Transatlantic Sport: The Comparative Economics of North American and European…

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Judul Seri

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Youth, Music and Creative Cultures

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their own learning processes and music activities.

Critical Thinking for Sports Students (Active Learning in Sport)

Unique purpose-written resource to help students in higher education understand and apply critical thinking in the study of sport. Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Critical thinking and the study of sport; 2 What is an argument?; 3 Evaluating an argument's structure: deductive arguments; 4 Evaluating an argument's content: truth, evidence and credibility; 5 Ass…

Purpose in Life: A Critical Component of Optimal Youth Development

This volume discusses the disparate perspectives on the construct and addresses the tendency to position purpose in the broader frame of positive psychology. It synthesizes distinct strands of research on purpose across the lifespan, it explores studies on the daily and longer-term experience of a purposeful existence, and it delves deeply into the wide range of measurement tools that have been…

Youth 2.0: Social Media and Adolescence: Connecting, Sharing and Empowering

This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which arise from children’s and adolescents’ social media use. It investigates the following main themes, from a multidisciplinary perspective: identity, privacy, risks and empowerment. Social media have become an integral part of young people’s lives. While social media offer adolescents opportunities for identity and relationa…

Wired Youth: The Online Social World of Adolescence

The book covers topics such as youth sociability, relationship formation, online communication, and cyberbullying to examine how young people use the Internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. This new edition also incorporates new research findings on online adolescents' behaviour in general, and specifically in relation to social apps, providing a more updated outlo…

Library Youth Outreach: 26 Ways to Connect With Children, Young Adults and Th…

With tightened library budgets the norm, librarians run the risk of cutting back so much that they isolate themselves from their patrons and their communities. This doesn't have to happen. The outreach methods detailed in this book range from simple actions to detailed processes. Each of the 26 chapters provides helpful information for both those new to library outreach and those with years of …

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Finite Element Analysis on Badminton Racket Design Parameters

This work identifies the characteristics of racket design parameters that influence racket performance. It presents the finite element analysis of several designs of badminton rackets and compares them to experimental results for validation. Designing a racket requires a comprehensive understanding of racket performance characteristics. Essentially, racket performance is related to the sweet sp…

Managing Voluntary Sport Organisations

Contemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organizations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such as the International Olympic Committee. Management of this sector continues to undergo profound change, largely in response to the challenges of professionalization and increasing expectations in terms of transparency, accountability and ethical b…