Lifestyle, sport & leisure (202)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to leisure and recreation, and physical activity and its relationship to quality of life. Divided into two parts, the text presents the analysis of leisure and recreation...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Dieses interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Handbuch ist ein umfassendes Nachschlagewerk zum Thema Stressregulation und Sport. Es bietet einen fundierten Überblick zu zentralen Theorien der Stressentstehung und Stressbewältigung, zu Persönlichkeitsfaktoren...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:The book is designed to provide a flowing description of the physiology of heat stress, the illnesses associated with heat exposure, recommendations on optimising health and performance, and an examination of Olympic sports played in potentially hot ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/anti...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides fundamental concepts in human thermal physiology and their applications in general public, occupational, military, and athletics settings from the biometeorological perspective. The book includes a section on human physiology, epid...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Das Sonnensystem ist unsere Heimat im Weltall. Alle Planeten und Monde in ihm entstanden gemeinsam aus einer „Urwolke“, sie sind damit gewissermaßen Geschwister. Aber genau wie diese besitzen auch die Planeten ganz unterschiedliche Charaktere und Eig...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic col...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiologi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:PixInsight has taken the astro-imaging world by storm. As the first comprehensive postprocessing platform to be created by astro-imagers for astro-imagers, it has for many replaced other generic graphics editors as the software of choice. PixInsight ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:In this book, Warren Keller reveals the secrets of astro-image processing software PixInsight in a practical and easy to follow manner, allowing the reader to produce stunning astrophotographs from even mediocre data. As the first comprehensive post-...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic dis...