New Releases by John Hart

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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Edgar Award pentru cel mai bun roman Bestseller New York Times "Cu aluzii din Salinger și Dickens, este un roman tulburător care te prinde și nu-ți mai dă drumul." – Daily Mail La 13 ani, Johnny Merrimon avea o viață perfectă — o casă primitoare, părinți care-l iubeau și pe Alyssa, sora lui geamănă. Nu știa ce înseamnă să pierzi ceva până în ziua în care a dispărut Alyssa. După un an, Johnny este izolat și singur. Doar el mai este convins că Alyssa trăiește — deși nu poate explica pe deplin de ce. Hotărât s-o găsească, riscă totul ca să exploreze partea întunecată a orașului. E o căutare disperată, dar Johnny nu e chiar singur: nici detectivul Clyde Hunt n-a încetat s-o caute pe Alyssa și are o slăbiciune pentru băiat, pe care încearcă să-l protejeze. APOI DISPARE ÎNCĂ UN COPIL… Johnny pornește împreună cu singurul lui prieten către un loc uitat, cu o lungă istorie violentă. Acolo întâlnesc un uriaș, un evadat pornit în propria aventură tragică. Ce află de la el va zdruncina tot ce crede Johnny despre soarta surorii lui; îi va duce într-un alt loc îndepărtat, către un adevăr care-i va pune la grea încercare pe ambii băieți. "Hart scrie din nou un roman elegant, care-ți rămâne în minte, memorabil. Eroii lui au o profunzime emoțională pe care rareori o au personajele acestui gen literar, iar proza expresivă plină de grație scoate poveștile sale din granițele genului și le aduce pe tărâmul Literaturii, cu majusculă. O lectură obligatorie pentru cititori pasionați de orice gen literar." – Booklist "Ultimul copil este cu adevărat o carte rară, atât de impresionante sunt forța și grandoarea talentului de povestitor al lui Hart." – Book Reporter "Hart e un povestitor extraordinar, care nu respectă nicio formulă sau stil similar, în afară de calitatea superioară a prozei." – Detriut Free Press

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 author 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.

The question, "Are we alone in the cosmos?" has been answered. We are not alone. Geologist-paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, stated, as early as the mid-1920s, that intelligent life likely exists elsewhere and distinguished scientists of today, including Harvard biologist, E. O. Wilson; Cambridge cosmologist, Stephen Hawking; astrophysicist and noted UAP researcher, Jacques Vallee; astronomer, Allen Hynek; and many others concur. The oral traditions of Native American elders teach that they have interacted periodically with Star People who are respected ancestors. Credible witness-participants today describe abductions by benevolent and malevolent Others. Discoveries by the Kepler, Hubble, and Gaia space telescopes, ground-based arrays of radio telescopes, and TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) suggest that in the Milky Way, twenty-five billion planets are in the life-friendly Goldilocks Zone. In Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology, author John Hart links experiences with research in science-based and Spirit-focused books and articles--including narratives about close encounters with Visitors from elsewhere in space (ETI) or Others from other cosmos dimensions (IDI)--in examination of the claim that Intelligent ExoEarth life exists, that Otherkind has visited humankind.

Set in the world of his most beloved novel The Last Child (“A magnificent creation” —The Washington Post), John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen. "Hart evokes that surreal landscape with a power and economy worthy of the great British horror novelist Ramsey Campbell." —Washington Post New York Times bestseller It’s been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon’s life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; the fascination remains. Living alone on six thousand acres of once-sacred land, Johnny’s only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They’re not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent. Johnny will discuss none of it, but there are the things he knows, the things he can do. A lesser friend might accept such abilities as a gift, but Jack has felt what moves in the swamp: the cold of it, the unspeakable fear. More than an exploration of friendship, persistence, and forgotten power, The Hush leaves all categories behind, and cements Hart''s status as a writer of unique power.

Imaginez : Un garçon, une arme à la main, attend l’homme qui a tué sa mère.Une inspectrice de police perturbée affronte son passé à la suite d’une fusillade meurtrière. Après treize ans de prison, celui qui fut un bon flic se retrouve libre tandis que, dans la forêt profonde, sur l’autel d’une église abandonnée, un corps refroidit enveloppé dans un drap blanc... C’est une ville au bord du gouffre. C’est le chemin de la rédemption. Débordant de tension, de secrets et de trahisons, Redemption road prouve encore une fois que John Hart est un maître de la littérature policière. Traduit de l’anglais par Laurence Kiefé

John Hart jako jediný v historii obdržel 2 x za sebou ocenění E. A. Poea Award (ocenění od profesionálních autorů detektivek ve Spojených státech) Za severokarolínským městečkem Iron Mountain stojí sirotčinec, jemuž se říká Železný dům. Žijí v něm dva nalezenci, podle všeho bratři. O rok starší Michael je silná osobnost a je ochráncem mladšího Juliana, který je permanentní obětí šikany ze strany starších chlapců. Po devíti letech dochází za dramatických okolností k jejich rozloučení. Juliana adoptuje senátor Spojených států a Michael ve stejný den ze sirotčince uprchne. Julian se vypracuje v úspěšného spisovatele dětských knih, ale ohrožuje ho duševní choroba. Michael je zabijákem ve zločinecké organizaci. Když se zamiluje do dívky Eleny, chce skončit se svou gangsterskou minulostí. To se ale organizaci nelíbí a usiluje jemu i Eleně o život. K dramatickým událostem dochází i na obrovské senátorově usedlosti. Před Michaelem stojí boj za záchranu nemocného Juliana podezřelého z několika vražd a Eleny unesené sadistickým Michaelovým gangsterským kolegou Jimmym. Johna Harta již známe jako autora drsných thrillerů. Ve Vyšehradu vyšla jeho kniha Tíha nenávisti, za kterou obdržel překladatel Jindřich Manďák Výroční cenu Vyšehradu za rok 2016. Nelítostné, překvapivé a strhující čtení. Thrillerem Železný dům se John Hart zařadil na samotnou špičku autorů tohoto žánru. Vince Flynn, spisovatel Pokud hledáte sugestivní thriller, který vám zaleze pod kůži, sáhněte po Johnu Hartovi. Patricia Cornwell, spisovatelka Silná témata a působivé Hartovo vypravěčství, to je tajemství čtenářského úspěchu a obliby jeho děl. Publisher’s Weekly Pokud máte rádi romány, které musíte číst dlouho do noci, i když dobře víte, že byste měli spát, máte v rukou přesně tu pravou knihu. J. Stroh, Amazon

Everything You Need to Know about the End Times in One Guide For everyone who is curious, confused, or even fearful about Jesus' second coming, the Antichrist, the end of the world, the book of Revelation, and biblical prophecy, Dr. John Hart clearly and respectfully offers real, biblical answers. He reveals exactly what God's Word says as well as what it doesn't say, explaining how it impacts your family and friends. This slender volume answers everyone's most-asked questions, and even includes a list of Bible references for further study.

"Neurobiology of Cognition and Behavior" is one of the initial textbooks of brain mapping in the field of cognitive neuroscience. This well-researched text by a leading expert in the field provides a foundational map of the human brain for cognition and behavior. This comprehensive map of essential human thinking and emotion is based on the explosion in the field of functional neuroimaging studies (fMRI, PET) in the normally functioning human brain. The approach of this text is to confirm the association of these brain regions by verifying that damage to the activated brain area results in a consistent deficit in the cognitive/behavioral operation under investigation. The approach used to form this view of mapping brain and cognition is based on cognitive neuroscience principles of defining dissociable, fine-grained cognitive units and associating these units with brain regions encoding for these units or aspects of the units from both functional imaging and lesion studies. These cognitive-brain relationships are incorporated into clinical syndromes to account for the behavior of these patients after a lesion occurs, with the added feature of presenting patient videos demonstrating the disrupted cognitive behaviors. This comprehensive textbook provides a framework of the basic architecture of cognition in the brain with this combination of activation and lesion study confirmation of the brain-behavior associations. This basic framework is useful for those students studying the interaction of cognitive science and neuroanatomy as well as being relevant to the experienced neuroscientist researcher or clinician.

VENCEDOR DO PRÊMIO EDGAR DE MELHOR ROMANCE Um ano após o desaparecimento de sua irmã gêmea Alyssa, Johnny Merrimon, de 13 anos, ainda acredita que ela esteja viva. O problema é que ele parece ser o único a acreditar nisso. O pai, sentindo-se culpado pelo que aconteceu, abandona a família, enquanto a mãe do menino cai numa depressão profunda que piora ainda mais quando ela passa a usar drogas. O detetive Hunt, responsável pelo caso, assiste a tudo de longe, preocupado e sentindo-se impotente. Mas Johnny está certo de que a irmã ainda vive e fará de tudo para encontrá-la, nem que para isso tenha de procurar em cada rua e vasculhar cada casa suspeita. Quando uma segunda menina é raptada e um homem à beira da morte afirma ter encontrado novas pistas, que Johnny acredita estarem relacionadas à irmã, o inesperado pode acontecer.

Herodotus has shaped our knowledge of life, religion, war and politics in ancient Greece immeasurably, as well as being one of the most entertaining of all Classical Greek authors: fascinating, perceptive, accessible and not at all pretentious. Herodotus and Greek History, first published in 1982, examines the themes and preoccupations which form the basis for Herodotus’ style of history. The Athenian nobility, important protagonists in the context of what we know of his sources; the human and divine forces, which Herodotus understood as influencing the course of history; and the concepts of character and motivation are all discussed. Herodotus’ treatment of religious belief and oracles, politics and war, and his portrayal of certain prominent individuals are specifically investigated. The final chapter situates Herodotus in his historical context. John Hart’s lucid, well-informed and lively discussion of Herodotus will be value to A-level candidates, school teachers, undergraduates, lecturers and curious non-classicists alike.

Share the personal stories of gay and lesbian couples who immigrated to Australia!This fascinating book examines the Australian government’s innovative immigration program for same-sex couples. Covering the time from the early 1980s to 2000, Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever? offers a powerful glimpse into the gains and costs of immigration. Its twenty-year span offers insight into both immediate and long-term implications of this policy.Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration intertwines the personal stories of gay and lesbian immigrants, including the author, with thoughtful, detailed political analysis. This groundbreaking book analyzes the Australian government’s reasons for recognizing the validity of same-sex couples. It also scrutinizes the emotional and social implications of government policies for these couples.Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration explores the issues immigrant same-sex couples faced, including: HIV/AIDS proving homosexuality migration stress dealing with bureaucracy financial dependency success and failure in relationshipsStories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration will be of interest to political scientists, historians of gay and lesbian culture, policymakers seeking to change immigration laws, and anyone interested in this aspect of gay and lesbian relationships.

Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact. It uses a thought experiment to consider the ecological-economic-ethical-ecclesial impacts of Contact, analyzing incidents around the world described by credible witnesses (two of whom are interviewed for the book), including Roswell and the Hudson River Valley. It discusses government and academic efforts to use ridicule and coercion to suppress Contact investigations, supports a scientific method to research ETI reports in a field that should excite scientists, and calls on academics to publicly disclose their Contact experiences. It traces Earth ecological and economic injustices to the European Enlightenment and the Discovery Doctrine by which European nations rationalized invasion of distant continents, genocide, and seizure of the territories and natural goods of native peoples. It advocates a change in humans'' Earth conduct to avoid replicating in space the policies and practices that wrought economic injustice and ecological devastation on Earth, provides an innovative cosmosociological praxis ethics theory and practice toward that end, and develops a Cosmic Charter, based on UN documents, to guide humankind in space and in ETI encounters. Permeated by a profound sense of the sacred, Cosmic Commons explores a positive relationship between religion and science as humankind ventures into space.

Orphelin, Michael a grandi avec son frère dans un sinistre orphelinat "La Maison de fer". Vingt ans après s''en être échappé, il est devenu l''un des cadres redoutés d''une grande famille du crime organisé new-yorkais. Quand il décide de tout quitter, pour protéger sa femme Elena qui ne sait rien de son passé, il retourne en Caroline du Nord, où vit encore son frère. Là, il découvre bien d''autres secrets qui l''emportent inexorablement vers le lieu de son enfance qu''il a toujours fui.

Tom A. Coburn, a congressional maverick who kept his promise to serve three terms and then leave Washington, offers a candid look at the inner workings of Congress-why the system changes politicians instead of vice versa. Breach of Trust shows readers, through shocking behind-the-scenes stories, why Washington resists the reform our country desperately needs and how they can make wise, informed decisions about current and future political issues and candidates. This honest and critical look at "business as usual" in Congress reveals how and why elected representatives are quickly seduced into becoming career politicians who won't push for change. Along the way, Coburn offers readers realistic ideas for how to make a difference.

On September 13, 2012, Point Reyes National Seashore near San Francisco turned fifty. Mixing wilderness, history, and agriculture, Point Reyes is a hybrid park unlike any other in America. An Island in Time traces the triumph of its creation, the rescue effort that saved it from early abandonment, and its frequent identity crises since. Sixty images by regional photographers make it clear why people care. Celebrating what has been accomplished in half a century at Point Reyes, Hart takes a clear-eyed look at the several (and ongoing) arguments about what this remarkable piece of land should ultimately be. The nationally noted debate about the fate of a historic oyster farm within the park takes its place as the latest in a series of struggles to define the terms. In 1962, Harold Gilliam''s classic book Island in Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula helped complete the drive to create the National Seashore. In 2012, An Island in Time: 50 Years of Point Reyes National Seashore tells the rest of the story-and illuminates the choices now at hand.

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China. Despite the Marshall Mission''s importance, there has been little new to add to the story of the failure ...

John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work''s troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel. Hart''s mastery of prose and plot belie his newcomer status as he explores the true heart of a man. An illuminating anatomy of a murder and the ripple effect it produces within a family and a community, The King of Lies is a stunning debut. Now with an excerpt from John Hart''s next book The Hush, available February 2018.

Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller "Down River," Hart returns with the story of a young boy''s hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown.

Quand on retrouve le corps de son père, Ezra, tué de deux balles dans la tête, Work se retrouve plongé dans les conflits de son passé. Nombreuses sont les personnes qui avaient des raisons d’en vouloir à l’homme dur et secret qu’était Ezra. Á commencer par Jean, sa propre fille et la sœur de Work. Afin de protéger sa sœur, Work tente de faire disparaître l’arme du crime et se retrouve accusé du meurtre. Pour prouver son innocence, et peut-être celle de sa sœur, Work doit fouiller dans les secrets et les mensonges de son père, et revenir sur ses propres erreurs. Avec Le Roi des mensonges, John Hart fait une entrée remarquée sur la scène littéraire. Ce premier roman, resté durant plusieurs mois sur la liste des best-sellers du New York Times, a été sélectionné sur de nombreuses listes de prix : Edgar Award, Macavity Thriller Award, Barry Award du premier roman, Anthony Award du premier roman. Le Roi des mensonges a remporté le Gunshoe Award du premier roman. Traduit de l’anglais (Etats-Unis) par Philippe Rouard

Down River is the winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Everything that shaped him happened near that river…. Now its banks are filled with lies and greed, shame, and murder…. John Hart’s debut, The King of Lies, was compelling and lyrical, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times declaring, “There hasn’t been a thriller as showily literate since Scott Turow came along.” Now, in Down River, Hart makes a scorching return to Rowan County, where he drives his characters to the edge, explores the dark side of human nature, and questions the fundamental power of forgiveness. Adam hase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred thin. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood---a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he’s ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears, fades into the faceless gray of New York City. Now he’s back and nobody knows why, not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind. But Adam has his reasons. Within hours of his return, he is beaten and accosted, confronted by his family and the women he still holds dear. No one knows what to make of Adam’s return, but when bodies start turning up, the small town rises against him and Adam again finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life, not just to prove his own innocence, but to reclaim the only life he’s ever wanted. Bestselling author John Hart holds nothing back as he strips his characters bare. Secrets explode, emotions tear, and more than one person crosses the brink into deadly behavior as he examines the lengths to which people will go for money, family, and revenge. A powerful, heart-pounding thriller, Down River will haunt your thoughts long after the last page is turned. Praise for John Hart and The King of Lies “Treat yourself to something new and truly out of the ordinary.” ---Rocky Mountain News “A top-notch debut. Hart’s prose is like Raymond Chandler’s, angular and hard.” --Entertainment Weekly (grade A) “A gripping performance.” ---People magazine “A marriage of carefully crafted prose alongside have-to-keep-reading suspense.” ---The Denver Post “A masterful piece of writing.” ---The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) “A gripping mystery/thriller and a fully fleshed, thoughtful work of literature.” ---Winston-Salem Journal “The King of Lies moves and reads like a book on fire.” ---Pat Conroy “John Hart’s debut . . . is that most engrossing of rarities, a well-plotted mystery novel that is written in a beautifully poetic style.” ---Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama “Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding.” ---The New York Times

"Legacy" is a celebration of 50 extraordinary environmental elders who have worked to preserve the incomparable wild lands and open spaces of the San Francisco Bay Area. Photos.

"This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Catholic teachings on environmental themes by exploring official statements from Rome and the bishops of the Americas, as well as from contemporary visionary theologians". (p. [4] cover).

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work. Procedural shading, long valued for off-line rendering and production animation is now possible on interactive graphics hardware. These developments are important for areas such as game development, product design, and scientific visualization, among others. The authors inc

Learn about Banff history in the book The Place of Bows, which traces the vast epic of human interaction within the Banff-Bow Valley, one of the most glorious mountain landscapes in Earth and a place where different cultures have come together for millennia. It is a story rich in character and often dramatic in events, and helps to shed light on how Banff National Park became such a focus of world attention. For those seeking to understand the contemporary debate over conservation versus development in Canada’s first national park, many of the answers lie within this book.

Looks at the Mexican Revolution against the background of world history, discusses the causes of the revolt, and compares it with those in Iran, Russia, and China.

John Hart Ely is a leading contemporary writer on political theory from the standpoint of American constitutional law. This collection covers a full range of topics of constitutional interpretation: federalism, separation of powers, freedom of expression, religious freedom, criminal procedure, racial discrimination, "substantive due process," and honesty in government. Organized under these heads and linked by the author's witty explanatory and autobiographical remarks, the essays and other documents--many previously unpublished in any forum--range chronologically over the past three decades, from memoranda he wrote as a student working with lead counsel Abe Fortas on the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright to a comment on the constitutional implications of the O. J. Simpson verdict. Before beginning his academic career, Ely was the junior member of the Warren Commission's sixteen-lawyer staff, Chief Justice Earl Warren's law clerk, and a public defender in San Diego; and during the Ford Administration he took time off to serve as the third-ranking official of the U.S. Department of Transportation. This book reflects his various experience. It comments on many of the past quarter century's "hot button" issues--including abortion, affirmative action, anti-Communist legislation, busing, flag burning, governmental display of nativity scenes, the Nixon impeachment, "trial by newspaper," the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill contretemps, congressionally unauthorized war in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia, and whether the Warren Commission Report should be officially reexamined.

Hart''s study of presidential staffing contends that the major institutional trends and developments in the history of the executive office have not only remained unchanged since the mid-1980s but have been reinforced by the controversies of the Bush and Clinton presidencies. The idea of comity survived a 12-year period of divided government; it was tested during those years, but not successfully challenged, and the presidential branch is still almost immune from effective congressional scrutiny. The efforts of reformers to persuade presidents to change the way the presidential staff functions continue to be ignored.