The Older Person's Guide to New Stuff

Name: The Older Person's Guide to New Stuff
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781472142375
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From Android to Zoella, a complete guide to the modern world for the easily perplexed

By Mark Leigh

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Summary

The Older Person's Guide to New Stuff by Mark Leigh is a humorous and practical guide aimed at helping elderly and less tech-savvy readers navigate modern technology and contemporary concepts. It demystifies everyday terms and tools like FaceTime, Google Hangouts, and online ordering with entertaining, easy-to-understand explanations.
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This book is ideal for elderly readers grappling with modern digital life, as well as those over 45 seeking a lighthearted introduction to current technologies and trends. It's also useful for family members wanting to support less confident relatives.

Description

Struggling to stay in touch with elderly parents during the lockdown? Wanting to help isolated relatives with online ordering? This is the perfect guide for anyone grappling for the first time with FaceTime, Google Hangouts, or any other aspect of the modern world.

A handy guide for anyone who says, 'The Facebook' or 'The Google' or who asks, 'Do they deliver emails on Sunday?' The Older Person's Guide to New Stuff is a book for the elderly and not-so-elderly who are bamboozled not just by the technology of the contemporary world, but also various modern concepts and conceits that the more youthful take for granted.

It explains a host of modern concepts and technologies that have entered everyday use and parlance but which are alien (and possibly frightening) not just to the elderly - but probably also to anyone over 45. These concepts are universal and should therefore appeal to readers in the UK, Australia, US, and Europe.

The definitions are all real but entertaining, making use of easy-to-understand 'real world' references or examples to explain them.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472142375

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 June 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Robinson

Illustration: b/w images

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 223.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 240

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference Fiction Humour Mark Leigh

About the Author

Mark Leigh's career has taken him from working as a scriptwriter for TV comedy acts such as Hale and Pace, through the 'Mad Men' world of advertising copywriting to developing concepts for radio and TV comedy shows and writing bestselling humour books. Over the past twenty years he has written or co-written dozens of books, including titles with Chris Tarrant and Roy Chubby Brown. Mark lives just outside London in Surrey.