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“dean barker”

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  • Sustainability in high performance sport

    Current practices - Future directions

    Edited by Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker ...
    Success in high performance sport is highly valued in today’s world, with lucrative contracts, sponsorship deals, and opportunities for celebrity status balanced against substantial investments of time and energy, and high chances of failure. With pressure mounting on athletes and coaches to make the most of athletic investments, the temptation to make health-related or ethical compromises is ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Enhancing Performance: Mental Training for Coaches, Athletes, and Parents

    by Dan Yarmey ...
    This book describes the methods and mental skills necessary for optimal performance in individual and team sports. Forty brief chapters representing such topics as attention and concentration, goal-setting, imagery, mental preparation, and mental toughness are covered. The book will be of interest to coaches, college and club level athletes, high school players, and athletes' parents ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction

    by John Perry ...
    Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The book uses a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Sports Coach as Educator

    Re-conceptualising Sports Coaching

    Edited by Robyn L. Jones ...
    Teaching athletes to improve their performance is the essence of sports coaching. In response to new government-led initiatives to invest in and develop coaching, this book is the first introduction to pedagogical theory for coaching. Bringing helpful insights from educational theory to bear on coaching practice, The Sports Coach as Educator expands and enriches the role of the coach and allows ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Coaching Process

    A Practical Guide to Becoming an Effective Sports Coach

    by Lynn Kidman, Stephanie J. Hanrahan ...
    In this fresh and engaging introduction to sports coaching, Lynn Kidman and Stephanie Hanrahan guide students through the coaching process. Focusing on the practical aspects of sports coaching, the book helps students to develop their basic technical skills as well as strategies for working with individual and team athletes, and to plan and implement effective coaching sessions.The book develops ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • A Practical Guide to Sports Psychology

    Play Stronger, Better, Happier

    by Arnold LeUnes ...
    Series series Practical Guide Series
    An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to optimizing your mind for sport. Sport Psychology is the study of the psychological factors that affect participation and performance in sports. It deals with increasing performance by managing emotions and minimizing the psychological effects of injury and poor performance. Some of the most important skills taught are goal setting, relaxation, visualization, self ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SPORT/FITNESS/CULTURE

    by Karin Volkwein-Caplan ...
    SPORT FITNESS CULTURE provides an overview of the socio-cultural factors that influence sport, physical activity and fitness. An interdisciplinary theoretical background is followed by an analysis on current issues of importance. SPORT FITNESS CULTURE focuses on the influences of culture and society on human movement. The text introduces and analyzes current issues of importance whether it is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Coaching Children in Sport

    Edited by Ian Stafford ...
    All coaches working with children will know that they differ substantially from adults in their capabilities, capacity for development and in their ability to meet the demands that sport places upon them. Coaching Children in Sport provides an up-to-date, authoritative and accessible guide to core knowledge and coaching skills for anybody working with children in sport.Written by a team of leading ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sports Coaching

    A Reference Guide for Students, Coaches and Competitors

    Edited by Anita Navin ...
    Sport plays a crucially important role in our society and the benefits of participating in sport and physical activity are widely acknowledged in terms of personal health and well-being. Coaching makes a key contribution to sport, helps to promote social inclusion and participation, and assists athletes in achieving performance targets. Accordingly, this authoritative and comprehensive reference ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sports Marketing and the Psychology of Marketing Communication

    Edited by Lynn R. Kahle, Chris Riley ...
    Sports marketing is one of the fastest growing areas of marketing communication. This book advances understanding in this emerging area.It presents sports marketing in a scholarly and comprehensive way, covering major topics of discussion in sports marketing and the psychology of communication. Several new, innovative topics are introduced, such as SportNEST and consumption communities, and many ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

    Exploring the Fandemonium

    by Kelly Berg, Jeff Boone, Kathy Brady, David Fingerhut, Walter Gantz, Frederick Grieve, Allison Harthcock, John Heppen, Craig Hyatt, Mark Julien, Jennifer Marmo, Jessi McCabe, Sarah Porri, Greg G. Armfield, Nicholas D. Bowman, Phillip J. Chidester, Matthew J. Gill, Tom E. Isaacson, Ricard W. Jensen, Jason R. Lanter, Pamela Gayle Nadorff, Julie A. Partridge, John S. W. Spinda, Brian S. Titsworth, Amanda J. Visek, Daniel L. Wann, Ryan K. Zapalac, John A. Fortunato, William M. Foster, John P. McGuire, James R. Walker, Katherine L. Lavelle, Roger C. Aden, David E. Beard, Andrew C. Billings, John Harris, Lawrence A. Wenner ...
    Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Art of Sustainable Performance

    A Model for Recruiting, Selection, and Professional Development

    by Bas Kodden ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book revisits common notions on how to select and recruit the right employees. It reveals that the secret of successful individuals and teams lies in a combination of talent and four important performance indicators, offering an innovative approach that companies can fruitfully adopt.Bas Kodden has studied key performance indicators among over 1,100 executives, senior staff and ... Read more

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