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Fitness Facility Management provides an in-depth look at the challenges and rewards of managing contemporary health and fitness facilities, including boutique and corporate facilities, campus recreation centers, community recreation, and franchised fitness clubs.
Featuring a wide range of in-depth tuition articles, Play Your Best Golf covers the entire spectrum of the game: driving, iron play, short game, putting and course management. Powered by expert tuition from a team of world-class PGA professionals, this guide will get you playing the best golf of your life.
A walking guide with thirty detailed walks that explores some of the less-frequented footpaths and bridleways of Sussex. It recalls the history of these areas as well as some of the lives of those associated with them.
Nicolas Hamilton has been exceeding expectations since day one.Born with a form of cerebral palsy, Nicolas was told that he would never walk and would need a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Today he not only walks everywhere but he is the first disabled athlete to ever compete at the top level of British motorsport, The British Touring Car Championship, where he lines up on the grid alongside some of the world's best drivers.Now That I Have Your Attention follows Nicolas's remarkable journey and shares the valuable, tough, and often surprising lessons learned throughout his life.Nicolas's journey has at times been hostile and has forced him to navigate periods of anger and resentment, but by building his mental strength and pushing himself beyond the physical limits of what anyone had ever expected of him, Nicolas has changed his life - and believes you can too.With each of these 7 Lessons, Nicolas's message is simple and universal: with self-discipline and self-compassion you can defy the limitations imposed upon you.
offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium.
The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication.
This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geography, political and social science, ethics and moral philosophy and empirical research, the volume explores how mountain tourism can be used to fight poverty and inequality in mountain regions.
This volume explores walking as a form of research practice. The contributions by a wide range of scholars and practitioners cover a variety of urban and non-urban landscapes around the world.
A walking safari is the best way to enjoy pristine African wilderness, reaching places impossible for vehicles. It offers safari travellers the joy of genuine immersion. This book combines practical tips, reserve-by-reserve information of specific interest to walkers, and vivid narratives of the best walking experiences.
Details a walk through rural and upland Britain, stopping at historic sites along the way, often those with religious connections. Unlike other long distance walking books which are generally aimed at younger, fitter people, which focus more on the walk and less on the human and natural history of the places.
Fjell. Er du en av dem som bare ved å lese ordet, kjenner suget? Ser for deg Jotunheimen, Hallingskarvet, Matterhorn eller Mount Everest? Du bare må ut og opp.Fjellsport var en smal sport for overklasse-gærninger, men har blitt en aktivitet stadig flere av oss driver med, enten det er med lærstøvler, klatresko eller svinedyre randostøvler på føttene.Hvorfor tiltrekkes så mange mennesker av fjelltoppene? Hva er spesielt ved fjellene, ved det å være i dem og det å nå toppen?«Because it's there», var svaret George Mallory ga i 1923 på spørsmålet om hvorfor han måtte opp på Mount Everest. Han kom aldri tilbake derfra.Filosofien har mange interessante perspektiv på møtene mellom mennesker og fjell. Fjellenes filosofi gir innsikt i flere av dem. Den rommer både miljøfilosofi, eksistensialisme, etikk, estetikk, idehistorie og fenomenologi.Denne lille boken retter seg mot alle dem som vil forstå mer av suget mot fjellet. Les den hjemme i sofakroken eller når du endelig kryper ned i soveposen og skrur på hodelykten i det lille teltet der oppe i mørket.Gunnar Karlsen er en dreven klatrer og førsteamanuensis i filosofi ved Universitetet i Bergen. I boken deler han raust både på filosofiske perspektiver og på egne fjellerfaringer.
Why is it that a top footballer can so easily crumble when called upon to take a penalty? Jordet's gripping examination of the ultimate sporting stress test offers a forensic analysis of how the mind operates under pressure.
To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession...'As brilliantly choreographed as a gold medal performance' Jodi PicoultKatarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating - and each other - to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and rollercoaster relationship. Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end. As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorised documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary. But she can't stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy either. So, after a decade of silence, she's telling her story. Sensational rumours have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines. A contemporary twist on Emily Brontë's beloved classic Wuthering Heights, The Favourites is an exhilarating dance between passion, ambition, and what it truly means to win.
Talking Baseball with Major League Stars explores a wide range of entertaining, timely, and illuminating topics about Major League Baseball-including cheating, intimidation, racism, and the players' biggest fears-through the words of the ballplayer themselves.
Arum and King provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the most iconic boxing promoters in the last 100 years-two very different men with very different backgrounds who have promoted such notable superstars as Ali, De la Hoya, Pacquiao, Mayweather, Tyson, and Fury.
A provocative and revealing look at the scandals and corruption behind the Sweet Science's greatest fights.Controversy is the one constant running throughout modern boxing's history since its inception in England in 1698. Boxing's Greatest Controversies takes an incisive look at several big name fights, finally laying to rest some of the most popular rumours surrounding them, while also considering the social, cultural, political, and sporting impact these fights have had on the world at large. Did the eras shape the fights or did the fights shape the eras? Boxing history is vibrant and continuous. Boxing controversies never end. They just get passed down to the next generation of fight fans. These prized bouts are some of the most enduring and notorious fights boxing has ever produced.
Sport Integrity examines sports integrity from a range of disciplinary perspectives that will help to enhance the reader's understanding of this burgeoning problematic in sports management.
Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.
This timely and topical book presents a unique critical exploration of the sociology of single travel and theory of consumption in relation to loneliness and tourism.
To what extent is it possible to do good work in music artist management? Drawing upon original research, this shortform book explores and evaluates motivation, remuneration and equity stakes within the music industries.
This is the autobiography of Dougie Donnelly, one of Scotland's most successful and best loved broadcasters, who spent over 32 years with the BBC as a presenter on Grandstand and Sportscene, as well as commentating on Great Britain winning the women's gold medal at curling at the Winter Olympics!
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