John Hart

Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology provides a fundamental primer to the world of sports engineering and technology, including the key themes that dominate design and practice. The text has been created to provide a comprehensive overview of key principles and is developed from established and recognised education providers. This new text includes case studies and worked examples to facilitate deeper learning and prepare readers for a high performance future in Sports Engineering and Technology. Sports performance is a complex and increasingly technology-enhanced environment, incorporating a broad range of disciplines and topics. The sports engineer or technologist operates a key role within this environment, applying fundamental techniques derived from maths and physics to solve problems, analyse opportunities, and optimise equipment and practice to maximise performance outcomes and reduce injury risk. This book is the first to offer a concise overview of the fundamental concepts required for budding sports engineers and technologists and is key reading for undergraduate and masters students of sports engineering and technology degree courses as well as undergraduate engineering, technology and product design students.

Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology provides a fundamental primer to the world of sports engineering and technology, including the key themes that dominate design and practice. The text has been created to provide a comprehensive overview of key principles and is developed from established and recognised education providers. This new text includes case studies and worked examples to facilitate deeper learning and prepare readers for a high performance future in Sports Engineering and Technology. Sports performance is a complex and increasingly technology-enhanced environment, incorporating a broad range of disciplines and topics. The sports engineer or technologist operates a key role within this environment, applying fundamental techniques derived from maths and physics to solve problems, analyse opportunities, and optimise equipment and practice to maximise performance outcomes and reduce injury risk. This book is the first to offer a concise overview of the fundamental concepts required for budding sports engineers and technologists and is key reading for undergraduate and masters students of sports engineering and technology degree courses as well as undergraduate engineering, technology and product design students.

First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality discusses the way people who are homosexuals see themselves and are seen by others. It provides a conceptual framework to account for the development and maintenance of a homosexual identity in a politico-cultural context, with a minimizing of psychological and social pathology. The book is divided into three sections. Part one considers the major theoretical models relating to homosexuality. Part two explores identities and lifestyles, and part three presents the practical problems confronting homosexuals. A comprehensive and bold study, this volume will be a valuable read for students and researchers of sociology and LGBTQ+ studies.

First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality discusses the way people who are homosexuals see themselves and are seen by others. It provides a conceptual framework to account for the development and maintenance of a homosexual identity in a politico-cultural context, with a minimizing of psychological and social pathology. The book is divided into three sections. Part one considers the major theoretical models relating to homosexuality. Part two explores identities and lifestyles, and part three presents the practical problems confronting homosexuals. A comprehensive and bold study, this volume will be a valuable read for students and researchers of sociology and LGBTQ+ studies.

'Magenta' Herdwick strives, as a teacher, to enliven his multi-ethnic classes against the egalitarian theory of socialist education current at the time. He lives with his forsaken mother as his father never came home from his last posting abroad. Herdwick suffers the sexual deprivation of a normal bloke, but with a conscience of sin and temptation from his Catholic upbringing. Temptation, alas, fails. He teams up with a fellow teacher, old Mr. Elsan, an expert photographer of nudes, and develops contacts with a private girls' school with all its temptations. He becomes involved with local politics and the competition to establish a polytechnic. Meanwhile he needs to extricate himself from his liaison with the headmistress of the girls' school in preference for one of her senior pupils, the delicious and naughty Miranda. And then his father reappears on the scene. With so many complications will all end well?

Den uvillige av John Hart. Gibbys eldre brødre har tjenestegjort i Vietnam. En døde der. Den andre kom tilbake misforstått og hard, nå nylig løslatt etter tre år i fengsel. Jason vil ikke snakke om krigen eller om tiden bak murene, men han vil gjerne ha et forhold til Gibby, den yngre broren han ikke har kjent på årevis. Fast bestemt på å få den forbindelsen lokker han Gibby til en dag ved sjøen: lange timer med solskinn og whisky og eldre kvinner. Men dagen utvikler seg katastrofalt, og Jason havner igjen i politiets søkelys. Gibby er fast bestemt på å bevise at Jason er uskyldig, og dykker dypt inn i brorens skjulte liv, en mørk verden av heroin, våpen og ulovlige motorsykkelgjenger. Det han oppdager der er en sannhet mer dyster enn han kunne ha forestilt seg.

THE INSTANT BESTSELLER "We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful." --Unknown Soldier Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense, and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling novelist John Hart's singular style. Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Beautiful but drunk, one of the women taunts the prisoners, leading to a riot on the bus. The woman finds it funny in the moment, but is savagely murdered soon after. Given his violent history, suspicion turns first to Jason; but when the second woman is kidnapped, the police suspect Gibby, too. Determined to prove Jason innocent, Gibby must avoid the cops and dive deep into his brother's hidden life, a dark world of heroin, guns, and outlaw motorcycle gangs. What he discovers there is a truth more disturbing than he could have imagined: not just the identity of the killer and the reasons for Tyra's murder, but the forces that shaped his brother in Vietnam, the reason he was framed, and why the most dangerous man alive wants him back in prison. This is crime fiction at its most raw, an exploration of family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave.