Tom Locke

Moments In Time is all about music. This book will put a smile on your face as the author, Tom Locke, takes you back in time to the music of the 50s, 60s, and 70s with entertaining, informative stories about known and forgotten artists and songs. To top it off, Tom has made this book interactive by creating access to the songs featured in each of these stories via the use of QR codes. One click and you'll be listening, singing, and dancing. These stories will provide you with answers to questions about artists and their songs. How did Tommy James come up with the title for his hit record, "Mony Mony"? Who was the three-time Oscar winner to have a Top 10 record at the age of 67? What motivated Doc Pomus to write "Save The Last Dance For Me"? When did the original version of "Blue Velvet" appear on the music charts? What singer was classified as a two-time "one-hit wonder"? The perfect escape back to yesteryear, these stories will provide insight for both young and old, and perhaps jog your memory about the fun times you experienced because of this era of music, which continues to be embraced today. "I have met many people in the field of Rock & Roll these past 60 years, but no one has impressed me more when it comes to reflecting on the history of this music genre. Tom Locke is a true Rock & Roll historian who really knows the detailed history of the evolution of this great music. He has written a book that is worth its weight in Solid Gold." - Mr. Music, Norm N. Nite, legendary Deejay & Author

Meet Vince Kingmyle, fantasist, philistine, entrepreneur, misogynist and golf bore. Vince runs a company promoting golf tourism in Edinburgh and has big plans, at least in his own mind, to which end he enlists the help of an old work colleague, Sean Monaghan, to build up his IT system. Sean is diffident and cultured, and suffers Vince for the money, but when new recruit Lucy appears on the scene and they uncover Vince's secrets, he finally decides enough is enough. Brimming with humour and mischief, The King will keep you turning pages with a smile right to the very end.

People have many pre-conceived ideas about Africa, many of which are a long way from the truth. People also have many pre-conceived ideas about Voluntary Service Overseas and its volunteers. Many of these ideas are also wrong. Volunteers are skilled professionals looking to make a small difference in an unfair world. Volunteers discover many things, both about themselves and the world they inhabit. Some of these things are good and some are bad. Volunteers also meet many new people, about whom the same rules apply.One thing that every volunteer will tell you is that the experience changed their life. This is one such story, telling the tale of the ups and downs of one VSO volunteer during two years in one of the hottest places on Earth, Eritrea's Red Sea Coast.

As experience with Ajax increases, developers want the standard Ajax capabilities they repeatedly use to be preprogrammed for them—and that's exactly what Ajax libraries do for them. They reduce the pain of handling cross-browser inconsistencies, they add useful language features, and provide sophisticated functionality. Of these, Prototype is the most popular JavaScript and Ajax framework for low-level coding. Scriptaculous builds on Prototype to provide popular high-level user interface features such as animation, drag and drop, and prebuilt widgets. Together, they free the developer up to concentrate on building the application. They make a rich user experience easy to achieve. This book guides the reader through the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries feature-by-feature. In just 350 pages, it shows over 100 small working examples that help readers explore the libraries, and they develop a web-based image gallery that teaches them how to use Prototype and Scriptaculous in the real-world.