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Women in Sports Coaching (Routledge Research in Sports Coaching)
Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise. Sport coaching, however, remains a domain where gender equity has declined or stalled, despite increasin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Nutrition and the Developing Brain
Nutrients play a significant role in brain development throughout fetal and postnatal life. This book reviews the evidence from animal and human research, highlighting the influence of specific nutrients on brain function and cognitive development. With a unique, integrative approach to the nutritio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Child's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds
by Michael Kehler • Torrie Hazelwood • Toben F Nelson • Michela Musto • Professor Jeffrey Montez de Oca • Phil Veliz • Nicole M. Lavoi • William A. Corsaro • Lauren Rauscher • A. James Mckeever • Chelsey Thul • Jeffrey Scholes • Brandon Meyer • Professor Douglas Hartmann • Don Sabo • Ann Travers • Murray J. Drummond • Alex Manning • Fatimah Hussein • Cheryl Cooky • Professor Michael A. MessnerIs sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child's Play presents a more nuance... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022