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Endurance Performance in Sport Psychological Theory and Interventions

Endurance Performance in Sport Psychological Theory and Interventions

Athletes participating at all levels of endurance performance can relate to the impact of psychological factors. Whether it is motivation self-belief feeling nervous before a race exercise-induced pain sticking to a pacing strategy or thoughts around what to focus on there are a vast number of psychological factors which can affect endurance performance. Bringing together experts in the field from around the world this is the first text to provide a detailed overview of the psychology of endurance performance where there is a research and an applied focus looking at both main theoretical models as well as how interventions can support an athlete’s efficacy and well-being. The authors look at regulatory processes around pain decision-making self-belief emotions and meta-cognition before examining a range of cognitive strategies including the use of imagery goals self-talk and mindfulness techniques. With a final section of the book outlining issues related to mental health that are relevant to endurance performance the book shows that the future of research and application of psychological theory in endurance performance in sport is bright and thriving. Aimed at researchers students coaches and athletes themselves this is essential reading for anyone wishing to better understand how our minds experience endurance in performance arenas and what psychological techniques can be used to make us more efficient. | Endurance Performance in Sport Psychological Theory and Interventions

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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

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Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic minority migrants are situated at the intersections of tourism migration and the informal sector. This book investigates the social economic and political embeddedness of street vendors in urban tourist contexts in Thailand. Based on extensive field research it presents a detailed analysis of urban-directed mobility patterns and revealing strategies and dilemmas in the urban souvenir business. Focusing on the development of urban ethnic minority souvenir stalls run mostly by people belonging to the highland group of Akha the author explains the spatial expansion of ethnic businesses and assesses the economic and political obstacles micro-entrepreneurs are confronted with. The book offers an understanding of the everyday practices and social relations of and between unequally powerful actors related to ethnic minority tourism in urban contexts and systematically integrates individual and collective action into socio-economic and politico-institutional contexts. A significant contribution to migration and ethnic minority studies in the Thai and Asian urban tourism context the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies tourism migration and ethnic minority studies. | Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Drawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields. Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention sheds light on the complexity potential and consequences of combining ICH and SD at the policy-making level and in heritage practices on the ground. It will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies development studies anthropology archaeology international law political science international relations and sociology. | Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

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Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage Separation and Legal Controversies

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

The Science of Motorsport

Mothering Education and Ethnicity The Transformation of Japanese American Culture

The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

The Transformation of Rural Africa

The Transformation of Rural Africa

Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas and in so doing provides important insights for policy action. The book provides valuable household- and farm-level evidence about the drivers of rural labour productivity improvements in access to markets investment in food value chains and indeed the role of rural economic growth in Africa’s ongoing rural transformation processes. Some of the features of Africa’s ongoing rural transformation are similar to those of agricultural transformation as experienced in Asia and elsewhere. However other features of Africa’s rural transformation are unique and pose important challenges for development policy and planning. Together the studies compiled in this volume provide an updated evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding of where African countries are in their developmental trajectories and the region’s prospects for achieving inclusive forms of development over the next several decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. | The Transformation of Rural Africa

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Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Many critical analyses of disability address important ‘macro’ concerns but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field and containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from around the world this book focuses on the taken-for-granted mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is reproduced and how this impacts on the lives of those with a disability family members and other allies. It departs from earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived mobilised and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus and navigating diverse social contexts chapters are united by a concern with foregrounding micro mundane moments for making sense of powerful discourses practices affects relations and world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different examples – including learning disabilities cerebral palsy dementia polio and Parkinson’s disease – contributions move beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation. Disability Normalcy and the Everyday should be considered essential reading for disability studies students and academics as well as professionals involved in health and social care. With contributions located within new and familiar debates around embodiment stigma gender identity inequality care ethics choice materiality youth and representation this book will be of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds including sociology anthropology humanities public health allied health professions science and technology studies social work and social policy.

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The History of the Fabian Society

Adventure Psychology Going Knowingly into the Unknown

Adventure Psychology Going Knowingly into the Unknown

In recent years a new set of psychological principles has emerged from research investigating adventure and adventurous activities. Adventure involves a special type of physical activity in natural contexts where participants voluntarily participate in experiences where the environment and activity are challenging perhaps dangerous and potentially life threatening. To go on an adventure is to participate in an enduring event requiring sustainable effort where effective performance is measured not only by success but also by survival. This book brings together the emerging literature in ‘Adventure Psychology’ that supports enduring performance and wellbeing. The first section examines sustaining performance and wellbeing. The second section studies the transformative aspect of adventure. Adventure Psychology is of use in everyday life and the techniques and understandings can help people and business prepare for the future. This book will help us all thrive despite adversity volatility and uncertainty. Written for researchers this book will also be useful for trainers educators and students of sport performance and organisational psychology as well as adventurers and endurance athletes. Adventure Psychology is designed to meet the needs of specialists across a variety of fields but importantly also to be accessible and applicable for those wanting to live life fully — to realise our full potential. | Adventure Psychology Going Knowingly into the Unknown

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The Breakfast Club John Hughes Hollywood and the Golden Age of the Teen Film

The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts

The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts

In the age of complex Tv of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance of a fictional world and other mediatized discourse over a long arc of time. The life of media products can change direction depending on the variability of paratextual materials and activities such as online commentaries and forums promos and trailers disposable merchandise and gadgets grassroots video production archives and gaming. This book examines the tension between permanence and obsolescence in the production and experience of media byproducts analysing the affections and meanings they convey and uncovering the machineries of their persistence or disposal. Paratexts which have long been considered only ancillary to a central text interfere instead with textual politics by influencing the viewers’ fidelity (or infidelity) to a product and affecting a fictional world’s life expectancy. Scholars in the fields of film studies media studies memory and cultural studies are here called to observe these byproducts' temporalities (their short form and/or long temporal extention their nostalgic politics or future projections) and assess their increasing influence on our use of the past and present on our temporal experience and consequently on our social and political self-positioning through the media. | The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts

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Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

Nutrition before during and after training or a sporting event can improve the comfort energy and performance of athletes of all levels from elite to recreational as well as providing long-term health benefits. Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance offers a clear practical and accessible guide to the fundamentals of sport and exercise nutrition. The expert authors begin by explaining key principles including understanding energy systems exercise physiology and metabolism. They cover the basics of digestion absorption and nutrition; examine the key macronutrients and micronutrients essential for performance; and discuss the process of dietary assessment. Part 2 goes on to explore in detail nutrition for pre- and post-training hydration the use of supplements and body composition and provides guidance on developing plans for both individual athletes and teams. The final component examines specific nutrition issues and special needs including working with elite athletes strength-and-power athletes young older and disabled athletes endurance sports GI disturbances and rehabilitation issues. Cultural issues are also explored including diets for vegan and vegetarian athletes and religious perspectives and requirements. Featuring contributions from a range of sport and exercise nutrition professionals and including practical diet plans diagrams and the latest research and evidence throughout this is a core reference for undergraduates nutritionists and trainers. | Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

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