Chris Scott Payne

Sams Teach Yourself .Net Windows Forms in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself Asp.Net in 21 Days

Virology: Directory & Dictionary of Animal Bacterial and Plant Viruses

Sams Teach Yourself .NET XML Web Services in 24 Hours

Sams Teach yourself .NET XML Web Services in 24 Hours takes a straightforward approach to teaching the hows and whys of XML Web Services and builds upon the skills learned in each successive chapter. The intent is to give readers a competitive edge in creating new and innovative software solutions ...

Balikwas - How to Emigrate to The Philippines

The Tagalog word, "balikwas" means a wakening up startled or an abrupt change in one's life. Chris Payne's third book is an account of his decision at age 70 to move his home from Europe to The Philippines and all the problems he encountered along the way. It is written as a memoir with many amusing...

The Chieftain: Victorian True Crime through the Eyes of a Scotland Yard Detective

True crime stories from the early days of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch capture the essence of Victorian crimeGeorge Clarke joined the Metropolitan Police in 1841. Though a "slow starter," his career took off when he was transferred to the small team of detectives at Scotland Yard in 1862...

Encounters with a Fat Chemist: Teaching at a University in Northern Cyprus

Chris Payne writes a hilarious surreal account of life as a university professor at a dysfunctional university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. On the beautiful island of Cyprus, little works as you expect it to, from the primitive plumbing to the maniacal university bus service. The Amer...

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition)

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days, Second Edition offers an approachalbe guide to the latest in Microsoft .NET technologies. The author's example-packed and accessible presentation style helped make the previous edition a success. The book walks the reader through the .NET Framework and teache...

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patie...

Mid-Knight Adventures #1

Nathan is visited by his very first super-powered alien: Azurak of the 6th Universe. Azurak wishes to gain control over a power Nathan doesn't even know he has yet in this amazing first issue.

Rough Draft

Grey and Paul were good friends in college. Good friends with privileges. But they haven't been together in years. When Grey puts pen to paper and writes Paul a letter, he half expects it to be ignored. But Paul writes back and their old flame is rekindled.Or is it? Has too much water gone under the...

Chris Payne

Christopher 'Chris' Payne (born 15 September 1990) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for the Manly United in the New South Wales Premier...