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Physical Rehabilitation of the Injured Athlete E-Book

by James R. Andrews, MD, Gary L. Harrelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011

Physical Rehabilitation of the Injured Athlete is a medical reference book that equips you to apply today’s hottest strategies in non-operative sports rehabilitation, so you can help your patients return to play as quickly and fully as possible. Send your players back to the field fast...

Crossing the Bar

The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot

by Paul Lobo
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a licensed harbor pilot in those treacherous waters, Lobo captained...

Sandbag Training For MMA & Combat Sports

by Matthew Palfrey, Wesley Murch
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012

Sandbag Training For MMA & Combat Sports is the indispensable guide for anyone who wants to improve their strength and conditioning for combat. You'll learn: Why sandbag training is perfect for MMA & Combat Sport Athletes How to construct your own sandbag How to master over 60...

Fundamentals of Mantracking

The Step-by-Step Method: An Essential Primer for Search and Rescue Trackers

by Albert "Ab" Taylor, Donald C. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

Revised and updated with color photographs, the classic guide to search and rescue. In 2012, there were 661,000 missing person cases opened in the United States. While the majority of missing person cases that get opened are closed quickly, by the end of the year over 2,000 remained unresolved....

Blood Sports

by Stephen Worthing
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013

Discover blood sports like fighting spiders and crickets, rampaging donkeys and wrestling octopuses, plus many more creatures that fight to the death for human entertainment. Learn the true horror of men forced to fight beasts during Roman times. Read about legal and illegal sporting...

Sporting Guns

Weapons, Skills and Techniques for Competitive Shooting Sports

by Martin J Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

Whether you are hunting small game or caribou, clay pigeon shooting or target pistol shooting, SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sporting Guns is a comprehensive introduction to the major gun types used for sport. Wildfowling, clay pigeon shooting, Cowboy Action Shooting, hunting game, target shooting, tracking...

The Playmaker's Advantage

How to Raise Your Mental Game to the Next Level

by Leonard Zaichkowsky, Daniel Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

Discover the next frontier in sports training—improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience—and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life. Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it. The playmaker on any...

Psychology in Sports

100% Pure Adrenaline

by Dr. Altaf Hussain Bhatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010

Sport psychology is the study of psychological foundations of physical activity. Sport psychology is a science in which the principles of psychology are applied in a sport or exercise setting. These principles are often applied to enhance performance. However, the true sport psychologist is interested...

Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

Exploring the Fandemonium

by Roger C. Aden, Greg G. Armfield, David E. Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...

Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles [2 volumes]

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

Covering a breadth of topics surrounding the current state of women in sports, this two-volume collection taps current events, sociological and feminist theory, and recent research to contextualize women's experiences in sports within a patriarchal society and highlight areas for improvement. •...

The Umpire Has No Clothes

by Jonathan Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

Humor or horror? You decide, as sports satirist Walter Witty renders a play-by-play account of America's own most radical of obsessions: sports. Is everything a sport? From the hundred million plus salaries of sports gods to the games played by politicians and televangelists, Witty whistles and points...

The Roller Derby Athlete

by Ellen Parnavelas
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

Roller derby is a unique, fast-paced, female-dominated sport that is taking the world by storm. It originated in the USA in the 1930s but it is the revival that began in 2001 that has inspired this new book. Roller derby has become one of the world's fastest-growing new sports and there are now more...

Strength and Conditioning for Combat Sports

by Darren Yas Parr
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018

The role of the strength and conditioning coach for a combat athlete is to perform a needs analysis in which both the fighter as an individual and the sport itself are assessed in order to develop a high-performance programme. This might include plyometrics, speed and agility, endurance and core stability,...

The Bushcraft Bible

The Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Survival

by James Henry
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

This extensive guide will enable the reader to commune with the natural world and master a full spectrum of traditional practices, hands-on skill, and theoretical knowledge. Bushcraft Bible is an essential tool for the naturalist in all of us that dreams of building a shelter, hunting and gathering...