The issue of how assets are distributed after death is of increasing significance for larger numbers of people. In this original and path-breaking study, the authors examine the principle means through which people plan to dispose of their assets after death: by the use of wills. By offering an empirical study of 800 English wills, the book identifies significant patterns of bequeathing among a cross-section of the population, and not just among those sections of society whno enjoy substantial wealth. This leads us to focus upon what wills tell us about the family and kin relationships, and upon how people transmit their assets across generations: to their families and to institutions and organizations.

Wills, Inheritance, and the Family (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

Business & Money

Mason, Jennifer

Finch, Janet

Hayes, Lynn

Masson, Judith

Wallis, Lorraine

Economics

Clarendon Press

Negotiating Family Responsibilities

Based on findings of a major study of kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family members, provides a new insight into contemporary family life and kin relationships outside the nuclear family.

Politics & Social Sciences

Finch, Professor Janet V

Social Sciences

Routledge

Two SharePoint MVPs provide the ultimate introduction to SharePoint 2010 Beginning SharePoint 2010: Building Team Solutions with SharePoint provides information workers and site managers with extensive knowledge and expert advice, empowering them to become SharePoint champions within their organizations. <ul>
<li>Provides expansive coverage of SharePoint topics, as well as specialty areas such as forms, excel services, records management, and web content management</li> <li>Details realistic usage scenarios, and includes practice examples that highlight best practices for configuration and customization</li> <li>Includes detailed descriptions and illustrations of SharePoint’s functionality</li> </ul>
Designed to mentor and coach business and technical leaders on the use of SharePoint in addressing critical information management problems within their organizations, Beginning SharePoint 2010 is sure to become the premiere handbook for any active or aspiring SharePoint expert.

Beginning SharePoint 2010: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint

Computers & Technology

Rogers, Laura

Perran, Amanda

Perran, Shane

Networking & Cloud Computing

Wrox Pr Inc

Build effective solutions for real-world business scenarios—using out-of-the-box tools in Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and Office 365. Each chapter in this hands-on book focuses on a single business project, using a standard approach to guide you through the solution-building process from start to finish. Apply your skills as a SharePoint power user or site administrator—and get started now. 
 Tackle 10 common business problems with proven SharePoint solutions 
<ul>
<li>Set up a help desk solution to track service requests </li>
<li>Build a modest project management system </li>
<li>Design a scheduling system to manage resources </li>
<li>Create a site to support geographically dispersed teams </li>
<li>Implement a course registration system </li>
<li>Build a learning center with training classes and resources </li>
<li>Design a team blog platform to review content </li>
<li>Create a process to coordinate RFP responses </li>
<li>Set up a FAQ system to help users find answers quickly </li>
<li>Implement a cost-effective contact management system </li>
</ul>

Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects

Buckley, Christian

Preston, Wes

Jackett, Brian T.

Microsoft Press

Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life

How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless. In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities – potent charges and charismatically lively connections in personal life, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant or toxify the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world through what she calls the 'socio-atmospherics of everyday life'. This book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range, and to engage in a more open, attentive, inventive and poetic sociological sensibility.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Polity

Qualitative Researching

The Second Edition of this bestselling text offers students and first-time researchers invaluable guidance to the practice of qualitative social research. Throughout the author addresses the key issues which need to be identified and resolved in the qualitative research process, and through which researchers develop essential skills in qualitative research. The book highlights the`difficult questions′ that researchers should get into the habit of asking themselves in the course of doing qualitative research, and outlines the implications of the different ways of responding to these questions. Qualitative Researching bridges the gap between `cook-book′ approaches to qualitative research and abstract methodological approaches. Helping the reader to move comfortably between principle and practice, this text has proved to be an invaluable introduction to qualitative research, and a useful aid to accomplished qualitative research practice across the social sciences.

Sage Publications Ltd.

In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized animals they encountered in their daily lives.
Americans of diverse backgrounds, Mason shows, found it attractive as well as politic to imagine themselves as most closely connected to those creatures who shared humans' aptitude for civilized life. And to the minds of many in this period, national prosperity depended less on periodic exposure to untamed, wild nature than it did on the proper care and keeping of such animals within suburban and urban environments.
Combining literary analysis with cultural histories of equestrianism, petkeeping, and the animal welfare movement, Civilized Creatures offers new readings of works by Susan Warner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles W. Chesnutt. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts.

Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900 (Animals, History, Culture)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Johns Hopkins University Press

This book provides students and first-time researchers with a clear and accessible introduction to the practice of qualitative social research. The author focuses on the key issues which need to be identified and resolved in the qualitative research process and which will help the potential researcher to develop the skills they need.  The accomplished qualitative researcher needs to think and act strategically when carrying out research but should also be responsive to the changing contexts and conditions under which that research is conducted. This requires the researcher to combine intellectual, philosophical, technical, practical and ethical concerns. This book highlights the `difficult′ questions that researchers should

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