Sport: general

An effective strength and conditioning program is an essential component of the preparation of any athlete or sportsperson.

A comprehensive guide to get you ready for race day.

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us.

One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time—a history of soccer that “stands out like Pelé on a field of second-stringers” (The New Yorker).

This book takes an important step forward in showing how Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) have been applied within the English Premier League (EPL) - arguably the most commercialised and watched sport league in the world - and how it can and should be utilised in the context of other sports properties.

It has been 17 years since John Feinstein's seminal golfing classic A Good Walk Spoiled.

In these brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general, John Gierach, the acknowledged master of fishing writers demonstrates that fishing, when done right, is as much a philosophical pursuit as a sport.

This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate.

Business Issues in the Arts is a text designed to address some of the most prescient business issues that nonprofit arts organizations face today.

Fundamental Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise is an engaging and comprehensive introductory textbook that explains biomechanical concepts from first principles, showing clearly how the science relates to real sport and exercise situations.

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*; An attainable approach to training for and completing your first marathon*; Important information on training schedules, nutrition, and injury prevention*; Valuable advice on race day strategy, post-marathon recovery, and setting your next goalMore and more people are realizing that running a marathon is not only achievable, but that training to complete the event can actually be an enjoyable and immensely fulfilling experience.

This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

The modern game of rugby football has become gladiatorial, whereby muscular athletic players are involved in a form of collision chess with sophisticated defences smothering the offensive skills that were at one time a more dominant feature of the game.

As the field of sport psychology has matured, so a greater appreciation for a diversity of training models, research methodologies, and therapeutic approaches, opposed to the dominant models of objective testing, has developed.

This work is a biography of Carl Hubbell, a baseball legend who was active in the 1930s for the New York Giants and an eight-time All-Star.

 This book addresses the social benefits of physical activity and sport in promoting the social and educational inclusion of refugees living in Europe in line with Sustainable Development Goals 4, 10 and 16.

What is life really like for the elite athlete?

During field- and court-based sports, players are continually required to perceive their environment within a match and select and perform the most appropriate action to achieve their immediate goal within that match instance.

From the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s, pulp magazines--costing a dime and filled with both fiction and nonfiction--were a staple of American life.

Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour since 1886taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary IPLto provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game.

The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the development of several modern sports - baseball, basketball, cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse - across the two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few years in the very present.

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown.

Winner of the 2024 Speaker's Book AwardThe true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship.

Tourism in Turkey: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis for Sustainable Alternative Tourism is an informative study that analyzes the Turkish tourism from a variety of different perspectives and sheds light on its vast economic and social impacts.

This book represents a bold statement concerning the excitement and energy of the field of sports ethics and philosophy in contemporary terms.

'Peter Cossins is an engaging writer whose conversational style makes this an effortless yet interesting read.

He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments.

An intimate and freewheeling portrait of John Madden through the NFL legend's own words John Madden is synonymous with football.

The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840.

Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America provides in-depth insights into the education and training of cultural managers from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.

Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge.

The aim of this book, in discussing Elias's theory, is not to refute it.

SPSS is the international standard software package for data analysis in the social sciences.

Take your best shot at improving your golf game with this humorous yet practical guide for players of all skill levels.

Out of the broad arena of sport science and sport psychology, Roland A.

In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity.

In the wake of the Tour de Frances fallen heroes, the story of one of historys most legendary cyclists provides a much-needed antidote.

Inside the changing sheds, the gyms, the hotels and on the field with the All Blacks at each Rugby World Cup - a tournament that grips the nation.

Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball.

Intrigante et attachante épreuve de consolation des années 1950 et 1960, la Coupe Drago, initialement prévue pour remplir les caisses des clubs éliminés de la Coupe de France, se révèle progressivement être un véritable laboratoire du développement du football professionnel.

Emotion is central to human character, infiltrating our physiological functions and our mental constitution.

In our increasingly risk-averse society, touch and touching behaviours between professionals and children have become a fraught issue.

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest.

An eclectic mix of exciting stories every surfer will love This eclectic mix has something for everyone, from classic tales of monster waves and epic battles to stories of when life among the breakers goes wrong.

Among early 20th century baseball players, John Preston "e;Pete"e; Hill (1882-1951) was considered the equal of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker--only skin color kept him out of the majors.