texts, but little of the literary landscape that surrounds them; those who want to know what English literature consists of; and those who simply want to read its fascinating story.

By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. This book shows that most Jews felt culturally obliged to mark themselves as different - and believed that doing so made them both better Jews and better Americans.

The Old English selections which include extracts from Beowulf and well-known riddles and elegies, are in modern English translation. The Middle English writings, from Langland, Chaucer, Malory and many others, are presented in the original language with marginal notes, or with a full translation where appropriate.

Provides an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. This volume provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives.

This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.

This is an edition of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf", offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.