Research Methods for Sports Performance Analysis
Modern techniques of sports performance analysis enable the sport scientist, coach and athlete to objectively assess, and therefore improve upon, sporting performance. They are an important tool for any serious practitioner in sport and, as a resu...
Statistics for Sport and Exercise Studies
Statistics for Sport and Exercise Studies guides the student through the full research process, from selecting the most appropriate statistical procedure, to analysing data, to the presentation of results, illustrating every key step in the proces...
Introduction to Performance Analysis of Sport
Performance analysis has become an essential tool for coaches, athletes, sports organisations and academic researchers. Collecting and interpreting performance data enables coaches to improve their training programmes, athletes to make better tact...
Poetry
Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression f...
Data Analysis in Sport
Making sense of sports performance data can be a challenging task but is nevertheless an essential part of performance analysis investigations. Focusing on techniques used in the analysis of sport performance, this book introduces the fundamental ...
Data Analysis in Sport
Making sense of sports performance data can be a challenging task but is nevertheless an essential part of performance analysis investigations. Focusing on techniques used in the analysis of sport performance, this book introduces the fundamental ...
Onscreen Chemistry
Lights. Camera. Reaction! How do real world discoveries affect what we see on screen? What impact does the world of film have on how we view chemistry? Are chemists the villains or the heroes? From Transylvania and Chernobyl to generic geniuses an...
From Asgard to Valhalla
From Asgard to Valhalla
Skipshock
MARGO AND MOON WERE ON TWO DIFFERENT TRAINS, IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS. THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE MET - BUT THEY DID. AND NOW THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. A dazzlingly inventive sci-fi fantasy romance from the bestselling Irish author of The Rachel In...
The Gifts That Bind Us
Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item. But with strange things happening at school, and old enemies appearing in new places, it soon becomes clear their powers are attracting all the wrong attention. It's not long before Maeve's gift start to wane, drained by someone - or something - that's hiding even from her second sight... The brilliant second installment in the Hidden Gifts series, with further titles to come.
Every Gift A Curse
A spellbinding supernatural teen drama and final book in the Gifts series from a New York Times bestselling author.With the return of the Housekeeper on the cards, Maeve must find out everything she can about the vengeful tarot spirit in order to finally defeat her. Crossing over into a parallel dimension inside the old school building, she explores the history of the Housekeeper - and spends too long in a world and a mind not her own.With the Children of Brigid closing in once more, and Maeve's friend group now fractured across Ireland, can they hope to ultimately save the town - and Maeve - from the grip of a power greater than they ever imagined?
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller ...
Beowulf
Beowulf is much more than a poem.
All Our Hidden Gifts
Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn't be there. And two days after she convinces her ex-best friend to have a reading, Lily disappears. Can Maeve, her new friend Fiona and Lily's brother Roe find her? And will their special talents be enough to bring Lily back, before she's gone for good?
Producing Video For Teaching and Learning
Producing Video for Teaching and Learning: Planning and Collaboration provides lecturers, researchers, professors, and technical staff in educational settings with a framework for producing video resources for teaching and learning purposes. This ...
The Gifts That Bind Us
Magic-sensitive Maeve and her friends face off against an insidious threat to their school and their city in this spellbinding sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts. It's senior year, and Maeve and her friends are practicing and strengthening their mystical powers, while Maeve's new relationship with Roe is exhilarating. But as Roe's rock star dreams start to take shape, and Fiona and Lily make plans for faraway colleges, Maeve, who struggles in school, worries about life without them--will she be selling incense here in Kilbeg, Ireland, until she's fifty? Alarm bells sound for the coven when the Children of Brigid, a right-wing religious organization, quickly gains influence throughout the city--and when its charismatic front man starts visiting Maeve in her dreams. When Maeve's power starts to wane, the friends realize that all the local magic is being drained--or rather, stolen. With lines increasingly blurred between friend and foe, the supernatural and the psychological, Maeve and the
Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga
Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular ...
Angels Keep Their Ancient Places
Angels Keep Their Ancient Places
Heaven In Ordinarie
Heaven In Ordinarie
The Rachel Incident
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three - 'O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications.' --People 'If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short, if you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did.' --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork
Scenes of a Graphic Nature
THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now Charlie's life isn't going forward - so she's decided to go back After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry and experimenting with amateur po...
Promising Young Women
THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world, by the bestselling author of The Rachel Incident 'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women ...
Promising Young Women
THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world 'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty' I...
Scenes of a Graphic Nature
THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now Charlie's life isn't going forward - so she's decided to go back After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry and experimenting with amateur po...
Every Gift a Curse
Magic-sensitive Maeve wants to save the innocent from a dangerous cult. But how much can she delve into darkness without becoming what she fears? The exciting conclusion to the Gifts series. Big things are happening for Maeve and her tight-knit coven in Kilbeg, Ireland. Fiona lands a role on a TV show, Roe's band is poised to hit it big-time, and Lily has a new punk style and passion for tattooing. Then there's Maeve, whose magic is growing stronger and more frightening. She finds herself increasingly lashing out, doing and saying cruel things without knowing why. When her recurring dreams begin to involve her physically manifesting in other places, Maeve realizes the power she wields might not be entirely under her control. She turns to enemy-turned-maybe-friend Aaron for help, which means pushing her other friends away. But when the two learn that the religious cult the Children of Brigid is kidnapping vulnerable teenagers in preparation for a dangerous ritual, Maeve must risk
From Asgard to Valhalla
From Asgard to Valhalla
The Rachel Incident
Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It's simple. It's complicated. It's about love, sex and friendship. It's definitely about betrayal. And, above all, it's the story of Rachel and James, two twenty-somethings who met at a bookshop, became best friends, and spent one unforgettable year screwing up and growing up.
Adventures in Prayer
Adventures in Prayer
Little Squirrel Who Worried
With a little help from his friends, Little Squirrel ventures out of his cosy nest. Through the story of Little Squirrel and his adventures in the forest, readers young and old come to learn coping techniques and to realise that, although we all f...
Kapitlet Rachel
Kapitlet Rachel
Kapitlet Rachel
Irland, 2010-talRachel är en litteraturälskande student som arbetar extra i bokhandeln. Där träffar hon den sprudlande och excentriska James som hon avgudar från första stund. Mötet blir början på en vänskap som kommer att förändra livet för dem båda. Tillsammans utforskar Rachel och James varje hörn av Corks nattliv och försöker upprätthålla en sorglös tillvaro medan finanskrisen kryper allt närmare. När Rachel blir förtjust i sin lärare Fred Byrne hjälper James till att ordna ett författarevent i bokhandeln. Målet är att hon ska förföra sin lärare efteråt, men Fred visar sig vilja något helt annat. Det som var en oskyldig förälskelse utvecklar sig snart till något mycket mer komplicerat. Kapitlet Rachel är en intelligent, kaxig och brännande roman om vänner, älskare och ett Irland i djup lågkonjunktur.»UNDERBART, BITTERLJUVT OCH ÄKTA.« Jenny Colgan
Rachel Incident
The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love 'I loved it' COCO MELLORS 'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' MONICA HEI...
Doing a Research Project in Sport Performance Analysis
The research project or dissertation is a core component of any degree programme in the rapidly developing discipline of sport performance analysis. This highly practical and accessible book provides a complete step-by-step guide to doing a resear...
Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis
Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary p...
Kate Chopin in Context
Featuring essays by scholars from around the globe, Kate Chopin in Context revitalizes discussions on the famed 19th-century author of The Awakening . Expanding the horizons of Chopin's influence, contributors offer readers glimpses into the multi...
