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Performance Studies An Introduction

Performance Studies An Introduction

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively accessible overview of the full range of performance with primary extracts student activities key biographies and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book’s topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments rituals play and games social media the performances of the paleolithic period and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences performing arts poststructuralism ritual theory ethology philosophy and aesthetics. Performance Studies: An Introduction features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. Performance Studies: An Introduction is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies the performing arts and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website offering a variety of interactive resources teaching tools and research links. | Performance Studies An Introduction

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Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the athlete or team. Researchers have shown that human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide accurate and objective information for high-performance athletes. Objective measuring tools are necessary to enable the feedback process. These can take the form of video analysis systems post-event both biomechanical and computerised notation systems or the use of in-event systems. Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is fully revised with updated existing chapters and the addition of 12 new chapters. It is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to this core discipline of contemporary sport science. The book offers a full description of the fundamental theory of match and performance analysis using real-world illustrative examples and data throughout. It also explores the applied contexts in which analysis can have a significant influence on performance. To this end the book has been defined by five sections. In Section 1 the background of performance analysis is explained and Section 2 discusses methodologies used in notating sport performance. Current issues of performance analysis applied research such as chance momentum theory perturbations and dynamic systems are explored in Section 3. Profiling the essential output skill in performance analysis is examined in depth in Section 4. The book’s final section offers invaluable applied information on careers available for performance analysts. With extended coverage of contemporary issues in performance analysis and contributions from leading performance analysis researchers and practitioners Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is a complete textbook for any performance analysis course as well as an invaluable reference for sport science or sport coaching students and researchers and any coach analyst or athlete looking to develop their professional insight. | Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

GBP 54.99
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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. With all 22 practitioners from the original series represented this is the definitive first step for students scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

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Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach. Using experts from across the sports science fields this book teaches readers the core concepts in a practical easy to understand style separated into four sections. Part I explains the fundamentals of effective coaching including the development of coaching philosophies best practices for coaching effectively how athletic technique matures and what coaches can and cannot do in specific health-related situations. Part II provides practical ways to improve athletic performance where readers learn the fundamentals of biomechanics and how to use technology to analyze performance the physiological functions and adaptations to exercise how the body can be physically trained and properly fueled and mental strategies to optimize athletic outcomes. Part III introduces the business side of coaching the important responsibilities involved in sport management and practical methods for marketing as well as working with the media. Last Part IV offers specific strategies for coaching across age and skill levels. Chapters are split into youth and high school collegiate and professional athletes and the nuances of coaching each level are explained. Being called Coach is an honor but with this title comes the responsibility of being professional knowledgeable and effective. Coaching for Sports Performance provides the platform for becoming a successful coach and assisting athletes in achieving their potential. Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach.

GBP 48.99
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The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners companies collectives and makers from the fields of Dance Theatre Music Live and Performance Art and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students researchers and practitioners. This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance and their stories reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms – scholarly academic creative interviews diary entries autobiographical polemical and visual. Ideal for university students and instructors this volume’s structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.

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Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

Broadcast Announcing Worktext now in its fifth edition remains one of the best resources for those looking to gain the skills techniques and procedures necessary to enter the competitive field of broadcast performance. Written accessibly with easy-to-digest modules and practice projects this book encourages active participation from readers to help develop their talent on air. In addition to the principles of good performance the book addresses the importance of the audience and how to communicate effectively to diverse groups. The book combines traditional teaching with practical experience and includes sample scripts and self-study exercises to allow for a practical hands-on application of key concepts. The fifth edition expanded throughout features updates about performance on the Internet and social media as well as content about podcasting and audio performance. A new chapter on international media offers readers a look at media performance and career possibilities around the world. This book is an invaluable resource for any student of journalism communication or public relations looking to enhance their media performance skills. A detailed accompanying website features audio-clips sample test questions and a Professionals’ Comment Bank setting out experience and advice from working pros. | Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

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Expressive Conducting Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors

Expressive Conducting Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors

Expressive Conducting: Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors applies the insight of movement and performance theory to the practice of conducting offering a groundbreaking new approach to conducting. Where traditional conducting pedagogies often place emphasis on training parts of the body in isolation Expressive Conducting teaches conductors to understand their gestures as part of an interconnected system that incorporates the whole body. Rather than emphasizing learning specific patterns and gestures this book enables student and professional conductors to develop a conducting technique that is centered around expressing the themes of the music. Drawing parallels to the worlds of acting this text treats the body as the conductor’s instrument. Coaching notes derived from years of experience as a performance movement specialist offer readers approachable methods for eliminating communication barriers—both conscious and subconscious—to encourage optimal performance highlighting acting theory movement exercises and the significance of weight distribution. Unlike other conducting approaches this text understands that conducting resonates throughout the entire body and is not conveyed by the hands or baton alone. With a comprehensive consideration of the conductor’s body and movements featuring over 50 original illustrations Expressive Conducting advances strategies for improving one’s conducting skills in rehearsal and performance. Jerald Schwiebert has developed a practical language for expressive conducting. Together Schwiebert and Barr present a text that is suitable for conducting students instructors and professionals alike. | Expressive Conducting Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors

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Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance. Focusing on a range of 20th- and 21st-century performances that include modern dance dance-theatre Butoh and everyday life this book demonstrates how the choreography of dirt makes biological geographical and cultural meaning what the author terms biogeocultography. Whether it’s the Foundling Father digging into the earth’s strata in Suzan-Lori Park’s The America Play (1994) peat hurling through the air in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (1975) dancers frantically shovelling out fistfuls of dirt in Eveoke Dance Theatre’s Las Mariposas (2010) or Butoh performers dancing with fungi in Iván-Daniel Espinosa’s Messengers Divinos (2018) each example shows how the incorporation of dirt can reveal micro-level interactions between species – like the interplay between microscopic skin bacteria and soil protozoa – and macro-level interactions – like the transformation of peat to a greenhouse gas. By demonstrating the stakes of moving dirt this book posits that performance can operate as a space to grapple with the multifaceted ecological dilemmas of the Anthropocene. This book will be of broad interest to both practitioners and researchers in theatre performance studies dance ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. | Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

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Ventilation Systems Design and Performance

Ventilation Systems Design and Performance

This comprehensive reference guide to ventilation systems provides up-to-date knowledge based on the experience of internationally-recognized experts to deal with current and future ventilation requirements in buildings. Presenting the most recent developments in ventilation research and its applications this book covers the fundamentals as well as more advanced topics. With rigorous coverage for researchers and a practical edge for building professionals Ventilation Systems is the one stop guide for the subject. | Ventilation Systems Design and Performance

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Community-Engaged Performance Tours A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators

Community-Engaged Performance Tours A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators

Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement. Performance tours have long been a part of the collegiate and high school music ensemble experience bringing student bands choirs and orchestras into connection with a wide variety of audiences venues and cultural contexts. This book presents a new approach to the performance tour that integrates touring with community engagement and service-learning. Emphasizing reciprocity cross-cultural exchange and global awareness the author addresses how visiting ensembles can work with host communities instead of performing for them. The book includes student and community perspectives and case studies from the author’s experience leading university wind symphony tours in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and provides a practical and hands-on model for ensemble leaders and educators. | Community-Engaged Performance Tours A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators

GBP 48.99
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Public Infrastructure Performance in Developing Countries

Public Infrastructure Performance in Developing Countries

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of the performance of the electric power and telecommunication sectors of Pakistan at the firm level as well as the sector as a whole seeking to identify and quantify the extent of inefficiencies. Since physical or financial or productivity indicators alone are not able to explain the duality of public infrastructure purposes the financial and productivity indicators have been used in evaluating the performance of these sectors. Further a Cobb-Douglas production function has also been used to calculate the trend in the growth of total factor productivity. Economies of scale have also been studied in the case of electric power generation. The results of the study show that in Pakistan one of the usual motives for privatization (to avoid the poor financial results of state enterprises) is not relevant for electricity and telecommunications enterprises. This however appears to be due to the financial subsidies they received through access to low cost loan finance and grants rather than to their efficiency in operations. By the economic criteria of growth of TFP none of the enterprises do well and two have a negative TFP growth. The case for reforming these enterprises is strong and alternative modes of organization finance and ownership need to be considered. | Public Infrastructure Performance in Developing Countries

GBP 74.99
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Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management A Practical Guide for Managers

Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management A Practical Guide for Managers

This book is a practical guide for managers to increase and support employee engagement through stronger performance management tools and techniques. In this second edition Edward Mone and Manuel London incorporate new developments in the field including discussion of issues about the value of challenging goals annual formal appraisals forced ranking and ways to give constructive feedback. The authors expand the traditional notion of performance management to include building trust creating conditions of empowerment managing team learning and maintaining ongoing straightforward communications about performance all of which are critical to employee engagement. Case studies offer concrete examples and checklists and surveys supply managers with ways to assess employee engagement as well as directions for increasing engagement. An up-to-date straightforward guide this book is appropriate for graduate students in Employee Engagement Human Resources and Management Studies as well as scholars and practitioners in those fields. | Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management A Practical Guide for Managers

GBP 48.99
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Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance

Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance

An effective strength and conditioning program is an essential component of the preparation of any athlete or sportsperson. Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance is a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning providing students coaches and athletes with everything they need to design and implement effective training programs. Revised and updated for a second edition the book continues to include clear and rigorous explanations of the core science underpinning strength and conditioning techniques and give detailed step-by-step guides to all key training methodologies including training for strength speed endurance flexibility and plyometrics. The second edition expands on the opening coaching section as well as introducing an entirely new section on current training methods which includes examining skill acquisition and motor learning. Throughout the book the focus is on the coaching process with every chapter highlighting the application of strength and conditioning techniques in everyday coaching situations. Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance includes a unique and extensive section of sport-specific chapters each of which examines in detail the application of strength and conditioning to a particular sport from soccer and basketball to golf and track and field athletics. The second edition sees this section expanded to include other sports such as rugby union rugby league and American football. The book includes contributions from world-leading strength and conditioning specialists including coaches who have worked with Olympic gold medallists and international sports teams at the highest level. Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance is an essential course text for any degree-level student with an interest in strength and conditioning for all students looking to achieve professional accreditation and an invaluable reference for all practising strength and conditioning coaches.

GBP 66.99
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Performance Art and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body

Performance Art and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body

This book examines necropolitics and performance art with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and decide which lives matter) through a lens of performance and art. Beasley highlights how the performances of rupture which are of artistic and historical significance reveal both strategies of survival and promises of possibility. Artists and curators examined include Jelili Atiku Giscard Bouchotte Nona Faustine Vanessa German Simone Leigh Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro Ebony G. Patterson and Dianne Smith. The volume is an ideal research and reference book for students and scholars of Contemporary Art African Studies and Performance Theory. | Performance Art and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body

GBP 48.99
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Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome

Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome

A new interest in the study of early modern ritual ceremony formations of personal and collective identities social roles and the production of meaning inside and outside the arts have made it possible to talk today about a performative turn in the humanities. In Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome scholars from different fields of research explore performative aspects of Baroque culture. With examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life from theatre music and ritual as well as from architecture painting and sculpture the contributors demonstrate how broadly the concept of performativity has been adopted within different disciplines.

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Innovation in Music Performance Production Technology and Business

Innovation in Music Performance Production Technology and Business

Innovation in Music: Performance Production Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising of cutting-edge articles on a range of topics presented under the main themes of artistry technology production and industry. Each chapter is written by a leader in the field and contains insights and discoveries not yet shared. Innovation in Music covers new developments in standard practice of sound design engineering and acoustics. It also reaches into areas of innovation both in technology and business practice even into cross-discipline areas. This book is the perfect companion for professionals and researchers alike with an interest in the Music industry. Chapter 31 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Innovation in Music Performance Production Technology and Business

GBP 56.99
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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence development and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers including producers theatre managers choreographers directors designers and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A Timeline of African American theatre and performance. Part I Seeing ourselves onstage explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas Broadway musicals and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II Institution building highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) festivals and black actor training. Part III Theatre and social change surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims women of the Black Arts Movement Afro-Latinx theatre youth theatre and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV Expanding the traditional stage examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews sense-making rituals and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen classroom club or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars students and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre.

GBP 44.99
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Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance

Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance

Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance 2nd edition shows students how to become effective producers and consumers of health and human performance research. Like the first edition this edition provides comprehensive coverage of both quantitative and qualitative research methods and includes step-by-step guidance for writing effective research proposals and theses. In addition the authors show how to read assess interpret and apply published research and how to conduct basic studies in health physical education exercise science athletic training and recreation. In this edition the authors have also expanded areas of research design to include the PICO (patient problem or population intervention comparison and outcomes) technique. Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance 2nd edition is filled with more up-to-date illustrative examples that emphasize the real-world applications of research methods. Throughout the authors draw on a variety of examples that were selected because they provide a context to further the understanding of health and human performance research. Research to Practice examples and Tips are included by the authors to help students better appreciate the book’s content. Additionally new to this edition is Pulse Check which provides an opportunity for students to engage in critical thinking in all things research. These study aids provide suggestions and additional resources to assist students in understanding the research process. Key terms defined and highlighted enrich each chapter. The end of each chapter includes Applying What You Learned sections designed to help students comprehend and follow best practices in research methods. Online resources and guides developed by the authors to support and enhance students’ learning of important research concepts are available.

GBP 69.99
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A Case-Solution Companion to Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology

A Case-Solution Companion to Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology

This international compilation offers a range of potential solutions to case studies that cover pertinent issues within a variety of performance environments. Offering a companion text to Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology: An International Case Study Collection this book provides three solutions for each of the case studies introduced. In so doing it highlights that there is no one-answer-fits-all solution to the common issues with sport and performance psychology consulting and offers various suggestions for how an individual may wish to approach these and similar cases. Solutions address the CEDI principles (Case Conceptualization Ethical Considerations Diversity Awareness/Reflection and Intervention Planning and Evaluation) as well as any case-specific questions. This clearly structured book serves as a useful resource for instructors looking to deepen discussion and offer alternatives to students’ ideas on how to approach certain cases. It will also be of interest to practitioners when approaching similar situations in their own work and looking for new pathways that they may not have considered. | A Case-Solution Companion to Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology

GBP 48.99
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Applied and Systemic-Structural Activity Theory Advances in Studies of Human Performance

Applied and Systemic-Structural Activity Theory Advances in Studies of Human Performance

This book presents new data in Applied Activity Theory (AAT) and Systemic-Structural Activity Theory (SSAT) that can be used in the study of human performance. The SSAT is the high-level generality theory that offers standardized principles of the analyses of human activity. These principles can be utilized in theoretical and applied studies. This multi-contributed book offers a selection of works that will provide a holistic picture of the field. The new data can be utilized for the study of extremely complex human-machine and human-computer interaction systems and for evaluation of efficiency complexity and reliability of such systems at the design stage. FeaturesShows examples of self-regulative models of various cognitive processesIllustrates a method of study of production process in the construction industryIncludes topics on learning training and managementCovers a new method of computer based automated support of decision making under risk and uncertaintyPresents a new method of evaluation of probabilistic structure of tasks and the method of assessing reliability of human performance | Applied and Systemic-Structural Activity Theory Advances in Studies of Human Performance

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Total Sports Media Production Performance and Career Development

Total Sports Media Production Performance and Career Development

This thoroughly revised second edition of Total Sports Media (formerly Total Sportscasting) offers a complete guide to sports media across TV radio and digital broadcasting. Covering everything from practical skills to industry lingo this book guides readers through each aspect of the sportscasting process including performance and production techniques demo reel production and writing for sports media. Chapters feature interviews with successful sports media professionals who take you inside the real-world practices of the industry offering invaluable insights on how to carve out a career in the field and forge lasting relationships with team personnel. New to this edition are a discussion of changes in the industry as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic updated sections on career paths and professional development opportunities and an updated chapter on social media strategies for sportscasters. This book also delves into the unique issues facing women and minority sportscasters. Finally the authors look at the history of sports media and discuss the future of the industry. Total Sports Media is an essential resource for both students and instructors of sports media as well as for industry professionals interested in a wide-reaching look at this changing field. A companion website features additional resources for instructors and students including video and audio examples and links to additional resources. | Total Sports Media Production Performance and Career Development

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Managing Sport Organizations Responsibility for performance

Managing Sport Organizations Responsibility for performance

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition Managing Sport Organizations introduces the fundamentals of sport management across every industry sector from youth and intercollegiate sport to professional leagues. Bridging the gap between theory and practice it covers every key topic issue and concept in contemporary sport management including: Understanding management and its relationship to sport Strategy Decision making Organizational design Leadership Human resource management Managing change Facility management Sports media and new technologies This new edition contains expanded coverage of current topics such as international sport ethics new technologies and career pathways in sport management. Each chapter includes a full range of useful features such as case studies career insights management exercises study questions and definitions of key terms and concepts. No other textbook combines the rigor of the business school with the creativity and dynamism of modern sport business. Accompanied by additional online resources this is the perfect foundation for any course in sports management sports administration or sport business. | Managing Sport Organizations Responsibility for performance

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Air Traffic Management Principles Performance Markets

Air Traffic Management Principles Performance Markets

This book addresses each of the Air Navigation Services' five broad categories of services provided to air traffic during all phases of operation: air traffic management (ATM) communication navigation and surveillance services (CNS) meteorological services for air navigation (MET) aeronautical information services (AIS) and search and rescue (SAR). This book is designed for working professionals in Air Transport Management but also undergraduate and postgraduate students studying air transport management and aeronautical engineering. It will also be very helpful for the training of air traffic control officers (ATCOs). The book does not require any prior (specialist) knowledge as it is an introduction to air navigation service provider (ANSP) business. There is very little literature available that gives a detailed appreciation of the complexities potential risks and issues associated with the provision of air navigation services. The role of this book is to fill this significant gap with a comprehensive in-depth study of the management principles related to ANSPs. This is particularly timely given recent ATC developments in Europe USA and New Zealand. Airlines and airports rely on the ANSPs for the management of air traffic. Hence air navigation services (ANS) provision is considered as a core element for air transportation. | Air Traffic Management Principles Performance Markets

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