Sport: general

Speed and agility are central to success in a wide range of sports.

The relationship between sport and exercise psychology and the realm of professional sport and performance has grown exponentially in recent years.

Charles Sullivan, one of the winningest coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball, is a physical education teacher and sports psychology professor at Springfield College by trade.

By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting.

This book gives evidence-based background information and advice to athletes and coaches on if and how data from wearable technologies can be applied for preparing individual training procedures to achieve improvement on aspects of performance and health.

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St.

Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements around the world.

Overweight students often suffer negative consequences with regard to low physical ability, skills, and fitness; obesity-related health implications; teasing and exclusion from physical education by their peers; and psychosocial and emotional suffering as a result of weight stigma.

In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first female to swim the English Channel--and broke the existing record time in doing so.

This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism, and the animation of urban environments.

Despite campaigns to educate and increase awareness, discrimination continues to be a deep-rooted problem in sport.

Richly illustrated and information-packed tools for the novice or handy reference for the veteran, BASIC ILLUSTRATED books distill years of knowledge into affordable and visual guides.

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between sport and religion, or more broadly, sport and spirituality.

The fifth edition of the retitled Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries sharpens its focus on the treatment of sports injuries, providing the most complete evidence-based guide for physiotherapists, sports therapists and medical practitioners working with athletes.

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.

Growth Following Adversity in Sport: A Mechanism to Positive Change is the first text to carefully consider the positive changes that may follow adverse experiences in sport at micro (e.

The record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyansa, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various tribes.

This book introduces readers to Psychoadaptation-a general model of change that stresses the importance of experiencing disequilibrium in the development of a healthy Self-and applies it to a range of examples across the academic, sport, and health domains.

Cricket, law and the meaning of life .

"e;This is the ultimate textbook for coaches and serious students of football.

Build the fastest, most exotic sailboats around!

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary European culture.

Originally published in 1963, Skill in Sport was addressed to students and teachers of Physical Education, to coaches interested in the more theoretical aspects of their work, and to all individuals who wished to find out the best ways to acquire skill in any particular game or sport.

Part history, part biography, this study examines the Black athlete's search to unify what W.

A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world.

How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability?

Brynn honors her passion for horses by studying at the toughest veterinary program in the country.

Emerging from the 'history from below' movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions).

Examine China's impact on the world tourism market!

Despite the thirst for more information about women's golf, very little exists about its history outside of books about the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

Nutrition plays a role in the causes, treatment, and/or management of many chronic diseases, yet the physician's primary responsibility is to treat through medication.

A crash course in the exciting world of professional motor racing Formula One Racing For Dummies has all the information you need to start following this exciting motor sport.

As a young man living in the Anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, it seemed Ed Walsh's course in life was set.

The Only Golf Lesson You'll Ever Need, Hank Haney, one of the most respected and soughtafter golf instructors in the world, shares the secrets he's learned by observing hundreds of thousands of students--from top PGA Tour pros to high-handicappers.

TWO E-BOOKS IN ONE10-Minute Toughness Mental training is a must for high performance both on the field and off.

Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas.

This book outlines an approach to teaching and learning in physical education that prioritises meaningful experiences for pupils, using case studies to illustrate how practitioners have implemented this approach across international contexts.

There is developing interest in the use of sporting settings as a channel to connect people to health improvement services and an emerging body of research highlights football as being associated with positive motivational and social elements that support the maintenance of a physically active lifestyle.

The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents.

We expect sports to be fair and equal--everyone who tries out has a chance to play and everyone who plays hard has a chance to win.

This handy, pocket-size manual provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step guidance to climbers transitioning from basic rock climbing to sport climbing, which involves scaling larger, more challenging rock walls that have fixed anchors.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

In 1887, Tip O'Neill, left fielder for the St.

In recent decades, the sporting landscape has seen many changes, notably the inclusion and professionalization of sport science and coaching.

Friday Night Fighter relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports.

This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy.

Kicking ass and taking notes—what it's like to be a woman in the ring.

Vince Lombardi's views on life and leadership--inspiring and motivational--placed in A-Z format for the first timeLegendary football coach Vince Lombardi left the national spotlight more than three decades ago, but his fiery words continue to resonate in today's hard-charging business arena.