Sports Book Reviews Samples For Students

Discuss conflict resolution in relationship to art, sports, media, and communications

The idea most people hold concerning conflict resolution is that of a mediator negotiating two warring sides. However, mediation is only a small component of a broader spectrum involving multiple processes such as dialogue, peace-media, facilitation and cooperative problem solving.
Conflict Resolution (or CR as it has come to be recently described) is a skill that following the last decade of the 20th Century has become very critical. It teaches individuals to look at problems from different dimensions and approach them with a drive towards solving them rather than aggression. After the events following the World War II most countries felt the need ...

Issue in Global Sport

Summary of the Book
Professional sports have come of age in the contemporary society. Whether it is soccer, athletics, golf or racing, professional sports are a force with which to reckon. Sports has developed into an agent of globalization, commonly described as universal language through which people from different races, ethnicities and walks of life connect. The global nature of professional sports notwithstanding, they also have a local perspective. This is seen in both local and regional teams that have the following of incessantly loyal fans. In light of this, the authors delve into the antagonism of global sports where ...

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy is an interesting, inspiring, and educative book that combines both athletic and Christ-centered approach to life. It discusses the importance of faith in relation to leadership. The book goes over story after story as it illustrates on how to tackle challenges and situations particularly in leadership. In the book, Dungy reflects on symbolic stories that are based on his football career and his walk with God. Following his victory as the first African American coach in Suoer Bowl 41, Dungy reflect on how he went through hard times and major challenges but he managed ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Sin and Redemption in Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"
‘Kite Runner’, written by Khaled Hosseini, chronicles the life of Amir, who is a troubled young boy, always trying to measure up to his father’s expectation. Amir forges a strong bond with Hassan, their servant’s son, but he secretly dissents the fact that Hassan is more like the son his father would have preferred. Hosseini uses a series of events to narrate how an innocent childhood friendship gradually become poisoned and corrupted. Amir becomes the reason for ousting, Hassan and his father, out of their household and the friendship deteriorates even ...

In the book Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell takes the readers on an intellectual ride through the world of “outliers” (those people who break the norms) - the brightest and the best, the most eminent and the most triumphant. This paper aim is to analyze chapter 1 and chapter 2 of this book.
In chapter 1, the author (Malcolm) argues that success, occasionally is found in parable of rag to riches- instead there is glisten of talent noticed ,and then there is a big break to the individual (and not the rest). That give the gifted ...

Dean Smith, who retired from the University of North Carolina as the all-time winningest collegiate basketball coach, shared his philosophies of the game soon after retiring. In 1998, his book “Multiple Offense and Defense” was published, and immediately labeled by a must read by players and coaches of all levels.
Smith looks at both sides of the court in a thorough manner, letting the reader know about the strategies, tips and secrets which helped his Tar Heel teams win two national championships. In particular, his description of the “motion” offense is unique with its in-depth descriptions and all-around analysis into ...

Journal Entry 3: Book Review

Journal Entry 3: Book Review: Season of Life by Jeffery Marx
Part One

The best thing about Season of Life by Jeffery Marx is that boys are allowed to have feelings in this book. Feelings can range from deep sadness that causes them to cry as well as happiness when they are part of a winning sports team. The book is about true experiences from Gilman High School football players and from Joe Ehrmann, who is famous from his days as a college football player. Marx takes a different approach from other books when he shares ‘coming of age’ stories of ...

Leadership in Season of Life:

Leadership in the book takes many different forms. However, the main character Joe Ehrmann exhibits excellent leadership skills. He is a former football player who in his playing days was a star who is an excellent leader. The plot of the book follows the story of two old friends separated for almost a quarter century. The two friends are Jeffrey Marx and Joe Ehrmann. When the two finally reunite, Jeffrey Marx realizes that he can learn a lot from Joe’s leadership. This is mainly because Joe proves that he is a great leader who coaches a high school football team as well as running a ...

There is so much more to like about Season of Life than not. To begin with, challenging stereotypes of masculinity, doing so with sensitivity and actually managing to put up a convincing argument is quite an achievement. Marx has written a book about a potentially controversial subject. However, by using the backdrop of college football, he touches a nerve that almost every American is bound to respond to, and positively at that. This, I believe, is the mark of a genius. For a person who has been a part of the sports fraternity, writing a book that questions the leadership approach of coaches, the lifestyles of players ...

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There is an amicable relationship between golf and management as illustrated in this preceding except or piece of writing. This is due to the fact that, the two work on barely the same principles and orientation.
For example, management is the process of enabling the realization of objectives effectively by mobilizing people or human resources toward the desired ends. This is enabled through the incooperation of the available and needed resources such as finances, technological know how ann natural endownment. Alternatively, management can be defined as redefinition of human acts inorder to facilitate the realization of the ...

Summarize the major points of Brooks’ research. What are the themes that comes out and why is it important?

Assess the author’s level of objectivity. In discussing objectivity, discuss the strengths AND weaknesses of Brooks’ ethnographic work?

Which person in the book can you relate to the best and why?

Introduction:

Scott Brooks who is a former coach is well known as one of the foremost contemporary minds on the subject of sociology. In his excellent book bearing the same name he attempts to dissect the various sociological theories which have been prevalent to this day and which continue to ...

1. Please write a brief summary of the material presented in the book.
The book is based on various aspects related with Golf game. Book does not only provide detail of techniques and tips a golfer can use but also various exercises which can help players in improving their game. The book provides knowledge on psychology of a golfer, why he wants to play golf. During his fifteen year career Author access the need of various golfers and he found that the main desires of golfer are:

• Freedom,
• Peace of mind
• Increased awareness

In his book Author defined all three points ...

Ray Kinsella narrates the story Shoeless Joe (Kinsella, 1999). It’s set in a quiet farm in Iowa, where Kinsella’s support team were his wife as well as his daughter, Karin. Somehow, part of this support group is his father (even though he they were estranged most the novel), Johnny Kinsella, who introduced to him the love he has and was so compelled to write about – baseball. His love for this sport carried him out into such a play on fantasy, and led him to do the things which he did. His feelings and emotions towards the sport were in a ...

Despite the popularity of soccer and basketball, baseball is a sport of great interest to a majority of the authors. The book titled “Legal Bases: Baseball and the Law” is an appreciable attempt of author Roger Abrams, who gives an account of the history related to labor-management relations . The author brings innovative insights not only to the subject, but also to the lawyers, baseball fans, students and historians who attempt making sense to the legal issues surrounding the sport. In the book, Abrams bases his story depending on the case studies of people who portrayed significant roles in validating the players’ ...

Chapter 1

The main idea of “The Matthew Effect” is that people frequently attribute success to individual characteristics that they consider to be rare, such as genius or talent. However, oftentimes the real explanation for that success has to do with advantages that are not accessible to the public. The analogy that he provides has to do with the factors that create the tallest tree in a particular forest. It is true that the tree came from a quality seed, but that seed (and sapling) did not have any other trees blocking its sunlight, and the seed was planted in fertile ...

Book Review: Taking on the Trust and Outliers

Summary and Analysis
Central to the story of Taking on the Trust is the story of Ida Tarbell, a journalist who specialized in muckraking – a form of journalism that tackles the main issue directly by pointing out moral implications and subsequently instigating activism for reforms. The successful career of Tarbell in journalism has made her one of the most iconic American journalists during the early 20th century. One of the most famous controversies Tarbell has covered is the one involving Standard Oil Company (Weinberg).
Tarbell never regarded herself as a specialist in writing on business stories. Having no profound experience ...

My work is devoted to the book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” by Jon Krakauer. It is devoted to the series of sexual rapes which happened at the University of Montana, in the town of Missoula. Missoula is an ordinary college town, which has a state university with its own football team, the Grizzlies. Between years 2008 and 2012 there were over 300 sexual assaults reported to the local police station. Most of these cases were settled by the university or local authority. The author of the book examines several cases more deeply and ...

Introduction

Richard Hoffman wrote Half the House: Memoir, and it was first published in the year 1995. The book was then republished in 2005 with an afterword added to the memoir in 1996. Hoffman claimed that the book was nonfiction and the scenes described by the book were experiences he underwent in his childhood life. However, the names of the characters had been altered safe for the name of the football coach that had sexually molested him in his childhood. The book describes the hardships Hoffman faced in the hands of the ruthless society, his poor family, and an abusive ...

Deborah Meier’s book ‘The Power of Their Idea’ explores a number of issues affecting the public education system. These factors include the leadership in the education system, the philosophy of education, constraints facing teachers in delivering education among other factors. The book seems to be speaking from the author’s viewpoint. The education today is a result of various developments hatched for the purpose of changing the values or the philosophy of education. According Meier (2002), the teachers should have the greater autonomy of handling or running the affairs of public schools. Arguably, such autonomy enables teachers to view the ...

Human beings undergo several developmental stages for a complete lifespan. People develop from the time of conception until they finally die. As children grow, they are faced with health challenges in their lives. These health challenges can contain if parents take up their responsibility as parents. Some of the challenges can be contained before they pose danger to the child. Obesity for example is a disorder that faces many children worldwide. It is a condition whereby the victim has overweight and accumulates more fats in the body. This condition affects about a quarter of American population. The most common eating disorders that cause ...

Summary

A Coach's Influence: Beyond the Game is a book written by Grant Teaff. Teaff is a coach, a player and an executive director of the American Football Coach Association. Teaff’s book contains three parts; the introduction, part one and part two. The book talks about the power of influence from the coach. It is a book that discusses issues affecting the youth and solutions to these issues. The book celebrates how football coaches learn from each other through the life of Teaff. Teaff’s book gives coaches and teachers knowledge, experience and techniques to use in solving social issues facing the youth.
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Background

Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff is a book that aims to give strategies to help the reader increase their IQ while not necessarily providing solutions to all problems. The book is subtitled "The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life." The book is a worldwide bestseller because of the timeless advice, strategies and case examples given throughout its pages. The book was originally written in 1993 but is still listed as one of the best business books around.

Overview

The first chapter of any book usually sets the tone for the rest of the work. In this book, ...

Written by Carr Nudge, ‘the shallows’ is a book that questions the capacity of our minds to grasp and store information for future use. The power to concentrate on a specific idea or something has been lost due to the frequent use of the Internet. Carr’s book tries to answer the effects of the use of the Internet on the human mind.

In his book, Carr states that he comes to realize that his brain had lost its concentration power, as info on anything he required was a click away on the Internet. He acknowledges that most of his life ...

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

Book Review

The Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell is a nonfiction text. It incorporates a straightforward writing that presents clear points that are easy to grasp for the readers. In the course of the book, Gladwell emerges as a rational and a lively writer with a skill of presenting complex things in a simple way. The text provides rational explanations to various apparent mysteries, twists of fate, and day to day challenges. The author presents his work through logical reasoning and incorporating shrewd expressions that explain the occurrence of various social phenomena. This book attempts to dissipate the myth of individualism as a viable explanation ...

Question One

Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) is a theory used to illustrate how people react to fear related stimuli. In deed, the experiences of Elmer Fudd explain how effective this model can be applied to promptly influence a person’s decision regarding the matter at hand. For it to accomplish its persuasive goal, it has to incorporate the elements of self efficacy, response efficacy, susceptibility and severity. Each of these is crucial in determining the magnitude of the threat and the perception and ability of an individual to perform the desired task.
If I were to use this model to encourage ...

Managing the team is an art rather than a science. There are no specific rules on how to manage a team and how to get the most out of the team. One leader may use different strategies and techniques in order to get the most out from the team, whereas another leader might come up with different style to enhance the productivity of the team. This essay highlights the philosophy of leadership from the perspective of Phil Jackson. The overall essay analyzes leadership and how Jackson built the team as explained by him in his book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a ...

Guide to California planning-4th Edition is a very invaluable text written by William Fulton and Paul Shigley. It gives very important information on the planning processes in the state of California. To begin with, it fully explores the elaborate city and urban planning exercise used by stakeholders in the development and expansion of the urban centers. As the authors argue, the planning exercise is a very vital process which is guided by numerous state and federal ordinances. These are enforced both by the country and state authorities.
More importantly, there is the laying out of all the laws used in ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract
The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

In Chapter 2, Evaluation of Job Demands, the author discusses the various forces and factors that go into determining just how physically demanding a job can be. This is done in order to evaluate the proper ergonomic precautions that must be made in a given job environment. The author defines the long-term effects of physical demands on a worker as work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), and how jobs are analyzed in order to prevent them as effectively as possible. When performing job analysis, data (both quantitative and qualitative) is gathered about the job itself, then processed through a number of decision rules that lead ...

Storch, Randi. Red Chicago: American communism at its grassroots, 1928-35. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Randi Storch's 2007 book Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots details the subversive movement in Chicago at the time, when there was a vast upswing of Communist thought stemming from the worker's revolts of the time. The American Communist Party had a substantial presence there, and the book describes their struggle for relevancy and to have an effect on the outcomes of political action at the time. The book attempts to reconcile the thought processes of these people with two very different, contradictory ideas: "one of an organization that celebrated Soviet leaders, co-opted Soviet symbols, and embraced revolutionary Marxist-Leninist ideology, ...

The human body is wired to function normally by maintaining a certain optimum functional state. Homeostatic mechanisms ensure that the body remains viably stable by maintaining the internal atmosphere within the functional limits. Alteration of the cells functionality brings about an unusual state in the body system. Interruption of homoeostasis causes the body to respond by correcting the state in a bid to restore the normal functionality. Lifestyle decisions such as nutrition and physical exercises directly affect homoeostasis which in most cases leads to a state of disease such as anaemia.
Nutrition is a major factor that affects the ...

1. The Social Miracle
T. R. Reid moved to Tokyo, Japan, with his family – composed of his wife and their two daughters – where he lived for five years, as an expatriate employee for the Washington Post. He posits that some Asian nations (such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore ) have built modern societies within the safest environment, providing the best education for the children, and with probably the most stable families on Earth. In Reid’s opinion, this accomplishment is due to the widespread acceptance by Far East countries of the ethical values of Chinese philosopher Confucius. He pointed ...

A social commentary is a piece of work that expresses opinions and expressions about a historical event, appealing to the audience’s sense of social justice. George MacDonald Fraser wrote a novel known as “Flashman “in 1969, which he identified as a reflection of his childhood memoirs.The novel entails the escapades of Flashman. The character is a fictional character that initially appeared in Tom Brown’s work “School days”. The author used his interest in being a soldier in Asia, and quitting his job as a journalist as the majormotivation for writing this novel, and the other series that ...

Summary

The book “Leading With the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life” was published in 2001 by Mike Krzyzewski and Donald Phillips. Primarily, the book talks about various aspects of leadership, especially how one earns it, practices it, and how they use it to improve themselves and their organizations. The book gives a detailed account of Coach K’s background where he lived with parents who demanded integrity and honesty in all his undertakings always mentored him. Furthermore, the book recounts Coach K’s experiences at the U.S. Military playing under the tutelage of coach Bobby ...

Introduction

This paper aims to relate the concepts of and the paradoxes behind equity, efficiency, security, and liberty to a news article titled San Francisco students suspended over racist ‘wigger party’ by Kale Williams (2016). It reports the incident where over twelve high school students were suspended from San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory for taking part in a “wigger party,” a racist themed party where White individuals emulate the culture of African Americans through a depiction of the stereotypes in mannerisms and clothing (Williams, 2016).

Equity

The news article depicted the paradox behind equity in that although the school ...

According to Michael, “Flash Boys” is all about how another group of venture firms has schemed with the financial firms and the stock traders to utilize sophisticated programming calculations to skim pennies. The group skim money from the genuine financial specialists who give value cash flow to the economy. Michael narrates a story through diverse cast of characters who come to comprehend this cutting edge scalping operation, and attempt to do something to defeat it.

The ethical champion in Flash Boys is Brad Katsuyama, an exceptionally well-paid stock merchant at the Royal Bank of Canada, who evaluated that the ...

The Immigrant Advantage: What Rest of America can learn from the fresh Immigrants.'

Cultures for Longer and Happier lives
Inspired by her culturally diverse life in Houston, award winning journalist and author Claudia Kolker investigates the attitudes and traditions towards education, hard work and health that have been imported into the United States by immigrants from different nations. She addresses the fact that natives to the United States have so much to learn from foreigners and that they should not be viewed form only an outsider point of view but should instead be embraced for the diversity they introduce to America. She argues that it is meaningless to fuss over their ...

Abstract

This book review examines how Tony Dungy deciphers the role of mentoring by leaders, in creating a lasting legacy of significance and integrity in the business or work of others. Written by a man all too familiar with the glories of NFL success, Tony Dungy experienced an early on and steadfast fulfillment of his own dreams and goals, whether as player or coach. In this collection of tightly woven symmetry Dungy voices a call for leaders to embrace a genuine interest in the people they manage, coach, nurture, and shepherd. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, a well-known Christian company, author Tony Dungy never struggles ...

Religious Studies

Global theology in evangelical perspective by Jeffrey P., Greenam, and Gene L. Green is a very insightful book as far as modern day theology and evangelism is concerned. This is more so because of the diverse opinions present in the book because of the book focusing on opinions from a large number of evangelical experts from different parts of the world. The book thus explains the impact the gospel has had in different parts of the globe over the years and delves into the future of the gospel in different parts of the world. The thesis of the book is the ...

The novel, ‘A separate peace’ is authored by John Knowles. This novel is based on a story of the author that was later developed as a novel in the year 1959. The novel reminds readers about school days and teen life. This paper intends to discuss the novel with a special focus on chapters 4, 5, and 6 of the novel.
The story is narrated by Gene Forrester. In chapter 4, Gene awakes at a beach with sunrise and becomes conscious that he has to face the math test within a short time. He rushes to the venue and reaches there on time ...

Introduction

The Bottom Billion is a short book that addresses contemporary issues in the world today. Collier looks at the main problems causing Poverty in Africa. He contends the traditional definitions of underdeveloped, developing and developed countries. According to the author, poverty is only a fifty eighty countries. To resolve the problems in the third world countries whose inhabitants make up the bottom million, countries should resolve corruption, improve infrastructure and governance practices. He argues against the imposition of radical changes by the developed countries on the third world countries. Collier focuses on the problem facing the African countries and relates them ...

Barry Nalebuff and Avinash Dixit wrote a very accessible and engaging work on Game Theory, which they support as a “Guide to success in business and life“. Game theory is the psychology and mathematics of social interactions in strategic situations. Drawing from their experience and professionalism, these authors sought to ensure that their audiences learn the concepts of their book. Avinash Dixit, an economics professor at Princeton University where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory for many years, and Nalebuff a professor of management and economics at Yale School of management both practiced their preaching. While Dixit is well ...

Literature:

Memoirs of a Proud Father
“Is he really my son?” I sometimes wonder at the ways of my son, Amir. I had been so different as a child. The best kite flyer, tall and athletic and loved as a football hero! While my son seems to be hiding behind his mother’s books all the time. He doesn’t even enjoy watching football, let alone play it. I observe with a sinking heart that he is easily bullied, and Hassan, who is only living as a servant’s son, defends him and protects him. The most disgusting habit of his is to cry, ...

‘She wins you win’ is Gail Evans book and its focus is ensuring that women succeed in the business world. The book tells the women all the rules they need to use in order to survive in the male dominated world of business. The book is about how to get ahead in the work place by understanding the unwritten rules that are applied in the work environment. Gail in the book informs the readers that it should not be enough that they understand the rules that the men made but rather they should create their own rules. In the ...

Book Review: “The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone,

Summary of the Book
The book entitled “The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves” written by Dan Ariely proffered pertinent issues relative to people’s propensity to cheat, or be dishonest, in various situations and conditions. The contents have been presented in ten chapters and written in more than 300 pages.
The main objective of the author was to determine and present findings of various experiments that delve into tendencies of people to cheat given that some crucial factors or variables are present, or absent, as needed. Categorically, the author divided the ...

Book Review of You: Stress Less

I. Authors
The two authors of the book YOU: Stress Less are medical doctors with extensive training and experience in the field of stress reduction. Dr. Mehmet Oz is a famous writer and television personality and also a professor of surgery at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University and the head of the Heart Institute. Dr. Michael F. Roizen is also a well-known writer on medical topics and head of the Wellness Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. He appeared regularly on the Oprah Winfrey Show as a heath expert, while Dr. Oz has his own daytime television program. Their purpose was to describe the ...

Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I (1989) - John Ellis

When it comes to wars that are an exercise of futility, nothing good can come out of them. Although all wars can be considered an exercise of futility, this is particularly true of the First World War. Although World War I was not the first time that trench warfare has been employed but trenches were certainly a prominent part of World War I. Undoubtedly, the thousands of eager soldiers who signed up for World War I in August 1914 had no clue of what was to come but they soon realized how futile the war really was. Trench warfare in ...

It can be simply said of as the ability to exercise authority, control, influence, and rule over living and non-living things altogether. This is the act of influencing things to happen or go in a particular way. The power at hand may be for the benefit of one or many people around the person with authority.
We are informed of how God used his power to manipulate the existence of the living and non-living things both on earth and in heaven. These things he created were for the benefit of himself and the community of mankind he had created ...

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C.
Introduction
The book “The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community” is an idiosyncratic ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes. The book brings the story of this group of people into present and hubs mainly on the very real problems of cultural continuity in a dynamic world. The author manages to discover demonstrates that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was 1985. This ethnography is very ...

1. Describe how a country producing more capital goods rather than consumer goods ends up in the future with a PPF that is larger than a country that produces more consumer goods and fewer capital goods?

PPF (Production Possibility Frontier) shows the maximum production level in the economy, assuming that the country produces only two products, which share same resources, available at the moment. In figure 1 the production trade off in the country is between consumer and capital goods. If the country is producing more capital goods, than consumer goods, as indicated by point A, it sacrifices producing consumer goods. However, ...