Jennifer Aaker

Andy Smith

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results Features original case studies of global organizations like the Gap, Starbucks, Kiva, Nike, eBay, Facebook; and start-ups like Groupon and COOKPAD, showing how they achieve social good and customer loyalty Leverage the power of design thinking and psychological research with practical strategies Reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results-whether finding an almost impossible bone marrow match for a friend, raising millions for cancer research, or electing the current president of the United States The Dragonfly Effect shows that you don't need money or power to inspire seismic change.

Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change

The Dragonfly Effect

David Hieatt

The Path of a Doer

Using a fresh approach to creating comics, this book shows artists of all ages and talent levels how to build basic figures into stylized characters, set them in action, and add story-telling backgrounds. Some of today's hottest young professionals share their tips. 310 illustrations, 10 in color.

Drawing Dynamic Comics

In 'Twelve Months and Counting' writer and musician Andy Smith travels unsteadily through the first year of life without his wife.When Helen died of cancer in August 2019 the loss was enormous. She was fifty six years old. Initially he found comfort in documenting his progress through Facebook posts and composing music. But after a year had passed, he felt the need to write something more substantial and share his experiences of what it's really like to lose the most important person in your life.This book is an honest, heartbreaking, occasionally funny account of how he's coped with his new life. A life without Helen. He tells the story of how they met, about their love. He talks about her illness and her premature death. He tells how he's tried to cope with his loss and acknowledges the help of family and friends and the benefit of counselling.Through personal anecdotes, Andy weaves the tsunami of grief with 'real life' events. He intersperses the chapters with candid excerpts from some of his Facebook posts, which adds a poignant truth to the narrative.This is his story, warts and all. A first hand account of how it feels to be 'the one that's left behind'. The confusion, the desperation, the total disbelief, but ultimately the hope

A True Story of Love, Loss, Grief and Hope

Twelve Months and Counting

... The book proposes a robust, incisive alternative definition of politics: the mobilization of values to change or reproduce the insititutions that orientate, and indeed make possible, economic activity.

The Politics of Economic Activity

A step by step process to ensure you profit from your children's books. Cutting expenses, increasing sales and putting more money in your pocket as your business as an author grows.This book will show you the path to becoming a profitable full-time author.

Write, Illustrate, Publish and Profit for Less

How to Self Publish a Children's Book for Under $100

Ken Green

The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people's involvement in sport. Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, the book examines the importance of sport during a key transitional period of our lives, from the later teenage years into the early twenties, and therefore helps us develop a better understanding of the social construction of young people's lives. The book covers youth sport in all its forms, from competitive game-contests and conventional sport to recreational activities, exercise and lifestyle sport, and at all levels, from elite competition to leisure time activities and school physical education. It explores youth sport across the world, in developing and developed countries, and touches on some of the most significant themes and issues in contemporary sport studies, including physical activity and health, lifelong participation, talent identification and development, and safeguarding and abuse. No other book brings together in one place such a breadth and depth of material on youth sport or the engagement of young people in physical activity. The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is therefore important reading for all advanced students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in youth sport, youth culture, sport studies or physical education.

Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport

Daniel Bloyce

Set against the backdrop of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this book examines the impact on public policy from broader political decisions taken in relation to Olympic- and Paralympic-related policy. It considers the major political justifications for hosting these global sports events, evidence for their expected impacts, and topical issues including environmental protection and sustainability, the use of technology, and political protest. The book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in sport policy and politics, and how broader political decisions come to impact on the development of Olympic and Paralympic sport. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.

The 'Olympic and Paralympic' Effect on Public Policy

Transform your life and achieve your goals with strategies to ensure success. Includes solutions to key issues from deciding what is important to creating your own vision for the future, 5-minute fixes and high-impact techniques, plus a simple self-assessment exercise to help monitor progress Follow as a complete course, or dip in and out of topics of particular interest Pocket-sized - take it wherever life takes you

Achieve Your Goals

Work/Life: Achieve Your Goals

How has French society been made, by whom and why? And how in turn has it influenced the French? This book sets out the institutionalized rules and norms that continue to structure France, together with the ‘political work’ that has recently changed or reproduced these power relations. Exploring a range of age groups and types of social activity, including work, business, entertainment, political mobilizations and retirement, Made in France examines where significant change has occurred over the last four decades. Smith argues that while transformation has occurred in France's financial and education sectors, only relatively marginal shifts have occurred elsewhere in French society. To explain this pattern of continuity and isolated change, the book strongly nuances claims that neo-liberalism, globalization or a rise in populism have been its causes. References to these trends have impacted upon French politics to varying extents, Smith argues; however, France continues to be dominated by issues which are specific to the country and linked to its deep societal structures and history. Smith provides a comprehensive account of French society and politics and in doing so proposes an insightful analytical framework applicable to the comparative analysis of other nations.

Societal structures and political work

Made in France

Daniel Wilson

Batman, Power Girl, Val-Zod, Green Lantern and all of Earth-2's greatest heroes have fought against incredible odds and sacrificed much to defend their home, but Darkseid and the forces of Apokolips appear unstoppable. Humanity's last hope rests with one man: Dr. Fate. But will the reluctant sorcerer be able to hold onto the Helm of Nabu in the face of Darkseid's most powerful magicians? Or will its awesome magic be the key to Earth-2's final destruction? World's End has come to Earth-2, from writers Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse), Marguerite Bennett (DC COMICS: BOMBSHELLS), Tom Taylor (INJUSTICE YEAR THREE) and Mike Johnson (SUPERGIRL) and artist Andy Smith (TEEN TITANS: FUTURE'S END). EARTH 2 VOL. 6: COLLISION collects issues #27-32.

Earth 2 Vol. 6: Collision

Ivan Waddington

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. It offers a critical overview of the major theories of drug use in sport, and provides a detailed analysis of the involvement of sports physicians in the development and use of performance-enhancing drugs. Focusing on drug use within elite sport, the book offers an in-depth examination of important contemporary themes and issues, including: the history of drugs in sport and changing patterns of use fair play, cheating and the ‘spirit of sport’ WADA and the future of anti-doping policy drug use in professional football and cycling sociological enquiry and the problems of researching drugs in sport. Designed to help students explore and understand this problematic area of research in sport studies, and richly illustrated throughout with case studies and empirical data, An Introduction to Drugs in Sport is an invaluable addition to the literature. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between drugs, sport and society.

Addicted to Winning?

An Introduction to Drugs in Sport

The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people’s involvement in sport. Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, the book examines the importance of sport during a key transitional period of our lives, from the later teenage years into the early twenties, and therefore helps us develop a better understanding of the social construction of young people’s lives. The book covers youth sport in all its forms, from competitive game-contests and conventional sport to recreational activities, exercise and lifestyle sport, and at all levels, from elite competition to leisure time activities and school physical education. It explores youth sport across the world, in developing and developed countries, and touches on some of the most significant themes and issues in contemporary sport studies, including physical activity and health, lifelong participation, talent identification and development, and safeguarding and abuse. No other book brings together in one place such a breadth and depth of material on youth sport or the engagement of young people in physical activity. The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport is therefore important reading for all advanced students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in youth sport, youth culture, sport studies or physical education.

Mariano Sciaroni

An exclusive and thrilling story of the crews of 22 warships, submarines, anti-submarine-warfare helicopters, and Nimrod submarine-hunter aircraft involved on both sides of the Falklands/Malvinas War, their intensive and advanced training, and their dramatic combat experiences.

The Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Campaign in the Falklands/Malvinas War

Go Find Him and Bring Me Back His Hat

Nigel Thomas

Disability sport is a relatively recent phenomenon, yet it is also one that, particularly in the context of social inclusion, is attracting increasing political and academic interest. The purpose of this important new text – the first of its kind – is to introduce the reader to key concepts in disability and disability sport and to examine the complex relationships between modern sport, disability and other aspects of wider society. Drawing upon original data from interviews, surveys and policy documents, the book examines how disability sport has developed and is currently organised, and explores key themes, issues and concepts including: disability theory and policy the emergence and development of disability sport disability sport development in local authorities mainstreaming disability sport disability, physical education and school sport elite disability sport and the Paralympic Games disability sport and the media. Including chapter summaries, seminar questions and lists of key websites and further reading throughout, Sport, Disability and Society provides both an easy to follow introduction and a critical exploration of the key issues surrounding disability sport in the twenty-first century. This book is an invaluable resource for all students, researchers and professionals working in sport studies, disability studies, physical education, sociology and social policy. Nigel Thomas is Head of Sport and Exercise at Staffordshire University, UK, where his research focuses on the history, mainstreaming, and media coverage of disability sport. He previously worked for ten years with young disabled people as a sports development officer in local authorities and national governing bodies. Andy Smith is Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise at the University of Chester, UK. He is a co-editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy, and a co-author of Sport Policy and Development: A Sociological Introduction, and An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning? Both books are published by Routledge (2009).

An Introduction

Disability, Sport and Society

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? In order to understand the complex relationships between sport and other aspects of society, it is necessary to strip away our preconceptions of what sport is, and to examine, in as detached a manner as possible, the way in which the world of sport actually functions. This fully updated edition of Ivan Waddington’s classic introduction to drugs in sport examines the key terms and key issues in sport, drugs and performance and is designed to help new students explore these controversial subjects, now so central to the study of modern sport. The book addresses topics such as: the emergence of drugs in sport and changing patterns of use the development of an objective, sociological understanding sports law, policy and administration WADA, NGB’s and the sporting federations case studies of football and cycling the case of sports medicine. An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning is a landmark work in sports studies. Using interview transcripts, case studies and press cuttings to ground theory in reality, students and lecturers alike will find this an immensely readable and enriching resource.

A Critical Sociological Perspective

Sport, Health and Drugs

'Sober in Seven' details each of the seven stages that the author worked through, to wrench his life back from the clutches of alcohol. It offers inspiration, help and hope to anyone else seeking to do the same.

Andy Smith

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