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Relative age effects (RAEs) refer to the participation, selection,
and attainment inequalities in the immediate, short-term, and
long-term in sports. Indeed, dozens of studies have identified RAEs
across male and female sporting contexts. Despite its widespread
prevalence, there is a paucity in the empirical research and
practical application of strategies specifically designed to
moderate RAEs. Thus, the purpose of this book is to situate RAEs in
the context of youth sport structures, lay foundational knowledge
concerning the mechanisms that underpin RAEs, and offer alternative
group banding strategies aimed at moderating RAEs. In order to
enhance our knowledge on birth advantages and RAEs to create more
appropriate settings, key stakeholders, such as coaches,
practitioners, administrators, policy makers, and researchers, are
required to understand the possible influence of and interaction
between birthplace, engagement in activities, ethnicity, genetic
profile, parents, socioeconomic status, and relative age. Thus, in
addition to RAEs and alternative group banding strategies, Birth
Advantages and Relative Age Effects in Sport also examines the role
of additional birth advantages and socio-environmental factors that
young athletes may experience in organized youth sport. Drawing
from both empirical research and practical examples, this book
comprises three parts: (a) organizational structures, (b) group
banding strategies, and (c) socio-environmental factors. Overall,
this book broadens our understanding of the methodological,
contextual, and practical considerations within organizational
structures in sport to create more appropriate settings, and strive
to make positive, impactful change to lived youth sport
experiences. This book will be of vital reading to academics,
researchers, and key stakeholders of sports coaching, athlete
development, and youth sport, as well as other related disciplines.
This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about
suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of
public media, including literature, history, films, and television.
Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent
Australians politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to
come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically
to stories of its marginalized citizens. Drawing upon international
scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and
witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary
Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated
Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the
late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to
the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants,
and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public,
they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but
also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens. When former Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's
indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of
collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences
of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became
crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past
injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia
in the present. This is a vital addition to Transaction's
critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.
This book is about how Australians have responded to stories
about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of
public media, including literature, history, films, and television.
Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent
Australians--politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to
come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically
to stories of its marginalized citizens.
Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory,
public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a
cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms
of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn
of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed
in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of
indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As
these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to
scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary
citizens.
When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic
apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he
performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the
testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon
of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and
reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more
cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to
Transaction's critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.
Applied Communication and Practice provides students with a
comprehensive exploration of professional communication disciplines
including television, film, broadcast journalism, public relations,
and more. Students gain a solid, scholarly, and practical
understanding of careers in communication to better inform their
professional choices, expectations, and practices. The book uses
curated readings, enlightening original material, discussion
questions, exercises, and more to illustrate how various
communication disciplines relate to each other, the practices,
procedures, and expectations they share, and the ways in which the
disciplines are unique. The text employs a unique educational model
that builds on the concepts of story, skills, audience, and ethics
to present students with information regarding the myriad career
options available to them. Designed to serve as a practical guide
to students interested in professions in communication, Applied
Communication and Practice is ideal for undergraduate courses in
public relations, media, radio and audio production, television,
film, theater, comedy, media studies, broadcast and radio
journalism, and communication studies.
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Warrior of God (Paperback)
Kellie Jean O'Connor, Gene Eagel Gruver, Jefferson Wade Mitchell
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R805
Discovery Miles 8 050
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Published between 1762 and 1765, these writings are the last works
Rousseau wrote for publication during his lifetime. Responding in
each to the censorship and burning of Emile and Social Contract,
Rousseau airs his views on censorship, religion, and the relation
between theory and practice in politics. The Letter to Beaumont is
a response to a Pastoral Letter by Christophe de Beaumont,
Archbishop of Paris (also included in this volume), which attacks
the religious teaching in Emile. Rousseau's response concerns the
general theme of the relation between reason and revelation and
contains his most explicit and boldest discussions of the Christian
doctrines of creation, miracles, and original sin. In Letters
Written from the Mountain, a response to the political crisis in
Rousseau's homeland of Geneva caused by a dispute over the burning
of his works, Rousseau extends his discussion of Christianity and
shows how the political principles of the Social Contract can be
applied to a concrete constitutional crisis. One of his most
important statements on the relation between political philosophy
and political practice, it is accompanied by a fragmentary"History
of the Government of Geneva." Finally,"Vision of Peter of the
Mountain, Called the Seer" is a humorous response to a resident of
Motiers who had been inciting attacks on Rousseau during his exile
there. Taking the form of a scriptural account of a vision, it is
one of the rare examples of satire from Rousseau's pen and the only
work he published anonymously after his decision in the early 1750s
to put his name on all his published works. Within its satirical
form, the "Vision" contains Rousseau's last public reflections on
religious issues. Neither the Letter to Beaumont nor the Letters
Written from the Mountain has been translated into English since
defective translations that appeared shortly after their appearance
in French. These are the first translations of both the "History"
and the "Vision."
"I am now alone on earth, no longer having any brother, neighbor,
friend, or society other than myself" proclaimed Rousseau in
Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Reveries, along with Botanical
Writings and Letter to Franquieres, were all written at the end of
his life, a period when Rousseau renounced his occupation as author
and ceased publishing his works. Presenting himself as an unwilling
societal outcast, he nonetheless crafted each with a sharp eye on
his readership. Whether addressing himself, a mother hoping to
interest her child in botany, or a confused young nobleman, his
dialogue reflects the needs of his interlocutor and of future
readers.
Although very different in style, these three works concern
overlapping subjects. Their unity comes from the relation of the
other writings to the Reveries, which consists of ten meditative
"walks" during which Rousseau considers his life and thought. The
third and fourth walks discuss truth, morality, and religious
belief, which are the themes of the Letter to Franquieres; while
the seventh is a lengthy discussion of botany as a model for
contemplative activity. The overarching themes of the volume--the
relations among philosophic or scientific contemplation, religion,
and morality--provide Rousseau's most intimate and final
reflections on the difficulties involved in understanding nature.
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