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Running Smart
How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance
ISBN: 9780262542449
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
A science writer and recreational runner explores the science behind popularly held beliefs about shoes, injuries, nutrition, “runner's high,” and more.
Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
ISBN: 9780262038508
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 1, 2019
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
Bad Call
Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It
ISBN: 9780262534444
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2017
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are—referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.
Off-Track and Online
The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing
ISBN: 9780262034418
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2016
How horse racing's pioneering use of communication and information networks helped shape the modern media, information, and leisure environment.
Surf Craft
Design and the Culture of Board Riding
ISBN: 9780262027601
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2014
The evolution of the surfboard, from traditional Hawaiian folk designs to masterpieces of mathematical engineering to mass-produced fiberglass.
City Cycling
ISBN: 9780262517812
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2012
A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics.
Effective Cycling, seventh edition
Effective Cycling
ISBN: 9780262516945
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 20, 2012
An updated edition of a classic handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert.
Effective Cycling, sixth edition
Effective Cycling
ISBN: 9780262560702
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 29, 1992
The core of John Forester's concept of Effective Cycling is that bicyclists fare best when they act, and are treated in return, as drivers of vehicles, with the same rights and responsibilities that...
Running Smart
How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance
ISBN: 9780262542449
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
A science writer and recreational runner explores the science behind popularly held beliefs about shoes, injuries, nutrition, “runner's high,” and more.
Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
ISBN: 9780262038508
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 1, 2019
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
Bad Call
Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It
ISBN: 9780262534444
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2017
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are—referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.
Off-Track and Online
The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing
ISBN: 9780262034418
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2016
How horse racing's pioneering use of communication and information networks helped shape the modern media, information, and leisure environment.
Surf Craft
Design and the Culture of Board Riding
ISBN: 9780262027601
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 18, 2014
The evolution of the surfboard, from traditional Hawaiian folk designs to masterpieces of mathematical engineering to mass-produced fiberglass.
City Cycling
ISBN: 9780262517812
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2012
A guide to today's urban cycling renaissance, with information on cycling's health benefits, safety, bikes and bike equipment, bike lanes, bike sharing, and other topics.
Effective Cycling, seventh edition
Effective Cycling
ISBN: 9780262516945
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 20, 2012
An updated edition of a classic handbook for cyclists from beginner to expert.
Effective Cycling, sixth edition
Effective Cycling
ISBN: 9780262560702
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 29, 1992
The core of John Forester's concept of Effective Cycling is that bicyclists fare best when they act, and are treated in return, as drivers of vehicles, with the same rights and responsibilities that...