Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Psychology (Instant Notes)

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Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Psychology provides a concise yet comprehensive coverage of sport and exercise psychology at undergraduate level, enabling easy access to core information in the field. It covers the major topics in a format that is ideal for learning and rapid revision. Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Psychology is intended for students of sport and exercise science, sport psychology, sports studies and sports management, as well as for coaches and athletes who wish to gain an up-to-date understanding of the key concepts in this area.

Instant Notes in Physiological Psychology (Instant Notes)

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Instant Notes in Physiological Psychology (Instant Notes)
Hugh Wagner
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ASIN: 1859962033

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Instant Notes titles focus on core information and are designed to help undergraduate students come to grips with a subject quickly and easily.

Instant Notes in Physiological Psychology provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the key topics in physiological psychology, allowing easy access to the core information in the field. Although physiological psychology is a required component of most degrees, the authors recognize that many students come from non-scientific backgrounds and may find the subject daunting. This book covers all of the essential topics in a format which is ideal for learning and rapid revision for students from all backgrounds. It can serve as a core text, supplemented by readings in the original literature, as a reference guide for students and lecturers alike, or as an ideal revision guide prior to exams.

Instant Notes in Physiological Psychology is intended primarily for students taking a first course in the subject, but can also be used as an introduction to the field for undergraduates and graduate students from other subject areas.

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Over the past decade, the field of image processing has made tremendous advances. One type of image processing that is currently of particular interest is "tomographic imaging," a technique for computing the density function of a body, or discontinuity surfaces of this function. Today, tomography is widely used, and has applications in such fields as medicine, engineering, physics, geophysics, and security. The Radon Transform and Local Tomography clearly explains the theoretical, computational, and practical aspects of applied tomography. It includes sufficient background information to make it essentially self-contained for most readers.

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There are much better books on mathematics of tomography.......2003-08-27

I bought this book, but found it pretty much useless. In my opinion, its presentation of techniques and the history of the subject is skewed. Authors' contributions are presented in an overinflated manner, so the reader would never guess that sometimes there exist more powerful and at the same time simpler approaches. There are much better books on mathematics of tomography, for instance the ones written by F. Natterer. Analytically inclined readers would like to read other books on Radon transform, e.g. the one by S. Helgason. The old books directed towards applications by G. Herman and Kak and Slaney are still of value. There are also some good edited volumes on the subject.

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Travel doesn’t always live up to one’s expectations — it sometimes exceeds them. For the 25 women contributors to Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, hitting the road inspires tales that their friends and families, as well as the readers of this book, will never forget. Readers laugh, cry, and commiserate with these women and their comical, bizarre, and unforgettable adventures including being chased by a herd of 50 African elephants, getting bitten by a goddess-possessed healer in Kathmandu, nightclubbing with a prude in Bangkok’s infamous Patpong sex district, and observing the shenanigans of a delirious new son-in-law in the Himalayas. Contributors include Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sandra Tsing Loh, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan.

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A Laugh Out Loud Collection.......2006-11-12

This collection of funny stories is not just for women! It's a fun book to take on vacation and to read aloud to your traveling companion. I particularly enjoyed "The Aunties," by Anne Lamott, as she describes the inner voice battling thoughts on her middle-aged body while standing next to a group of teenagers at a beach side bus stop.

A quick, fun read that will keep you laughing and appreciating the fine batch of women writers presented in this anthology.

From the author of "A Line Between Friends," McKenna Publishing Group

Travel Travails Told with Humor and Not Just for Women.......2006-09-01

I would be hard pressed to call this a collection of short stories, as this is really a series of humorous anecdotes from an array of accomplished women, some quite funny and even a few who even provide insight into the human condition. Editor Jennifer Leo has gathered twenty-nine pieces, none more than ten pages, and to her credit, this is not an overtly feminist tract. Rather, they all share a uniquely feminine perspective on the quirks and misadventures that could happen to any of us on the road.

My favorites seem to carry similar themes of personal humiliation - Christine Eckardt's ribald story of how her loose-fitting panties were shimmying down her legs on the streets of Abu Dhabi, Sarah Vowell's singular obsession with "The Godfather" as she traversed through Italy rediscovering locales within the film, Kate Crawford getting locked out of her boyfriend's apartment in Paris, Annalisa Valentine's urinary-related disaster on the way back from Everest base camp, and Leo's own exposure to Bangkok's extravagant peep show scene.

Unsurprisingly, the highest profile writer here, Ellen Degeneres, tells of her travails with air travel, a funny routine familiar to anyone who has seen her stand-up routine on HBO. Not all the stories are gems, but Adair Lara contributes an acutely insightful essay on the person we pretend to be when we pack. he title of the collection actually comes from Christine Nielsen's colorful account of her experiences at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. This is shallow-end commuter reading but truly enjoyable for what it's worth.

Sand in my jockstrap, hahaha.......2006-08-27

It's possible the women are funny, but I guarantee you the writing isn't. This is just awful. Big bold neon "laugh at the absurdity of this or that stupid foreigner stereotype! You'll never guess what happened! It was like, so weird, like, I mean, like, ohmygod!" I read 34 of its 200 pages, just because I was too lazy to get out of the beanbag and grab a better book. Six authors who can't write, and I have no reason to believe the others can. The intro by she who chose these essays also sucked. Don't waste your time.

Laugh out loud hysteria!.......2005-09-06

I picked this book up on a recent trip to San Francisco to read on the plane home to Texas. All I can say is, don't read this book on a plane unless you know the person sitting next to you WELL - it had me laughing hysterically (and loudly). Fortunately, I was sitting with my husband...

The only possible drawback is that it really does deal mostly with things that women can relate to. From explaining a gynecological problem in a foreign language to being the less-than-perfect body on the beach with bikini clad babes, it definitely speaks to the woman traveler. As for me - I could definitely relate. Buy it for your next plane ride!

So-so collection..........2005-03-06

These stories are all about women in various traveling situations. I expected more of them to be funny, but hardly any were. Some of them were downright stupid, actually. Quite a few locations were covered, but many of them didn't really give me a good sense of place. I didn't think this was a good book, travel or not.

The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)

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Sailing Around the Frisian Isles
Solid read, but only in context
fantastic novel!
Bubble gum reading with that is hard to chew.
A powerful flop!

The Riddle of the Sands (Modern Library Classics)
Erskine Childers
Manufacturer: Modern Library
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ASIN: 0812966147
Release Date: 2002-12-10

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While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers—who served in the Royal Navy during World War I—as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, The Riddle of the Sands accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since, praised as much for its nautical action as for its suspenseful spycraft.

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Sailing Around the Frisian Isles.......2007-04-16

This 1903 novel is a spy story that includes a factual account of small boat handling in the treacherous waters off the Frisian Islands. The `Preface' explains this book as a record of the adventures of "Carruthers". The British government was warned, but little was done. So Childers decided to publish this story to warn the public of a possible invasion of Britain. In Chapter 1 Carruthers gets an invitation to go yachting in the Baltic sea. He accepts out of boredom. The yacht is a converted life boat, thirty feet long and nine in the beam. Arthur Davies can sail this boat without help. Then Davies tells what happened before he invited Carruthers (Chapter 8). Carruthers decided to go along with the plan. Davies talks of the ambitions and rivalry of Germany (Chapter 10).

The chapters describe sailing in a small boat in the North Sea. Cold, fog, and tides that imperil a small yacht. There is the story about the mysterious German, his young daughter, and his business associates. There is a mystery about a salvage operation on an old shipwreck by Memmert Sand. Carruthers has been called back to London. But in Amsterdam he disguised himself and doubled back (Chapter 25). Carruthers' suspicions are confirmed by a boat at night towing a lighter. There is a surprise in the last chapter. The `Epilogue' discusses the plan to invade and conquer Great Britain by surprise.

A similar invasion was planned in 1940 until it was prevented by The Battle of Britain. The difficulties of an invasion from sea were solved in June 1944. While a blockade of shipping can damage Britain, its internal resources will help. Only a successful invasion will conquer Britain [as in 1066]. There is no mention of the Territorial Army here. Some have claimed this was the first spy novel. "The Prisoner of Zenda" was published years earlier (political intrigue into a dynastic succession).

Solid read, but only in context.......2006-11-10

I bought The Riddle of the Sands to use in an History essay for university where I was looking at how the spy was portrayed before World War I. As one of the more popular titles from that era of 'invasion literature,' Childer's work certainly fit the bill. It is the story of two men sailing around the Frisian Islands trying to uncover a German plot to invade the north of England. That's basically it in the way of plot. It was Childer's way of calling attention to what he believed where Britain's insufficient North Sea defenses, and the real possibility of a German naval invasion. He succeeded in that endeavour and the North Sea defenses were eventually strengthed, which you could view either as a testament to the power of this novel, or to the 'great underlying problems and increasing pessimism' felt throughout Europe (to quote Ruth Henig), in the lead up to World War I.

Whichever view you take, the novel has a depth of characterisation that is quite remarkable for a first attempt at fiction. Davies and Carruthers are representative of the two poles of English class/social structure at the time, with the inarticulate, yet perceptive everyman Davies teaming up with well-mannered and intellectually capable Carruthers, figurative of the way that all aspects of British society would need to come together to face the coming invasion. However, the fact that this was Childers' first and only novel begins to show in his pacing. This is hardly the 'cliff-hanger' that Milt Bearden claims it to be in his brief 5-page introduction. However, Childers' purpose was not to write a thrilling page turner, but a warning against German invasion. To really enjoy this novel, you have to read it in that context, otherwise you'll be thinking 'what's the big deal?' There is relevance to our contemporary situation, given the whole 'invasion' theme, but to understand that connection, you need to be aware of the reasons for Childers' decision to write this book, and, by extension, the motivation of his characters.

This Modern Library edition does offer some background in Bearden's introduction. Enough to give the casual reader some brief historical context, at least. It follows the Modern Library's tradition of having authors from relevant and related fields offering their thoughts, rather than the academic/scholarly approach that Penguin or Oxford take. The problem here though is that it is too brief to offer any real insights. There is also the standard Modern Library reading guide, offering questions that range between vaguely thought-provoking to superficial. I don't know why they bother with these reading guides, especially at the expense of a decent introduction. However, if you're just after the story without wading through the academia of the Oxford World's Classic release, then this is the version you're after. Plus, Modern Library's cover art is always so much nicer to look at!

fantastic novel!.......2006-10-16

this is an amazingly good novel. the publisher in taiwan asked me to translate it into chinese and as a translator and a reader, this book simply blew me away and i was totally fasinated by this wonderfully written book. erskine childers was a great writer, that i could vouch for with all my heart and soul. that translation working hours were one of my best times in my life, and i also considered that my translation was as close as the chinese version could be, because i've put a lot of love and loyalty into it.

Bubble gum reading with that is hard to chew........2006-08-23

I received nothing of sailing value beyon paying attention to the local tide tables, along with ebb & flood flows... The story was interesting on how two fellows of different social levels were able to enjoy time on a small boat. The ending left me empty and unsatisfied. If you are from or sailed the North Sea area of East Friesland (Germany), it will be most interesting, because of the detailed maps of the area. Looks simular as seen from GoogleEarth map.

A powerful flop!.......2006-04-22

The title of the Riddle of the Sands is exotic but beyond that - this is an unbelievably boring tale of two friends who come together at some godforsaken islands to reveal a British traitor. That's the gist of the novel. But what follows is a convoluted storyline full of slang, garbled nautical lingo rendered in half completed sentences that have no head or tail. Understanding such a text will require a supercomputer not to speak of a mere mortal. The writer seems to have written this book in some opium-induced hallucinatory trance. This is a heck of a one-way trip to self-congratulatory egotism, if I ever saw one

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Great series for kids

The Riddle of the Stolen Sand
George E. Stanley
Manufacturer: Aladdin
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ASIN: 0689853769

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A Case That's Tougher To Crack Than An Oyster Shell

Everybody loves Mr. Roper. He gives kids free candy or ice cream when their parents shop at his grocery store. So when he's accused of selling stolen oysters, Mr. Merlin's Third-Grade Detectives don't believe it. But can they prove it?

Mr. Merlin's secret codes have the Detectives looking for clues at the beach, at rival oyster farms, and even in a garbage truck -- yuck! It turns out pearls aren't the only valuable thing you can get from oysters -- you can also get evidence to help solve a baffling mystery!

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Great series for kids.......2003-05-12

My children (and their teachers, too!) love the THIRD GRADE DETECTIVES series. Readers learn a lot about how police use science to solve crimes. This series turned one of my children around in science class. Until he started reading the Third Grade Detectives (so far, there are five titles in the series), he was doing poorly in his science studies. Now, he can hardly wait to study science!

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Riddle of the Sand (Classic Fiction)
Erskine Childers
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ASIN: 9626343850
Release Date: 2006-09-01

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Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
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Ambrose Video Presents: The Miracle Planet Volume Five; Riddles Of Sand And Ice; NTSC Format 1VHS, No Books

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Ambrose Video Presents: The Miracle Planet Volume Five; Riddles Of Sand And Ice; NTSC Format 1VHS, No Books

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ASIN: B000GX7Q1M

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"Please Notes: This is the NTSC format 1VHS. No books. Playable with multisystem VHS players in the world." [from the experience] "THE MIRACLE PLANET VOLUME FIVE: RIDDLES OF SAND AND ICE; Earth, Wrapped in clouds, suspended like a jewel in space. a planet of intricate systems, perfectly balanced and totally unique. This landmark PBS series, THE MIRACLE PLANET, is also unique. It combines an American talent for presenting the latest scientific material in an accessible manner, with a Japanese sense of aesthetics and devotion to quality. Co-produced by KCTS/9 Seattle and NHK/Japan,...hosted and narrated by nationally respected TV journalist Bill Kurtis. This distinguished series is unprecedented in scope and visual imagery. RIDDLES OF SAND AND ICE looks at the dramatic changes in climate the Earth has undergone. We looks at the remains of tropical plants found at the South Pole, and cave drawings showing agricultural abundance in the Sahara Desert. What does the future hold? Might Manhattan again be covered in ice? Could today's forests become the barren Sahara of tomorrow? Other programs in the series are: THE THIRD PLANET; THE HEAT WITHIN; LIFE FROM THE SEA; PATTERNS IN THE AIR; THE HOME PLANET." (from case) "If your interesting other programs in the series are: (1.) The Third Planet, NTSC format 1VHS (playable with multisystem VHS players in the world), no books, ASIN / ISBN B000GX81F2. (2.) The Home Planet, NTSC format 1VHS (playable with multisystem VHS players in the world), no books, ASIN / ISBN B000GX7M7U..." [from the experience]

Beach Bum Babies and Sand Sisters Stormy Adventure

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Beach Bum Babies and Sand Sisters Stormy Adventure
Jamie Riddle
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ASIN: 1424136008
Release Date: 2006-06-12

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Beach Bum Babies and Sand Sisters are infantile sea creatures that live in salt-water caverns with their grandparents, Domis and Maya. They live at the bottom of the sea, as far down as you can imagine, where the fish glow in the dark and life is simple and sweet. One day, while out playing with their sea creature friends, the babies are hit with a fierce storm that separates them and washes them all ashore. An old couple finds these strange babies who are actually 10 years old, but still look like babies because they don't age like humans. This story tells of their 10 days of adventure with the old couple; the sea creature babies and the old couple come to love and respect one another.

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Irish historical studies
Erskine Childers
Manufacturer: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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Mariners Library #29 : The Riddle of the Sands : A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved

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Mariners Library #29 : The Riddle of the Sands : A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved
Erskine Childers
Manufacturer: Adlard Coles
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Binding: Hardcover
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5 The Riddle of the Sands (Oxford Bookworms)

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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5 The Riddle of the Sands (Oxford Bookworms)
Erskine Childers , and Peter Hawkins
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ASIN: 0194230724

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When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht iDulcibella/i, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and hidden sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret and#150; a secret that could mean great danger for England. Erskine Childers' novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.

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