James Patterson - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
There's one last chance to save the world in MAXIMUM RIDE: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS, the closing chapter of James Patterson's thrilling trilogy. The time has arrived for Max and her winged "Flock" to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: to defeat the takeover of "Re-evolution", a sinister experiment to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race..
Acquisition and Performance of Sports Skills provides students with the theoretical and practical background that is necessary for an understanding of the basics of skill acquisition and performance. This understanding is founded on the student’s existing knowledge of sport and leads into the subject, using a student centred, problem-solving approach. The first half of the book examines the nature of sports performance and the second skill acquisition. There is a debate among researchers into psychomotor learning: the ecological versus the cognitive approach.
The stories in this collection are prizewinning entries in the Category Sports Stories in the Competition of Writers of Children's Books organized by Children's BookTrust. Sport is an activity though done for pleasure, requires physical effort, appropriate skill, sheer hard work and a strong will to win. It helps in all-round development of an individual. It teaches discipline and tolerance, and inculcates healthy competition. The collection of stories aims to inspire children to play the game in the spirit of the game.
Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment
The businesses behind Dubai Sports City, the branding of David Beckham, and the presence and popularity of fantasy sports leagues on the internet are unmistakable indicators that the sports and the entertainment industries are quickly becoming one and the same. But, you needn't travel far or be a hard core sports fan to appreciate this fact. Whether you play Madden NFL on the Wii, use Nike+ along with your iPod to monitor your workouts, or channel surf and take note of the number of athlete-driven commercials, evidence of this transformation is ubiquitous in today's sports viewing and consuming experience.
Here is an exciting new guide to the world of the Olympic games from its ancient beginnings to the Sydney Games in 2000. Full-color photographs of famous athletes, colorful mascots, and flaming torches provide a unique look at the greatest sports festival in the world. See the ancient Greek site of Olympia, what an athlete wore in 1896, and the first Fosbury flop. Learn what an athlete in training needs to eat, how Smoky became the 1932 Olympic mascot, and what sports make up a modern pentathlon. Discover how athletic competitions are timed within fractions of a second, which sports were included in the ancient Olympic Games, who has won the most Olympic medals, and much, much more.
