Sports category: 37872 books
Performance and Sports Nutrition
Handbook with nutritional factors that can influence physical performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Achieve and maintain performance through nutrition
Performance is a daily quest when you want to achieve the results of high performance sport. In addition to more or less intensive daily training, it is important to get to know the ins and outs of a correct day-to-day sports nutrition. To...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
MediaSport is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which sport and the media interact. It is written by leading experts from around the world in the field of sports studies, sports journalism and leisure studies.
Among the subjects covered are:
* sports ethics
* sport and race
* sport and gender
*...
Sex Segregation in Sports: Why Separate Is Not Equal
Why Separate Is Not Equal
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Why isn't segregation based on sex illegal in sports just as race segregation is? This book examines the controversial issue, arguing that "separate but equal" is neither achievable nor constitutional.
• Features both current and historical events to support the argument for sex...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise. Sport coaching, however, remains a domain where gender equity has declined or stalled, despite increasing...
The B.A.A. at 125
The Official History of the Boston Athletic Association, 1887-2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Founded in 1887 and celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2012, the Boston Athletic Association is one of the oldest sports organizations in America. It’s best known today for its signature annual event, the Boston Marathon, which is the third-largest marathon and attracts tens of thousands of participants...
The Cost of These Dreams
Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**The instant New York Times bestseller!
From one of America's most beloved sportswriters, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports.**
"Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book focuses on sports coaching and sports teaching and how touching young sports participants has been redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches are constrained by a framework of regulations and guidelines which create anxiety, and many coaches now question the risks and benefits of their...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
--Mark Twain
It’s telling that Mark Twain chose...
The Politics of Sports Development
Development of Sport or Development Through Sport?
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This text traces the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy. It explores the emergence of sports development from the early years of public policy for sport in the 1960s to the contemporary era. This analysis is set against a background...
Win at winter sports
Brilliant little ideas for skiing and snowboarding
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Millions of us want to improve our on-piste performance and be better, stronger skiers and snowboarders, and theres a ton of advice out there to help us; a never-ending avalanche of books, magazines, websites and TV programmes. But whos got the time to wade through this lot to sift the stuff that works...
Playing on the Periphery
Sport, Identity and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports...
Bushell's Best Bits
Everything You Ever Needed to Know About the World's Craziest Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Loopy about lacrosse? Want to get into wing-walking? This is the book for you! Join BBC Breakfast sports presenter Mike Bushell as he swaps his suit for shorts to showcase the thrills and spills of the world's craziest alternative sports. Famed for trying out a dazzling array of extreme sports as...
The 25 Sports Commandments
A Guide to Help Develop a Mindset for the Young Athlete on and off the Playing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Commitment, dedication, camaraderie, sportsmanship, confidence, encouragement! Do children realize the importance of these words, both in sports and in daily life? I have put together a collection of thoughts and ideas that I have gathered throughout my many years of coaching youth sports, trying...
Between the Stripes
Zany Zebra Zingers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This book is over eleven hundred statements about sports officials which are designed by the author to create ten seconds of laughter and possibly twenty seconds of thought. It is a great read for the sports fan and sports officials. Hopefully it will bring a smile when you read it as well as a smile...