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  • Sport in the UK

    by Leona Trimble, Woobae Lee, Clint Godfrey, David Grecic, Susan Minten ...
    Series series Active Learning in Sport Series
    This is a comprehensive introduction for HE students to the provision, organisation, and governance of sport in the UK. Supported by case study material, it introduces the reader to key government policies, and to the ways in which public, private and voluntary sectors provide sporting opportunities. The book focuses on issues of participation, employment, media coverage and commercialisation, and ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

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  • LEARN HOW TO PLAY CHESS

    by V.GURU PRASAD ...
    Chess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other king.If you play it right, you can feel how attractive the game is. But, still many people does not know how to play chess. For them I have ... Read more

    $1.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Running

    by Alison Hamlett ...
    Series series Collins Need to Know?
    This one-stop practical guide will show you how to run – for health, fitness or fun. To make your progress easier, it comes with handy expert advice throughout.Eager to start running? Want to run your first race? Or need to improve your speed and stamina? Collins need to know? Running is the one-stop guide to everything from setting a training plan to dealing with injury to keeping motivated ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Run to the Roar

    Coaching to Overcome Fear

    by Paul Assaiante, James Zug ...
    The winningest coach in NCAA history shares his lessons on building and coaching teams of champions.For 202 consecutive dual matches over the past eleven years, the Trinity men's squash team has gone unbeaten. No other team in any collegiate sport has achieved the same sustained level of greatness. Run to the Roar is the story of a coach who succeeds in recruiting young men from around the world, ... Read more

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  • Taboo

    Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

    by Jon Entine ...
    In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Physical Literacy

    Throughout the Lifecourse

    Edited by Margaret Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    What is physical literacy?What are the benefits of being physically literate?The term ‘physical literacy’ describes the motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge that individuals develop in order to maintain physical activity at an appropriate level throughout their life. Physical literacy encompasses far more than physical education in schools or structured sporting ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports

    Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance, second edition

    by Paul Gamble ...
    Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports is designed to help trainers and coaches to devise more effective high-performance training programs for team sports. This remains the only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and features all-new chapters covering neuromuscular training, injury prevention and specific injury risks for different team sports. Fully ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Boy Wonder

    Tales from the Sidelines of an Irish Childhood

    by Dave Hannigan ...
    A collage of personal memories passed over into family myth, Boy Wonder is a funny and moving account of a childhood spent, like countless others, on pitches, sidelines and stands, struggling to make sense of competition and the outsized role it plays in the lives of men and boys, fathers and sons. From tough lessons on the parish field and the politics of afterschool football to the euphoria of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Most Expensive Game in Town

    The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families

    by Mark Hyman ...
    Building on the eye-opening investigation into the damaging effects of the ultra-competitive culture of youth sports in his previous book, Until It Hurts, Mark Hyman's new book looks at the business of youth sports, how it has changed, and how it is affecting young Americans. Examining the youth sports economy from many sides--the major corporations, small entrepreneurs, coaches, parents, and, of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Podium

    What Shapes a Sporting Champion?

    by Ben Oakley ...
    What does it really take to make the podium? Which of the biological, environmental and psychological factors really shape a champion's route to the top?To answer these questions, Ben Oakley has taken the original step of combining existing research with a study of leading athletes' autobiographies. Looking at the early histories and initial challenges of serial champions in their own words, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Revolution in the Bleachers

    How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone CrazyOver Youth Sports

    by Regan McMahon ...
    A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture—and offers practical solutions for positive change.A decade ago, Joan Ryan’s exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports, namely figure skating and gymnastics. Today, there is another crisis in youth sports. It may affect any child, from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport

    On Becoming an Elite Athlete

    by Kenneth Aggerholm ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    'Why don’t young athletes in sport just quit?’ Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of being a talented young sportsperson striving to become an elite athlete.As an alternative to conventional approaches to talent development governed by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD