Sports category: 37872 books
Sports Coaching Cultures
From Practice to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club.
Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments,...
Unintended Consequences
When Adults took the fun out of Youth Sports
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is a look at the deplorable situation in youth sports through the 84-year old eyes of photojournalist, youth coach, referee and league administrator Jerry Norton. Norton makes the case that youth sports have become more about winning than playing and more about adult egos than...
Jackie Robinson
Race, Sports and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen...
Tales from the Maryland Terrapins
A Collection of the Greatest Terrapin Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this reissue of Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, fans can relive the most profound memories from more than 100 years of athletics at the University of Maryland in College Park. Authored by David Ungrady, a former two-sport athlete at the school, the book includes a series of first-person anecdotes...
Crazy About Sports: Volume Ii
Great Memories of Special Players, Teams, and Events
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Are you really crazy about sports?
Crazy About Sports is a collection of sports stories about many colorful players, famous teams and special events during the early and mid stages of sports development in this country ranging from the late 1800s to late 1900s.If you like sports, you are sure to enjoy reading this unique collection of stories by James Earl Hester, Jr.
by Eric Brymer, Robert Schweitzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some. If the popular conception holds that the incentive behind extreme sports participation is entirely to do with risking one’s life, then this confusion will continue to exist. However, an in-depth examination...
by Prasidh Kumar Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
This book discusses the major areas of sports journalism the impact of the media on sport and vice versa. Drawing on research into world media events such as the major games, it shows how the study of the sport raises complex issues of identity, culture and politics which have implications for society...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Volunteers are central to providing opportunities to play sport, whether helping to run sports clubs, helping in school sport or at sports events.
This volume focuses on the volunteers who support clubs. Approximately 150,000 sports clubs in the UK are supported by volunteers in roles such...
Rethinking Sports and Integration
Developing a Transnational Perspective on Migrants and Descendants in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this idea and the concept of integration, and analyzes the problems in focus, the methods applied and the results of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports (also referred to as action sport, extreme sports, adventure sports) have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visibility across public and private space. book seeks to explore the changing representation...
Sport Histories
Figurational Studies in the Development of Modern Sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Sports Histories draws on figurational sociology to provide a fresh approach to analysing the development of modern sport. The book brings together ten case studies from a wide range of sports, including mainstream sports such as soccer, rugby, baseball, boxing and cricket, to other sports that until...
Handbook of Sports Injuries
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Sports Injuries continue to increase in organized or varsity athletics and in the general population because of the increased interest in fitness and sports. In the present study, all major sports injuries including foot and ankle, knee, hip flexors, hip joints, shoulders, head, forearm muscles, wrist...
Team Physician Manual
International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS)
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the world’s oldest sports medicine organization. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, the book offers a complete guide to the background knowledge, practical...
Injury in Pediatric and Adolescent Sports
Epidemiology, Treatment and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Providing a state-of-the-art account of the nature, distribution and determinants of sports injury in children and adolescents, this unique volume uses the public health model to describe the scope of the injury problem and the associated risk factors and evaluate the current research on injury prevention...