Books by Paul Jones

A captivating and beautifully written account of riding Britain's longest place-to-place journey by bike, and its history.

Living Life, is a collection of original poems about real life. They take a view on, The Outlooks, challenges and the Spiritual side of life. When reading these poem you will find that several just might hit you where you are or where you just were. Living Life will open your eyes as well as your heart and mind. It will let you see that you're not the only one with issues.

This is the story of Alf Engers and the pursuit of speed, set against a backdrop of cycling clubs, shop-owners, framebuilders, riders, racers, team managers and officials.

Ukulele Quest is an ideal first ukulele book that teaches many musical styles, including rock, reggae, and the blues. This colorful tutor provides a great introduction to chord charts, how to read music and musical concepts such as dynamics, pitch and tempo. Accompanying audio at every stage brings the music to life. Come on a quest into the world of music and learn how to play the ukulele! Travel through time, meet dragons, pirates and robots, and make new friends along the way.

This book will show you how to modernize your page-based, include-oriented PHP application by extracting and replacing its legacy artifacts. We will use a step-by-step approach, moving slowly and methodically, to improve your application from the ground up. Each completed step in the process will keep your codebase fully operational with higher quality. Please note that this book is about modernizing in terms of practice and technique, and not in terms of tools. We are not going to discuss the latest, hottest frameworks or libraries. Most of the very limited code we do add to your application is specific to this book. When we are done, you will be able to breeze through your code like the wind. Your code will be fully modernized: autoloaded, dependency-injected, unit-tested, layer-separated, and front-controlled.

An approachable yet critical introduction to the basics of media and communication studies from two experts in the field.

A wonderfully clear analysis of the factors that stop us living in the now, full of extremely practical and effective techniques of bringing us back to the present. Steve Taylor, author of The Fall and Making Time