Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> General

Sports are an integral part of American society. Millions of dollars are spent every year on professional, collegiate, and youth athletics, and participation in and viewing of these sports both alter and reflect how one perceives the world. Beamon and Messer deftly explore sports as a social construction, and more significantly, the large role race and ethnicity play in sports and consequently sports influence on modern race relations. This text is ideal for courses on Sport and Society as well as Race and Ethnicity."

Just like the body, the mind needs a focused exercise routine in order to stay healthy and honed--and a daily regimen of games, teasers, and puzzles is the perfect workout.

Exercise Your Executive Brain is packed with 500 fun and invigorating puzzles specifically designed to stimulate the frontal lobes of the brain, which kick starts creativity and sharpens decision-making--the most critical functions for high performance on the job. Start right here with:
- Anagrams - Word Searches - Crosswords - Brain Teasers -...

Marketing and the world of sport overlap in two main ways: in the marketing of sports related products and services, and in the use of sports events to market a broader range of products and services. Marketing the Sports Organisation introduces the most effective marketing methods and tools available to sports organizations, and offers practical, step-by-step advice for sports organizations in the use of relationship marketing techniques.

Comprehensive and innovative in its approach, the book includes:

• a practical framework for implementing...

The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances. Organisations such as the World Anti-Doping Association and the United States Anti-Doping Agency are pioneering cutting-edge techniques designed to keep competition at the highest level fair and safe, and must ensure that their drug testing laboratories adhere to the highest scientific standards. In Pharmacology, Doping and Sports these techniques and procedures are explained by the anti-doping experts who practice them.

Broad-ranging in scope,...

World-renowned yoga master Erich Schiffmann offers an easy-to-follow, exciting new techniques--the first to combine hatha yoga and meditation--to all who are seeking healthful beauty and inner peace.

Lower-risk treatment for obesity, PMS, others.

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes--most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair?
Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China that challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions. The authors unpick the relationship of sport to imperialism and revolution and examine its significance in both China and Taiwan at governmental and everyday...

The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes--most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to this perception and is it fair?
Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics is a cultural history of sport in China that challenges many such ingrained Western assumptions. The authors unpick the relationship of sport to imperialism and revolution and examine its significance in both China and Taiwan at governmental and everyday...