Julian North

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions. Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on critical realism. The result is an embedded, relational and emergent conception of coaching practice that opens new ways of thinking about coaching knowledge. Drawing on new empirical case study research, it demonstrates vividly how a critical realist-informed approach can provide a more realistic and accountable knowledge to coaching stakeholders. This knowledge promises to have important implications for coaching, and coach education and development practices. Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism is fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sports coaching, sport pedagogy, physical education, the philosophy or sociology of sport, or research methodology in sport and exercise.

Blood soaks the soil of America as the new civil war rages. A seemingly unstoppable wave of darkness is sweeping down from Manhattan to consume the nation. The last vestiges of genuine freedom are dimming as the South's rag tag army is decimated by defection and defeat, and no place is safe, not even in the Republic of California. A last, desperate mission is Daniela's only to chance to survive. Fate of Order is the story of a light in the darkness, the chance for people to change, and for a nation to be reborn. The girl who was raised to take care only for her own must decide if she is willing to sacrifice those she holds most dear for ideals in which she never truly believed. Daniela will decide the Fate of Order. Get Book 3 of the Age of Order Saga now

If you are not at the top, you are at the bottom. In the heart of Orderist Manhattan darkness strikes. In a single night, the president and many of his supporters are killed. Order must be restored. The innocent will pay the price. For some among the elite, order through punishment is no longer enough. They seek to follow the example of the slave countries and bring human chipping to America. As the highborn factions battle for power in Manhattan, Daniela seeks to save her brother and her people from both sides. But she is not prepared for the nightmares that mankind is willing to inflict upon itself, all in the name of Order. State of Order continues the story of a dark, divided America, where merit camouflages oppression, and evil masquerades as order. Get book two of the Age of Order Saga now

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions. Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on critical realism. The result is an embedded, relational and emergent conception of coaching practice that opens new ways of thinking about coaching knowledge. Drawing on new empirical case study research, it demonstrates vividly how a critical realist-informed approach can provide a more realistic and accountable knowledge to coaching stakeholders. This knowledge promises to have important implications for coaching, and coach education and development practices. Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism is fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sports coaching, sport pedagogy, physical education, the philosophy or sociology of sport, or research methodology in sport and exercise.

In a world where merit is purchased, Daniela shouldn't exist. She has survived on the dangerous streets of Bronx City, lived by the code that blood takes care blood and she can blaze on the track. Daniela wants no part of the dazzle of Manhattan or its highborn denizens. Alexander was born into society, a scion of privilege, a young man made better and faster by science. But he harbors a deadly secret that would turn even his own family against him. From opposite ends of the social order, Daniela and Alexander come together in a futuristic New York City where treachery and honor are camouflaged behind beautiful faces and powerful families duel for dominance. Granted an impossible opportunity to live among the highborn, Daniela may have a chance to change the world, if it doesn't change her first. Awarded a Kirkus Star and hailed by Kirkus Reviews as the novel to revitalize the dystopian genre, Age of Order is a story of real characters in a fantastic world. Live this future. "The most prescient dystopian novel since 1984." -- DystopianRealm Reviews Kindle Book Review Awards Winner - Best Science Fiction & Fantasy NovelLos Angeles Book Festival - Best Science Fiction NovelCYGNUS Award Finalist - Best Science Fiction NovelCIPA EVVY Award Finalist - Best Science Fiction NovelLYRA Award Winner, Best YA NovelEric R Hoffer Award (Honorable Mention, Best E-Book)Kirkus Reviews Starred Novel

This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, published from the 1820s, by Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and others. It situates these within the context of the development of biography as a genre from the 1780s to the 1840s. Starting with Johnson, Boswell, and female collective Lives, it looks at how the market success of biography was built on its representation and publication of domestic life. In the 1820s and 30s biographers 'domesticated' Byron, Shelley, and other poets by situating them at home, opening up their (often scandalous) private lives to view, and bringing readers into intimate contact with greatness. Biography was an influential transmitter of the myth of 'the Romantic poet', as the self-creating, masculine genius, but it also posed one of the first important challenges to that myth, by revealing failures in domestic responsibility that were often seen as indicative of these writers' inattention to the needs of the reader. The Domestication of Genius is the most comprehensive account to date of the shaping of the Romantic poets by biography in the nineteenth-century. Written in a lively and accessible style, it casts new light on the literary culture of the 1830s and the transition between Romantic and Victorian conceptions of authorship. It offers a powerful re-evaluation of Romantic literary biography, of major biographers of the period, and of the posthumous reputations of the Romantic poets.

This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include: * the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms * definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business context, from formal standards to Total Quality Management * interviews with a selected sample of over 150 owner-managers * detailed case studies of small firms * analysis of self-generated quality strategies * the variety of formal methods of quality control.