Leonard's story starts as rugby started - in the amateur days, when the Cockney Carpenter began playing for Barking and Saracens in the days before multi-million pound business owners and sponsorship deals. His big break came when he was invited to join the England squad for their tour to Argentina in 1990 and has been capped 100 times. It was a tour that precipitated one of the greatest periods in the history of the British game, and Leonard provides a compelling insight into life behind the international scenes with England and the Lions, as well as the domestic game through his time at Saracens and Harlequins. Once told that he would never walk again after undergoing life-saving surgery on his neck, Leonard describes the torment he went through during this period - both physical and financial - and how he fought against all the odds to re-establish himself on the international stage. With 100 Test caps won to date, and a career in rugby union spanning two decades, there is no more experienced player in the modern game. Leonard has plenty to tell about the people he has met during his career - Rob Andrew, Will Carling, Lawrence Dallaglio, Brian Moore, Dick Best and Clive Woodward all feature - and with nicknames like 'The Fun Bus' and 'The Scourge of the Barking Barmaids' the stories are as colourful and controversial as the man himself. All is revealed in this fascinating portrait of an English rugby legend who also reflects upon England's 2002 Six Nations campaign, his hopes for his international future and a tough year for Quins.

This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons. These specially designed quasiparticles give the unique opportunity to study fundamental properties of quantum degenerate Bose gases in semiconductors. Furthermore, indirect excitons allow for the creation of novel optoelectronic devices where excitons are used in place of electrons. Excitonic devices are explored for the development of advanced signal processing seamlessly coupled with optical communication. The thesis presents and describes the author's imaging experiments that led to the discovery of spin transport of excitons. The many firsts presented herein include the first studies of an excitonic conveyer, leading to the discovery of the dynamical localization-delocalization transition for excitons, and the first excitonic ramp and excitonic diode with no energy-dissipating voltage gradient.

This thesis presents results crucial to the emerging field of indirect excitons. These specially designed quasiparticles give the unique opportunity to study fundamental properties of quantum degenerate Bose gases in semiconductors. Furthermore, indirect excitons allow for the creation of novel optoelectronic devices where excitons are used in place of electrons. Excitonic devices are explored for the development of advanced signal processing seamlessly coupled with optical communication. The thesis presents and describes the author's imaging experiments that led to the discovery of spin transport of excitons. The many firsts presented herein include the first studies of an excitonic conveyer, leading to the discovery of the dynamical localization-delocalization transition for excitons, and the first excitonic ramp and excitonic diode with no energy-dissipating voltage gradient.

As Britain's Empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players were the first to volunteer. They led from the front and paid a disproportionate price. In 1919, a grateful Mother Country hosted a rugby tournament: sevens teams at eight venues, playing 17 matches to declare a first 'world champion'. There had never been an international team tournament like it. For the first time teams from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Britain and France were assembled in one place. Rugby held the first ever 'World Cup'. It was a moment of triumph, a celebration of military victory, of Commonwealth and Allied unity, and of rugby values, moral and physical. In 2019 the modern Rugby World Cup moves to Japan in the Centenary of the King's Cup. With a foreword by Jason Leonard, this is the story of rugby's journey through the First World War to its first World Cup, and how those values endure today. 'After The Final Whistle' was shortlisted for the 2016 Cross Sports Book of the Year award.

The Rugby World Cup: it's the scrum of the earth, the biggest, the best and the most prestigious rugby union tournament in the world. It also throws up some of sport's most enduring and exciting rivalries, as well as the age-old culture clash of northern versus southern hemisphere. But do you know your All Blacks from your also-rans? Your hooker from your haka? Or do you think a 99 goes in an ice cream? Never Mind the Drop Goal is the ultimate collection of Rugby World Cup teasers. Test yourself and your fellow fans individually or as a team, in the pub, in front of the TV, or en route to a match. Some questions are as tough as a touchline kick for goal, others as straightforward as a penalty in front of the posts. First question: are you up to the challenge?

With honesty and personal vunerability, Jason Leonard openly shares the hurts of his past and uses the pain as a platform upon which others can find fresh faith and renewed courage. Physical and emotional scars represent a story, a moment in one's life, and they show others that there is a history and healing. Your internal scars- invisible marks from heartbreak, mistakes, losses and disappointments- also represent stories of healing and restoration. Adopted at birth, Jason grew up in Wheaton Maryland. At the tender age of 18 he suffered a traumatic brain injury that changed the course of his life. Now at the age of 36 he is ready to tell his story. It's a story of courage, strength and the will to survive tragedy. Allow Jason to take you into his world, through his eyes and unique humor.

Chapter 1: Explanation of contents of new book Chapter 2: CHILD STAR SYNDROME Why most ex-kid stars don't succeed as adults Chapter 3: THE SEDOND TIME AROUND (I tried for a second career) Chapter 4: REALITY BITES (bad experience pursuing an adult career) Chapter 5: A POT POURRI OF TALENT (How and why I chose this new list of icons) Chapter 6: PETAH-PETAH-PETAH (Bette Davis) Chapter 7: THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAME (Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Marion Davies, W. William Randolph Hearst, Carole Lombard) Chapter 8: ERIN GA BRAUGH (Pat O. Brien) Chapter 9: THE PLEASURE OF HER COMPANY (Kay Francis) Chapter 10: TALL, DARK & CHARMING (Cesar Romero) Chapter 11: BORN TO DANCE (Eleanor Powell) Chapter 11: WHEN SILENCE WAS TRULY GOLDEN Chapter 12: A TRUE GENIUS (Charlie Chaplin) Chapter 13: A DAREDEVIL COMEDIAN (Harold Lloyd) Chapter 14: I NEVER CALLED HIM FATTY (Minta Durfee Arbuckle) Chapter 15: THE KID (Jackie Coogan) Chapter 16: VAUDEVILLIANS SUPREME (MIKE & MEYER Joe Weber and Lew Fields) Chapter 17: DEM GUYS (J. Carrol Naish, Jack LaRue, Ward Bond, Marc Lawrence, Joseph Sawyer) Chapter 18: SECOND BANANA SCENE STEALERS (Edward Everett Horton and Allen Jenkins) Chapter 19: BEFORE AND AFTER (Linda Darnell) Chapter 20: WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET (Joan Leslie) Chapter 21: HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET (Ann Rutherford) Chapter 22: THE FACE IS FAMILILIAR (Delmar Watson) Chapter 23: THE NAME IS JONES, D. JONES (Dickie Jones)