Marc Jones: 24 books

Written by Dr Paul McCarthy, the first-ever resident Sport Psychologist at the home of golf, St Andrews, and Professor Marc Jones - here is a book to help all golfers.You do not have to play many rounds of golf to understand how much of the game is played in the mind. Different courses, conditions,...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers tackle problems and issues with putting. For putting to be most effective, a golfer’s action needs to be as smooth and unconscious as possible. Sections include what to do when:…you have a three-foot putt, but...

What is single-case research? How can single-case methods be used within sport and exercise? Single-case research is a powerful method for examining change in outcome variables such as behaviour, performance and psychological constructs, and for assessing the efficacy of interventions. It has innumerable...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to get golfers practising more effectively on the range, before taking those improvements onto the course and into competition.Many golfers practise poorly on the range/putting green. Fact. They whack a bucket of balls for an hour...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers overcome their nerves and boost their concentration levels. Through the examination of commonly experienced scenarios, readers will soon be playing better, more effective golf. Sections include what to do when:…you...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to get golfers consistently shooting lower scores.This Pre-Shot book looks at what golfers can do before they get onto the course (goal-setting, self-reflection, imagery) and when playing (the crucial pre-shot routine itself)....

Ruminating on errors and letting annoyances take hold are sure-fire ways of imploding on a round. Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers tackle the insidious effects that mistakes and frustration can have on performance. Through the examination of commonly...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to get golfers shooting lower scores quickly.Confidence is our belief in our ability to succeed in our challenges. Golf presents many challenges, and golfers who win the most are usually the most confident.Confident golfers improve...

The Resolution is a coming-of-age story about a young mans evolution into a warrior when his life is paused by a potentially lethal melee. The consequences of betrayal, distrust, and weakness become the guidelines to his survival in an epic inter-personal war in which no one questions, How far is...

"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands." -Michelle Alexander More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project,...

Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late...

Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to economic success, but also to the cultural, social, environmental,...

A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition. This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...