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58 books
What are the most dangerous peaks to climb? What are the safest? When is the best time of year to climb? These and many other questions are answered in this comprehensive statistical analysis of climbing activity, ascents and fatalities in the Nepal Himalaya. The analyses cover three periods of climbing: 1950-1969 - the expeditionary period, 1970-1989 - the transitional period, and 1990-2009 - the commercial period The data are analyzed in several categories ...
The history of sports probably extends as far back as the existence of people as purposive sportive and active beings. Sport has been a useful way for people to increase their mastery of nature and the environment. The history of sport can teach us a great deal about the nature of sport itself.
The present book entitled sports history discusses all the aspects of Sports History from Ancient Greece Civilization to Recent trend sin the field of sports.
Captain Kohli weaves a compelling story of endeavours since Independence by our leaders, mountaineers and others to make India a resurgent nation through the spirit of adventure. Had it not been for Jawaharlal Nehru’s commitment and far-sightedness India would have had a different story to tell. The leader of India’s first successful Everest expedition pays tribute to India’s first Prime Minister and marvels at his courage to lay what was later ...
From the mid-1980s until 2004 Diego Maradona was addicted to cocaine. He allegedly began using the drug in Barcelona in 1983. By the time he was playing for Napoli, he had a regular addiction which began to interfere with his ability to play football. For various reasons, Maradona is considered one of the sport's most controversial and newsworthty figures. He was suspended from football for 15 months in 1991 after failing in a doping test for cocaine in Italy, ...
The job of sports journalist is exciting, thrilling and rewarding. Moreover, it's a lucrative job too. As more and more channels are in bee-line to cover major sports events, then it becomes clear that job prospects in this field are vast. This book cover every minute details that a student of sports journalism should grasp before jumping into full-fledged career of sports journalists. Simple and easy-to-understand language is the main focus of this book. Other ...
Even so, there are a number of references in the literature identifying a similar sport that had existed in Europe beginning in the early to mid-1700s. These sources describe some common terms and other similarities which different types of baseball games had shared with such sports as English cricket and rounders which each originated decades before 1800. in cricket matches, for example, words like batsman pitch, and put out were used and in rounders, terms like ...
Skeletal muscle is a highly organized structure that is surrounded by well-defined fascial layers. The individual muscle is surrounded completely by a fascial layer called the epimysium. From the epimysium, extensions of the surrounding fascia (perimysium) divide the muscle belly itself into multiple fascicles. Finally, each fascicle is further subdivided into individual muscle fibers by the endomysium. The muscle fiber is the basic structural element of skeletal ...
The Biochemical Basis of Sports Performance : In team sports there are few opportunities to set records and the standards by which participants are judged are relative rather than absolute. The aim is simply to beat the opposition. Even in these sports however meticulous records of team and individual performances are kept and the exceptional ability of outstanding individual players is recognized. Baseball players such as Joe Di Maggio cricketers such as Don ...
In a seminal segmentation study, Schoham and Kable (1996) went one step further by subdividing and analyzing these two traditional categories. Within the two categories, they identified three communication communities and three consumption communities. The first consumption community includes those who engage in competitive sports (either team or individual), the second includes those who participate in fitness sports (e.g., jogging), and the third includes those ...
Sports administration will never be the highest paid occupation, and it will always require a tremendous amount of commitment and energy; but it can be very rewarding and will be done better by people given necessary training and support, as well as all the background knowledge that is available. This book is a step along the road to help the hard pressed individuals and organizations involved in sports administration, with a view ultimately to making things more ...
Sport psychology is the study of a person's behaviour in sport. It is also a specialisation within the brain psychology and kinesiology that seeks to understand psychological/mental factors that affect performance in sports, physical activity, and exercise and apply these to enhance individual and team performance. It deals with increasing performance by managing emotions and minimising the psychological effects of injury and poor performance. Some of the ...
The main objective of physical education is the attainment of total fitness of a child physically mentally emotionally and psychologically. A child who is fit enjoys robust health a good looking physique a satisfactory level of social and emotional adjustment and a proficiency in the basic skill of movement. A healthy mind lives in healthy body as the old age goes by. In todays scenario how physical fitness and academic progress of school going children are inter ...
Turbaned Tornado is the biography of Fauja Singh (born on 1 April 1911), a centenarian British Sikh. He is a marathon runner of Indian descent and a world record holder in his age bracket. Adidas’s poster boy once, Fauja Singh became the world’s oldest half marathon runner when he completed the 2010 Luxembourg InterFaith Marathon at the age of 99. Turbaned Tornado captures Fauja Singh’s zest for life and his invincible spirit. It traces the ...