18 books like Positive Youth Development Through Sport

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Talent identification and development in sport Joseph Baker · 2011 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Identifying and developing talented athletes to their fullest potential is a central concern of sport scientists, sports coaches, and sports policy makers. The second edition of this popular text offers a state of the science synthesis of current knowledge in talent identification and development in sport, from the biological basis of talent to the systems and processes within sport through which… Shares: Gambling, Games, Social aspects, Essays

Car crime Claire Corbett · 2003 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Crime involving cars – whether involving offences by drivers or theft of and from cars – represents a substantial proportion of offences committed, and occupies an enormous amount of police time. But it is not always perceived as the serious crime that it is: many traffic offences cause enormous harm in terms of death and injury, but are often not regarded seriously by drivers, the criminal… Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects

Soccernomics Simon Kuper · 2009 · ★ 3.9 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game of soccer works, "Soccernomics" reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about the world's most popular game. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup. Shares: Gambling, Games, Social aspects, Essays

Sport Consumer Behaviour Daniel C. Funk · 2016 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this textbook offers a complete introduction to consumer behaviour in sport and recreation. Combining theory and cutting-edge research with practical guidance and advice, it helps students and industry professionals become more effective practitioners. Written by three of the world’s leading sports marketing academics, the book covers all the key… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

Pure Sport John Kremer · 2012 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Pure Sport is a practical guide that provides insights on asserting positive mindsets, realising potential, remaining resilient against setbacks and using these experiences to move on to greater success. The book follows the journey of the athlete through six clear steps, creating a logical framework for applied sport psychology or a path you can follow in your own practice. The third edition is… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

Sport and the Media Matthew Nicholson · 2006 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus combines in-depth analysis of the rapidly developing sport media industry with a clear and straightforward guide to practical sport media management skills. The book explains how the media works, as well as the practical skills necessary to manage the communication process. It explores the commercial… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching Richard Light · 2016 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Positive Pedagogy is an athlete-centred, inquiry-based approach that transforms the way we understand learning and coaching in sport. This book demonstrates how Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching (PPed) can be successfully employed across a range of sports and levels of performance, while also providing insight into coaches’ experiences.Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, the… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Moderate From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life. Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects

Managing Sport Organizations Daniel Covell · 2013 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Now in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, Managing Sport Organizations introduces the fundamentals of sport management across every industry sector, from youth and intercollegiate sport to professional leagues, and from community-level sport to international sport.Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book covers the key topics, issues, and concepts in contemporary sport… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

Sport facility operations management Eric C. Schwarz · 2010 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Sport Facility Operations Management goes beyond the basic theories of sport facility management to examine the practical realities connecting facilities, people, and technology.An essential textbook for any sport facilities course, it introduces the fundamentals of facility management and presents cutting-edge, evidence-based perspectives that… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

Business of Sports Mark Conrad · 2006 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The Business of Sports provides a comprehensive foundation of the economic, organizational, legal and political components of the sports industry. Geared for journalism, communication and business students, but also an excellent resource for those working in sports, this text introduces readers to the ever-increasing complexity of an industry that is in constant flux. Now in its third edition,… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

Theory of Fun for Game Design Raph Koster · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It's about What fun is Why some games are fun and some games are boring How different people respond to different kinds of fun What makes a game fun or not How games fit into the wider human culture Whether games can be art What degree of social responsibility game makers need to have How games can develop At its core, though, it is about why games matter. Shares: Aspect social, Games, Social aspects

Research Methods For Sport Management James Skinner · 2012 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners. Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international perspectives throughout this book to help the reader understand the challenges of research in… Shares: Gambling, Games, Essays, Travel

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess Leonard Shlain · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain anatomy and function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that, with the advent of literacy, the very act of reading an alphabet reinforced the brain's left hemisphere - linear, abstract, predominantly masculine at the expense of the right holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. This shift upset the… Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects, History

Chaos James Gleick · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot. Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects

The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 365p · ≈ 12h · Moderate What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to… Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects

And the Band Played on Randy Shilts · 1987 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Moderate The blueprint of 20th century investigative journalism. Tracing the course of HIV/AIDS through society; from its earliest as then unknown incarnation, to the height of this 1980s hysteria – the death of Rock Hudson: Shilts's book should be in every High School's final academic examinations coursework reading list, as a compulsory item. An unregrettable read. Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects, History

Masculinity, sexuality and illegal migration Ali Nobil Ahmad · 2011 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration makes use of extensive new empirical material to explore the phenomena of migration, human smuggling and illegal work, in order to develop a compelling account of international migration, linking it with irrational, risky economic behaviour and male sexual desire. Interviews conducted with successive waves of Pakistani immigrants in the UK and Italy,… Shares: Aspect social, Social aspects, History

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