Books by David Marsh

A cyber attack is any attempt to gain unauthorised access to a computer, computing system or computer network with the intent to cause damage. Cyber attacks aim to disable, disrupt, destroy or control computer systems or to alter, block, delete, manipulate or steal the data held within these systems. Even if small businesses don''t currently have the resources to bring in an outside expert to test their computer systems and make security recommendations, there are simple, economical steps a business can take to reduce the risk of falling victim to a costly cyber attack. This clear and comprehensive book provides detailed guidance intended to assist small to medium enterprises.

This third edition of Understanding and Controlling Inheritance Tax is the perfect book for all those who need advice and guidance concerning the complicated area of inheritance tax. This book is clear and concise and is intended for the layman. It points out steps that can be taken to reduce the inheritance tax bill. The book is sensitively written by an expert in the field, revised to 2013, and comprehensive covering all the main areas associated with inheritance tax.

"In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, regg"

This invaluable guide to managing the process of and surviving, personal bankruptcy has been written in light of the record numbers of people currently declaring themselves bankrupt. The book is aimed solely at individuals, not at companies or other organizations. A detailed background to the insolvency service and the general law covering bankruptcy is given, along with the processes underpinning bankruptcy and the situation that exists following bankruptcy. Overall, anyone reading this book will benefit from the detailed information.

Giannozzo Manetti was one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance, though today his works are unfamiliar in English. In this authoritative biography, the first ever in English, David Marsh guides readers through the vast range of Manetti's writings, which epitomized the new humanist scholarship of the Quattrocento.

For Who the Bell Tolls is a book that explains the grammar that people really need to know, such as the fact that an apostrophe is the difference between a company that knows its s*** and a company that knows it's s***, or the importance of capital letters to avoid ambiguity in such sentences as 'I helped my Uncle Jack off his horse.'David Marsh's lifelong mission has been to create order out of chaos. For four decades, he has worked for newspapers, from the Sun to the Financial Times, from local weeklies that sold a few thousand copies to the Guardian, with its global readership of nine million, turning the sow's ear of rough-and-ready reportage into a passable imitation of a silk purse.The chaos might be sloppy syntax, a disregard for grammar or a fundamental misunderstanding of what grammar is. It could be an adherence to 'rules' that have no real basis and get in the way of fluent, unambiguous communication at the expense of ones that are actually useful. Clear, honest use of English has many enemies: politicians, business and marketing people, local authority and civil service jargonauts, rail companies, estate agents, academics . . . and some journalists. This is the book to help defeat them. 'A splendid and, more importantly, sane book on English grammar.' Mark Forsyth, author of The Etymologicon

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. This title reflects thirty years of research into these pioneers of Humanism and offers insights into forms of Renaissance.