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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell's modern fable on the way power corrupts is as apt as
ever in the twenty-first century. Educational edition of this
much-loved classic from Longman.
Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an
education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy
Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a
young woman's determination to change her life.
From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a
continent of woe a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt
dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at
last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous
disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund
managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but
Africa, the cradle of civilisation, now has more of the world s
fastest-growing economies than any other. After a generation of
relative stagnation in the late 20th Century, many in Africa have
begun the long-awaited period of catch-up with the developed world.
The bottom billion is becoming the fastest billion. This book, the
work of a group of African economists and highly respected analysts
from Renaissance Capital, the leading emerging markets investment
bank, aims to accelerate the world s realisation that Africa has no
intention of allowing the coming decades to add up to an Asian
Century . Africa s day has arrived. Proceeds from the sale of this
book will be donated to Ashesi University, Ghana. www.ashesi.edu.gh
View the video trailers at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1krRT3R9cc&feature=youtu.be and
https://vimeo. com/50979959 Visit our website
www.fastestbillion.com for more information
This is a collection of nine short stories by one of Britain's
best-loved writers. This edition is part of a series of pre- and
post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18 year olds. The series
features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays and non-fiction.
i. The first book that takes a comprehensive approach to training
and optimizing performance for the alpine ski racing athlete. ii.
Authored from a multi-disciplinary perspective makes this book a
unique resource iii. Accessibly written ensuring athletes, coaches,
and researchers alike can all use this book to better educate and
improve their understanding of how to properly prepare/succeed at
this most challenging sport.
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, this tale is linked in its
poignancy and humour to Lord the the Flies. This edition is part of
a series of pre- and post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18
year olds. The series features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays
and non-fiction.
i. The first book that takes a comprehensive approach to training
and optimizing performance for the alpine ski racing athlete. ii.
Authored from a multi-disciplinary perspective makes this book a
unique resource iii. Accessibly written ensuring athletes, coaches,
and researchers alike can all use this book to better educate and
improve their understanding of how to properly prepare/succeed at
this most challenging sport.
In this practical and fascinating follow-up to their
behind-the-scenes look at America's most powerful and influential
class, authors Jim Taylor, Stephen Kraus, and Doug Harrison reveal
insights and indispensable techniques to help salespeople and
marketers hone in on wealthy customers, pique their interest, and
earn their trust--and repeated business. The New Elite leveraged
unprecedented research to reveal what motivates the wealthy class,
how they think, where they shop, and how they really spend their
money. Now, based on studies of elite companies such as Lexus,
Chanel, Neiman Marcus, Four Seasons, Cartier, and Louis Vuitton,
Selling to the New Elite explains what the truly rich want from
brands, what they expect from the marketplace, and how their
changing purchasing patterns could mean big business for you.
Including eye-opening stories from mutually satisfying interactions
between salespeople and affluent buyers, the book showcases the
best practices that have led to hundreds of successful sales and
incorporates exercises that allow you to apply the information in
your own context. By helping readers win over the wealthiest
customers, this one-of-a-kind guide offers the key to becoming rich
yourself.
The aim of Comprehensive Applied Sport Psychology (CASP) is to
challenge our field to look beyond its current status and propel
applied sport psychology and mental training forward and outward
with a broad and multi-layered examination of everything
psychological, emotionally, and socially that the athletic
community contends with in pursuit of athletic success and that
sport psychologists and mental trainers do in their professional
capacities. Comprehensive Applied Sport Psychology is the first
professional book aimed at offering a truly expansive and deep
exploration of just about everything that applied sport
psychologists, consultants and mental trainers do in their work.
CASP plumbs the depths of the athletic mind including attitudes,
psychological and emotional obstacles, mental "muscles" and mental
"tools," quality of sport training, the health and well-being of
athletes, and other areas that are essential to athletic success.
This new volume examines not only the many ways that consultants
impact athletes, but also explores their work with coaches, teams,
parents, and interdisciplinary groups such as sports medicine team
and sports management. The book is grounded in both the latest
theory and research, thus making it a valuable part of graduate
training in applied sport psychology, as well as a practical
resource for consultants who work directly with athletes, coaches,
teams, and parents. The goal of CASP, in collaboration with dozens
of the leading minds in the field, is to create the definitive
guide to what applied sport psychology and mental training are and
do.
The Economics of Regional Policy presents an extensive overview of
this important area of economics. It reprints the most important
work by leading scholars in the field.After making the case in
favour of regional policies, the book explores the topic of
economic disparities between regions including divergent economic
growth, the effects of regional migration and wages, and the
persistence of disparities in unemployment. It then explores the
different regional policy instruments that have been introduced in
the United Kingdom and in the United States and Canada and examines
their implications. A separate section is devoted to the particular
case of the European Union. The final section offers an evaluation
of regional policies and their effects on economic efficiency. This
book makes an important contribution to the literature on regional
policy and will be a valuable resource to students, academics and
policymakers.
The aim of Comprehensive Applied Sport Psychology (CASP) is to
challenge our field to look beyond its current status and propel
applied sport psychology and mental training forward and outward
with a broad and multi-layered examination of everything
psychological, emotionally, and socially that the athletic
community contends with in pursuit of athletic success and that
sport psychologists and mental trainers do in their professional
capacities. Comprehensive Applied Sport Psychology is the first
professional book aimed at offering a truly expansive and deep
exploration of just about everything that applied sport
psychologists, consultants and mental trainers do in their work.
CASP plumbs the depths of the athletic mind including attitudes,
psychological and emotional obstacles, mental "muscles" and mental
"tools," quality of sport training, the health and well-being of
athletes, and other areas that are essential to athletic success.
This new volume examines not only the many ways that consultants
impact athletes, but also explores their work with coaches, teams,
parents, and interdisciplinary groups such as sports medicine team
and sports management. The book is grounded in both the latest
theory and research, thus making it a valuable part of graduate
training in applied sport psychology, as well as a practical
resource for consultants who work directly with athletes, coaches,
teams, and parents. The goal of CASP, in collaboration with dozens
of the leading minds in the field, is to create the definitive
guide to what applied sport psychology and mental training are and
do.
Buddy movie taken to extremes. New York firefighters Chuck Levine
(Adam Sandler) and Larry Valentine (Kevin James) live different
lives. Whilst Chuck is a self-confessed lothario out for a good
time, Larry is a widower struggling to keep a regular home life for
the sake of his two young children. With Larry refusing to take up
life as a single parent and deal with his loss, he forgets to
change the primary beneficiary of his pension from his wife to his
children before the cut-off date, which would financially protect
them in the event of a work injury. The only solution is to get
married again, but Larry decides there's no other woman he could
trust enough with his children's future. During a routine search of
a burning house, Larry saves Chuck's life in an accident and Chuck
is forever indebted to his best mate as they awake in hospital.
Evaluating his predicament whilst in his sick bed, Larry finds an
article about a same-sex domestic partnership and realises Chuck
could pay his debt quicker than anticipated! After wearing Chuck
down, they eventually get hitched in a bizarre Las Vegas wedding
chapel and just when they settle in to a scene of same-sex domestic
bliss for the sake of the kids, they soon realise that their gay
union is going to be under serious scrutiny from surprise inspector
Clinton Fitzer (Steve Buscemi), who is always ready to catch out
straight guys cheating the system.
In this fascinating collection Canada's most entertaining
sportswriter revisits the glories of a career following sporting
events and personalities that spanned five decades. Name any
memorable event--from Canada-Russia 1972 to Rick Hansen's Man in
Motion tour--or any famous name from Wayne Gretzky to Muhammad Ali
to the San Diego Chicken, and Jim Taylor was there giving his
insightful, witty and often sceptical take on the subject.
As Taylor writes, "when sport makes instant millionaires out of
kids who can hit a ball or a puck with a stick or stuff a leather
balloon through a fishnet, what's not to laugh?"
Here are tales of good guys and jerks, journeymen and giants
playing games for a living with the world peering into the fishbowl
and bigger, stronger, faster challengers coming at them every year.
Here too are the true originals, such as boxing legend Archie "The
Mongoose" Moore, whose storied career defied age and logic; Sam
Snead, the barefoot hillbilly who learned to play golf by hitting
rocks with a stick and went on to win 135 tournaments; Willie
O'Ree, the black New Brunswicker who broke the NHL's colour bar;
tragic Percy Williams, the pint-sized sprinter who won double gold
at the Amsterdam Olympics and later shot himself; and plenty of
lesser-known heroes like the local legend Joe Johnson, who
introduced a generation of BC kids to the love of soccer.
Both a retrospective of memorable goings-on in the sports world of
the last fifty years and a first-rate read, "And to Think I Got in
Free " stands as proof that in the right hands sports writing can
be great writing.
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Kingdom of the Monkey
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‘Kingdom of the Monkey’ is the extraordinary and vivid account
of a country so captivating yet so obscure in every way, that the
deeper you go in the harder it gets to look away.Cambodia, 1993 –
2003: this is no tropical paradise; stay too long out there and
soon nothing you may come across really holds the same power to
shock or surprise you. It’s a time when all acceptable norms of
humanity seem to be turned upside down. Even the last of
Indochina’s civil wars, grinding on out in the countryside,
presents as a mere sideshow diversion to the main events being
played out in the free-for-all capital that is Phnom Penh.
Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology is a comprehensive resource
that offers both students and professionals the opportunity to hone
their skills to help their clients, starting with the initial
consultation and lasting through a long-term relationship. In this
text, Jim Taylor and a team of sport psychology experts help
practitioners gain a deep understanding of assessment in order to
build trusting relationships and effective intervention plans that
address the needs and goals of their clients. Part I of Assessment
in Applied Sport Psychology covers topics such as the importance of
assessment, the appropriateness of qualitative and quantitative
assessment, ethical issues that can arise from assessment, and the
impact of diversity in the use of assessment. Part II introduces
readers to six ways that consultants can assess athletes: mental
health screening, personality tests, sport-specific objective
measures, interviewing, observation, and applied psychophysiology.
Chapters in this section explain the strengths and weaknesses of
each approach-for example, when traditional pencil-and-paper and
observation approaches may be more appropriate than
interviewing-and offer consultants a more complete toolbox of
assessments to use when working with athletes. Part III addresses
special issues, such as career transition, talent identification,
and sport injury and rehabilitation. One chapter is devoted to the
hot-button issue of sport-related concussions. Tables at the end of
most chapters in parts II and III contain invaluable information
about each of the assessment tools described, including its
purpose, publication details, and how to obtain it. Chapters also
contain sidebars that provide sample scenarios, recommended
approaches, and exercises to use with clients. Assessment in
Applied Sport Psychology works toward two main goals. The first is
to help consultants gain a complete understanding of their clients
through the use of a broad range of assessment tools. The second is
to show consultants how to ethically and effectively use
assessments to develop a comprehensive understanding of their
clients, thus enabling them to assist their clients in achieving
their competitive and personal goals.
The dance world is filled with technique books, which certainly
serve an important role in helping dancers improve their
performance. But the market has been conspicuously void of
instruction on a vital aspect of dance performance: the mental
aspect. Developing Psychological Strength in All Dancers Jim
Taylor, a veteran sport and dance psychologist and author, and
Elena Estanol, a dancer, instructor, and sport and dance
psychologist, bring their experience and knowledge to Dance
Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence to help dancers
at all levels develop psychological strength to maximize their
performance. Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance
Excellence will help dancers in these ways: • Understand how to
use the mental aspects of dance to their advantage. • Learn
simple techniques to raise their dancing to a new level. • Refine
their technique and overcome performance challenges. Individualized
Program and Web Resource Tools Dancers will build a strong
foundation for performance by employing the dance-specific
psychological strategies. The individualized program will help
dancers reach their potential in artistry and excellence in school,
the dance profession, and dance-related careers. The book comes
with a companion web resource containing 40 worksheets that will
help dancers grow mentally through reflection and self-examination.
Dancers will be able to use these tools to refine their technique
and overcome performance challenges. Scientifically Proven
Psychological Methods Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance
Excellence incorporates some updated content from Taylor’s
original best-selling book Psychology of Dance. Through the
authors’ research and experience with dancers over the past two
decades, this book offers the latest in scientifically proven
psychological methods and practices that dancers have used to
achieve optimal performance. As the authors write in their preface:
What separates good dancers from the best dancers lies in how
mentally prepared they are to perform their best, despite
circumstances that dance and life throw at them. Dancers who are
the most motivated to train, who have the greatest confidence in
themselves, who perform best under pressure, who stay focused on
their performance, who keep their emotions under control, and who
are able to direct their emotions to elevate their performance and
technique to true artistry are the most successful and revered. Key
Psychological Concepts Explored To help dancers elevate their
performance, the authors explore these concepts in the context of
dance performance and provide practical exercises for each concept:
• Self-knowledge • Motivation • Confidence • Intensity •
Focus • Emotions • Goal setting • Imagery The authors also
examine the foundations of dance psychology and delve into special
concerns for dancers, including stress and burnout, pain and
injury, and disordered eating. Making Your Mind the Most Powerful
Tool Once you get to a certain level, your mind is your most
powerful tool—or your most harmful weapon. Dance Psychology for
Artistic and Performance Excellence will help dancers turn their
minds into powerful tools not only to improve their technical and
artistic performance but also to enhance their enjoyment, bring
greater fulfillment, and enrich their lives personally and
professionally. This text is an important contribution to the Human
Kinetics dance list because it equips dancers with the
psychological tools they need for success.
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