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  • Ecological Dynamics Approach to Football

    Edited by Jia Yi Chow, Keith Davids, Duarte Araújo ...
    Ecological Dynamics Approach to Football is the first book to apply insights from research in ecological dynamics to the sport of football.Ecological dynamics is a theoretical framework that draws on ecological psychology, complexity sciences, and dynamical systems concepts in examining interactions among constraints and the emergence of movement and performance behaviours.This book shows how an ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ariana's Fall From Grace

    by Virginia Alison, Keith David ...
    Over the past years, the screams, echoing from within the old house, varied from ecstasy to desperation. Apart from the wildlife, the cries fell on deaf ears; the Mistress liked it this way. Surrounded by acres, including woodland and wide-open stretches of pasture, Mondesto Manor suited her sordid and relatively solitary Machiavellian life style perfectly. Employing only a few staff, her main ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dynamics of Skill Acquisition

    An Ecological Dynamics Approach

    by Chris Button, Ludovic Seifert, Jia Yi Chow, Duarte Araujo, Keith Davids ...
    Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological dynamics framework for understanding movement behavior, this heavily updated edition stays on the cutting edge, with principles of nonlinear pedagogy and methodologies from the constraints-led approach.Students and ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • The Athletic Skills Model

    Optimizing Talent Development Through Movement Education

    by René Wormhoudt, Geert J.P. Savelsbergh, Jan Willem Teunissen, Keith Davids ...
    The Athletic Skills Model offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing. It places the emphasis on ‘physical intelligence’ – including attributes such as agility, flexibility and stability – through adaptable and varied training programmes, creating a skilled athlete before introducing sport ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Interceptive Actions in Sport

    Information and Movement

    Edited by Simon Bennett, Keith Davids, Geert J.P. Savelsbergh, John van der Kamp ...
    Dynamic interceptive actions are those actions for which the body, or an implement, must be moved into the right place at the right time in order to accomplish a task. These actions are particularly prevalent in sport, for example reaching to catch a ball or running towards a target to make a tackle. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive review of existing theoretical research on dynamic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition

    An Introduction

    by Jia Yi Chow, Keith Davids, Chris Button, Ian Renshaw ...
    Nonlinear Pedagogy is a powerful paradigm for understanding human movement and for designing effective teaching, coaching and training programmes in sport, exercise and physical education (PE). It addresses the inherent complexity in learning movement skills, viewing the learner, the learning environment and the teacher or coach as a complex interacting system. The constraints of individual ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Nonlinear Pedagogy and the Athletic Skills Model

    The Importance of Play in Supporting Physical Literacy

    by James Rudd, Ian Renshaw, Geert Savelsbergh, Jia Yi Chow, Will Roberts, Daniel Newcombe, Keith Davids ...
    This book offers an ecological conceptualisation of physical literacy. Re-embracing our ancestry as hunter gatherers we gain a new appreciation and understanding of the importance of play, not only in terms of how children learn, but also in showing us as educators how we can lay the foundations for lifelong physical activity. The concept of physical literacy has been recognised and understood ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Artificial Intelligence in Sport Performance Analysis

    by Duarte Araújo, Ludovic Seifert, Hugo Sarmento, Keith Davids, Micael Couceiro ...
    To understand the dynamic patterns of behaviours and interactions between athletes that characterize successful performance in different sports is an important challenge for all sport practitioners. This book guides the reader in understanding how an ecological dynamics framework for use of artificial intelligence (AI) can be implemented to interpret sport performance and the design of practice ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Complex Systems in Sport

    Edited by Keith Davids, Robert Hristovski, Duarte Araújo, Natalia Balague Serre, Chris Button, Pedro Passos ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
    Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavior of individual athletes and sports teams as emergent phenomena which self-organise under interacting constraints.This book is the first to bring ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Development of Movement Coordination in Children

    Applications in the Field of Ergonomics, Health Sciences and Sport

    Edited by Geert Savelsbergh, Keith Davids, John van der Kamp, Simon J. Bennett ...
    Co-ordination of movement plays a key role in human development and is an important area in sport and health sciences. This book looks in detail at how children develop basic skills, such as walking and reaching for objects, and more complex skills such as throwing and catching a ball accurately or riding a bicycle.Development of Movement Co-ordination in Children is informed by five major ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Interpersonal Coordination and Performance in Social Systems

    Edited by Pedro Passos, Keith Davids, Jia Yi Chow ...
    Interpersonal coordination is an important feature of all social systems. From everyday activities to playing sport and participating in the performing arts, human behaviour is constrained by the need to continually interact with others. This book examines how interpersonal coordination tendencies in social systems emerge, across a range of contexts and at different scales, with the aim of helping ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Being Modern in the Middle East

    Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class

    by Keith David Watenpaugh ...
    In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. The book explores the rise of a middle class of liberal professionals, white-collar employees, journalists, and businessmen during the first decades of the twentieth century in the Arab Middle East and the ways its members created civil society, and new forms of politics, bodies ... Read more

    $29.99 USD