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Energy Secret

Vermilion, 1970

WHEN I FIRST started working as a nutritionist in elite sport over a decade ago, the most common thing I would hear from athletes was: ‘James, I’m here because Coach says I need to lose weight.’

Fortunately things have moved on just a little since then. Nutrition has become an integral part of...

The Human Foot: A Companion to Clinical Studies

Springer, 2005

The appendages at the end of our forelimbs tend to attract the evolutionary and clinical limelight, but our feet are as important as our hands for our survival and success as a species. We tend to take them for granted, yet the many millions of modern humans who run either competitively or for recreation, or who play sports such...

Blog Design Solutions

Friends of Ed, 2006

Blogging has moved rapidly from being a craze to become a core feature of the Internet--from individuals sharing their thoughts with the world via online diaries, through fans talking about their favorite sports teams or music, right up to serious business minds discussing industry futures.

And that includes you, right? If you haven't...

Baxter's The Foot and Ankle in Sport, 2e

Mosby, 2007

The original volume of The Foot and Ankle in Sport by Don Baxter has become a widespread authority on the diagnosis and treatment of athletic injuries to the foot and ankle. It is an ominous task to improve on this text. In fact, our attempt with the second edition is to update the already authoritative text and provide the same authoritative...

Football Traumatology: Current Concepts: from Prevention to Treatment

Springer, 2006

Football is probably the most widespread sport in the world. Like many other sports football has undergone major changes. It has increased in intensity, speed, and other factors contributing to increased risks of traumatic injury. Footballers, trainers, and the sport's medical staff are asking for greater information on the traumatic...

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (Routledge Psychological Interventions)

Routledge, 2019

Mental health within elite sport has traditionally been ignored, but recent research has shown that competitive sport can at times seriously undermine mental health and that athletes are exposed to specific stressors that hinder their mental health optimisation.

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport...

XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

O'Reilly, 2002

This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is...

Why People Die by Suicide

Harvard University Press, 2007

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die.

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Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide

Rosenfeld Media, 2009

What’s the difference between theory and practice? Albert Einstein once said, “In theory they are the same. In practice, they are not.”

Practice makes perfect. Champion sports teams practice constantly. Zen masters will tell you that the only way to achieve enlightenment is practice....

Pediatric and Adolescent Musculoskeletal MRI: A Case-Based Approach

Springer, 2007

MRI has transformed the field of pediatric and adolescent musculoskeletal imaging. When the more senior (and gray haired) of the two authors completed his pediatric radiology training, orthopedic radiology was a primarily plain film based discipline, occasionally supplemented by arthrography. Although much could be gleaned from...

HTML5 Game Development For Dummies

For Dummies, 2013

Create games with graphics that pop for the web and mobile devices!

HTML5 is the tool game developers and designers have been eagerly awaiting. It simplifies the job of creating graphically rich, interactive games for the Internet and mobile devices, and this easy-to-use guide simplifies the learning curve. Illustrated in...

Game Design: Theory and Practice

Wordware Publishing, 2001

One of the most important but least discussed elements of a computer game is the gameplay that makes a game compelling and entertaining. Game Design: Theory & Practice focuses on this elusive topic and how you can ensure your title has the best gameplay possible. Richard Rouse discusses in detail key game design topics including game balancing,...

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