Maximize the development of your athletes and team throughout the year, and just maybe win a postseason title in the process. Coaching Better Every Season: A Year-Round Process for Athlete Development and Program Success presents a blueprint for such success, detailing proven coaching methods and practices in preseason, in-season, postseason, and off-season.The Coach Doc, Dr. Wade Gilbert, shares his research-supported doses of advice that have helped coaches around the gl...

Here is an author who strikes many familiar chords, brings you to the brink of feelings you think you may have already experienced, teeters you at the edge of emotional cliffs and opens doors for you (but only slightly ajar) so you can peek inside and decide whether you want to continue on in your state of oblivion.The writing flows smoothly and fluidly while deftly snagging you and keeping you wrapped up in the mindset designed by the carefully constructed sentences and selection ...

Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed into a coherent and substantial field of scholarly enquiry with a rich and sophisticated research literature.The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching is the first book to survey th...

Have You Ever Experienced Writer's Block? This Collection Of 1,000 Writing Prompts Is Just What You Need!  "This is a superb, very imaginative book that helps people, writers and non-writers, think of ideas," Israel, 5-star review. "A genuine treasure trove. I will never again complain of not knowing what to write!" Joel, 5-star review. "If you're stuck on just about any subject that might be your direction, turn to Bryan Cohen, ...

This Is How - Survival Advice for Life's Toughest Challenges from New York Times Bestselling Author Augusten BurroughsIf you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and t...

A new, updated edition of the thought-provoking, conversation-starting #1 New York Times–bestseller!This completely revised edition of the classic bestseller includes approximately three hundred questions—more than 100 of them all-new—that delve into such topics as:*The disappearing border between man and machine—How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?*The challen...

This darkly funny memoir from “one of the next great stars in comedy” (Mike Birbiglia) doesn’t offer help overcoming depression—just much-needed comfort, company, and tips for life inside the fog.“No one is able to synthesize the Venn diagram of depression and hilariousness quite like Jacqueline Novak.”—Nick Kroll“While most books on depression try to help you win the war, this one is merely a cigarette in the trenches.”Wit...

For the longest time, based on no evidence other than our own insecurity and sense of incompetence, my wife and I were convinced that we were the flat-out, no-question-about-it, least-skilled parents in the country. Furthermore, we were convinced that every other set of parents we knew was perfect. They were more thorough in going over their kids' homework, they set better boundaries than we do, didn't let their kids watch as many hours of TV as we do, raised kids who are unfailingly p...

A heartfelt and humorous A to Z companion to growing older, filled with the unfiltered opinions and preoccupations of seniors today.When do we become "senior?" At age sixty? At retirement? Or the moment we can't do something that was previously simple? While there are endless books on "staying young," there are precious few on embracing your age. Enter brilliant new aphorist Peter Buckman!In this appealing guide, Buckman distills over 200 A-to-Z topics into...

“God’s Waiting Room, Geezer Glen, Catheter Flats, the Wrinkly Ranch . . . whatever euphemistic pet name you have for long-term care homes, the overall sentiment remains the same: it’s the last stop. But is all hope lost? Is there no joy? Shenanigans? Thefts? Laughter? Sex?”After serving in various roles for two decades in the clinical area of long-term care (LTC), Tristan Squire-Smith demystifies the daily realities of living (and working) in LTC through a collection of unvarnished...

This isn't a book about overachieving at parenting.This isn't even a book about achieving exactly the right amount.This is a book about doing as little as possible without quite ruining your child.Overachieving parents want you to believe the harder you work, the better your kid will turn out. That lie ends now.The truth is most kids end up remarkably unremarkable no matter what you do, so you might as well ...

With all the daily hustle and bustle, it is growing harder to hold on to our own sense of identity. As Sarah Reilley explores what it means to be authentic in a world affected by social media, a pandemic, and loss of human compassion, she takes note of what authenticity truly means to her. With humor, wit, honesty, and some tears, this journey into the human soul is touching and inspiring."I was deeply moved by how open and honest the author was about discussing the most painful de...