Why are we all expected to do something to make money? Why must we work? There must be a better way. This book is a tale of a less-than-ordinary life that some choose to lead. This is an everyman struggle set in the 1980s. Mrs T is in number 10, it is grim up north, and there is not a full job to be found. Simon therefore sets off on the temp trail. This is a true tale of trying to find some worthwhile work and something more than a meagre payslip. These are the jobs no one wants, and you ...

Learn how to play the Brazilian pandeiro in the style of the world renowned Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro. Includes audio of Carlinhos playing and instructional videos by the author.

In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the New Science. In straying from the work of self-po...