When he arrives to take up his first post as a GP in the small West of Scotland village of Collintrae, young Tom Smith isn’t quite sure what to expect. Nothing in his medical training prepared him for what he comes up against in his first few years there a baker with nine lives, Mad Maggie and her Mammy in the River Muck, and a gaggle of giggling nuns. Heart warming and gloriously eccentric, Dr Tom’s stories will touch you with their humour and charm. They capture the beauty of Scotland’s ...

You do not need another app. You need a system. Most creators who fail on TikTok do not fail because they lack talent or because the algorithm is unfair. They fail because they treat every video as a brand new emergency, open the app, stare at a blank draft, and try to invent something clever from nothing. The truth is that TikTok rewards consistency, relevance, and a strong opening far more than it rewards inspiration, and artificial intelligence is the lever that makes that process avail...

You picked up this book because you have tried willpower alone and found that it is not enough, and because you are tired of starting over, of the half finished notebooks, the expired gym memberships, and the resolutions that never survive February. You understand the principles of personal growth but struggle with the execution, and you share the conviction this book honors: that the transformation is not an event, it is a direction, and that a person who improves by 1% every day ends up ...

"How it all Began!" - Stan Lee Comics presents MIGHTY 7," a sensational new superhero property from the creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men and more!! When a crew of sinister, alien prisoners and their jailers are blasted across the galaxy, their ship lands smack dab in front of legendary comic book creator Stan the man" Lee! What does this alien arrival mean for planet Earth?! Reality meets fantasy as the "Mighty 7" journey begins!

A Monster Among Us! Stan Lee Comics MIGHTY 7″ continues! HEROES and VILLAINS and LASERS! OH MY! The all-new superhero property from the co-creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men and more, takes a dramatic turn as a frightening new villain finally makes his destructive debut! As our heroes continue to adjust to their new lives on Earth, Stan must adjust to playing host to the unruly band of aliens! Can the greatest comic book creator ever manage to spare the city of L.A from complete chaos?!

"Eat That Elephant" is an uplifting, playful self-help guide by Toronto-based project manager and motivational speaker Tom Smith. Using the classic metaphor—"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time"—Smith transforms overwhelming life challenges into manageable, joyful adventures, encouraging readers to approach big goals with creativity, persistence, and fun.The book unfolds across nine chapters, guiding readers step by step:Chapter 1 helps identify your personal "el...

"Eat That Elephant" is an uplifting, playful self-help guide by Toronto-based project manager and motivational speaker Tom Smith. Using the classic metaphor—"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time"—Smith transforms overwhelming life challenges into manageable, joyful adventures, encouraging readers to approach big goals with creativity, persistence, and fun.The book unfolds across nine chapters, guiding readers step by step:Chapter 1 helps identify your personal "el...

The gap between an AI demo and a production system is enormous. Your RAG pipeline that works on a test set might return garbage in production. Your agent that handles 99% of cases can cause catastrophic damage on the 1% that matters.This book is about closing that gap. It gives you a hands-on guide to building reliable, cost-effective, and safe AI systems. You will learn a capability and reliability framework that ensures your model’s power is amplified while its risks are containe...

**“Spiritual kin to Gertude Stein, Tom Smith exalts in inspired wordplay, running the gamut from sublime nonsense to the most surprising sorts of common sense, so deftly that it’s sometimes hard to tell which is which. He is a virtuoso of the ruggedly original.”—Harry Smithpublishing, poet, essayist (Pulpsmith, The Sexy Sixties)“In Spending the Light we are given…the distilled wisdom and wit and experience of a lifetime, with more than half a century of it devoted to ...

Tom Smith is the doctor you wish you had and he's got all the time in the world...You might make an appointment with your GP to enquire about a persistent cough or a septic toe. But when do you get to ask the questions that you really want the answers to? All those health mysteries - some trivial, some serious, some downright weird - they are the ones that really matter, the niggling worries which keep you up at night...Will I age at the same rate as my mother? Could my birthmark be cancer...

Picking up from where A Seaside Practice left off, in Going Loco Dr Tom takes time out from the surgery for stints as a medical researcher and reporter, describing his travels from Rio to Miami, Vienna to Buenos Aires. Part memoir, part travelogue, Going Loco takes us on a journey around the medical world, from the challenge of malaria and sleeping sickness in up-country Kenya to the stress of smuggling beagle dogs into Amsterdam. We meet impossible patients, brave souls, a few mad doctors...

The book introduces us to Sinatra's life and art seen from an unconventional point of view: Ol' Blue Eyes' prodigious appetite for alcohol. Drinking was an integral part of his character, his lifestyle and (by extension) his creative output. This book also functions as a practical cocktail manual, containing more than 30 detailed recipes for preparing and presenting fancy drinks he was known to enjoy himself; as well as providing information on some of Sinatra's own personal drinking lore ...