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Change - A Method (Hardcover)
Edouard Louis; Translated by John Lambert
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Yoga (Paperback)
Emmanuel Carrère; Translated by John Lambert
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This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High
on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks
on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search
of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be
a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. But his trip is cut short,
and he is brought down to earth with a thud when he returns to a
Paris in turmoil in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist
attack. From then on, Carrère's life - along with his
novel-in-progress - begins to unravel in ever more unexpected ways.
'The story of how a life can fray, tighten itself into a noose,
unravel... profound and moving' Geoff Dyer 'Extraordinarily
compelling' Financial Times
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Change: A Method
Édouard Louis; Translated by John Lambert
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Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts,
and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than
ever before. This book introduces the professional competencies and
knowledge needed to build successful working relationships across
the different communities and groups with which coaches operate.
The book offers important insight for coaches who work with
specific populations including different age groups; black, Asian
and minority ethnic (BAME) people; those of different gender or
sexual orientation; individuals with disabilities or illness; the
socio-economically disadvantaged; and refugees. Drawing on
real-world case studies, such as coaching girls in combat sports
and coaching cardiac rehab patients, and adopting a critical
approach to values, philosophy and pedagogic process, this book
argues that understanding the recipient of coaching and their
particular needs is as important as content knowledge. With
contributions from leading coaching researchers and practitioners,
this is important reading for developing coaches, students on
sports courses and other individuals involved in the sport pedagogy
domain who seek to gain a better understanding of the demands of
meeting the specific needs of people in the coaching process.
Sports coaches apply their skills in a wider variety of contexts,
and with a more diverse range of athletes and participants, than
ever before. This book introduces the professional competencies and
knowledge needed to build successful working relationships across
the different communities and groups with which coaches operate.
The book offers important insight for coaches who work with
specific populations including different age groups; black, Asian
and minority ethnic (BAME) people; those of different gender or
sexual orientation; individuals with disabilities or illness; the
socio-economically disadvantaged; and refugees. Drawing on
real-world case studies, such as coaching girls in combat sports
and coaching cardiac rehab patients, and adopting a critical
approach to values, philosophy and pedagogic process, this book
argues that understanding the recipient of coaching and their
particular needs is as important as content knowledge. With
contributions from leading coaching researchers and practitioners,
this is important reading for developing coaches, students on
sports courses and other individuals involved in the sport pedagogy
domain who seek to gain a better understanding of the demands of
meeting the specific needs of people in the coaching process.
A 'coach' is more than just somebody who leads in the organisation
and delivery of structured sport. The role of a coach goes beyond
leadership, requiring an understanding of theories of teaching and
learning. To become a coach you must know how people learn.
Becoming a Sports Coach aims to introduce the multi-dimensional and
inter-locking knowledge bases that any aspiring coach will need to
develop, and that any established coach needs to master in order to
improve their professional practice. While traditional coach
education pathways have focused on what to coach, this book argues
that understanding how knowledge can be communicated to learners is
just as important. Asking why we coach, through critical reflection
and self-knowledge, is also an essential part of the process of
becoming a sports coach. The book explores three types of knowledge
- content knowledge, pedagogic knowledge and self-knowledge -
challenging the reader to reflect on their own coaching experiences
and to develop a personal philosophy of coaching. It explores key
pedagogic themes in contemporary coaching studies, such as
humanistic coaching, inclusive practice, coaching for
understanding, and the athlete-coach relationship. Real case
studies are used to illuminate the ways - transferrable across
sports - in which coaches can apply theory to practice and
ultimately enhance their work. With contributions from leading
coaching researchers and practitioners, combining practical
guidance with important theoretical insights, this book will help
any coaching student or developing professional to better
understand the journey to becoming an effective sports coach.
As sport has become more intense, professional and commercialized
so have the debates grown about what constitutes acceptable
behaviour and fair play, and how to encourage and develop 'good'
sporting behaviour, particularly in children and young people. This
book explores the nature and function of values in youth sport and
establishes a framework through which coaches, teachers and
researchers can develop an understanding of the decision-making
processes of young athletes and how they choose between playing
fairly or cheating to win. The traditional view of sport
participation is that it has a beneficial effect on the social and
moral development of children and young people and that it
intrinsically promotes cultural values. This book argues that the
research evidence is more subtle and nuanced. It examines the
concept of values as central organizing constructs of human
behaviour that determine our priorities, guide our choices, and
transfer across situations, and considers the value priorities and
conflicts that are so useful in helping us to understand behaviour
in sport. The book argues that teachers and professionals working
with children in sport are centrally important agents for value
transmission and change and therefore need to develop a deeper
understanding of how sport can be used to encourage pro-social
values, and offers suggestions for developing a curriculum for
teaching values through sport in differing social contexts.
Spanning some of the fundamental areas of sport practice and
research, including sport psychology, sport pedagogy, practice
ethics, and positive youth development through sport, and including
useful values and attitudes questionnaires and guidance on their
use and interpretation, this book is important reading for any
student, researcher, coach or teacher with an interest in youth
sport or physical education.
Betrayed Trust is the first close, scholarly examination of African
homestead society in Natal during the colonial period. Carefully
researched and dispassionately written, it is an account of
dispossession - and of what dispossession meant in real terms. John
Lambert has added a very important dimension to the history of this
region. In delineating the wider implications of land deprivation,
he has provided vital background to the emotionally charged
question of land redistribution.
A 'coach' is more than just somebody who leads in the organisation
and delivery of structured sport. The role of a coach goes beyond
leadership, requiring an understanding of theories of teaching and
learning. To become a coach you must know how people learn.
Becoming a Sports Coach aims to introduce the multi-dimensional and
inter-locking knowledge bases that any aspiring coach will need to
develop, and that any established coach needs to master in order to
improve their professional practice. While traditional coach
education pathways have focused on what to coach, this book argues
that understanding how knowledge can be communicated to learners is
just as important. Asking why we coach, through critical reflection
and self-knowledge, is also an essential part of the process of
becoming a sports coach. The book explores three types of knowledge
- content knowledge, pedagogic knowledge and self-knowledge -
challenging the reader to reflect on their own coaching experiences
and to develop a personal philosophy of coaching. It explores key
pedagogic themes in contemporary coaching studies, such as
humanistic coaching, inclusive practice, coaching for
understanding, and the athlete-coach relationship. Real case
studies are used to illuminate the ways - transferrable across
sports - in which coaches can apply theory to practice and
ultimately enhance their work. With contributions from leading
coaching researchers and practitioners, combining practical
guidance with important theoretical insights, this book will help
any coaching student or developing professional to better
understand the journey to becoming an effective sports coach.
In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, the writings of
John Lambert renewed the British public's fascination with the
landscapes, peoples, flora, and fauna of the Canadian colonies and
the United States. First published in 1811, and ultimately running
into four editions, this two-volume work is packed with
closely-observed descriptions, facts and figures about colonial
life, as well as lively anecdotes. The 'corrected and improved'
second edition reissued here was published in 1814, towards the end
of the Napoleonic Wars. It promised to 'enable the British reader
to form a just opinion of the Canadian colonies, and to appreciate
the character of the neighbouring enemies who threaten their
existence'. A trained painter, Lambert illustrated his account with
lithographs based on his own watercolours. Volume 1 contains
accounts of Lambert's outward voyage, Newfoundland and Quebec,
covering subjects as diverse as chimney sweeps, French Jesuits,
maple sugar, and 'stinking cheese'.
In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, the writings of
John Lambert renewed the British public's fascination with the
landscapes, peoples, flora, and fauna of the Canadian colonies and
the United States. First published in 1811, and ultimately running
into four editions, this two-volume work is packed with
closely-observed descriptions, facts and figures about colonial
life, as well as lively anecdotes. The 'corrected and improved'
second edition reissued here was published in 1814, towards the end
of the Napoleonic Wars. It promised to 'enable the British reader
to form a just opinion of the Canadian colonies, and to appreciate
the character of the neighbouring enemies who threaten their
existence'. A trained painter, Lambert illustrated his account with
lithographs based on his own watercolours. Volume 2 contrasts the
excitement of New York, Charleston and Boston, bustling with
markets, hotels and pleasure gardens, with the conditions endured
by plantation slaves.
As sport has become more intense, professional and
commercialized so have the debates grown about what constitutes
acceptable behaviour and fair play, and how to encourage and
develop good sporting behaviour, particularly in children and young
people. This book explores the nature and function of values in
youth sport and establishes a framework through which coaches,
teachers and researchers can develop an understanding of the
decision-making processes of young athletes and how they choose
between playing fairly or cheating to win.
The traditional view of sport participation is that it has a
beneficial effect on the social and moral development of children
and young people and that it intrinsically promotes cultural
values. This book argues that the research evidence is more subtle
and nuanced. It examines the concept of values as central
organizing constructs of human behaviour that determine our
priorities, guide our choices, and transfer across situations, and
considers the value priorities and conflicts that are so useful in
helping us to understand behaviour in sport. The book argues that
teachers and professionals working with children in sport are
centrally important agents for value transmission and change and
therefore need to develop a deeper understanding of how sport can
be used to encourage pro-social values, and offers suggestions for
developing a curriculum for teaching values through sport in
differing social contexts.
Spanning some of the fundamental areas of sport practice and
research, including sport psychology, sport pedagogy, practice
ethics, and positive youth development through sport, and including
useful values and attitudes questionnaires and guidance on their
use and interpretation, this book is important reading for any
student, researcher, coach or teacher with an interest in youth
sport or physical education. "
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building
and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly
illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history
of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships
and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes
paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and
highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling
section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits,
lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships,
and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This
is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected
high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes
with a section on research references - books, monographs,
large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume includes all
the features of the regular series but the extent has been doubled
to include far more detailed drawings of a class of ship that was
built in huge numbers and in many variations. Mainstay of the
Atlantic battle against the U-boats, Flower class corvettes were
used by the British, Canadian, French and US Navies.
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High
on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrere embarks on
a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of
clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a
subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. But his trip is cut short, and
he is brought down to earth with a thud as he returns to a Paris in
turmoil in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.
From then on, Carrere's life begins to unravel, along with his
novel-in-progress. He is diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder and is
sectioned to a psychiatric hospital for a four-month stint, where
he is subject to electroshock therapy. His marriage crumbles, he is
struck by grief at the death of a close friend and is haunted by a
love affair with a mysterious woman who disappeared from his life.
Pushed to the edge of sanity and forced to reckon with his identity
as a man and a writer, Carrere sets out on a life of action instead
of meditation. This is a book that embraces the Yin and Yang of
life: the pull between life and death, desire and despair, presence
and absence, fight and flight. It is a book about a world and a man
in tumult, and about how surprisingly far practising meditation -
and writing about it - can take us in life. With raw honesty and
humour, YOGA gives us the self-portrait of a man struggling to live
with himself and others, by one of our greatest and most surprising
international writers.
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Limonov (Paperback)
Emmanuel Carrere; Translated by John Lambert
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TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014
Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's
lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the
Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in
Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans,
and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism a charismatic
party leader of a gang of political desperados. Limonov sees
himself as a hero, but he is also a bastard. Carrere suspends
judgment. Carrere decided to write about Limonov because he thought
"that his life, romantic and reckless, tells us something, not just
about Limonov or Russia, but the story of all of us after the end
of World War II."
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The Kingdom (Paperback)
Emmanuel Carrere; Translated by John Lambert
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'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully
self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim
Whitmarsh, Guardian 'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in
France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange' Bryan Appleyard,
Sunday Times The sensational international bestseller from one of
France's most feted writers - an epic novel telling the story of
Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man's crisis
of faith. Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An
itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a
prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead,
and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion,
the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually,
the world. Emmanuel Carrere's astonishing historical epic tells the
story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to
life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs
and political turmoil. In doing so Carrere, once himself a fervent
believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in
resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.
'An utterly brilliant book' Catherine Nixey, The Times
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