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On the Field with...Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, and Mallory Pugh
By Matt Christopher. 2020
This action-packed and inspiring collection of brand new biographies takes readers onto the field with their favorite soccer stars.The U.S.…
women's national soccer team cemented their legendary status with their 2019 World Cup championship. Get to know four of the team's most talented players and prominent stars: the steadfast Carli Lloyd, superstar Alex Morgan, newcomer Mallory Pugh, and fearless Megan Rapinoe. This action-packed biography collection brings readers onto the field with the women's national team to experience the biggest moments of their careers, and the journeys that brought these players together. Complete with stats and photographs, this book makes the perfect gift for any young sports fan.A History of Hunting in the Great Smoky Mountains
By Bob Plott. 2008
Man versus beast. It is an age-old struggle, and one that has ensued within the rugged terrain of the Great…
Smoky Mountains since humans first encountered the region centuries ago. Author and local hunting connoisseur Bob Plott takes readers on a quest back through time for a glimpse into the minds and the rifles of the region s most intrepid hunters. From the primitive weaponry and prevailing tactics of the Cherokee to the audacious rifle-toting ridge runners, and even a gruesome gang of cannibalistic rogues, these stories are truly a gripping tribute to mountain life and the adventure of the game.Can You Survive The Wilderness?: An Interactive Survival Adventure (You Choose: Survival Ser.)
By Matt Doeden, Chris Laliberte. 2012
The wilderness is a place of beauty and peace. But it is also filled with fierce predators, poisonous plants, and…
raging rivers. Will you: Try to survive the harsh mountains of Alaska after being abandoned during an outdoor training trip? Struggle to make your way out of the deep forests after becoming lost in Australia’s Blue Mountains? Attempt to find help for your injured brother in Washington’s Cascade Mountains?Flamengo: Los años dorados del mayor club del mundo
By Diego Iglesias. 2019
El período de mayor brillo de la centenaria historia del Flamengo, el club más popular del País - y del…
mundo, ¿por qué no decirlo? -, contado en crónicas que van más allá de una simple pasión clubística. Reflejan un caso de amor al fútbol, la más perfecta metáfora que existe para la vida.Motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices are rapidly evolving. Positioned at the forefront of this evolution, the constraints-led approach…
encourages practitioners to consider the athlete as a whole person, with unique traits, abilities, and capacities. Accordingly, an athlete’s competitive success lies in the practitioner’s ability to adapt programming to the unique needs of each athlete and to facilitate the athlete-environment relationship. A Constraints-led Approach to Figure Skating Coaching applies contemporary motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices to figure skating. The book encourages coaches to think about why they coach, the athletes they want to support, and the goals they want their program to achieve. It informs coaches how to transform these core considerations into the driving inspiration for their daily coaching practices including assessment methods, the coach-athlete relationship, practice structure, competition preparation, and conceptions of technique. The lessons here are founded on the constraints-led approach. They are personal, yet broadly inclusive to the global sports programming market. The book is written through a ‘conversive’ voice and is accessible to a broad audience interested in athlete development and programming such as coaches, athletes and parents. At the same time, academics and students in the areas of sport coaching, biomechanics, motor skill acquisition, strength and conditioning, and related disciplines will find interest in the insights provided from this underrepresented niche in sports.Never Mind the Quantocks: How Country Walking Can Change Your Life
By Stuart Maconie. 2012
In this hilarious and heart-warming collection of essays, writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie reflects on a life spent exploring the…
British countryside on foot. From the splendour of the Pennines and the Lake District to the drama of the Dorset coast; from the canals of the Midlands to wildest Scotland, this book is an attempt to explain a passion for walking and the delights it can bring. Culled from his monthly column in Country Walking magazine, it's full of the beautiful places, magical moments and wonderful characters Stuart has encountered on his travels. It discusses such intrepid adventures as taking on the famous 'Wainwright' fells of the Lake District, walking Hadrian's Wall with colleague Mark Radcliffe, and why the most important things to carry in a rucksack are a transistor radio and a small bottle of red wine.Managing People in Sport Organizations: A Strategic Human Resource Management Perspective (Sport Management Series)
By Tracy Taylor, Alison Doherty, Peter McGraw. 2015
Managing People in Sport Organizations provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of managing people within a strategic…
framework. This revised and updated second edition examines a range of strategic human resource management approaches that can be used by sport organizations to respond to contemporary challenges and to develop a sustainable performance culture. Drawing on well-established conceptual frameworks and current empirical research, the book systematically covers every key area of HRM theory and practice, including: recruitment training and development performance management and appraisal motivation and reward organizational culture employee relations diversity managing change This new edition also includes expanded coverage of social media, volunteers, and individuals within organizations, and is supported with a new companion website carrying additional resources for students and instructors, including PowerPoint slides, exam questions and useful web links. No other book offers such an up-to-date introduction to core concepts and key professional skills in HRM in sport, and therefore?Managing People in Sport Organizations?is essential reading for any sport management student or any HR professional working in sport.The Science of Judo (Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science)
By Mike Callan. 2019
The Science of Judo is the first book to set out and discuss the science, coaching and history behind judo…
performance. Evidence-based and informed by the latest research, the book offers practical guidance on preparing athletes for high performance and understanding the core tenets of sport science underpinning it. Featuring contributions from world-leading experts, the book consists of chapters on all aspects of judo performance, including: The historical development of judo and its physical, intellectual and moral role Physical preparation for competition, coaching and training strategies Skill acquisition, talent identification and development Nutrition and lifestyle of judoka Performance analysis and biomechanics Injury epidemiology and prevention Special considerations for female and young judoka Clearly written and accessible, The Science of Judo provides upper-level students and researchers, and coaches and sport science staff working with judoka, with the most thorough and authoritative reference on sport science applied to judo currently available.The story of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the ten-year period from 2009 to 2018 reads like a classic Greek tragedy,…
filled with gut-wrenching plot twists and turns. After rising from the ashes of the early 2000s on the wings of young stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to capture the 2009 Stanley Cup, the Penguins were hailed as hockey’s newest superpower. However, plagued by a career-threatening concussion to Crosby and a series of ghastly playoff exits, the would-be dynasty hit the skids. Dismayed over the downward spiral, ownership cleaned house and turned to long-time Carolina general manager Jim Rutherford in an effort to restore the club’s sagging fortunes. With coach Mike Sullivan now at the helm and scorer Phil Kessel on the roster, the Pens put together a stunning resurgence, capturing back-to-back Cups in 2016 and 2017. In The Rise of the Pittsburgh Penguins 2009-2018, Rick Buker details how the Penguins have become the strongest hockey dynasty of the 21st century to date. This book ties that 10-year span together in an easy-to-read format, including an appendix at the back with season by season stats. The perfect gift for any fan of Pittsburgh hockey!Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory (Radical Américas)
By Robert Nichols. 2020
Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of…
explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present, Robert Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated. In so doing, Nichols also brings long-standing debates in anarchist, Black radical, feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought into direct conversation with the frequently overlooked intellectual contributions of Indigenous peoples.Leveraging Disability Sport Events: Impacts, Promises, and Possibilities (Disability Sport and Physical Activity Cultures)
By Laura Misener, David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson, David Legg. 2018
This empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events. It draws insights from a major…
international comparative study of different types of large multi-national sporting events: integrated events where able-bodied athletes and athletes with a disability compete alongside one another, and non-integrated events where athletes with a disability are separated by time but occurring in the same location. Guided by a critical disability studies perspective, the book highlights the strategic opportunity of sporting events to influence social change around community participation, and attitudes and awareness about disability more broadly. It also challenges assumptions about positive event legacies and suggests a need for a multi-lateral approach to planning. An important read for students, researchers and scholars in the fields of sport policy, sport development, disability sport, sport management, disability studies and event studies.Chehalis Stories
By Jolynn Amrine Goertz. 2018
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation In Chehalis…
Stories Jolynn Amrine Goertz and the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Western Washington have assembled a collaborative volume of traditional stories collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas from tribal knowledge keepers in the early twentieth century. Both Boas and Amrine Goertz worked with past and present elders, including Robert Choke, Marion Davis, Peter Heck, Blanche Pete Dawson, and Jonas Secena, in collecting and contextualizing traditional knowledge of the Chehalis people. The elders shared stories with Boas at a critical juncture in Chehalis history, when assimilation efforts during the 1920s affected almost every aspect of Chehalis life. These are stories of transformation, going away, and coming back. The interwoven adventures of tricksters and transformers in Coast Salish narratives recall the time when people and animals lived together in the Chehalis River Valley. Catastrophic floods, stolen children, and heroic rescues poignantly evoke the resiliency of the people who have carried these stories for generations. Working with contemporary Chehalis people, Amrine Goertz has extensively reviewed the work of anthropologists in western Washington. This important collection examines the methodologies, shortcomings, and limitations of anthropologists&’ relationship with Chehalis people and presents complementary approaches to field work and its contextualization.Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
By Michael Powell. 2019
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school,…
adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans. Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and culture, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same.The Feather Bender's Flytying Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide to Classic and Modern Trout Flies
By Barry Ord Clarke. 2019
A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to tying popular trout flies. This book is aimed at all fly tyers, from those…
with modest experience to those with more advanced skills. The author&’s intention is to focus on certain important elementary techniques, and then share some of his favorite contemporary twists on old, tried-and-true techniques. Many of the flies in this book are based in his own techniques and patterns, ones that he has developed in more than thirty-five years of tying. The book is arranged in sections to give readers the opportunity to easily locate the pattern or technique they are looking for. Patterns are not grouped alphabetically, but by technique. For example, the section on dry flies has categories demonstrating a particular dry fly style or technique such as mastering the use of deer hair, parachute, CDC, and so on. If you are fairly new to fly tying, the opening chapters on materials and special techniques and tricks will familiarize you with some basics and help you get started. Seasoned tyers will similarly find information here to help them raise their tying skills to a new level. Each pattern is listed with a recipe, recommended hook style, size, and materials. They are listed in the order that that author uses them, and illustrated by the book&’s step-by-step images. This will help you plan each pattern and assemble materials your beforehand. Included are lushly illustrated photos for such well-known trout flies as: Pheasant tail nymphKlinkhamerHumpyDeer Hair IrresistibleCDC Mayfly SpinnerAnd much more. A special feature of this one-of-a-kind books is that its the first tying book to have a video link for all the patterns featured. Watch the author tying online, then turn to the matching chapter in the book to follow the step-by-step instructions so that you can tie your own fly in your own time. Author Barry Ord Clarke will respond online to your questions.Okanagan Grouse Woman: Upper Nicola Narratives
By Lottie Lindley. 2016
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationIn this book…
of Native American language research and oral traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by culture-bearer Lottie Lindley, one of the last Okanagan elders whose formative years of language learning were unbroken by the colonizing influence of English. Speaking in the Upper Nicola dialect of Okanagan, a Southern Interior Salish language, Lindley tells the stories that recount and reflect Salish culture, history, and historical consciousness (including names of locales won in battle with other interior peoples), coming-of-age rituals and marriage rites, and tales that attest to the self-understanding of the Salish people within their own history. For each Okanagan Salish story, Lyon and Lindley offer a continuous transcription followed by a collaborative English translation of the story and an interlinear rendition with morphological analysis. The presentation allows students of the dialect, linguists, and those interested in Pacific Northwest and Interior Plateau indigenous oral traditions unencumbered access to the culture, history, and language of the Salish peoples. With few native speakers left in the community, Okanagan Grouse Woman contributes to the preservation, presentation, and—with hope—maintenance and cultivation of a vital indigenous language and the cultural traditions of the Interior Salish peoples.Fitness and Nutrition The best binomial
By Lucas Graham. 2019
Street Work: Get fit on the street Diets: Caloric calculations per meal or together? Not only of exercising, man lives…
Why should you exercise? Tone your muscles with isometric exercises Muscular Training: Toning Vs Hypertrophy Useful data to perform abdominal exercises. The Importance of the Right Posture in Exercise The Benefits of Training with a Friend or Group Ways to maintain fitness if you are a busy person Sport and female menstruation Exercises in pregnancy Aerobics, exercises at home that will change your life. The 10 Most Frequent Errors in the Gym Fruits that reduce muscle pain Healthy meals and their relationship with the quality of life. Avocado, a powerful food for your health Oats, the food that slims Include citrus fruits in your diet Coconut milk, the ally of athletes Include stevia in your life Green juices: Effective detoxifiers Drink beer for muscle recovery?Fundamentos do Mergulho: Comece a Mergulhar da Forma Correta
By Simon Pridmore. 2019
Se você ainda não pratica o mergulho autônomo, mas está pensando em aprender, então Fundamentos do Mergulho - Comece a…
Margulhar da Forma Correta é para você. Ele o leva da idéia embrionária de que você possa gostar de mergulhar até o ponto em que você tenha feito cerca de 20 mergulhos. Este não é um manual padrão de mergulho. Ele é muito diferente. O objetivo do Fundamentos do Mergulho não é lhe ensinar a mergulhar. Um instrutor de mergulho fará isso. Mas este livro fará com que o processo de aprendizado seja mais fácil. Ele o ajudará a tomar as decisões corretas e evitar as armadilhas que aguardam os mergulhadores novos e desinformados que está iniciando neste esporte. Ele também o ajudará a se tornar um mergulhador capaz e competente para o resto da sua vida. Fundamentos do Mergulho lhe mostra como garantir que esteja preparado para um curso de mergulho e o que um bom curso básico deveria conter. Ele lhe diz como escolher um bom instrutor, como decidir com qual operadora mergulhar após ter terminado seu curso e que tipos de mergulho você deveria estar fazendo quando começar a mergulhar. Você aprenderá as muitas formas com que o mergulho mudará sua vida e adquirá conselhos extremamente valiosos sobre a etiqueta envolvida. Ao longo do livro e especialmente no capítulo "Aconteceu comigo" você irá se divertir, aprender e ser encorajado pelos casos contados por pessoas experientes no mergulho, mas que já foram iniciantes também. Também há um capítulo inteiro dedicado à segurança do mergulho, que cobre aspectos de importância fundamental do mergulho que os manuais de treinamento das agências certificadoras não enfatizam o suficiente ou deixam totalmente de fora. A mensagem do livro é: comece a mergulhar da forma correta e você estará relaxado e pronto para a aventura. Você se divertirá mais, cometerá menos erros e terá confiança de que estará bem informado para tomar as melI campioni di lotta della Killimore High School
By Joe Rasselor. 2019
Descrizione del libro Caro lottatore, ti piace leggere dei bei romanzi che parlano della lotta, in cui si usano tecniche vere?…
E, sei stanco di doverti sorbire un mucchio di chiacchiere prima di arrivare agli incontri? Se è così, questo è libro che fa per te! Si tratta di una commedia divertente, e l'unico lato serio è la lotta stessa. Se sei un novizio dello sport, non preoccuparti: alla fine del libro troverai una spiegazione del sistema con cui si assegnano i punti e una lista delle tecniche utilizzate nella disciplina. Leggi, lotta e divertiti. Gira sempre a testa alta. Joe Rasselor. Trama dell'opera Il nostro eroe, Apostle Watson, sfida il campione collegiale uscente, Sherlock Ies, nella categoria di peso 79kg. L'evento mette sottosopra l'intera Killimore High School, e Apostle finisce per vivere una giornata rocambolesca in attesa dell'incontro. A tutti i lottatori e non lottatori, leggete a vostro rischio e pericolo.Perdere peso velocemente in 25 giorni. Come bruciare grassi e mangiare sano. La dieta detox low carb per lui. Una…
guida sana ed esaustiva per capire ed eliminare il grasso corporeo naturalmente in non più di 25 giorni. Questa guida vi aiuterà a controllare la naturale capacità che ha il vostro corpo, per bruciare grassi ed essere in forma. Su solida e provata base scientifica, questo libro vi insegnerà: -Vincere la fame - Le migliori abitudini per perdere peso - I migliori cibi per perdere peso - I migliori esercizi per perdere peso - Ad avere più energia e ad accelerare il metabolismo - Per uomini Se volete avere più energia mentre perdete peso, allora questo libro fa per voi. --> Andate a inizio pagina e cliccate per mettere il libro nel carrello ed acquistarlo subito Disclaimer: Questo autore e/o i detentori dei diritti non rivendicano, promettono, né garantiscono per la correttezza, completezza, o adeguatezza dei contenuti di questo libro, e declinano espressamente da qualsiasi responsabilità per errori ed omissioni del suo contenuto. Quest'opera è intesa per consultazione.This book by PADI Master Scuba Diver Instructor and CMAS 2* Instuctor Daniel Hagen gives tips, information and background on…
what to look for when buying a diving suit -- from thin Lycra suits to dry suits. With this guide you can make smart choices when buying a diving suit and save money as well.