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The premier text for athletic taping and bracing is back in a stunning fourth edition. Newly expanded to cover casting techniques, Athletic Taping, Bracing, and Casting, Fourth Edition With Web Resour
In a textbook on sports mechanics for undergraduate students, Burkett explores how humans perform and how they respond to the stresses or loads from sport and exercise. Moving from the science to its
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This textbook explains the theory and methodology of planning athletic training. It discusses the major concepts essential to training, such as the basic concepts of the training process, the prin
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Organizational Behavior in Sport Management fills a gap in sport management literature by exploring the key organizational behavior topics in sport organization settings. The
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This volume brings together 32 reprinted and original essays on ethics in sport, including 17 new essays on topics like moral victories, play and the moral limits of sport, the ethics of technolog
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This text documents the history of dance from prehistory to the present, detailing dancers and choreographers, dances, and works and literature from specific time periods, and dance as an art form
This guide explains how to implement the Bigger Faster Stronger program in school athletic programs, from elementary to college. The program combines components of strength and conditioning program
