Sports and Active outdoor recreation

The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport.

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 1,175-mile destination trail that crosses North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Jockey's Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks.

Science in Elite Sport brings together experts from around the world with the aim of furthering collaboration between athletes and scientists working in the field of training in sport.

Gerhard Böttger ist ein ebenso leidenschaftlicher Jäger wie Erzähler und Verfasser von Büchern.

This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world.

You're no idiot, of course.

Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour.

This volume provides unique insight into how American colleges and universities have been significantly impacted and shaped by college football, and considers how U.

Few athletes in any sport have captured our imagination like Tiger Woods.

Don Perkins led a life as one of the most honored athletes in the history of the University of New Mexico and the Dallas Cowboys.

Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College-a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia-made history by winning the first three women's national college basketball championships ever played.

The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs.

Lunardi delves into the early days of Bracketology, details its growth, and dispels the myths of the process The NCAA Tournament has become one of the most popular sports events in the country, consuming fans for weeks with the run to the Final Four and ultimately the crowning of the champion of college hoops.

This handbook on human multitasking provides an integrative overview on simultaneous and sequential multitasking and thus combines theorizing on dual task limitations as well as costs related to task switching.

Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in this book as journalist and author Darren Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of the company's history.

Bursting onto the scene as a 20-year-old rookie, Arky Vaughan quickly established himself as the next great Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop.

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development.

The descriptions and examples of unethical behaviors in sport in this book will challenge readers to rethink how they view sport and question whether participating in sport builds character-especially at the youth and amateur levels.

Dieser Wohnmobil-Tourguide ist der ideale Begleiter, um die schönsten Regionen der schleswig-holsteinischen Ostseeküste zu erkunden.

The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business Now in its 19th edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: The 2014 edition includes key stat categories, more controversial player predictions, and the kind of wise, witty baseball commentary that makes this phone-book-thick tome worth reading cover to cover.

Don Kenyon was a 'leader of champions and a champion of leaders' for good reason: he was his own man.

Before cable television and mega-contracts, professional jocks' lives were little different from those of the fans in the stands.

This edited book by two prominent professionals of Sport and Exercise and Performance Sciences addresses relevant issues and experiences as one becomes a sport, exercise and performance psychology practitioner.

The Adirondack Park is an immense wilderness encompassing more than 9,375 square miles.

World football is in crisis.

Sports prototype racing is about endurance, for the drivers, for the teams and for the companies involved.

STOP WORKING ON YOUR BOAT AND GET OUT ON THE WATER!

Sport Policy: a comparative analysis of stability and change builds on the growing general interest in the comparative study of sport policy and the more specific interest in processes of policy change and issues associated with policy convergence.

By the author of The $100 Hamburger!

A new, fully illustrated gift book commemorating the unparalleled rise, fall, and comeback of golf's greatest champion Tiger Woods turned pro at age 20 in 1996, rapidly ascending to become the No.

Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods.

Nature is a destination, but you don't have to travel anywhere to find it.

The only conditioning book a rock climber needs!

Forget hurrying.

Dieses Buch soll Studierende als auch Doktoranden motivieren, eigene Studien mit dem richtigen Untersuchungsdesign zu planen und durchzuführen.

Whether to take in a 360-degree view mountaintop view, a dramatic waterfall, or a pristine pond, this book takes readers to thirty-five of the best day hikes and weekend backpacking trips in the Green Mountains, some well-known and others off the beaten path.

Although female athletes are successful in all types of sport, in many countries sport is still a male domain.

Before Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth there was Robert Lee "e;Parisian Bob"e; Caruthers (1865-1911).

Cultural tourism is an experiential tourism based on searching for and participating in new and deep cultural experiences.

The definitive work on this rare coronation, this book delves into the history, personalities, and subplots of each of the 12 Triple Crown champions.

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives.

The second book in the Game Changers sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational changes, radio and television advancements, and more in the history of football?

Dorothy Mary Kamenshek was born to immigrant parents in Norwood, Ohio.

Competent Crew covers both the shorebased and the practical aspects of the RYA Competent Crew course.

This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.