Sports Analysis

Anthropologist Geert Hofstede's 1980 work, Culture's Consequences, was the first study to look at cultural differences using data. The Dutchman took advantage of the enormous global span of his employer, the technology company IBM, to gather survey data in 20 languages and across 70 countries, and to produce a unique study of national values.

Politics as a Vocation examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level it summarizes the political scholarship of one of the founding fathers of social science. On another it reflects a leading German academic and political activist's practical concerns about the future at a time of great volatility following defeat in World War I.

Gordon W. Allport's 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate prejudice. But the American's work reached further than that, also helping to shape society as a whole and making a substantial contribution to the US Civil Rights Movement, as well as to the country's anti-discrimination and anti-segregation laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

Bhabha investigates concepts such as "hybridity," the notion that ideas are made up of all the different cultures with which they have contact, and "mimicry," the way in which a person or group adopts an idea from another culture, to express a postcolonial world, where we are all "in between" cultures. These concepts have been important to postcolonial studies, but have also been taken up in such diverse areas as architecture and literature. Although criticized by some for insisting that the written word was as powerful as armed resistance in the struggle against colonizing forces.

The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors published after the first Earth Day in 1970, a time frame selected as a watershed moment for the contemporary American environmental movement.

Every fantasy sports player has dealt with the injury that was supposed to last “a week or two” but kept a player out for eight weeks. The glowing practice reports from the coach all week followed by an injury deactivation on game day. The vague and confusing terminology, the contradictory information—all fantasy sports players have (at least) one story of how player injuries derailed an otherwise promising game/week/season.

¿Te encanta el fútbol y quieres mejorar de manera sistemática? ¿O alguna vez te has preguntado cómo piensan los entrenadores y jugadores de alto nivel sobre el juego? Este audiolibro es tu respuesta. Los análisis en el fútbol están desempeñando un papel cada vez más importante en este mundo. Los días de “corazonadas” que representan la táctica principal en un juego están pasando de moda, y un enfoque más analítico se está aplicando al entrenamiento y al juego.

This audiobook will explain what soccer analytics are and how they work in a game. It will analyze different parts of play during a game and provide ideas and details around how analytics can improve a team during various passages of play.