Authors:Scott Lancaster, Radu Teodorescu,
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: kids, fitness, athletic
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0736062424
ISBN-13: 9780736062428

Finally, here is a conditioning program designed to fully develop a young athlete’s physical skills without dropout, injury, or burnout. Athletic Fitness for Kids enhances athletic skills for young athletes using a fun, self-directed, and self-tested system. Gamelike activities help young athletes develop seven key sport skills: Flexibility Coordination Balance Stamina Strength Speed Agility Athletic Fitness for Kids includes drills, games, and exercises that cross over with popular sports such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis. Sport-specific dri

Authors:Michael Atkinson, Kevin Young,
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: sport, control, social, deviance
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0736060421
ISBN-13: 9780736060424

The world of sport offers a deep--and often-overlooked--source for the study of deviance and its development and impact on society. Deviance and Social Control in Sport challenges preconceived understandings regarding the relationship of deviance and sport and offers a conceptual framework for future work in a variety of sociological subfields. Drawing on their cutting-edge research in criminology and deviance in the discipline of sociology, Atkinson and Young provide a textured understanding of sport-related deviance through the application of various approaches to deviance in a sport contex

Authors:Duane Knudson, Craig Morriso,
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: movement, human, analysis, qualitative
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-03-12
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0736034625
ISBN-13: 9780736034623

California State Univ., Chico. Handbook, for students of human movement, presents relevant how-to strategies and includes more than 50 new references from the qualitative analysis field. Features a four-step model of qualitative analysis (QA), a CD of interactive exercises and video clips, and new information from the QA field. Previous edition: c1997.

Author: Earl Smith
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: theory, social, sport, sociology
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-08-11
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 0736075720
ISBN-13: 9780736075725

Sociology of Sport and Social Theory presents current research perspectives from major sport scholars and leading sociologists regarding issues germane to the sociology of sport. Each chapter of this resource explains historical and contemporary social theories and applies these theories to current topics in sport, such as performance-enhancing drugs, gender, race and identity issues, and the role of religion in sport. Sociology of Sport and Social Theory introduces readers to the historical and theoretical underpinnings of social theory, how sport studies have incorporated or diverged from t

Author: Brenda Pugh McCutche
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: education, art, dance, teaching
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2006-03-27
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0736051880
ISBN-13: 9780736051880

Teaching Dance as Art in Education is a comprehensive introductory textbook that helps dance education majors and dance specialists understand and incorporate the aesthetic foundations of educational dance in grades K-12. Unlike other models of teaching dance, this book delineates what a standards-oriented, aesthetically driven program should encompass for both the dance specialist and his or her K-12 students. Teaching Dance as Art in Education fosters an understanding of dance as arts education and defines the dance specialist’s roles and responsibilities, including how the national arts in

Authors:Jerry Kindall, John Winki,
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: bible, coaching, series, baseball
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-12-05
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0736001611
ISBN-13: 9780736001618

Rarely is a book so collaborative in its inception, authoritative in its information, useful in its application, and wide in its scope that it serves as both the gospel and guide on a subject. The Baseball Coaching Bible earns that special status by presenting the knowledge of many of the greatest to have ever coached the game and covering a full spectrum of topics on leading a team to become champions. The 27 contributing coaches share their keys to winning baseball—something they know well, having won 50 national titles and nearly 25,000 games. The book’s varied and vast amount of inf

Author: Isobel Kleinma
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: grades, plans, education, physical, complete
Number of Pages: 872
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 0736071237
ISBN-13: 9780736071239

New edition with a seemingly endless supply of lessons and teaching tools With Complete Physical Education Plans for Grades 5 to 12, Second Edition, you can use mechanically correct progressions to teach students more effectively and increase their enjoyment of physical activity; build a complete, balanced physical education program that has something for everybody; save preparation time with lesson plans for 484 classes covering 18 areas of fitness, creative movement and dance, and sports; take advantage of ready-to-use assessment tools for each developmental level; find health fitness standa