Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.
À l'heure où l'Éducation nationale s'empare explicitement des questionnements relatifs aux identités de genre en milieu scolaire, cet ouvrage propose d'analyser des expériences de jeunes « trans » en éducation physique et sportive (EPS).
L'imaginaire collectif associe les arts martiaux chinois à un folklore immortalisé par le cinéma, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire : du célèbre cri de Bruce Lee, à l'improbable moine Shaolin interprété par David Carradine dans la série "Kung-Fu", en passant par les cascades et facéties d'un Jackie Chan.
À l'heure où l'Éducation nationale s'empare explicitement des questionnements relatifs aux identités de genre en milieu scolaire, cet ouvrage propose d'analyser des expériences de jeunes « trans » en éducation physique et sportive (EPS).
This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.
This engaging and informative work highlights the 100 biggest moments in the history of American sports, illustrating powerful connections between sporting events and significant social issues of the time.
Written by a leading expert in the field of sport science, this motivational text provides a thorough overview of fitness and exercise psychology as it relates to everyday life.
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Kids' Football Fitness introduces a brand-new concept for children's football training, providing building blocks for a carefully structured, target-based programme of coaching, conditioning and nutrition for kids aged 7 to 16, with the aim of improving young players' fitness for football.
D'abord pédagogique et éducatif, ce livre a l'ambition de poursuivre d'autres objectifs : financier, économique, création massive d'emplois ; sans oublier le militantisme pour un nouveau type de club sportif sénégalais par la modernisation et le management.
En faisant partager l'expérience singulière des footballeuses, boxeuses et femmes haltérophiles de haut niveau, Christine Mennesson analyse les conséquences de l'entrée de femmes dans des mondes traditionnellement réservés aux hommes.
Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.
Providing key data, insights, and ways of thinking about women and sports, this book is an excellent resource for high school and undergraduate students as well as for sport organizations serving girls and women.
Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2001, eighty-one years after the gathering of the founding members of the National Football League in Canton, Ohio, I walked onto the historic Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, as a member of the officiating chain crew to work the football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL.
A comprehensive summary of sport-related concussion for parents, coaches, and athletes that considers the physics behind the injury, identifies what can be done to reduce the risk of its occurrence, and describes how to respond to a suspected concussion.
Wearable devices are being used by an increasing number of elite-level sports teams to manage and control the health, performance, and productivity of their athletes.
This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.
Depuis 2003, le Comité français Pierre de Coubertin organise, tous les deux ans, un colloque international sur une thématique traitant du sport dans ses dimensions culturelles et éducatives.
This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliberal creativity discourse - from the distribution of resources around cultural production to consumption, and from the management of 'labour time' to 'life time'.
Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic Games through a socio-legal lens.
One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook.
Initié en l'an 2000, le Centre MENA « Les Hirondelles » du Centre Public d'Action Sociale d'Assesse (Belgique) accueille de jeunes demandeurs de protection internationale identifiés comme vulnérables.
On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history.
On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most controversial issues in modern society-steroid abuse among athletes-as well as to the ongoing debate over the use and misuse of illegal substances in amateur and professional sporting events.
