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Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture
by Justice Roe Williams Roc Rochon Lawrence KovalPerspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies.For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an ApologyFit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large that uphold and reproduce the Fitness Industrial Complex for their own structural and material gain.The Fitness Industrial Complex uplifts some bodies while denigrating others. Bodies that are Black, Brown, queer, trans, poor, fat, and disabled--bodies that don't conform, that resist and disrupt--are excluded from being "fit." Through the stories and experiences of activist trainers, coaches, and bodyworkers of diverse identities and experiences, this anthology interrogates:The ideas and beliefs we&’ve internalized about health, fitness, and our own and others&’ bodiesHow to deconstruct and re-envision fitness as a practice for all bodiesThe fitness industry&’s role in upholding and reinforcing oppressionExclusivity, unsafety, and harm in mainstream fitness spacesHow to empower ourselves and our communities to push back against the FICSpeaking directly to sick, queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC readers, Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex is part urgent inquiry, part radical deconstruction, and part call to action: to build spaces that welcome and work for all; to reclaim movement as a vital and liberatory practice; and to embody a model of joy and community care outside the mainstream fitness culture.
Delay of Game (Penalty Box #2)
by Ari BaranTwo polar opposite teammates battle their rivals—and their own issues—in this friends-to-lovers hockey romance. Nate Singer is one of the good guys.As team captain, Nate&’s whole deal is sticking to the playbook, supporting his team and keeping his own issues buried. Especially since the team is finally winning, due in no small part to his chemistry with one particular hotshot teammate.Zach Reed has a bad boy reputation.And it&’s cost him. Zach&’s past exploits landed him on the worst team in the league. But that also gave him the best friend he&’s ever had. For three years, his friendship with Nate has grown, making them an intimidating duo on the ice—and forming an intense bond off of it as well.When the team hits a skid, Zach and Nate go out with one thing in mind: finding someone for a quick roll in the sheets to get back to their winning ways. Only they end up in each other&’s arms—and each other&’s heart.And realize that could be exactly what they&’ve always needed to win it all. Penalty BoxBook 1: Game MisconductBook 2: Delay of Game
Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity
by Michelle J. MannoA courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the courtWomen’s college basketball is big business—top teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women’s NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and race—expectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or “look like men,” and they are not supposed to be queer.A former college athlete herself, Michelle J. Manno spent a full season with a highly competitive NCAA Division I women’s basketball program as one of the team’s managers. In vivid detail, she takes us on the court, on the team bus, into the locker room, and to championship games to show the intense dedication that these women give to the game. She found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that these extremely talented women were strictly policed around the presentation of their gender and sexuality, especially the athletes who were Black. They were routinely monitored, banned from engaging in certain activities, and often punished for behavior that put their queerness, Blackness, and masculinity on display. Convincingly conforming to conventional expectations of gender and sexuality—from the clothes they wore to the people they dated—was yet another challenge at which they needed to excel. Importantly, Manno also highlights several well-known contemporary professional athletes—Brittney Griner, Serena Williams, Gabby Douglas, and Caster Semenya, among others—to show that fame and performing at the highest levels in sport does not protect women athletes from having to navigate the conflicting and often contradictory expectations of identity.A riveting portrait of an elite basketball program, Denied will forever change our understanding of women athletes and the sports they play.
Developing a Sport Psychology Consultancy Practice: A Toolkit for Students and Trainees
by Vaithehy Shanmuganathan-Felton Stephen SmithSport and exercise psychology as a profession is becoming increasingly popular, with a growth in the number of students applying for and studying Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in sport and exercise psychology in recent years within the UK and International Higher Education landscape. Developing a Sport Psychology Consultancy Practice: A Toolkit for Students and Trainees provides logistical and practical information about becoming and working as an applied sport psychology practitioner and the critical processes involved in setting up a consultancy practice. The book focuses on three broad areas: Pathways into Applied Sport Psychology Practice Setting up a Sport Consultancy Practice Personal and Professional Development Within these areas, the chapters provide coverage on topics related to UK and International training and qualification routes, setting up, operating and marketing successful consultancy practices, engaging in administrative and quality assurance processes and optimising technology for effective practice. The chapters further focus on the practitioner’s journey of personal and professional development, including the importance of maintaining a healthy work–life balance for mental health, integrating self-care strategies into daily lives, developing cultural competence and engaging in lifelong learning. This book is a valuable resource for students who are considering training as an applied practitioner, including students enrolled on undergraduate and postgraduate Sport and Exercise Psychology, Sport and Exercise Science and Psychology programmes. It is also a vital aid for current trainees and recently qualified Sport and Exercise Psychologists.
Developing Sport Coaches
by Christine NashEvolving from the concept of coach education, which is generally accepted to be the more formal, didactic mode of transmitting information to coaches and prospective coaches, coach development is a relatively new field of research and practice. Developing Sport Coaches is a new text that supports the holistic longterm development of sport coaches as well as help aid existing sport coaches to understand their development. Research in coach learning and coach education has raised important questions about the effectiveness, relevance and value placed on traditional coach education by sport coaches in relation to their practice. The dissatisfaction expressed by many coaches, at all stages of coaching practice, has led to the inception of coach development. This text enables coach development to be studied in higher education institutions as well as enabling organisations to embed coach developers within their organisations. Written for the sport coaching and expanding coach development market, this book will be used by higher education institutions students as both a core and additional text to advance research and knowledge in this area. At the same time, this book is also a useful reading for practising sport coaches, coach developers and organisations who are currently examining their structures and processes to move their coaching provision from a formal coach education delivery to a more bespoke offering.
Diamond Ring (Unwritten Rules #3)
by KD Casey&“Diamond Ring might be the best sports romance I have ever read.&” —Rachel Reid, USA TODAY bestselling author of Heated Rivalry and The Long Game"Subtle and spectacular…every page serves up a stunner." —New York Times Book Review on Fire SeasonTeammates reunite to give love another shot in the third installment of KD Casey&’s riveting Unwritten Rules series.Jake Fischer has been here before: pitching for the Oakland Elephants, hiding his worries behind a smile, hoping to win it all. Ten years ago, it didn&’t turn out the way he wanted. Nothing in his life did. But now he&’s back—and so is the one teammate tied inexorably to his past.It doesn&’t matter how many times catcher Alex Angelides replays that moment during the Fall Classic over in his mind, the outcome never changes. He&’s not sure what happened to make that pitch glance off his glove, or what happened with his relationship with Jake—and he&’s not going to be the one to ask.A whole lot may have changed in the last decade, but some things have stayed the same. Jake and Alex still can&’t stay out of each other's faces on the field, or out of each other's beds off of it. They&’ve got a second chance to win it all…but only if they realize what they lost. Unwritten RulesBook 1: Unwritten RulesBook 2: Fire SeasonBook 3: Diamond Ring
Die Gehirnerschütterung
by Axel Gänsslen Ingo Schmehl Helga LüngenEine Gehirnerschütterung ist eine häufige Verletzung. Dennoch bleibt die klinische Einschätzung dieser Patienten in der Regel unzureichend, da es keine geeignete Klassifikation für diese Erkrankung gibt und eine richtungsweisende Therapie fehlt. Hier setzt das Expertenteam Gänsslen, Schmehl, Lüngen an: das Buch ist eine praxisorientierte Darstellung der Problematik nach der Initialphase und eine Hilfestellung für die Diagnostik und Therapie im stationären und ambulanten Bereich. Dargestellt werden die Grundlagen des Krankheitsbildes Gehirnerschütterung mit den Schwerpunkten a) der kindlich-jugendlichen Situation und b) des älteren Menschen.
Die Wirkung von Yoga auf die Lebensqualität und das Wohlbefinden von Bewohner*innen stationärer Altenpflegeeinrichtungen: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen (Dortmunder Beiträge zur Sozialforschung)
by Svenja HeltenIn diesem Buch rückt das „gute Leben“ im hohen Alter in den Fokus: So ist in den westlichen Industrienationen ein stetiger Anstieg der allgemeinen Lebenserwartung zu verzeichnen. Die gewonnene Lebenszeit geht jedoch nicht automatisch mit einem guten Gesundheitszustand einher: Gerade Hochaltrige sind häufig von einer oder mehreren chronischen Erkrankungen betroffen, die mit zahlreichen funktionellen Einschränkungen in ihrem Alltag verbunden sind und oftmals den Umzug in eine stationäre Einrichtung der Altenpflege bedingen. Die damit verbundenen Umstände bergen das Risiko, die Lebensqualität der Betroffenen zu verringern. Eine Fördermöglichkeit könnte in der Einführung von Yoga-Kursen bestehen, da empirische Untersuchungen mit verschiedenen Studienpopulationen die Schlussfolgerung nahelegen, dass sich eine regelmäßige Yoga-Praxis positiv auf verschiedene Parameter auswirkt, die mit den Konstrukten von Lebensqualität und Wohlbefinden assoziiert sind. Für die vorliegende Arbeit wurde daher ein Yoga-Kurskonzept entwickelt, das den Bedürfnissen von Bewohner*innen von stationären Altenpflegeeinrichtungen ohne Demenzerkrankungen gerecht zu werden anstrebt und in Form einer Pilotstudie in einer stationären Altenpflegeeinrichtung erprobt.
Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study (Critical Research in Football)
by Pablo Brescia Mariano PazThis is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated. The volume looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links among sport, nationalism, and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona – from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace – powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice, and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture, and society. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies, or sociology.
The Digital NBA: How the World's Savviest League Brings the Court to Our Couch (Studies in Sports Media)
by Steven SecularThe National Basketball Association reaches a global audience via a multiplatform strategy that leverages its uncanny ability to connect fans to all things NBA. Steven Secular brings readers inside the league’s global operations and traces the history of the NBA’s approach to sports media from its 1980s embrace of cable through the streaming revolution of the twenty-first century. As fans around the world stream games and other league content, NBA teams incorporate foreign languages and cultures into broadcasts to boost their product’s appeal to audiences in Brazil, China, and beyond. Secular’s analysis reveals how the NBA continues to transform itself into a wildly successful media producer and distributor more akin to a streaming studio than the sports leagues of old even as its media partners and sponsors erase any notion of sports as a civic good. A timely look at a dynamic media landscape, The Digital NBA shows how the games we love became content first and sport a distant second.
Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media (Routledge Critical Leisure Studies)
by Stefan LawrenceThis book examines the phenomenon of ‘digital guru media’ (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness. It opens up new perspectives on digital leisure and internet celebrity culture, and asks important questions about the social, cultural and psychological implications of our contemporary relationship with digital media. Drawing on cutting-edge social theory, the book explores a wide range of contexts in which DGM intersects with digital leisure, from the health-related learning of young people to the ‘clean eating’ movement, to the online lives of fitness professionals. It asks if digital and social media are problematic per se and explores the problems a turn to the Internet could be revealing about the lack of real-world or analogue support, as well as potential solutions, for our wellness, health and fitness needs and wants. Bringing together innovative, multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, or health and society.
Dios salve a Pep: Retrato de una coronación
by Marti PerarnauVuelve Martí Perarnau, el aclamado autor de Herr Pep y Pep Guardiola. La metamorfosis, con Dios salve a Pep, una crónica de los siete años de Pep Guardiola al frente del Manchester City, desde los ásperos inicios hasta la conquista plena del fútbol inglés y europeo, coronada con el triplete de la temporada 2022-2023. En 2014 Martí Perarnau narró de manera magistral en Herr Pep el primer año de Guardiola en el Bayern de Múnich. Cinco años más tarde, en Pep Guardiola. La metamorfosis, Perarnau describió la evolución del ideario futbolístico del técnico de Santpedor y cómo la Bundesliga había impactado en sus ideas como entrenador. Martí Perarnau completa con Dios salve a Pep su trilogía sobre Guardiola: los triunfos, las derrotas, las dudas y el abatimiento, la euforia y las celebraciones. Una descripción detallada, escrita desde una posición de privilegio, de una montaña rusa de emociones en la que hemos conocido los mil rostros de Pep. Este es el retrato de la coronación de un ganador en serie cuyo secreto, en palabras del propio Guardiola, «es que ninguno de nosotros somos tal como éramos el primer día».
Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports (Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research #38)
by Joseph Zajda Yvonne VissingThis book discusses major discourses of performing sports within human rights. Research findings data demonstrate that sports is an inequitable field today that has the potential to be a social change agent. There is more discussion about rights violations and what the fields of sports can do to be more rights-respecting, but the discussions are at a surface, rather than analytic level for most sports organizations. In sports, culture and human rights, as an emerging field, it is important to develop well crafter theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical body of knowledge. There is an academic discipline of sport that showcases its interdisciplinary nature. Linking sport to the field of human rights will require theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical evolution in this new discipline. There are both organizational, environmental and individual factors associated within the nexus of sports, athletes and human rights.This book links together sports and human rights in a systematic and analytical way. It contains chapters that discuss human rights policies in performing sports, from both organizational and interpersonal perspectives. The book focuses on the benefits of sports and the human rights and safety challenges within the operations of sports organizations and their impact on individual players.
Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective
by George B. CunninghamThis textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which people differ – including race, gender identity, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and social class – and the importance of these differences for sport organizations. Now in a fully updated and revised fifth edition, the book offers strategies for managing diversity and inclusion in work and sport environments. It also overviews strategies for creating and sustaining diverse and inclusive sport organizations. It considers how sport can be used to achieve positive social change. Grounded in cutting-edge research and theory, and focused on best practice, this edition includes new material on the important concept of intersectionality, as well as brand-new chapters on researching diversity and inclusion in sport, and strategies for reducing bias. It includes international examples in every chapter, as well as useful teaching and learning features, and supplementary resources for instructors are available online, including PowerPoint slides, chapter overviews, and a full test bank. This is important reading for any student taking a course in sport business, sport management, sport development, sport coaching, human resource management in sport, sport and social issues, sport participation, sport leadership, or the ethics of sport.
DK Super Readers Pre-Level At the Park (DK Super Readers)
by DKHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the fun they can have at the park with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.DK Super Readers Pre-Level: At the Park will introduce kids to what there is to play and see at the park–including riding bicycles, watching ducks, and playing in the playground–and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading. DK Super Readers take children on a journey through the wonderful world of nonfiction: traveling back to the time of dinosaurs, learning more about animals, exploring natural wonders and more, all while developing vital nonfiction reading skills and progressing from first words to reading confidently. The DK Super Readers series can help your child practice reading by:- Covering engaging, motivating, curriculum-aligned topics.- Building knowledge while progressing key Grades Pre-K and K reading skills.- Developing subject vocabulary on topics such as popular park games, outdoor play, and animals that may be found at the park.- Boosting understanding and retention through comprehension quizzes.Each title, which has been leveled using MetaMetrics®: The Lexile Framework for Reading, integrates science, geography, history, and nature topics so there&’s something for all children&’s interests. The books and online content perfectly supplement core literacy programs and are mapped to the Common Core Standards. Children will love powering up their nonfiction reading skills and becoming reading heroes. DK Super Readers Pre-level titles are visually engaging, full of fun facts, and introduce children to the wonderful world of nonfiction. Perfect to help children ages 3 to 5 (Grades Pre-K and K) who are ready to enter the world of reading.
Do Your Best: How to be a Scout
by Bear GryllsWhat more could you ask for, than a book stuffed like an overfilled rucksack with tips and tricks from one of the world's most celebrated adventurers from pitching a tent, leading a team, how to keep fit, tie knots, memorise facts, identify trees, stars and birds, as well as learning real survival skills like putting up a tent in the wild and stashing your breakfast in ground to keep it hot for the next morning?This is the book for anyone who is a Scout, was a Scout, or wants to be a Scout.Do Your Best is the handbook for every Scout, young and old. It's a warm-hearted book in which you'll learn all the skills the scouts use to do their best in everything they do and set themselves up to face life head-on and make a real difference in the world.Not since Scouting for Boys, the seminal 1908 book by Robert Baden-Powell that sparked the global movement, has there been a single handbook for every Scout. Whoever you are it will help you step up, speak up, skill up and dream big.Grab life with both hands, never give up and give life you your best shot with Do Your Best: How To Be a Scout. Stunningly typograhically designed and richly illustrated, this will be the perfect Christmas gift for the adventurer in your life -- young or old.Chapters include: 'How to Survive'; 'How to give first aid'; 'How to protect our planet'; 'How to be organised'; 'How to be an adventurer'; 'How to be a camp cook'; 'How to live freely'; 'How to predict the weather'; 'How to be a team player'. And that's just for starters!
Do Your Best: How to be a Scout
by Bear GryllsWhat more could you ask for, than a book stuffed like an overfilled rucksack with tips and tricks from one of the world's most celebrated adventurers from pitching a tent, leading a team, how to keep fit, tie knots, memorise facts, identify trees, stars and birds, as well as learning real survival skills like putting up a tent in the wild and stashing your breakfast in ground to keep it hot for the next morning?This is the book for anyone who is a Scout, was a Scout, or wants to be a Scout.Do Your Best is the handbook for every Scout, young and old. It's a warm-hearted book in which you'll learn all the skills the scouts use to do their best in everything they do and set themselves up to face life head-on and make a real difference in the world.Not since Scouting for Boys, the seminal 1908 book by Robert Baden-Powell that sparked the global movement, has there been a single handbook for every Scout. Whoever you are it will help you step up, speak up, skill up and dream big.Grab life with both hands, never give up and give life you your best shot with Do Your Best: How To Be a Scout. Stunningly typograhically designed and richly illustrated, this will be the perfect Christmas gift for the adventurer in your life -- young or old.Chapters include: 'How to Survive'; 'How to give first aid'; 'How to protect our planet'; 'How to be organised'; 'How to be an adventurer'; 'How to be a camp cook'; 'How to live freely'; 'How to predict the weather'; 'How to be a team player'. And that's just for starters!
Dodgers in the Hall of Fame (Images of Baseball)
by Raymond P. Sinibaldi Kerry Keene David HickeyAmong the most successful franchises in the long and glorious history of baseball, the Dodgers have captured 25 pennants and have been crowned world champions seven times; only five teams in history have claimed more World Series titles. The Dodgers are baseball's most transformative franchise. In 1947, Jackie Robinson changed the face of baseball and America. They built Dodgertown in 1948; became the first major-league team to own a plane; and spurred the move west in 1958, where Sandy Koufax redefined pitching dominance. Herein lies the story of the men who have worn Dodger blue on their way to becoming baseball immortals, forever enshrined in Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame.
Done and Dusted: The must-read, small-town romance and TikTok bestseller! (Rebel Blue Ranch)
by Lyla SageShe's off -limits, but he's never been good at following the rules... Discover the sizzling brother's-best-friend, small town romance that went viral on TikTok - now in a special edition with an exclusive sneak peek at the next book in the series and a Q&A with the author!'A sweet slow burn . . . sunshine in written form' - Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author For the first time in her life, Clementine 'Emmy' Ryder has no idea what she's doing. She's accomplished everything on her to-do list. She left her small hometown of Meadowlark, Wyoming, went to college, and made a career for herself by doing her favorite thing: riding horses. But after an accident makes it impossible for her to get back into the saddle, she has no choice but to return to the hometown she always wanted to escape.Luke Brooks is Meadowlark's most notorious bad boy, bar owner, and bachelor. He's also the unofficial fifth member of the Ryder family. As Emmy's older brother's best friend, Luke spent most of his childhood antagonizing her. It's been years since he's seen her, but when she walks into his bar and back into his life, he can't take his eyes off her. Against his better judgment, he wants to do a whole lot more than just look at her. As things between Emmy and Brooks heat up, it gets more difficult for him to keep his hands off of her. Can he help her get her spark back? Or will they both go up in flames?
Down and Back: On Alcohol, Family, and a Life in Hockey
by Justin BourneFor readers of Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father and Hockey Confidential, Down and Back tells broadcaster Justin Bourne&’s story of following his Hall-of-Fame father not only to the NHL, but also into rehab.Bob Bourne was everything a son wants to emulate—an NHL All-Star, a Sports Illustrated &“Sportsman of the Year,&” a Stanley Cup champion. Justin Bourne followed in those huge footsteps, leading his teams in scoring year after year, and finally garnering an invitation to the New York Islanders&’ training camp—the same team his father had played for. But Bourne was also following his father down a darker path.Though he hadn&’t begun drinking until he was 21, by 36 his drinking had nearly swamped his career and his marriage. In an act of brutal self-honesty—which may not have been possible if not for his understanding of how lying spurred by alcoholism can cause a family pain—Bourne got help, got sober, and confronted what his father and the game mean to him.Down and Back is a frank and unflinching appraisal of the game and Bourne&’s relationship with it: the violence and danger, the booze and drugs, the consequences of fame. But it is also an honest look at what is redeeming about the sport, through the eyes of someone who grew up in NHL dressing rooms, who has skated on NHL ice as both a player and a coach, and who inherited the game from a man he&’s grown to better understand by looking more closely at himself.
Draft Day: How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind
by Doug MacLean Scott MorrisonDoug MacLean, former NHL coach, general manager, team president, and one of the game&’s biggest personalities, reveals how teams build for greatness—or fail to—on hockey&’s most anticipated day. A Moneyball for hockey.The NHL draft is a critical time for teams, when the foundation for future championships is laid—or when championship dreams die. Only time will tell if a draft is successful, but a failed draft can severely set teams back for seasons, much to the dread of ownership, management, and most importantly, the fans. For even the most die-hard hockey fan, the preparation for draft day is a black box. Former president, general manager, and coach Doug MacLean takes readers behind the scenes, from the 2022 draft in Montreal to revealing draft stories from the past, to show how players are discovered and evaluated to create successful teams. Just as Moneyball illustrated the value of analytics in building teams in baseball and beyond, Draft Day shows the careful considerations that go into assessing talent for success. What is that balance in today&’s game between metrics and instinct, between analytics and traditional scouting? MacLean draws from his own career as well as anecdotes from across the league to illustrate the hard-won lessons and principles that lead to building successful teams. Hockey is big business, and this book is an invaluable resource for any leader seeking an edge for building resilient organizations. Entertaining and informative, with never-before-told details from some of the biggest moments in NHL history, Draft Day is for every hockey fan who wonders how their team develops that hard-to-define winning chemistry—or fails to, year after year.
Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America (Sport and Society)
by Zev EleffIn 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university’s moribund football team. The pair instilled a fresh culture, one based on merit rather than social status, and in the virtues of honor and courage over mere winning. Yet their success challenged entrenched ideas about who belonged at Harvard and, by extension, who deserved to lay claim to the American dream. Zev Eleff tells the story of two immigrants’ sons shaped by a vision of an America that rewarded any person of virtue. As a player, the Chicago-born Horween had led Harvard to its 1920 Rose Bowl victory. As a coach, he faced intractable opposition from powerful East Coast alumni because of his values and Midwestern, Jewish background. Eleff traces Bingham and Horween’s careers as student-athletes and their campaign to wrest control of the football program from alumni. He also looks at how Horween undermined stereotypes of Jewish masculinity and dealt with the resurgent antisemitism of the 1920s.
ECG Interpretation for the Clinical Exercise Physiologist
by Christopher Dunbar Barry SaulWritten specifically for clinical exercise physiologists, ECG Interpretation for the Clinical Exercise Physiologist, 2nd Edition, provides an introduction to basic concepts and measurements followed by in-depth explorations of rhythm and atrioventricular blocks and key topics including infarct, hypertrophy, axis, and conduction defects. Accompanying exercise-related case studies make this engaging text an ideal review resource for certification prep as well as a guide to success in practice. Enhancements to this 2nd Edition include a new design that improves readability and clarity, expanded study support through updated examples and case study questions, as well as additional interpretation practice opportunities that ensure understanding and boost clinical confidence.
Ecology and Management of Black-tailed and Mule Deer of North America
by James R. Heffelfinger and Paul R. KrausmanBlack-tailed and mule deer represent one of the largest distributions of mammals in North America and are symbols of the wide-open American West. Each chapter in this book was authored by the world’s leading experts on that topic. Both editors, James R. Heffelfinger and Paul R. Krausman, are widely published in the popular and scientific press and recipients of the O. C. Wallmo Award, given every two years to a leading black-tailed and mule deer expert who has made significant contributions to the conservation of this species. In addition, Heffelfinger has chaired the Mule Deer Working Group sponsored by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies for more than 15 years. This working group consists of the leading black-tailed and mule deer experts from each of 24 states, provinces, and territories in western North America, putting them at the forefront of all conservation and much of the research on this species. The book represents all current knowledge available on these deer, including how changing conditions such as fires, habitat alteration and loss, disease, climate change, socio-economic forces, energy development, and other aspects are influencing their distribution and abundance now and into the future. It takes a completely fresh look at all chapter topics. The revisions of distribution, taxonomy, evolution, behavior, and new and exciting work being done in deer nutrition, migration and movements, diseases, predation, and human dimensions are all assembled in this volume. This book will instantly become the foundation for the latest information and management strategies to be implemented on the ground by practitioners and to inform the public. Although this book is about deer, the topics discussed influence most terrestrial wildlife worldwide, and the basic concepts in many of the chapters are applicable to other species.
The Economic Impact of Sports Facilities, Franchises, and Events: Contributions in Honor of Robert Baade (Sports Economics, Management and Policy #23)
by Victor A. Matheson Robert BaumannThis edited volume discusses the economic impact of sports facilities, franchises, and events on local economies. Written in honor of Robert Baade upon his retirement, the book provides a state-of-the-art of current research on the economic impact of sports, and recognizes the seminal contributions that Dr. Baade has made to this topic.The analysis of the economic impact of spectator sports is a vital public policy topic as $75 billion has been spent on stadium construction since 1990 in the US alone, with nearly $35 billion of this coming from taxpayer subsidies. True public cost of sports franchises is much higher than this as this figure excludes facilities outside the Big 5 domestic leagues (like NASCAR track, NCAA facilities, minor league baseball, and the Canadian Football Leagues), public subsidies for major events like the Super Bowl or Olympic Games, and excludes sports subsidies outside of direct stadium construction subsidies.Including contributions from many of the most notable researchers studying the economic impact of sports, topics include impacts of stadiums and franchises on local economies, labor markets, and tax collections, the effect of sports franchises on property values, and changes in the public and academic discourse on sports subsidies over time. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of sports economics, management, public policy, and public finance.