This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and culturally responsive, communitarian and justice-oriented emerges.

The years 1925–1951 marked a period of world changing political, social, and economic upheavals in China, with few provinces more affected than Fukien (Fujian), where the ambitions of the Nationalists, Communists, and freebooting warlords made life unpredictable and dangerous. Missionary observer William Angus of the Reformed Church was there with an ear for the voices of the storytellers, the verse is as vital as the Chinese people, its true subject.

Product Description: "When given full freedom, many men will piddle.So it is for middle-aged college professor Adam Cherry on Father’s Day. Alone for the day on his newly purchased horse farm in the Midwest, his two daughters and wife away or abroad, Adam finds excitement in an entire day to piddle away―his Father’s Day gift to himself...read more

Product Description: Glass shards dance about excitedly, as bullets blaze passed Karol Shult's shoulder. Lying perfectly still on the floor more terrified of the phone ringing in her pocket than the murderous thugs shooting indiscriminately from outside the window, Karol takes the call only to find out she's not being paid for this job...read more

Product Description: From his office in Omaha, Nebraska, without even the benefit of a computer, Warren Buffett has racked up an investment record that far surpasses his counterparts on Wall Street—or anyone else in the world, for that matter. While traditionally stock exchanges have returned about 11 percent annually in the past half century, Buffett's investments have by nearly 29 percent a year, solidifying Buffett's conglomerate holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, as the eighth-largest business in the world and netting him $44 billion along the way...read more

Product Description: This series introduces students to the world of global finance, from the recent economic crisis to globalization. Complete with case studies and links to readers' lives, these books boil down economic concepts in an understandable way.

Product Description: This series aims to introduce and familiarise students with the basics of the world financial system. From economic basics and stocks, shares and other investments, to globalization and the economic cycle, these books will help demystify the topics that money can bring.

As the first survey of its kind, Soft in the Middle positions the contemporary softcore feature as a middlebrow form of pornography. This genre of film and video has been produced by a complex and often elusive industry situated in the ambiguous "middle" regions between hardcore and Hollywood. In meticulous detail, Soft in the Middle demonstrates that softcore's under-the-radar success and pervasive cultural devaluation may be understood in terms of the "postfeminist" strategies employed by successive generations of producers and distributors, each intent on overcoming obstacles to the mainstream distribution of pornographic material. Softcore and its American precursors became more "feminized" and "female friendly" as their distribution widened, a process hastened in the 1980s by the industry's transition to private, non-theatrical modes of distribution and exhibition (e.g., home-video outlets and premium-cable networks like Cinemax). One of the byproducts of this development is that contemporary softcore has frequently resorted to what are arguably anti-male or "misandristic" attitudes and depictions. Clearly, the genre challenges traditional assumptions about pornography, including those held by feminists on both sides of "the porn debates." Drawing on original industrial research, extensive sampling, and wide-ranging scholarship, Soft in the Middle offers a nuanced look at a discreetly indecent genre whose central commodity has always been female nudity. The book examines the genre's history, describes its deflationary trajectory, and differentiates the reading patterns of its disparate audiences, including "cult" critics and feminist critics. Naturally, the book also considers the genre's formal and ideological conventions, surveying its most exemplary subgenres, styles, and motifs--and lavishing particular attention on its most influential studios, directors, and texts.

Product Description: Section headings in this work are: 'Overview of Quadrature Hybrids', 'Basic Theory', 'Approcimations', 'Passive Synthesis', 'Practical Design' and 'Special Topics'.

Product Description: This work offers a revaluation of aestheticism as a literary and historical idea. It re-examines Nabokov in the light of his aestheticism, portraying him as an aesthete and a humanist. It also offers a revisionary reading of Lolita, focusing on aestheticism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)