Product Description: Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make decisions that are both unexpected – and therefore less easily predicted by his/her opponent – and appropriate is the player who is likely to be successful...read more

Product Description: "When do sports stop being fun and games? Hudson takes on that question by addressing weighty topics, such as parental pressure, bully coaches, excessive training, and sexual abuse. Each subject is well researched and clearly presented with statistics, real-life examples, and testimonials, and Hudson is careful to offer best practices to help athletes, parents, and coaches maintain a healthy approach to sports...read more

While modern science ponders whether human beings are programmed toward belligerence and warfare, there is no doubt that war has been humanity’s constant companion since the dawn of civilization and that we have become all too proficient in its conduct. In War, noted military historian and award-winning journalist Gwynne Dyer ranges from the tumbling walls of Jericho to the modern advent of total war. He shows how the martial instinct has evolved over the human generations and among our close primate relations. Dyer confronts the reality of war, and the threat of nuclear weapons, but does not despair that war is our eternal legacy. He likes and respects soldiers, even while he knows their job is to kill; he understands the physics and the psychology of battles, but is no war junkie. Dyer surveys the fiery battlefields of human history, never losing sight of the people caught up in war. He actually believes there is hope that war, like slavery, can be abolished. This brilliant book explores the human past to imagine a different future.Abundantly illustrated, with sources from Egyptian pyramid paintings to searing photos from today's news magazines, War is a telling account of mankind’s most destructive tradition.

Product Description: Dieser sehr praxisbezogene Leitfaden wendet sich an Eltern und Trainer von jungen Athleten im Leistungssport. Sie werden mit einer Vielzahl von Fragen konfrontiert, die sich aus der besonderen Belastungssituation dieser Zielgruppe ergeben, so etwa das Verhältnis von Schule und Freizeit, spezifische Anforderungen im Training und im Wettkampf, aber auch grundsätzlichere Fragen nach der besonderen Rolle der Eltern und Trainer im Nachwuchssport...read more

Product Description: Child Athletes (At Issue)

Product Description: Too often, excessive pressure to compete pushes kids into your office with overuse injuries, overwhelming stress, and burn out.Written by a pediatrician who is also board-certified in sports medicine, this book shows caretakers:How young bodies develop for sportsAge-appropriate skillsProper conditioning and how it works on a cellular levelWhy some kids compete to win attentionSafer ways to help kids perform betterPositive and negative impact on young psychesStrategies to overcome obesity and inactivityIt’s a great way to help parents redefine success and provide a better, safer sports experience...read more

Product Description: This guide provides readers with information necessary to promote an athlete's overall well-being and athletic success and to assist high school athletes in their pursuit of a collegiate sports career. DiStefano has devoted himself to working with athletes as a coach, baseball scout, and sports counselor and now a sports agent...read more

Product Description: The determining factor in whether a child between the ages of six and seventeen enjoys athletics is his or her parents -- not the sport, coach, or team. Yet, parents are often unaware of how their behavior and expectations impact their child's experience...read more

Citing recent events that cast doubt on the worthiness of sports figures as role models for young men, a guide for parents and coaches urges readers to resist practices that promote winning at any cost and instead use team sports to promote character, integrity, compassion, and fair play. 10,000 first printing.

Examines the damage inflicted on young athletes by overeager parents and coaches and win-at-all-costs attitudes while proposing changes to overcome the destructive course of organized sports for children in the U.S. (view table of contents)

A sports psychologist offers advice on helping children develop through sports, discussing the right sport for a child, keeping kids motivated, handling competition, and maintaining a sense of balance in a young athlete's life.

Discusses the role of competitive youth sports in building character and learning essential coping skills, and offers parents a plan for supporting and encouraging their children without adding undue pressure. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Will You Still Love Me If I Don't Win? provides advice for using emotional training as well as physical training to aid children in becoming well-rounded, confident young people. This book also guides parents to motivate their children positively for both personal and athletic achievement...read more

Product Description: Mom, Can I Play Football? This book describes the experiences of a volunteer youth coach who has managed to make competitive sports fun, exciting and enjoyable for children for 35 years. The author relates, in word and amusing illustration, humorous anecdotes from his past, then translates these experiences into specific instructions for coaches and parents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Author Rick Wolff has written this book to help parents and coaches avoid the pitfalls surrounding the increasingly competitive environment of youth sports while helping children enjoy a positive, challenging and educational sports experience. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: After being questioned by a parent about how sports affects children, Griffin examined the impact of sports on children and reflected upon his own experiences with sports. What effect does sports have on work habits, social skills, confidence, independence, and aspirations? Does a sports experience provide the foundation for achievement in school and later life? Is competition good or harmful? What about the effects of sports involvement on girls? What are the characteristics of good athletes? How can parents help their children be successful in sports?Griffin shares with parents and other readers his investigations of the published research pertaining to these questions and offers his own experiences and analyses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Devine, John, Gillies, Cliff, Bacon, Thorn (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A sports psychologist and former professional athlete offers advice for making organized sports a safe and enjoyable experience for children

Product Description: Positive Coaching is jam packed with information for coaches in any sport. The book includes over 200 coaching recommendations on specific psychological, motivational, and behavioral situations. There is a special focus on the coach as storyteller -- 50 motivational stories can be used to develop strong communication with athletes...read more