Principles and Practice of Sport Management Review
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Smart Baseball: Inside the Mind of Baseball's Top Players
Smart Baseball: Inside the Mind of Baseball's Top Players Review
Smart Baseball: Inside the Mind of Baseball's Top Players Feature
What goes on in a baseball player's mind is critical to the outcome of the game. Since most major leaguers are in peak physical condition, the difference between success and failure on the field often depends on a player's mental approach.
Looking at everything from a player's confidence to his leadership skills, instincts, and hunches, Smart Baseball uses entertaining anecdotes to get inside the mind of baseball's greats and show fans what goes through a player's head when he steps onto the field.
Smart Baseball presents the knowledge and accumulated experience of one of the few three-generation baseball families---the Bells. In addition, this book is full of insights from more than one hundred of Major League Baseball's greatest players---from Willie Mays to Barry Bonds to Ferguson Jenkins.
A fascinating and informative look at what goes on in the psyche of professional baseball players as they play the game, Smart Baseball is a unique chance for baseball fans to see what it takes for ballplayers to succeed at the Major League level.
Looking at everything from a player's confidence to his leadership skills, instincts, and hunches, Smart Baseball uses entertaining anecdotes to get inside the mind of baseball's greats and show fans what goes through a player's head when he steps onto the field.
Smart Baseball presents the knowledge and accumulated experience of one of the few three-generation baseball families---the Bells. In addition, this book is full of insights from more than one hundred of Major League Baseball's greatest players---from Willie Mays to Barry Bonds to Ferguson Jenkins.
A fascinating and informative look at what goes on in the psyche of professional baseball players as they play the game, Smart Baseball is a unique chance for baseball fans to see what it takes for ballplayers to succeed at the Major League level.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs
Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs Review
Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs Feature
Dane Iorg stepped back into the batter’s box. "Look for the ball down," he told himself. Pitcher Todd Worrell of the St. Louis Cardinals wound up and released the pitch – low, at the thighs. Iorg whipped around his lumberjack-like arms. The bat met the ball. The bat broke. Radio announcer Denny Matthews suddenly raised his voice: "Little looping fly ball..." And with that, the Kansas City Royals were on the way to their one and only World Series championship. Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs revisits the greatest sporting event in Kansas City history, when the Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit in games, their morbid luck finally turned and the cross-state rivalry between Kansas City and St. Louis was irreparably altered. Written in an engaging and absorbing story-telling style by Jeffrey Spivak of The Kansas City Star, it is the first book of its kind. It recounts how few expected the I-70 series clash to be much of a contest, least of all Cardinals fans. It journeys through the anguish and ecstasy of all seven World Series games, with tales of resiliency and redemption about such players as George Brett, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Bret Saberhagen, Buddy Biancalana, and Charlie Leibrandt. Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs also catches up with some of those players today, including World Series star Saberhagen, the light-hitting hero Biancalana, Royals icon Brett, and umpire Don Denkinger, whose infamous call in Game 6 swung the momentum in the Royals favor. Crowning the Kansas City Royals is a memorable retrospective of the "Miracle Royals" on their 20th anniversary.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Sports Coaching & Performance Hull Bundle 2011: The Essentials of Performance Analysis: An Introduction
Sports Coaching & Performance Hull Bundle 2011: The Essentials of Performance Analysis: An Introduction Review
Sports Coaching & Performance Hull Bundle 2011: The Essentials of Performance Analysis: An Introduction Feature
What is performance analysis and how does its use benefit sports performance?
How can you use performance analysis in your sport?
The Essentials of Performance Analysis answers your questions, providing a complete guide to the foundational elements of match and performance analysis for new students and beginners.
As well as a basic introduction to the sport science and theory that underlies performance analysis, the book contains many practical examples to show performance analysis in its applied context. It includes discussion of:
- approaches to analyzing sport performance
- the use of feedback technologies
- the use of video and biomechanical analysis
- interpreting data
- coaching with notational analysis.
The Essentials of Performance Analysis is a straightforward, concise and authoritative guide for students of sport science and sports coaching, as well as for coaches and athletes looking to develop their insight into sports performance analysis.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement
Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement Review
Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement Feature
Sport psychology is a topic of growing interest. Many professionals read journals such as The International Journal of Sports, Journal of Sport Behavior, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and The Sport Psychologist. In August 2008, Monitor on Psychology, the monthly publication of the American Psychological Association (APA), featured a special issue on sport psychology. Indeed, Division 47 of APA is devoted to "the scientific, educational, and clinical foundations of exercise and sport psychology." The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) and the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) convene conferences each year to present scientific findings and new developments in a rapidly expanding field. The AAASP and other organizations also qualify professionals as certified sport and exercise psychology consultants. Finally, a visit to any bookstore will reveal the lay public’s fascination with sports, as revealed in numerous self-help books and guides to perfecting athletic performance. Behavioral psychologists have studied sport psychology for more than three decades (Martin, Thompson, & Regehr, 2004). Applied behavior analysis (ABA), in particular, has been an instrumental approach to behavioral coaching in many sports, including baseball (Osborne, Rudrud, & Zezoney, 1990), basketball (Pates, Cummings, & Maynard, 2002), figure skating (Ming & Martin, 1996), football (Ward & Carnes, 2002), golf (Pates, Oliver, & Maynard, 2001), ice hockey (Rogerson & Hrycaiko, 2002), soccer (Brobst & Ward, 2002), swimming (Hume & Crossman, 1992), and tennis (Allison & Ayllon, 1980). ABA stresses the application of learning theory principles, objective measurement of athletic skills, controlled outcome evaluation, and socially significant behavior-change. Cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, also has been a dominant approach to psychological intervention in sports (Meyers, Whelan, & Murphy, 1996; Weinberg & Comar, 1994). CBT addresses athletic performance through cognitive-change methods combined with behavioral practice and environmental modifications. The purpose of the book described in this proposal is to compile the most recent experimental and applied research in behavioral sport psychology. Several journal articles have reviewed critical dimensions of behavioral sport psychology (Martin et al., 2004; Martin, Vause, & Schwartzman, 2005) but no book has covered the topic with an emphasis on ABA and CBT methodology and practice. Accordingly, Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement is a first of its kind volume.
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Girls in Ponytails Chasing a Ball: The Rise of Women's Intercollegiate Soccer, 1972-2006
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Girls in Ponytails Chasing a Ball: The Rise of Women's Intercollegiate Soccer, 1972-2006 Feature
This book will explore the evolution of women's soccer at the intercollegiate level and the various factors that lead to its emergence. It will also examine what the sport has become today for both players and coaches.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
You Can Write!: The Inside Scoop on Publishing Your Nonfiction Book
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You Can Write!: The Inside Scoop on Publishing Your Nonfiction Book Feature
“Your advice is great!”—Kristine M. Clerkin, Vice President, Houghton Mifflin
“What a great resource this is. May you reach out and touch all those aspiring writers out there who need a good reality check!”—Caroline Pincus, freelance editor and former senior editor, HarperSanFrancisco What does it REALLY take to get published? This comprehensive, no-nonsense guide written by the founders of the award-winning website, YouCanWrite.com, gives you the inside scoop on everything you need to know to move your book from idea to publishable project. Filled with practical, realistic yet compassionate advice and insights, You Can Write! illuminates the secrets of:- The publishing business: How agents and editors make decisions, what they’re looking for, and how you can learn to deal with them successfully.
- Query letters: Why first impressions are supremely important, and what your query letter must do to attract enthusiastic literary agent and editor attention.
- Book proposals: Why they are essential, and what it takes to create a compelling proposal that sells your book idea. Includes one full model proposal of a published book to help you create yours.
- Literary agents: Why you do or do not need one, what they do, what you can expect, and how to approach them successfully.
- Your author résumé: Why your profile as an author—your expertise, your experience, and your track record—is more important than ever, and how you can enhance yours.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Marketing Intelligent Systems Using Soft Computing: Managerial and Research Applications (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
Marketing Intelligent Systems Using Soft Computing: Managerial and Research Applications (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing) Review
Marketing Intelligent Systems Using Soft Computing: Managerial and Research Applications (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing) Feature
The success of companies is partly dependent on the generation of suitable knowledge upon which to base decision-making, and due to the centrality of the marketing function in organizations, marketing-related knowledge is of strategic relevance. In this connection, it is unlikely to reach a full understanding of any set of systems supporting marketing management without paying the necessary attention to the Artificial Intelligence-based methodologies applied to aid marketing-related decisions. However, as yet these methods are both under-developed and under-used. This book represents a notable and creative step forward in this respect. The editorial project has especially focused on the so-called Marketing Intelligent Systems, a cutting-edge category for marketing management support that focuses on a sophisticated treatment of knowledge by Soft Computing and other machine learning techniques. The reader will find smart reflections on this general theme from diverse world-leading marketing academics through short essays, and a collection of chapters devoted to a variety of applications – segmentation, modeling, e-commerce, etc. – using different technologies such as clustering, evolutionary algorithms, multi-agent systems, or fuzzy logic.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Convierta La Victoria En Un Hábito (Spanish Edition)
Convierta La Victoria En Un Hábito (Spanish Edition) Review
Convierta La Victoria En Un Hábito (Spanish Edition) Feature
A master of the complex sale and a bestselling author, Rick Page is also one of the most experienced sales consultants and trainers in the world. Make Winning A Habit defines the gap between what companies know to do and how they consistently perform.
Page clearly identifies five “Ts” of transformation: Talent, Technique, Teamwork, Technology and Trust. These five elements, when fully developed and integrated into the sales and marketing organization, begin to create the habit of winning over customers in every industry. Stories of successes-and failures-from members of prominent companies help you apply the five “Ts” to your company's culture, and point the way to more effective plans for motivating employees, building and coaching winning teams, and improving hiring processes.
Then, with the use of Page's assessment scorecard, you can compare your company with some of the strategies and practices of the best sales forces in the world. Designed to gauge your organization's effectiveness and further develop breakthrough sales growth, this scorecard highlights your strengths and weaknesses, helping you bridge the gap between where you are and where you need to be.
You'll also learn about:
- The “Deadly Dozen” (pains sales managers feel today) and how they can kill business
- A ten-point process for identifying and hiring nothing less than “A” players
- The 8 “ates” of managing strategic accounts and how they will maximize revenue and elevate relationships
- How to identify and correct the six most common areas of poor individual sales performance
With Make Winning A Habit, you'll discover the obstacles between you and the consistent sales performance you can achieve-and find the tools to not only make success a habit, but one that will keep growing with your business.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
The 5 FACTORS of GREEN WEALTH: Save Earth & People For Sustainable Wealth, Health & Happiness: Or The How-To Guide for Entrepreneurs, City-Dwellers, ... (Money), Food, Fuel & Fun to Change Worlds!
The 5 FACTORS of GREEN WEALTH: Save Earth & People For Sustainable Wealth, Health & Happiness: Or The How-To Guide for Entrepreneurs, City-Dwellers, ... (Money), Food, Fuel & Fun to Change Worlds! Review
The 5 FACTORS of GREEN WEALTH: Save Earth & People For Sustainable Wealth, Health & Happiness: Or The How-To Guide for Entrepreneurs, City-Dwellers, ... (Money), Food, Fuel & Fun to Change Worlds! Feature
The 5 Factors of Green Wealth are FRIENDS, FUND$, FOOD, FUEL & FUN. An optional Membership is available for $5 per month that always belongs to the Member who can cancel at any time and get a FULL REFUND of ALL fees paid no matter how long the membership (minus $5). People anywhere can find or start a network of FRIENDS based on a Factor of interest, passion or need. LEAD-ERs are developed for each network. Projects or Enterprises are petitioned among Members. Petitioned projects & enterprises are voted on (75% super majority required to win). Winning projects and enterprises are FUNDED from the networks and from co-ventures and Micro-Loans. Membership is not necessary to learn from the book which is well-researched and has many innovative ideas, practices and applications for individuals, groups, communities and whole countries! The 5 Factors of Green Wealth are blueprints for personal and social change according to people's desires and levels of commitment.
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