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  • Rethinking Sport and Exercise Psychology Research

    Past, Present and Future

    by Peter Hassmén, David Piggott, Richard Keegan ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of Sport and Exercise Psychology research, charting the progression of the field from the early days when well-controlled experimental research was the standard, to the subsequent paradigm war between positivism, post-positivism and constructivism. The book challenges current thinking and makes a plea for a move towards a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Sum of the People

    How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

    by Andrew Whitby ...
    Narrated by David Piggott ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance.In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back at least ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Qualitative Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health

    From Process to Product

    by Andrew C. Sparkes, Brett Smith ...
    Qualitative forms of inquiry are a dynamic and exciting area within contemporary research in sport, exercise and health. Students and researchers at all levels are now expected to understand qualitative approaches and be able to employ them in their work. In this comprehensive and in-depth introductory text, Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith take the reader on a journey through the entire ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Orgasmic Bodies

    The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture

    by Hannah Frith ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (P.A.T.H.S.)

    Edited by Daniel T.L. SHEK, Rachel C. F. Sun ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes.This pioneer project was conducted in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2012 with more than 210,000 participants. Its goal was to help students meet various ... Read more

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  • Sport Psychology: A Student's Handbook

    by Matt Jarvis ...
    This book offers a student-friendly introduction to the discipline of sport psychology. All the key psychological issues in sport are explored, and difficult questions are raised: are athletes born or made? Does playing sport affect personality? What effect do cultural beliefs have on personal sporting development?Matt Jarvis has substantially revised and expanded his original coverage of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Experience of Meaning in Life

    Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies

    Edited by Joshua A. Hicks, Clay Routledge ...
    This edited volume takes an in depth exploration into the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences. Each chapter features leading scholars who describes current empirical findings in a thorough and accessible manner, highlighting important issues and controversies facing the scientific study of meaning in life. The book covers an exhaustive range of topics including ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject

    Beyond Behaviour Change

    by Matthew Adams ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream understanding of 'environmental problems'. Only by addressing the psychological and social structures maintaining unsustainable societies might we glimpse ... Read more

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  • Against Violence Against Women

    The Case for Gender as a Protected Class

    by R. Fields ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Responding to the targeted destruction of women, Fields argues for establishing Gender as a protected class under the Genocide Convention. Cases are explored, historically, anthropologically, psychologically and sociologically, from the author's field research, as well as focuses on morbidity, mortality and demographic documentation data. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Personality Assessment via Questionnaires

    Current Issues in Theory and Measurement

    Edited by Alois Angleitner, Jerry S. Wiggins ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    ALOIS ANGLEITNER and JERRY S. WIGGINS The personality questionnaire has been with us for more than 60 years. It has been, and still is, the most popular method of personality assessment and it no doubt will continue to be so. The method has been sharply criticized since its inception (e. g. , Allport, 1921; Watson, 1933; Ellis, 1946; Janke, 1973), and this criticism is also likely to continue. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice

    Challenging Essentialism

    Edited by K. Lesnik-Oberstein ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it crucially demonstrates the consequences of radically rethinking the roles of language and perspective in constructing identities. ... Read more

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  • Fighters, Girls and Other Identities

    Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club

    by Lian Malai Madsen ...
    Series Book 5 - Encounters
    This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analytically nuanced contribution to the study of contemporary sociolinguistic processes and identity ... Read more

    $23.79 USD