The print collections are organised by shelf numbers on the spine of the books so that all the items on the same subject are kept in the same place.
Books are arranged according to a library classification system, known as the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The books you will use for your sport courses are broadly classified as follows:
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Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications shows how concepts supported by current scientific research can be used to address issues and situations encountered everyday by physical activity specialists, coaches, athletic trainers, and athletes. This introduction to sport and exercise psychology addresses practical issues, such as dealing with anxiety, arousal, and stress; developing coping, relaxation, motivation, and energizing strategies; understanding the effects of an audience on human performance; building team cohesion; and preventing burnout and other negative effects.
Based on latest research, this comprehensive book covers all the essential elements of coaching and demonstrates how effective coaching practice can be developed. It provides recommendations for coaching behavior and conduct, examines coaching research and the complexities of the coaching process, looks at how one can develop a personal coaching philosophy, investigates the issues and challenges of coaching children, and makes recommendations for safe and best practice. It examines in detail nine expert coaching actions: building relationships; creating a learning environment; effective communication, organization, and control; coaching pedagogy; goal-setting; planning and preparation; observation and analysis; and reflective practice. It also considers disabled athletes and discusses long-term planning.
At a time of profound change in the economic, social, political and sporting landscape, sport development faces important challenges. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport Development: Policy, Process and Practice is still the most detailed, authoritative and comprehensive guide to all aspects of contemporary sport development. This book examines the roles of those working in and around sport development and explores the most effective methods by which professionals and volunteers can promote interest, participation or performance in sport. Combining essential theory with practical analysis, the book covers key topics, themes and issues found on the sport development curriculum.
Fully updated and revised, the Second Edition of Barrie Houlihan's ground-breaking book provides students and lecturers with a one-stop text that is comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, accessible, international and engaging. Sport and Society allows students to:
Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; Sports Workplace; and Safety in Sport.
Drawing on the very latest scientific research, Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports is designed to help students, coaches, researchers and sports medicine professionals devise more effective high-performance training programs for team sports. The only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice for team sports, this book introduces the core science underpinning any strength and conditioning regime, combining the best of applied physiology, bio-mechanics, sports medicine and coaching science.
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