Sports category: 37872 books
Sports and The Global South
Work, Play and Resistance In Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global...
Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports
Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance, second edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
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...
Mark Rosen's Book of Minnesota Sports Lists
A Compilation of Bests, Worsts, and Head-Scratchers from the Worlds of Baseball, Football, Hockey, Basketball, Fishing, Curling, and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Beloved sportscaster Mark Rosen presents a handpicked collection of fascinating sports memories from a range of athletes, journalists, and other prominent Minnesota voices.
The Minnesota sports universe is filled with star players, memorable moments (good and bad), and controversial decisions...
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine
Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between sports...
The ESPN Effect
Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
ESPN has grown from a start-up cable network in a small Connecticut town to a $50 billion global enterprise. For the past 35 years, ESPN – along with its sister networks – has been the preeminent source for sports for millions around the globe. Its 24-hour coverage of sports news and programming...
Women's Sports
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news networks devote less than 5 percent...
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching
A Design Thinking Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is an innovative, user-friendly, practical and theoretical guide for educating sports coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports coaching.
Providing theoretical grounding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Sports surface design is crucial for the successful performance of sports skills and the reduction of injury risk. Surfaces have developed from natural materials such as turf, clay and cinder, to synthetic surfaces such as acrylic tennis courts, artificial turf for soccer and synthetic running tracks,...
Sport Beyond Television
The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have...
Sports and K-12 Education
Insights for Teachers, Coaches, and School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Much of the landscape of K-12 education is infused with sports. In the United States and the United Kingdom, nearly half of school-aged children play some form of organized sport. The impact of athletics on schools is enormous when informal athletic activity and the ubiquity of sports merchandise...
Growing Athletes
A Father's 15-Year Journey from T-Ball to Hard Ball
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This book offers a father's personal account of his experiences in shepherding his two sons through the baffling, wacky, frustrating, disappointing yet often wonderful world of youth sports. The book takes a chronological accounting of what they went through as a family, from the earliest days of T-ball...
Exploring Sports and Society
A Critical Introduction for Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
What is the relationship between sports and society? How can we understand sport in relation to physical activities, leisure and physical culture? In this far-reaching and inter-disciplinary textbook, Karl Spracklen brings together ideas and research from sports studies, sociology, cultural studies,...
by Eye Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The most definite way for athletes to be hailed as sports legends is by setting world records. In this ebook, you will read about the amazing stories of Jimmie Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods and David Beckham. Learn from their hardwork and determination. Take inspiration from their struggles and triumphs. Start reading today.
The Sociology of Sports
An Introduction, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In its second edition, this book takes a fresh approach to the study of sports, presenting key concepts such as socialization, economics, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, the media and the role of sports in society. The authors offer a critical examination but highlight also the many positive...