In vielen Lebens- und Berufsbereichen spielt die Achtsamkeit eine große Rolle, wenn es um die Reduktion von Stress und die Fokussierung der Aufmerksamkeit geht.
Originally published in 1971 The Countryside on View is a handbook which provides extensive information about the many ways in which visitors to rural areas may find out about what they have come to enjoy.
This book explores the contemporary dynamics of European football's political economy, mapping the various market and regulatory forces that shape its current position and development.
Photos and stories that will stop you in your tracksCreated in partnership with Outside magazine for its 40th anniversaryThe gripping stories behind some of Outside's most iconic images.
This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium.
Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende der Sportwissenschaft und der Psychologie, aber auch an alle, die an den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Sportpsychologie interessiert sind.
As the anchor titles in a new ';Time Machine' Lyons Press baseball series, The Ultimate Cleveland Indians Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Indians' greatest momentsincluding World Series appearances and individual achievementsbut would focus also on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the team's 20-134 season of 1899 (the absolute worst in baseball history), the Crybabies of 1940 (who received this nickname after complaining about their manager to such as extent that fans even turned on them), or the infamous ';Ten Cent Beer Night of 1974' (when thousands of drunken fans stormed the field and forced the team to forfeit).
The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together in peace and concord.
As more people realize the cardiovascular, metabolic and muscular benefits that regular physical activity provides, the risk for potential injury also increases.
Puisant dans les sciences de la physique, de l’anatomie, de l’énergétique, pour décrire, expliquer et valoriser les techniques de karaté, cet ouvrage novateur nous présente l’art du combat sous l’axe de l’efficacité et de la puissance.
To take the most impressive whitetail bucks, and to bring them in consistently, a hunter has to know his weapons, the woods, and most of all, his quarry.
As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer generates key moments of significance on and off the field, encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and aesthetic implications.
Pilates ist ein besonderes Training, das den Körper dabei unterstützt, sich in vielerlei Hinsicht zu verbessern: DIe Haltung wird korrigiert, der Muskeltonus gestärkt, die Elastizität und Flexibilität von Muskeln und Gelenken erhöht.
This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits.
'A beautiful book'Jennie Gow, BBC F1 commentator'A true insider's guide to this most complex and thrilling of sports'Alex Jacques, Formula 1 commentator and broadcaster24 RACES.
The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans.
Exercise and Sport Pharmacology is an essential book for teaching upper-level undergraduates or entry-level graduate students about how drugs can affect exercise and how exercise can affect the action of drugs.
Written by a team of international contributors, from Australia, Europe and the USA, the text uses international case studies and examples to illustrate and highlight discussion.
