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...

A critical examination of how pleasure and pain are constructed, represented, and contested within American public culture.Mainstream news and social media often highlight presentations of pain that invite a voyeuristic, pleasurable experience, whether the result of war, disasters, crime, accidents, or other catastrophes. This collection of essays explores pleasurable pains and painful pleasures, showing how they pervade contemporary western public culture...

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...

In the heart of the Canadian wilderness, a forbidden love blossoms between a young woman and a man torn between his duty and his desires. A Lover's Diary is a passionate and poignant tale of stolen moments, secret rendezvous, and the unyielding power of the human heart. As the lovers navigate the treacherous terrain of society's expectations and their own conflicting emotions, their diary becomes a testament to the ecstasy and agony of a love that dares to defy all odds.