Soccer Terms
In the terms of soccer what does heading mean?
Hitting the ball with your head.
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GOGO⢠Thick Solid Color Headbands, 12 Pieces Assorted Colors $22.50 Model: YMG-80005Headband Size: approximately 6.7″ x 2″ (17cm x 5cm), fit most men and womenMaterial: 95% cotton and 5% lycra, extra thickPackaging: 1pc / poly bagColor: Includes black, grey, white, green, navy, red, yellow, orange, cambridgeblue, royal blue, purple, dark tealFeatures: * Absorb sweat effectively even in hot days, which helps you feel good when doing sports* Comfortable to wear and … |
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Sanyo Katana II Prepaid Phone, Pink (Kajeet) $82.62 The Sanyo Katana II mobile phone enhances the spirit of the original Katana with a sleeker shape, a radiant new pink fascination finish, and a host of kid-friendly features. This flip phone also features a 21 MB memory for storing downloadable ringtones and games, a VGA camera, Bluetooth connectivity for handsfree devices, voice dialing capabilities, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time. It works perf… |
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LG LX 160 Prepaid Phone, Blue (Kajeet) $79.99 A full-featured flip phone that’s packed with goodies, the LG LX160 for Kajeet helps you stay connected via voice, e-mail and text messaging, and Web access. Easily pocketable and featuring dual LCD screens, the phone also features Bluetooth connectivity for handsfree devices, voice dialing capabilities, speakerphone, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time. It works perfectly with Kajeet’s kid-friendly … |
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Samsung SGH-M300 Prepaid Phone, Red (Kajeet) $69.99 A full-featured flip phone that’s packed with goodies, the Samsung M300 for Kajeet helps you stay connected via voice, e-mail and text messaging, and Web access. Styled with smooth, rounded lines and a mirrored finish, this rose red clamshell-style model includes an external OLED screen that displays current time as well as caller ID. Other features include Bluetooth connectivity for handsfree dev… |
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FIFA Manager 12 2012 FM12 Soccer Football PC Game Import [DVD-ROM] $29.00 FIFA MANAGER 12 is the eleventh edition of the franchise, and clearly focuses on the offline mode and offers a huge number of more than 700 new features and improvements. As a manager in FM12 you have complete control over the management of a modern football club. In the game you are responsible for the line-up, the tactics and training of your team, for signing the right players and the extensi… |
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Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008 $4.90 Experience the Greatest Job on EarthProduct InformationThe world’s most complete and in-depth soccer management game Worldwide SoccerManager 2008 lets you challenge yourself bytaking full control of any of over 5000 manageable teams from around the worldincluding clubs from leagues such as Major League Soccer English PremierLeague and the Mexico Premier Division. With club and international teams … |
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2006 FIFA World Cup $9.99 FIFA World Cup 2006 lets you battle your rivals as Midfield Maestro using physical play and on-the-ball skill. All-new tackling, dribbling and shielding with the ball give you complete control on the pitch; tactical button configurations mean you can execute strategic decisions on-the-fly during play. Determine your club’s fate in a 15-year Manager Mode. The all-new animation system makes every bu… |
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Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer $16.69 All over the world, soccer is known as âthe Beautiful Gameâ and is the most popular sport. But in the United States, professional soccer still has a hard time catching on.It has had some successes here. The American Soccer League of the 1920s, Pélé and other international stars in the North American Soccer Leagueâs glamorous 1970s, the indoor soccer phenomenon of the 1980s, an… |
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The Art of Looking into the Future: The Five Principles of Technological Evolution $5.95 Awards:Book is the Runner-up for “2011-2012 DIY Book Festival” Awardheld at Los Angeles, USA [March 3, 2012]losangelesbookfestival.com/ The book is named an “Honorable Mention” in “The London Book Festival”held at London, UK (Jan 26, 2012)londonbookfestival.com/portal/The book also earned an “Honorable Mention” in “The New England Book Festival” held at Boston, USA (Jan 14, 2012)newenglandbookfes… |
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African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game $16.95 From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rich rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity. African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. The Confédération Africaine de Football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals. The unfortunate results of this success are the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of the women’s game and South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, “tribal” continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease. |
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Atlantic Sun Conference $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: University of North Florida, North Florida Ospreys, University of South Carolina Upstate, 2010 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, 2008 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, 2009 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, Whitten Soccer Complex. Excerpt: The University of North Florida (UNF) is a public university located in Jacksonville, Florida, and a member institution of the State University System of Florida. UNF was established in 1969, and classes began in 1972. It currently has an enrollment of more than 16,000 students and employs over 500 full-time faculty. The campus is located on a natural preserve in the largest city in terms of land area in the continental United States. The university comprises 5 separate colleges with noted business, coastal biology, nursing, and jazz programs. The current president is former Jacksonville mayor John Delaney. In March 2006, The Princeton Review ranked UNF number five in their list of “America’s Best Value Colleges,” and also named UNF as a “Best Southeastern College”. UNF’s status as a “Best Value College” was recently reaffirmed in the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review. The University of North Florida NCAA Division I athletic teams, known as the North Florida Ospreys compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The university was founded in 1969 after one thousand acres (4 km²) midway between downtown Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Beaches was put aside for the campus. Until this time, the only publicly funded institution of higher learning was Florida Community College at Jacksonville. J. J. Daniel, Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents, was instrumental in getting the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Construction on classrooms and buildings began in 1971 and UNF ope… More: |
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Baltimore Bays (Usisl) Players: Billy Ronson, Scoop Stanisic, Mark Mettrick, Troy Snyder, Jim Cherneski, Todd Hicks, Denison Cabral $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William “Billy” Ronson (born 22 January, 1957 in Fleetwood, Lancashire) is a retired English footballer who spent twelve seasons in the English leagues, one in the North American Soccer League, six in the Major Indoor Soccer League and another seven years in a variety of lower division indoor and outdoor leagues in the United States. He also coached at the collegiate and professional levels. Ronson, the son of Fleetwood stalwart Percy Ronson, began his career at Blackpool, making his debut in March 1975 against Nottingham Forest. He originally struggled to break into the side but eventually managed to establish himself in the first team. In 1978, he went on loan to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League. He was unable to prevent the club’s relegation during the 197778 season and spent one more year at the club before joining Cardiff City for a fee of £130,000, a club record at the time. He missed very few games in his two years at Ninian Park before growing disenchanted with the club’s lack of progress and leaving to join Wrexham. His only season at Wrexham ended in relegation, and he left to join Barnsley. He became popular at the Yorkshire club before falling out with manager Allan Clarke and being loaned to Birmingham City before being released and returning to Blackpool on non-contract terms. He moved to America in 1986 to join the Baltimore Blast of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He remained with the Blast for six seasons. The Blast collapsed at the end of the 1991-1992 season. In February 2009, the reconstituted Blast inducted Ronson into the team’s Hall of Fame. In June 1992, he signed with the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the American Professional Soccer League. In 1994, he joined the Baltimore Bays of the USISL. … More: |
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Beckham Experiment: How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America $11.99 The January 2007 press conference announcing that international icon David Beckham was coming to the Los Angeles Galaxy made front-page headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. By every yardstick, the “Beckham experiment” has been a smashing branding success: David and his wife, Victoria (a.k.a. Posh Spice), have raked in multimillion-dollar endorsement contracts from IBM, Coca-Cola, Motorola, Nike, and others, not to mention their own lucrative Beckham Fragrance business. Unfortunately, in terms of soccer, the experiment was an unmitigated disaster: Hopelessly dysfunctional, the Galaxy blundered from loss to loss, coach to coach, even missing the easy-to-make Major League Soccer playoffs. This book by Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl unfolds a real-life cautionary tale about how sports and celebrity can meet — and collide. |
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Beyond the Net $9.99 Beyond the Net might seem like a funny title for a book about soccer, but when you think about it, soccer is about much more than scoring goals. It is about how a team works together for a common objective. This is a book that invites you to read about the private times in a soccer player s life that very few people have ever heard about.Each player in this book has a unique story, a story that he or she has offered to share, because each player was once your age. They remember how it was growing up, and all of the players in this book would like to give you the gift of their knowledge. Some of the stories are funny, some are inspiring and some are somber, but each story is important. These are the stories in their own words, of how these professional and elite soccer players followed their dreams.This book has the stories of eleven players, just like there are eleven players on the field. Each player has a key characteristic that describes him or her, that helped each become all he or she could be. Each player s characteristic can be summed up in a word, and that word is the name of the player s chapter.Because soccer has many words that are not common in everyday English, there is a glossary in the back that explains terms that might not be familiar to you. At the end of the book there is a fun quiz to see how much you have learned about each player. Throughout the book there are random facts about soccer, because random is fun!There are players in this book who are superstars on the field. There are players who are the supporting cast and there are players who you might not know, but who are well known in other countries. That is the beauty of soccer. it is a game played all over the world, from professional stadiums to a kid s backyard. It s a game of teamwork and every person on the team is integral to the team s success. So whether you are a superstar or a supporting member of the team, always remember that you are important. Without you, |
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Carshalton Athletic F.C. Players $21.33 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Adam Federici, Ludovic Quistin, Paul Harding, Dwayne Plummer, Lennie Lawrence, Gus Hurdle, Romauld Bouadji, Paul Smith, Marlon Patterson, Charlie Ide, Keith Dublin, Vic Akers, Jamie Taylor, Richard Hodgson, Mark Marshall, Karl Murray, Pat Morrissey, Paul Underwood, Ian Cox, Martin Kuhl, Vigan Qehaja, Jamie Pace, Trevor Dark, Peter Fear, Mark Hawthorne, Armel Tchakounte, Ismael Ehui, Steve Talboys, Dean Coney, John Cartledge, Sam Saunders, Leke Odunsi, Darren Annon, Stuart Massey, Boncho Genchev, Jack Macleod. Excerpt: Adam Federici Adam Jay Federici (born 31 January 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a goalkeeper for Football League Championship club Reading and has featured in the Australian national team squad. Club career Federici started his career in Huskisson Soccer Club, south-east of Nowra , before making the move at 17 to England to pursue a dream to play in Europe . Prior to his move to the Madejski Stadium , Federici played for Wolverhampton Wanderers , Bolton Wanderers and Leeds United on a trial basis. He signed for Reading in September 2005 on non-contract terms, and was quickly loaned out to Maidenhead. Bizarrely, during his time at Maidenhead, Adam fell down a well while returing home from a nightclub with teammates. After peering over to look inside, he lost balance and toppled in. Adam sustained a broken ankle, wrist, and severe bruising around the hips. After initially worrying he might never play professional football again, a relatively swift recovery was made, and he was able to be loaned out to Northwood the following season. He spent the second half of the 2005 06 season on loan at Carshalton Athletic . Federici signed his first professional contract for Reading in the summer of 2006, and in a subsequent pre-season friendly |
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Digital Sports Photography $16.97 Get an insider’s look at the techniques, equipment, and know-how needed to take eye-catching and inspiring sports action photographs with “Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition.” Written by an experienced professional sports photographer and featuring firsthand insight and ideas from other industry pros, this book provides the basics of sports photography whether you are just getting started or want to enhance your skills. You’ll learn about color management, camera setup, equipment options, shutter speeds, composition, and more to help you attain professional-quality results with a digital camera. You’ll also discover what a sports photo editor looks for when selecting images, knowledge you can use to help you take the best possible shots, whether you aspire to be a professional or just want to take great sports photos for fun. The book concentrates on shooting six major sports—baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and tennis—while providing methods and strategies that can be used to photograph any sport, at the amateur, collegiate, or pro level. Filled with fantastic images to illustrate the skills taught, a full-color gallery of images taken by the author, and even a glossary of helpful photography terms, “Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition” provides invaluable information and guidance on the excitingand challenging world of sports photography. |
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Digital Sports Photography $34.99 Get an insider’s look at the techniques, equipment, and know-how needed to take eye-catching and inspiring sports action photographs with “Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition.” Written by an experienced professional sports photographer and featuring firsthand insight and ideas from other industry pros, this book provides the basics of sports photography whether you are just getting started or want to enhance your skills. You’ll learn about color management, camera setup, equipment options, shutter speeds, composition, and more to help you attain professional-quality results with a digital camera. You’ll also discover what a sports photo editor looks for when selecting images, knowledge you can use to help you take the best possible shots, whether you aspire to be a professional or just want to take great sports photos for fun. The book concentrates on shooting six major sports–baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and tennis–while providing methods and strategies that can be used to photograph any sport, at the amateur, collegiate, or pro level. Filled with fantastic images to illustrate the skills taught, a full-color gallery of images taken by the author, and even a glossary of helpful photography terms, “Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition” provides invaluable information and guidance on the excitingand challenging world of sports photography. |
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Digital Sports Photography $34.99 Get an insider’s look at the techniques, equipment, and know-how needed to take eye-catching and inspiring sports action photographs with “Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition.” Written by an experienced professional sports photographer and featuring firsthand insight and ideas from other industry pros, this book provides the basics of sports photography whether you are just getting started or want to enhance your skills. You’ll learn about color management, camera setup, equipment options, shutter speeds, composition, and more to help you attain professional-quality results with a digital camera. You’ll also discover what a sports photo editor looks for when selecting images, knowledge you can use to help you take the best possible shots, whether you aspire to be a professional or just want to take great sports photos for fun. The book concentrates on shooting six major sports–baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and tennis–while providing methods and strategies that can be used to photograph any sport, at the amateur, collegiate, or pro level. Filled with fantastic images to illustrate the skills taught, a full-color gallery of images taken by the author, and even a glossary of helpful photography terms, “Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition” provides invaluable information and guidance on the excitingand challenging world of sports photography. |
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Effective motion tracking using known and learned actuation models. $49.99 Robots need to track objects. We consider tasks where robots actuate on the target that is visually tracked. Object tracking efficiency completely depends on the accuracy of the motion model and of the sensory information. The motion model of the target becomes particularly complex in the presence of multiple agents acting on a mobile target. We assume that the tracked object is actuated by a team of agents, composing of robots and possibly humans. Robots know their own actions, and team members are collaborating according to coordination plans and communicated information. The thesis shows that using a previously known or learned action model of the single robot or team members improves the efficiency of tracking. First, we introduce and implement a novel team-driven motion tracking approach. Team-driven motion tracking is a tracking paradigm defined as a set of principles for the inclusion of a hierarchical, prior knowledge and construction of a motion model. We illustrate a possible set of behavior levels within the Segway soccer domain that correspond to the abstract motion modeling decomposition. Second, we introduce a principled approach to incorporate models of the robot-object interaction into the tracking algorithm to effectively improve the performance of the tracker. We present the integration of a single robot behavioral model in terms of skills and tactics with multiple actions into our dynamic Bayesian probabilistic tracking algorithm. Third, we extend to multiple motion tracking models corresponding to known multi-robot coordination plans or from multi-robot communication. We evaluate our resulting informed-tracking approach empirically in simulation and using a setup Segway soccer task. The input of the multiple single and multi-robot behavioral sources allow a robot to much more effectively visually track mobile targets with dynamic trajectories. Fourth, we present a parameter learning algorithm to learn actuation models. We describe the parametric |
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Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology $11.31 “Euler’s Gem is a thoroughly satisfying meditation on one of mathematics’ loveliest formulas. The author begins with Euler’s act of seeing what no one previously had, and returns repeatedly to the resulting formula with ever more careful emendations and ever-widening points of view. This highly nuanced narrative sweeps the reader into the cascade of interlocking ideas which undergird modern topology and lend it its power and beauty.”–Donal O’Shea, author of The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe”Beginning with Euler’s famous polyhedron formula, continuing to modern concepts of ‘rubber geometry,’ and advancing all the way to the proof of Poincaré’s Conjecture, Richeson’s well-written and well-illustrated book is a gentle tour de force of topology.”–George G. Szpiro, author of Poincaré’s Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles”A fascinating and accessible excursion through two thousand years of mathematics. From Plato’s Academy, via the bridges of Königsberg, to the world of knots, soccer balls, and geodesic domes, the author’s enthusiasm shines through. This attractive introduction to the origins of topology deserves to be widely read.”–Robin Wilson, author of Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved”Appealing and accessible to a general audience, this well-organized, well-supported, and well-written book contains vast amounts of information not found elsewhere. Euler’s Gem is a significant and timely contribution to the field.”–Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University”Euler’s Gem is a very good book. It succeeds in explaining complicated concepts in engaging layman’s terms. Richeson is keenly aware of where the difficult twists and turns are located, and he covers them to satisfaction. This book is engaging and a joy to read.”–Alejandro López-Ortiz, University of Waterloo |
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Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology $27.95 “Euler’s Gem is a thoroughly satisfying meditation on one of mathematics’ loveliest formulas. The author begins with Euler’s act of seeing what no one previously had, and returns repeatedly to the resulting formula with ever more careful emendations and ever-widening points of view. This highly nuanced narrative sweeps the reader into the cascade of interlocking ideas which undergird modern topology and lend it its power and beauty.”–Donal O’Shea, author of The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe”Beginning with Euler’s famous polyhedron formula, continuing to modern concepts of ‘rubber geometry,’ and advancing all the way to the proof of Poincaré’s Conjecture, Richeson’s well-written and well-illustrated book is a gentle tour de force of topology.”–George G. Szpiro, author of Poincaré’s Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles”A fascinating and accessible excursion through two thousand years of mathematics. From Plato’s Academy, via the bridges of Königsberg, to the world of knots, soccer balls, and geodesic domes, the author’s enthusiasm shines through. This attractive introduction to the origins of topology deserves to be widely read.”–Robin Wilson, author of Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved”Appealing and accessible to a general audience, this well-organized, well-supported, and well-written book contains vast amounts of information not found elsewhere. Euler’s Gem is a significant and timely contribution to the field.”–Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University”Euler’s Gem is a very good book. It succeeds in explaining complicated concepts in engaging layman’s terms. Richeson is keenly aware of where the difficult twists and turns are located, and he covers them to satisfaction. This book is engaging and a joy to read.”–Alejandro López-Ortiz, University of Waterloo |
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Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology $16.95 “Euler’s Gem is a thoroughly satisfying meditation on one of mathematics’ loveliest formulas. The author begins with Euler’s act of seeing what no one previously had, and returns repeatedly to the resulting formula with ever more careful emendations and ever-widening points of view. This highly nuanced narrative sweeps the reader into the cascade of interlocking ideas which undergird modern topology and lend it its power and beauty.”–Donal O’Shea, author of The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe”Beginning with Euler’s famous polyhedron formula, continuing to modern concepts of ‘rubber geometry,’ and advancing all the way to the proof of Poincaré’s Conjecture, Richeson’s well-written and well-illustrated book is a gentle tour de force of topology.”–George G. Szpiro, author of Poincaré’s Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles”A fascinating and accessible excursion through two thousand years of mathematics. From Plato’s Academy, via the bridges of Königsberg, to the world of knots, soccer balls, and geodesic domes, the author’s enthusiasm shines through. This attractive introduction to the origins of topology deserves to be widely read.”–Robin Wilson, author of Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved”Appealing and accessible to a general audience, this well-organized, well-supported, and well-written book contains vast amounts of information not found elsewhere. Euler’s Gem is a significant and timely contribution to the field.”–Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University”Euler’s Gem is a very good book. It succeeds in explaining complicated concepts in engaging layman’s terms. Richeson is keenly aware of where the difficult twists and turns are located, and he covers them to satisfaction. This book is engaging and a joy to read.”–Alejandro López-Ortiz, University of Waterloo |
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From Clients to Citizens: Communities Changing the Course of their Own Development $39.95 Communities worldwide act on their own initiative, drawing on their own resources of leadership and solidarity, and in spite of poverty, to achieve their own goals. Development practitioners have too often viewed poor communities as helpless and disadvantaged, and have encouraged their dependency. Yet if instead communities are recognized as having social and cultural as well as material assets, and these are what help them to overcome obstacles, then their capacity to negotiate external assistance on their own terms can be strengthened.From the Moroccan villages that secured irrigation infrastructure with the help of returning migrants, to the Egyptian youth leaders who wanted a soccer pitch for their village, and the indigenous women’s cooperative in Ecuador that now exports medicinal plants, this book describes case studies of communities that first built on their own assets, before seeking assistance from outside. What are the common factors that help all these communities mobilize? Do outside organizations have a role to play when communities take charge of their own development?From Clients to Citizens is aimed at community workers, researchers and policy makers who want to take a fresh look at community development |
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From obstacles to triumph: A scheme of change for sport psychology practice. $69 Anecdotal evidence indicates that athletes encounter in their careers various changes that interfere with their “comfortable zone of functioning,” or their “athletic status quo.” For example, Roy Keane, Ireland national soccer team’s captain, had a dispute with his coach and squad during the preparation camp for the 2002 World Cup, and decided to leave the team; Jeremy Wariner, the 400-meter 2004 Olympic Champion changed both his coach and his shoes the year prior to the Beijing Olympic Games, and lost his title. During these transitional periods, change can occur in diverse levels of the athletic experience, such as the identity, personal, performance, physiological, technical, and technological levels. While these and other stories emphasize the importance of understanding athletes’ experiences of situations of change, hardly any empirical evidence exists on the magnitude and meaning of this aspect of the athletic career. Additionally, there is a shortage of comprehensive conceptual models in sport psychology to explain how athletes experience, and cope with, situations that require them to initiate psychological and/or behavioral change.;The present study, therefore, was an initial attempt to validate a new conceptual framework of change-event experiences in athletes’ careers. Specifically, the study was focused on identifying the frequency in which athletes experience various change-events, portraying the characteristics of change-events in terms of perception and reaction, and examining the associated coping and decision-making processes. Hence, this study was a response to an existing theoretical and practical need in the area of athletic career transitions to critically account for potential events influencing athletes’ lives that are not explained by the traditional career stage models.;The scheme of change for sport psychology practice (SCSPP) is a new conceptual framework in which typical characteristics of change situations that challenge athletes to |
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Great Moments in Sports-Football $0.99 Football isn’t just a pastime – it’s a way of life. While most of the world uses “football” as the term for soccer, Americans think of football in terms of pigskin, helmets, and touchdowns. The sport is full of great moments that live on throughout American history.Great Moments in Football captures the spirit of the game with action-shot photographs and sport caster-like play-by-play. Complete with stats, quotes, and a timeline, this book is perfect for fans and newcomers alike.Also look for Great Moments in Baseball. |
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Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom $9.99 Kristin van Ogtrop knows she’s lucky-fulfilling career, great husband, three healthy kids, and, depending on the hamster count, an impressive roster of pets. You could also say she’s half-insane, but name one working mom who isn’t.Using stories and insights from her own life, van Ogtrop offers a lexicon for working moms everywhere. Terms and concepts illustrate the highs (kids who know where their soccer cleats are, coworkers who don’t hit “Reply All,” dogs who helpfully eat whatever falls from the table) and the lows (getting out of the house in the morning, getting along with everyone at the office, getting willful kids into bed) of balancing work and family.Filled with amusing and resonant observations, JUST LET ME LIE DOWN establishes van Ogtrop as the Erma Bombeck of the new millennium. |
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Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom $14.99 Kristin van Ogtrop knows she’s lucky-fulfilling career, great husband, three healthy kids, and, depending on the hamster count, an impressive roster of pets. You could also say she’s half-insane, but name one working mom who isn’t.Using stories and insights from her own life, van Ogtrop offers a lexicon for working moms everywhere. Terms and concepts illustrate the highs (kids who know where their soccer cleats are, coworkers who don’t hit “Reply All,” dogs who helpfully eat whatever falls from the table) and the lows (getting out of the house in the morning, getting along with everyone at the office, getting willful kids into bed) of balancing work and family.Filled with amusing and resonant observations, JUST LET ME LIE DOWN establishes van Ogtrop as the Erma Bombeck of the new millennium. |
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Oldest Football Clubs $42 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oldest football clubs refers to the football clubs in all codes that are the earliest known to have been established.The history of their formation is of interest to sport historians in tracing the origins of the modern codes of football from casual pastime to early organised competition and mainstream sport. Many early clubs did not use the word “football” in their name. Although the terms “football club” and “FC” are now strongly associated with association football (aka soccer), early rugby clubs also referred to themselves, or continue to refer to themselves, as simply a “football club”, or as a “Rugby Football Club”. Similarly, most Australian rules football teams also refer to themselves as football clubs. The title of the world’s oldest football club, or the oldest club in a particular country, is often disputed, or is claimed by several different clubs, across several different codes of football. |
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Sport in Ancient Times (Praeger Series on the Ancient World) $17.24 Crowther offers a fascinating look at the role of sport as practiced in several important civilizations in the ancient world. He not only probes the games themselves, but explores the ways in which athletics figured into cultural arenas that extended beyond physical prowess to military associations, rituals, status, and politics. Sport in Ancient Times has four distinct parts: the Prehistoric Age, historic Greece, ancient Italy, and the Byzantine Empire. Beginning with the earliest civilizations, Crowther examines the military and recreational aspects of sports in prehistoric Egypt, with brief references to other river-valley cultures in Sumeria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. He looks at the rituals of Cretan bull-leaping and boxing in the Bronze Age, the high status of sports in Mycenaean Greece, and the funeral games in the Trojan War as described by the epic poet Homer.In what he terms the historic period, Crowther examines the significance of the ancient Olympic Games, the events of Greek athletics, and the attitude of other civilizations (notably Rome) towards them. He attempts to discover to what extent the Romans believed in the famous ideal of Juvenal, a sound mind in a sound body, and discusses the significance of the famous Baths not only for sport, but also for culture and society. He likewise explores the Roman emphasis on spectator sports and the use of gladiatorial contests and chariot racing for political purposes (the concept of bread and games). The section on the Byzantine Empire focuses, notably, on chariot racing and the riots at sporting contests—riots reminiscent of crowd violence in modern sports such as soccer.Crowther closes with perspectives that bring to life some of the issues revealed in previous chapters. These include a comparison of the social status and significance of a famous Olympic athlete (Milo), a Roman gladiator (Hermes), and a Byzantine chariot racer (Porphyrius). He also addresses the changing role of women in |
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Stanford Cardinal Women’s Basketball Players: Angie Paccione, Carolyn Moos, Candice Wiggins, Sonja Henning, Charli Turner Thorne, Nicole Powell $19.66 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Angie Paccione, Carolyn Moos, Candice Wiggins, Sonja Henning, Charli Turner Thorne, Nicole Powell, Jamila Wideman, Olympia Scott, Jennifer Azzi, Lindsey Yamasaki, Kate Starbird, Jayne Appel, Jamie Carey, Kate Paye, Kristin Folkl, Nevin Nevlin, Vanessa Nygaard, Katy Steding, Brooke Smith, Nneka Ogwumike, Jeanne Ruark Hoff, Stephanie Streeter, Susan King Borchardt, J.j. Hones. Excerpt: Angie Paccione Angela Veronica “Angie” Paccione (born February 21, 1960) is a former Colorado legislator and was a 2006 Congressional candidate. A college basketball player at Stanford and professional basketball player in the 1980s, Paccione became a high school coach, teacher and administrator before earning a Ph.D. in education and joining the faculty of Colorado State University . Entering politics in 2002, Paccione, a Democrat , spent two terms representing west Fort Collins in the Colorado House of Representatives , rising to become House Majority Caucus Chair. In the legislature, she focused on issues relating to youth and higher education . In 2006, she was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in Colorado’s 4th Congressional district in 2006, narrowly losing to two-term incumbent Republican Marilyn Musgrave . After briefly launching a second Congressional campaign in 2007, Paccione stepped out of the race to join a business consulting firm. Biography Paccione was born in the South Bronx in New York City to a single mother; she is multiracial , with an Italian father and African-American mother. After her family moved outside of the city, Paccione attended Cornwall Central High School in Orange County , where she played high school basketball, volleyball, and soccer. Excelling particularly in basketball, Paccione was a member of the 1977 USA Women’s Select National Team, Parade |
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The Beckham Experiment: How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America $15 The January 2007 press conference announcing that international icon David Beckham was coming to the Los Angeles Galaxy made front-page headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. By every yardstick, the “Beckham experiment” has been a smashing branding success: David and his wife, Victoria (a.k.a. Posh Spice), have raked in multimillion-dollar endorsement contracts from IBM, Coca-Cola, Motorola, Nike, and others, not to mention their own lucrative Beckham Fragrance business. Unfortunately, in terms of soccer, the experiment was an unmitigated disaster: Hopelessly dysfunctional, the Galaxy blundered from loss to loss, coach to coach, even missing the easy-to-make Major League Soccer playoffs. This book by Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl unfolds a real-life cautionary tale about how sports and celebrity can meet — and collide. |
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The Complete Book Of Coaching Youth Soccer $0.01 This is the definitive manual for coaching America’s fastest-growing sport for kids aged 8-19. Written for both beginning and seasoned coaches, The Complete Book of Coaching Youth Soccer shows you–in concise, easy-to-understand terms–how to organize, motivate, and lead your youth soccer team to success on the field. |
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The Forbidden Political Dictionary $9.95 John Clifton’s new book is a “Devil’s Dictionary” of political words and phrases, illustrated with cartoons by the author, that will have conservatives, liberals and independents laughing and thinking at the same time. Ever wonder what politicians really mean by words like “transparency,” “reform,” “diversity,” “nation-building?” Award-finalist author John Clifton shows you in this handy guide that it’s never what you think! What about those buzz words political columnists and pundits love to bandy about—”beltway,” “quid pro quo,” “soccer mom?” And just what is a “yellow dog Democrat” anyway? You’ll find in this concise volume some rather unexpected if not astonishing answers. It’s all here from “academia” to “Zionism,” insightfully and perversely defined for you in terms that leave the language laid bare and, occasionally, laid in ruins. |
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The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations $18 For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations is a highly readable and often amusing account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here Braude recounts in fascinating detail five particular cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness. Braude begins with a south Florida woman who can make thin gold-colored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—like Joe Nuzum, who claim to move objects using only their minds. Along the way, Braude also investigates the startling allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can transfer images from photographs onto other objects—including his own body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who could make a variety of different images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, Braude considers his wife’s surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to guide professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own personal experiences with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may need to be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of psychokinesis. Heady, provocative, and brimming with eye-opening details and suggestions, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations will intrigue both adherents and detractors of its controversial subject matter alike. |
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The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations $22.5 For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations is a highly readable and often amusing account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here Braude recounts in fascinating detail five particular cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness. Braude begins with a south Florida woman who can make thin gold-colored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—like Joe Nuzum, who claim to move objects using only their minds. Along the way, Braude also investigates the startling allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can transfer images from photographs onto other objects—including his own body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who could make a variety of different images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, Braude considers his wife’s surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to guide professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own personal experiences with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may need to be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of psychokinesis. Heady, provocative, and brimming with eye-opening details and suggestions, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations will intrigue both adherents and detractors of its controversial subject matter alike. |
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The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works $17.99 Ricardo Semler thinks that companies ought to put employee freedom and satisfaction ahead of corporate goals. Imagine a company where employees set their own hours; where there are no offices, no job titles, no business plans; where employees get to endorse or veto any new venture; where kids are encouraged to run the halls; and where the CEO lets other people make nearly all the decisions. This company—Semco—actually exists, and despite a seeming recipe for chaos, its revenues have grown from $35 million to $160 million in the last six years. It has virtually no staff turnover, and there are no signs that its growth will stop any time soon. How did Semco become wildly successful despite breaking many of the commonly accepted laws of business? In The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler shows that for those willing to take a chance, there is a better way to run a workplace. He explains how the technology that was supposed to make life easier—laptops, cell phones, e-mail, pagers—has in fact stolen free time and destroyed the traditional nine-to-five workday. But this can be a good thing—if you have the freedom to get your job done on your own terms and to blend your work life and personal life with enthusiasm and creative energy. Smart bosses will eventually realize that you might be most productive if you work on Sunday afternoon, play golf on Monday morning, go to a movie on Tuesday afternoon, and watch your child play soccer on Thursday. This is a radical book that will challenge the business world to make the seven-day weekend a reality. |
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The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sports: An Essential Handbook for Women Who Don’t Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam $15 A fun and accessible introduction to the wide world of sports For every woman who feels out of her league when her signifi cant other spends nights glued to ESPN or when “the guys” talk sports at work, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sports is here to level the playing field. A crash course in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, boxing, soccer, and car racing, this couch-side companion explains the basics of each game, profiles who’s who, defines key terms, and arms readers with enough trivia to talk sports through extra innings. With this female-friendly handbook, sports-shy women everywhere can step off the sidelines and get into the game. |
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The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sports: An Essential Handbook for Women Who Don’t Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam $12.99 A fun and accessible introduction to the wide world of sports For every woman who feels out of her league when her signifi cant other spends nights glued to ESPN or when “the guys” talk sports at work, The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sports is here to level the playing field. A crash course in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, boxing, soccer, and car racing, this couch-side companion explains the basics of each game, profiles who’s who, defines key terms, and arms readers with enough trivia to talk sports through extra innings. With this female-friendly handbook, sports-shy women everywhere can step off the sidelines and get into the game. |
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Ue Lleida $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ue Lleida Statistics, List of Ue Lleida Managers, Ue Lleida, Ue Lleida Player Statistics, Ciutat de Lleida Trophy, Camp D’esports. Excerpt: Camp d’Esports is a multi-use stadium in Lleida , Catalonia . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of UE Lleida . The stadium holds 15,000 seats, and the dimensions for the football field are 102×68 meters.The construction of the stadium begun in 1918 and finished in 1919. It underwent extensive renovations in 1993 and 1994.See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) Coordinates : 41°3716.56N 0°3650.93E / 41.6212667°N 0.6141472°E / 41.6212667; 0.6141472A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ciutat de Lleida Trophy is a “friendly” football (soccer) tournament played annually in Lleida (province of Lleida , Spain ).Ciutat de Lleida Trophy 1 Lleida Selection was a team formed by players from CF Balaguer , UE Tàrrega and FC Benavent . A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at UE Lleida is a semiprofessional association football club based in Lleida , Spain , which plays in Segunda División B . This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of UE Lleida from 1939 to the present day. Each manager’s entry includes his dates of tenure and the club’s overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known.The most successful UE Lleida manager in terms of trophies won is José Manuel Esnal Mané , who won one Segunda División title and one Segunda División B in his 6-year reign as manager. He is also the club’s longest-serving manager. José María Cabo is |
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Winchester City F.c. Players: Bernard Harrison $10 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bernard Reginald Stanhope Harrison (28 September 1934 18 March 2006) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Hampshire and professional football with Crystal Palace, Southampton and Exeter City. As a cricketer he was an opening batsman who played a part in Hampshire winning the County Championship in 1961, whilst in football he played at outside right. Harrison was born at St. John’s, Worcester, close to New Road, the home of Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He was educated at Peter Symonds College in Winchester, Hampshire and was a keen all round sportsman who excelled from an early age in both cricket and football. During his period of National Service he represented the army in both sports. Harrison was an England schoolboy international and in October 1952, he joined Portsmouth as a trainee, on amateur terms. Unable to break into the first team, he moved to Crystal Palace in October 1955. At Crystal Palace he was given a professional contract and made his first team debut in March 1956, as Palace finished second from bottom in the Third Division South and were forced to seek re-election. In the 195657 season, Harrison became established in the side, normally at outside-right with Johnny Byrne on the left, providing scoring opportunities for the front men, including Mike Deakin at centre forward and Peter Berry and Barry Pierce as the inside-forwards. Harrison himself contributed four goals, as Palace finished 20th in the table. In 1957, Soccer Star predicted that, once Palace’s fortunes improved, Harrison would become “one of the most talked about wingers in the game”. He was selected to play in the Third Division South representative team in 1957. In the following season, George Cooper took over at centre forward… More: |
