A hilarious account of one man’s pursuit of his dream of becoming a professional golfer. After one tough year, Tom Cox asks whether pros are that much more gifted. Does an amateur stand a chance? And when will he finally get a birdie?

Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia

Sports & Outdoors

Cox, Tom

Golf

Yellow Jersey Press

A hilarious account of one man’s pursuit of his dream of becoming a professional golfer. After one tough year, Tom Cox asks whether pros are that much more gifted. Does an amateur stand a chance? And when will he finally get a birdie?

Biographies & Memoirs

Despite its many critics, the notion of stress has proved to be remarkably durable. This classic text offers a wide-ranging introduction to the nature of stress and its effects, as well as its experience and management. Drawing upon a number of different disciplines and approaches including psychology, physiology, pharmacology, psychiatry and occupational health, the author provides a readable and comprehensive account of this complex area.

Stress

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Red Globe Press

As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed. Despite the best endeavours of his frankly rather groovy parents, nascent fashion sense and regular exposure to credible music from an early age, he was inexorably drawn into the bizarre, esoteric world that is golf, with its male-bonding rituals and strange trousers. And thus a strange hybrid was born - from 1988 to 1995, Tom was Midlands golf's answer to Iggy Pop. Assisted by his fellow junior members at the local club, he cut a swathe through the golfing establishment, putting dead animals in his fellow golfers' shoes, setting fire to the club professional's shop, bringing Colin Montgomerie close to tears and repeatedly wearing the wrong colour of socks. On the golf course he felt simultaneously at home and somehow alienated. But Tom also wanted to be (and became) the best, taking five years out of normal adolescent existence to live, breathe, walk and talk nothing but the sport he loved. "Nice Jumper" is the story of how Tom tried to fit in, failed, got down to a handicap of two, tried to fit in again, got suspended from the club, got corrupted by rock and roll, then attempted to corrupt golf itself. It's a book about one teenager's obsessive attempts to attain sporting nirvana despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fashion.

Nice Jumper

Arts & Literature

BANTAM DOUBLEDAY @ DELL

Ring the Hill is written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether it's a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one of Tom's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations. Tom's lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead. Includes bonus short story collection Help the Witch Riddled with talismans and portents, saturated by shadows beneath trees and whispers behind doors, these ten stories broaden the scope of folk tales as we know them. Inspired by our native landscapes and traversing boundaries of the past and the future, this collection is Tom Cox's first foray into fiction. Funny, strange and poignant, he elicits the unexpected and unseen to raise our hackles and set imaginations whirring.

Ring the Hill

Memoirs

Bolinda Audio

Coping, Health and Organizations (Issues in Occupational Health Series)

The consequences of ineffective coping are evident in the health of individuals and organisations. This book brings together a wealth of research and thinking about coping in occupational settings. Coping, Health and Organizations begins by looking at measurement of coping with stress. The theoretical and psychometric considerations discussed in the opening section of the book explore the principles for successful evaluation of coping, and the effectiveness of organizational support. The book continues, going through various problems in work including acute disasters, coping with subjective health problems, and then goes on to look at what companies can do to reduce factors that result in stress. The book concludes by looking at the debates of the past and present and discusses the future of coping at work. Key Features: * Stress at work and its affect on both the individual and the company is becoming an increasingly important factor in business today * Brings together a wealth of research and thinking about stress in occupational settings * A very forward thinking book

Science & Math

Leiter, Michael

Dewe, Phil

Technology

CRC-Press

Business & Money

Economics

This book presents a treatment of safety management based on an understanding of the whole context of the 'system' of which everything concerned with the work environment and culture are comprised. It is an appreciation of these systems, and of theircomponents, both human and technological, which is vital to an effective approach to the management of safety within those systems. General systems theory has been applied to the psychology and management of health and safety for many years, but the level of sophistication and understanding inherent in such applications has been poor, and not supported by practical applications.Furthermore, recent developments in systems thinking are not well represented in such practical applications, and it is these issues amongst others which are addressed here, with particular attention paid to the issue of safety culture. The book isdivided into three sections, which provide a background and treatments of both the psychology of safety and of safety management. Included are also appendices containing part of a unique Safety Management Systems (SMS) Audit developed by one of theauthors. Intertwining the authors' approach, and its systems theory framework, is a belief in the need to integrate the design and management of safety hardware with the management of people; this need is reflected in the book's content Both authorsare based at centres of excellence in their respective disciplines, giving them access to the latest research both academic and applied, and making this the authoritative work in its field.

Safety, Systems and People

Cox, Sue

Butterworth-Heinemann

Good The Bad & The Furry

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

SPHERE

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