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  • The Biomechanics of Batting, Swinging, and Hitting

    Edited by Glenn Fleisig, Young-Hoo Kwon ...
    In the movie Bull Durham, frustrated manager Joe Riggins stresses to his team, "This is a simple game. You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball." This simplification works well for biomechanists too, as sports can be broken down into specific physical tasks like throwing, hitting, catching, and running. There have been significant advances in understanding some actions, but not ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

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  • NSCA's Essentials of Sport Science

    Edited by NSCA -National Strength & Conditioning Association, Duncan French, Lorena Torres Ronda ...
    Within the domain of sport, the application of science is more apparent than ever before. Not only are universities and academic institutions scientifically investigating sport as one element of human performance, but professional teams, sporting organizations, and private training companies are embracing approaches that use scientific principles to help their athletes and teams gain a competitive ... Read more

    $86.79 CAD

  • Sports Biomechanics

    Reducing Injury Risk and Improving Sports Performance

    by Roger Bartlett, Melanie Bussey ...
    When working with sports men and women, the biomechanist is faced with two apparently incompatible goals: reducing injury risk and improving sports performance. Now in a fully updated and revised edition, Sports Biomechanics introduces the fundamental principles that underpin our understanding of the biomechanics of both sports injury and performance, and explains how contemporary biomechanical ... Read more

    Was $105.99 CAD Now $94.81 CAD

  • Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports

    Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance, second edition

    by Paul Gamble ...
    Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports is designed to help trainers and coaches to devise more effective high-performance training programs for team sports. This remains the only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and features all-new chapters covering neuromuscular training, injury prevention and specific injury risks for different team sports. Fully ... Read more

    Was $116.99 CAD Now $104.42 CAD

  • Sport and Exercise Science

    An Introduction

    by Philip Watkins, Murray Griffin, Dean Sewell ...
    Sport and Exercise Science: An Introduction provides a broad-based foundation in the major areas that underpin the scientific study of sport and exercise science, thus helping undergraduate students to develop a sound understanding of human anatomy, physiology, nutrition, metabolism, biomechanics and psychology related to sport, exercise and health. It includes a range of useful features in every ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Motor Control

    by Mark L. Latash ...
    Motor control is a relatively young field of research exploring how the nervous system produces purposeful, coordinated movements in its interaction with the body and the environment through conscious and unsconscious thought. Many books purporting to cover motor control have veered off course to examine biomechanics and physiology rather than actual control, leaving a gap in the literature. This ... Read more

    $66.39 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Strength and Conditioning

    Sport-specific Programming for High Performance

    Edited by Anthony Turner ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Drawing on the latest scientific research, this handbook introduces the essentials of sport-specific strength and conditioning programme design for over 30 different sports. Enhanced by extensive illustrations and contributions from more than 70 world-leading experts, its chapters present evidence-based best practice for sports including football, rugby, tennis, hockey, basketball, rowing, boxing, ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The Science of Color

    Edited by Steven K. Shevell ...
    The Science of Color focuses on the principles and observations that are foundations of modern color science. Written for a general scientific audience, the book broadly covers essential topics in the interdisciplinary field of color, drawing from physics, physiology and psychology. This book comprises eight chapters and begins by tracing scientific thinking about color since the seventeenth ... Read more

    $131.19 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science

    Edited by Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference. Now available in a concise paperback edition, it offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of current theory, research and practice in sports, exercise and clinical biomechanics, in both established and emerging contexts.Including contributions from many of the world's leading biomechanists, the ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

  • Multidirectional Speed in Sport

    Research to Application

    Edited by Thomas Dos’Santos, Paul Jones ...
    During field- and court-based sports, players are continually required to perceive their environment within a match and select and perform the most appropriate action to achieve their immediate goal within that match instance. This ability is commonly known as agility, considered a vital quality in such sports and may incorporate a variety of locomotion and instantaneous actions.Multidirectional ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume III: Vision and Vision Optics(set)

    by Michael Bass, Casimer DeCusatis, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Guifang Li, Carolyn MacDonald, Eric Van Stryland, Jay M. Enoch, Virendra N. Mahajan ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource availablePrepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, contain everything a student, scientist, or engineer requires to actively work in the field. From the design of complex optical systems to world-class research and ... Read more

    $259.29 CAD

  • MEG-EEG Primer

    by Riitta Hari, Aina Puce ...
    Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) provide complementary views to the neurodynamics of healthy and diseased human brains. Both methods are totally noninvasive and can track with millisecond temporal resolution spontaneous brain activity, evoked responses to various sensory stimuli, as well as signals associated with the performance of motor, cognitive and affective tasks ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD