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Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win. Many athletes are professionals, with careers managed by teams of specialist staff working towards the ultimate goal of world-class, medal-winning performances.

This entry-level text offers new students a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of the pursuit of excellence in sport, covering the key issues and talking points including:

• the history and tradition of sporting excellence
• comparisons of elite high-performance sport programmes in Australia, the USA, East Germany and...

Elliot Vancouver joined his high school cruiser team as a sophomore, partially to satisfy his dad's desire he join a business leadership class, which it was, and his own desire to join any class that had video war gaming in its description.

By the time he graduated three years later, he will have fallen in lust and in love, experienced heartbreak and joy, alienated some teammates and earned the respect and admiration of the rest, gone from brash to humble, all while tipping the first of the dominos that could start a fundamental change in the education system of two countries.

Militia is a historical fiction set in the revolutionary war era in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The story begins in 1769 in colonial New England, at a time when Patriots and Tories changed from neighbors to enemies. William Mitchell is an orchard farming minuteman who struggles with the rigors of war and maintaining his home life. His story highlights the actual men from the Massachusetts, Militia who responded to the alarm at Lexington. Their fight will take them to Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Monmouth until it finishes at the Battle of Rhode Island. His military exploits parallel the brave...

Competitive sport is today about winning and training to win. Many athletes are professionals, with careers managed by teams of specialist staff working towards the ultimate goal of world-class, medal-winning performances.

This entry-level text offers new students a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of the pursuit of excellence in sport, covering the key issues and talking points including:

• the history and tradition of sporting excellence
• comparisons of elite high-performance sport programmes in Australia, the USA, East Germany and...

Elliot Vancouver joined his high school cruiser team as a sophomore, partially to satisfy his dad's desire he join a business leadership class, which it was, and his own desire to join any class that had video war gaming in its description.

By the time he graduated three years later, he will have fallen in lust and in love, experienced heartbreak and joy, alienated some teammates and earned the respect and admiration of the rest, gone from brash to humble, all while tipping the first of the dominos that could start a fundamental change in the education system of two countries.