A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching presents a new approach to baseball coaching and practice. Applying a CLA to the player development process across the skill spectrum from the beginners to elite, this book uses practical examples to demonstrate the theoretical principles of the constraints-led coaching style embedded in research showing the numerous benefits of the approach.This book incorporates case studies and examples of how constraints are manipulated to develop...

A Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching Tennis presents a new evidence-based approach to develop and train tennis players. Coaching philosophy, technique, tactics, physical development, and mental strength, pertaining to beginners and professionals, are covered. This text bridges the gap between theoretical principles from within the most recent research and its practical application.Included are real-world examples of how different sets of constraints may be manipulated in...

To know what life was like for someone in the past, we must read their story in a way that we can understand.Steve Cornish was born in 1887 and killed in action in 1917, one of the millions of victims of the First World War. He was an ordinary man—a son, brother, father and husband who simply lived his life and did what he thought he should. He spent a little over a year as a soldier, and died minutes into his first action.Just one of the millions.S...

South Australian artist Lucie Davison works in a range of media: acrylic, watercolour, pencil, pen and, the subject of this book, analog collage.Analog collage is the assembly of found images, cut and pasted to form new, and often surprising, pictures. It is an art form with a long pedigree.Lucie's collage is informed by her previous practice in other media and, therefore, includes the usual elements of the traditional artist's craft: colour, tone and composition. To these sh...

What causes some marketing campaigns to go spectacularly wrong? Why might new product launches, publicity stunts or rebranding exercises be doomed to failure? How can you prevent a social media backlash spiralling out of control? When should you apologise, cut your losses, make a U-turn? Great Brand Blunders takes an informed and at times acerbic look at the worst marketing and social media disasters of all time - and treats them as an amazing learning opportunity. The fir...

Rentokil is the heart and soul of pest control. A brand synonymous with its field and familiar to all. Innovative, ground-breaking, highly professional; renowned for scientific rigour and go-the-extra-mile customer service. At last, here's a book that tells the full story of Rentokil's rise into an international powerhouse – and the pest problems it encountered and solved along the way.The Pest Detectives explores the origins of the brand, including the story of founder Pr...

Vision is the dominant sense used by pilots and visual misperception has been identified as the primary contributing factor in numerous aviation mishaps, resulting in hundreds of fatalities and major resource loss. Despite physiological limitations for sensing and perceiving their aviation environment, pilots can often make the required visual judgments with a high degree of accuracy and precision. At the same time, however, visual illusions and misjudgments have been cited as the probable...

The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.Some of the engagements are relatively well known (Cassell, the Arras counter-attack, and...

A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Playful and audacious' IndependentNarrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, Artful slips slyly between fiction and essay, guiding the reader thrillingly through a sequence of ideas on art and literature. With Smi...

Looking for advice on setting up your own company, improving your career prospects, or developing your leadership skills? Why not ask Richard Branson?In Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You in Business School, Richard distils and shares the wisdom and experience that have made him one of the world's most recognised and respected entrepreneurs. From his 'Top 5 secrets of Business Success', to hard hitting discussions about the global financial crisis, this book bring...

With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure to launch a major cross-Channel attack against France.Since 1939, Canadian troops had massed in Britain and trained for the inevitable ...

Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.In her brilliant new book, she ...