Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports is designed to help trainers and coaches to devise more effective high-performance training programs for team sports. This remains the only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and features all-new chapters covering neuromuscular training, injury prevention and specific injury risks for different team sports. Fully revised and updated throughout, the new edition also includes over two hundred new referenc...

The Ministry of SUITs is a debut novel for boys and girls aged 10+from Paul Gamble. A novel full of adventure, hilarity, heroism and ...pirates, The Ministry of SUITs tells the story of a secret Ministry hidden away in the far reaches of the Ulster Museum in Belfast. It deals with all the strange, unusual and impossible things in the world, the things we don't want to have to think about or deal with as perfectly-normal-thank-you-very-much people: ancient monsters, wild animals, pirates, a...

Freak out your friends and flummox your family by learning to draw hilariously horrible pictures!Follow these simple, step-by-step guides and you'll soon be bringing to life sneaky snakes, pinchy crabs, smelly jellyfish, and many more!Grab your pencils, paints, and brushes, and get ready to create your own gruesome gallery of awful artworks!

Speed and agility are central to success in a wide range of sports. Training for Sports Speed and Agility is the first evidence-based study of all those aspects of athletic preparation that contribute to the expression of speed and agility during competition.Drawing on the very latest scientific research in the fields of strength and conditioning, applied physiology, biomechanics, sports psychology, and sports medicine, the book critically examines approaches to training f...

How to Draw Monsters and Other Scary Stuff is the perfect book for any young artist aged 6 and up with a love of funny characters and wacky cartoons. They can learn to draw silly spiders, barmy bats, weird witches and mad, mucky mud-monsters. Each project is presented in easy-to-follow steps.

Memo: For Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things Operatives OnlyRE: The Ministry of SUITs by Paul Gamble (winner of the Eilís Dillon award for a first children's book)A series of strange incidents have been reported in Belfast:* Oddball kids are going missing* There are several unconfirmed signs of pirates.* A wild bear known to be a very sore loser at musical statues has escaped from the museum and...

Memo: For Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things Operatives OnlyRe: The Monster's Daughter by Paul GambleThere is more trouble in Belfast: odd things are happening at the aquarium, giant crabs are staging jail breaks, and formerly harmless bath bombs are destroying bathrooms left and right.Fortunately, our brave new recruits—Jack, a curious boy skilled at logical thinking, and Trudy, the most dangerous girl in sc...

More Strange, Unusual, and Impossible things are happening in The Knight's Armor, the third and final volume in Paul Gamble's hilarious Ministry of SUITs middle-grade series...MEMO: For Ministry of SUITs operatives ONLYBe on the alert! A missing agent (the mother of one of our newest recruits) is possibly being kept prisoner somewhere in Belfast.We have unconfirmed reports of:- allergies transforming normal kids into monsters- he...

From the author of the bestselling children's book When God Made You comes a rhythmic, whimsical journey through creation--for little readers who love science and wonder and the beginnings of all things.For spiritual parents who are looking for a different kind of creation book, Matthew Paul Turner's When God Made the World focuses on the complex way that God created our vast and scientifically operating universe, including the biodiversity of lif...

The bestselling author of When God Made You and When I Pray for You captures the wonder of Christmas and the joy of Jesus' birth in a lyrical exploration of what makes the season so colorful, magical, and personal.In his trademark style, Matthew Paul Turner celebrates the Christmas season, particularly the colors that infuse the holiday and all the memorable sensations and experiences—including a festive market, sledding, and nativity scene—connec...

When Boomerang the cat disappears into a tiny gap behind the fireplace at Stone Cottage, Scott, Jack and Emily are amazed to discover a secret room that Aunt Kate never knew existed! But what was the room created for? Inside is very little other than an enormous old chest which Jack is convinced must be full of treasure, but what secrets will be revealed when the friends finally manage to open the box?

After earning the The Buckets of Bolts achievement, Miles returns home to take a break and hang out. But then Asher and Owen, warrior friends who joined him on the last adventure, come to Miles pleading for his help in defeating Plantera. Things are dicey with Asher and Owen, as they need his help, but often treat him like a third wheel.Miles agrees to fight Plantera, in order to keep his friends and village safe. And the gang does feel like a trio of warriors after their ...