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El Manual para el entrenamiento en el tenis está dedicado a un deporte único, que apasiona a millones de personas en todo el mundo, desde jóvenes hasta adultos. Casi ningún otro deporte tiene una complejidad comparable de requisitos. Junto a unas habilidades coordinativas y requisitos previos técnico-tácticos extremos que se les exige a los jugadores de todos los niveles de rendimiento, se suma la necesidad de desarrollar unas capacidades atléticas y mentales especiales. Manual para el entrenamiento en el tenis explica cómo implementar sistemas de entrenamiento contemplando todas las variables que se deben tener en cuenta en la búsqueda del rendimiento para jugadores de tenis. Primero introduce de forma teórica un sin número de aspectos individuales en el campo del entrenamiento del tenis basados en los más recientes conocimientos en las ciencias del deporte y entrega, de forma progresiva, una gran cantidad de ayudas prácticas en forma de juegos, entrenamientos y más de 100 ejercicios. También proporciona información sobre la alimentación, la salud y la recuperación. Un libro imprescindible para los entrenadores de tenis y profesores junto con todos los jugadores comprometidos con su rendimiento.

Die seit der Aufklärung und insbesondere der Französischen Revolution machtvoll voranschreitende Säkularisierung und die damit verbundene Herauslösung von Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft aus theologisch-kirchlichen Deutungen führte nicht zum Verschwinden der Religionen, doch hat die Religion im pluralistischen Gemeinwesen seitdem einen wesentlich veränderten Stellenwert. Anders als in England und den USA, wo der Aufbau des neuzeitlichen und modernen Staates weitgehend unbelastet von Glaubenskämpfen und staatlich-kirchlichen Konflikten vor sich ging, vollzog sich in Kontinentaleuropa die Entwicklung von Demokratie und Menschenrechten in scharfer Auseinandersetzung mit Kirche und christlichem Glauben. Dieser war in der Monarchie Staatsräson, in Deutschland noch bis zum Zusammenbruch des Kaiserreiches 1918, wo bis dato eine enge Bindung zwischen staatlicher und kirchlicher Macht – Thron und Altar – herrschte. Über Jahrzehnte war Religion ein eher unterrepräsentierter Themenbereich in den großen politischen Auseinandersetzungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Religionspolitische Fragestellungen und Konflikte werden in der Öffentlichkeit allerdings zunehmend kontrovers diskutiert, und Politiker/-innen unterschiedlicher Couleur betonen nachdrücklich die Bedeutung von Religionen und Glaubensgemeinschaften für Staat, Demokratie und Gesellschaft. Gleichzeitig finden religiöse Transformationsprozesse in der Gesellschaft statt, welche nicht zuletzt durch Zuwanderung beschleunigt werden, und es wird intensiv debattiert, wie mit religiös motivierter Diskriminierung und Gewalt umgegangen werden kann.

"Muhammad Yunus est l''un des critiques les plus sévères du capitalisme actuel, qui accroît les inégalités, le chômage et participe à la destruction de notre environnement. Pour sauver l''humanité et la planète, nous avons besoin, selon lui, d''un nouveau système fondé sur l''altruisme et la générosité - plus créatifs et efficaces que l''intérêt personnel. S''agit-il d''un rêve ? Pas du tout. Aujourd''hui, des milliers d''entrepreneurs suivent ses idées. De l''Inde à la Allemagne, en passant par la France ou la Colombie, des entreprises innovantes ont été créées pour réduire la pauvreté, améliorer les soins médicaux et l''éducation, lutter contre le réchauffement climatique, sans être gouvernées par le seul profit. À partir des multiples expériences inspirées de son travail, Yunus dresse le portrait de cette nouvelle civilisation qui émerge. Un défi plein d''espoir pour les jeunes, les hommes politiques et pour l''ensemble des citoyens qui se battent pour une planète débarrassée des trois effets pervers d''un capitalisme hors de contrôle : la pauvreté, le chômage, la pollution."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Das Handbuch für Tennistraining ist die vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage des klassischen Lehrbuchs. In der Theorie werden alle Aspekte im Handlungsfeld des Tennistrainings auf der Grundlage neuester sportwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse vermittelt. Darauf aufbauend werden weit über einhundert Übungs-, Trainings- und Spielformen ansprechend skizziert und durch eindrucksvolle Fotos illustriert. Im Einzelnen werden die Bereiche Leistungssteuerung, Technik-, Taktik- und psychologisch orientiertes Training, der gesamte Bereich des Athletiktrainings sowie im trainingsbegleitenden Umfeld die Themen Gesundheit, Ernährung und Regeneration behandelt. Das Handbuch für Tennistraining richtet sich an alle Tennis- und Athletiktrainer des Deutschen Tennis Bundes (DTB) und des Verbandes Deutscher Tennislehrer (VDT) sowie an Studierende im Fach Sportwissenschaft. Auch den zahlreichen engagierten Freizeit- und Leistungsspielern sowie den Akteuren im engeren Umfeld der Spieler und nicht zuletzt allen Eltern von tennisbegeisterten Kindern kann die Lektüre empfohlen werden.

Ziel des Lehrbuches ist es, dem Leser einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Verfahren zur Vorbereitung mehrkriteriell abgestützter Entscheidungen zu vermitteln. Auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der AHP-Methode (Analytic Hierarchy Process) wird besonders Gewicht gelegt. Diese von T.L. Saaty (University of Pittsburgh) wesentlich geprägte Methode findet in neuerer Zeit weltweit große Beachtung.

Der bildungspolitische Diskurs hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten einen radikalen Paradigmenwechsel erfahren: »Wettbewerb der Bildungsstandorte«, »Effizienzsteigerung«, »Arbeitsmarktfähigkeit «, so lauten die zentralen Schlagworte. Unverändert gilt dagegen, dass Bildungssysteme zur Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten beitragen. Das liberale Versprechen der Chancengleichheit durch Bildung ist längst ersetzt durch ein neues: Eigenverantwortliches, lebenslanges Lernen sichere die Arbeitsmarktfähigkeit. Leistungsmoral und Konkurrenz, aber auch die Angst vor sozialem Abstieg liefern den Nährboden für neue Lern- und Laufbahnbedürfnisse bis hin zum Selbstmarketing. Die Finanzkrise heizt die Dynamik an. Spareinschnitte und Wirtschaftlichkeitsvorgaben setzen auch das öffentliche Bildungswesen dem Markt aus. Dieser entscheidet zunehmend, welche Bildung stattfindet und welche Kompetenzziele verfolgt werden.

The Generosity Network is the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Philanthropist Jeff Walker and fund-raising expert Jennifer McCrea offer a fresh new perspective that can make the toughest challenges of nonprofit management and development less stressful, more rewarding—and even fun. Walker and McCrea show how traditional pre-scripted, money-centered, goal-oriented fund-raising techniques lead to anxiety and failure, while open-spirited, curiosity-driven, person-to-person connections lead to discovery, growth—and often amazing results. Through engrossing personal stories, a wealth of innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, they show nonprofit leaders how to build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, public support, and all the other forms of social capital that often seem scanty yet are really abundant, waiting to be uncovered and mobilized. Highly practical, motivating, and thought provoking, The Generosity Network is designed to energize and empower nonprofit leaders, managers, donors, board members, and other supporters. Whether you help run a multimillion-dollar global nonprofit or raise funds for a local scout troop, PTA, or other community organization, you’ll learn new approaches that will make your work more successful and enjoyable than ever.

Since about 1915 integration theory has consisted of two separate branches: the abstract theory required by probabilists and the theory, preferred by analysts, that combines integration and topology. As long as the underlying topological space is reasonably nice (e.g., locally compact with countable basis) the abstract theory and the topological theory yield the same results, but for more compli cated spaces the topological theory gives stronger results than those provided by the abstract theory. The possibility of resolving this split fascinated us, and it was one of the reasons for writing this book. The unification of the abstract theory and the topological theory is achieved by using new definitions in the abstract theory. The integral in this book is de fined in such a way that it coincides in the case of Radon measures on Hausdorff spaces with the usual definition in the literature. As a consequence, our integral can differ in the classical case. Our integral, however, is more inclusive. It was defined in the book "C. Constantinescu and K. Weber (in collaboration with A.

In DEMAND: Giving People What They Love Before They Know They Want It (Crown Business; October 2011), Adrian Slywotzky, named by Industry Week one of the world’s six most influential management thinkers, provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications—not just for people in business but also for social activists, governments leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. They all need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why very good ≠ magnetic; how what you don’t see can make or break a product; the art of transforming fence sitters into customers; why there’s no such thing as an average customer; and why real demand comes from a 45-degree angle of improvement (rather than the five degrees most organizations manage).

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship. A key member of one of New York’s most civic-minded families—one that has supported many of America’s notable institutions and deserving programs—Jonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to “active citizenship.” It’s an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems. In Citizen You, Tisch challenges readers to join this movement and points the way toward making our world a better place, one person and one neighborhood at a time. Tisch has filled Citizen You with accounts of people who you’ll meet, such inspirational individuals as: Scott Harrison, who has used the networking and marketing skills he developed as a night club promoter to help over a million people in the developing world get access for the first time to clean, safe drinking water. Steffi Coplan, whose Broadway2Broadway project brought out the hidden musical talents of kids at an inner city school. Eric Schwarz, who decided to do something about America’s under-performing schools, and parlayed a single classroom mentoring project into the nationwide Citizens Schools movement. Chris Swan, who is training a new generation of “citizen engineers” to make sure that the projects they build aren’t just structurally sound but also environmentally and socially sustainable. Dave Nelson, who traded his role as an executive at IBM for a job at a struggling nonprofit that teaches kids about the power of entrepreneurship—and discovered a host of new challenges and rewards in the process. Through these and many other remarkable stories, you’ll learn how today’s active citizens are transforming thinking about social change. Rather than short-term fixes and hand-me-down charity, they’re striving to build sustainable, systemic solutions to our most challenging problems, building and empowering communities rather than fostering dependency. And they’re using a host of new tools, from online networking and private-public partnerships to corporate engagement and social entrepreneurship, to redefine how change can happen. Citizen You is a potent antidote to pessimism. At a time of unprecedented challenges on the national and world stage, when active citizenship is not a choice but a necessity, Citizen You dares us to reshape the social, political, and intellectual structures that have long confined us, and offers fresh thinking that redefines the very concept of activism. For more information and ideas about how to be an active citizen go to www.citizenyou.org

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The American public education system is in crisis. Millions of students attend """"failure factories"""" that produce more drop-outs than graduates; millions more attend """"nice"""" schools that mask mediocre achievement. The U.S.''s reading and math scores stagnate and even fall behind, while other countries continue to advance. But many are working to reinvent this system. The film Waiting for Superman, directed by An Inconvenient Truth''s Davis Guggenheim, chronicles these efforts through the interlocking stories of a handful of students and families searching for alternatives, and of reformers proving that all kids can learn. Expanding on the film''s arguments, the book Waiting for Superman explores politically charged topics through a series of essays by thinkers at the leading edge of educational innovation. It shows how failing schools destroy neighborhoods - not the reverse - and how research reveals that dedicated, attentive teachers are what help at-risk kids succeed. With candor, poignancy, and hope, this book encourages those inspired by the film to join the battle to save American education and our children''s future.

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as ''''more than a terrific movie - it''s an important movie.'''' Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably? Expanding on the film''s themes, the book Food, Inc. will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world.

Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." In this text, he shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.

Arguing that the same emotions that shape interpersonal relationships determine one''s financial health, a guide to forging a prosperous relationship with money counsels readers on how to understand one''s monetary strengths and weaknesses. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

The largest generation in history, the Millennial Generation are independent-- politically, socially, and philosophically-- and they are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world.

Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning, such as •How to change the odds for your next major initiative and create potential industry breakthroughs, as Toyota did with its expanding universe of Prius vehicles. •Shape and exploit risk, don’t be shaped by it. Become a knowledge-intensive business and continuallyincrease the knowledge gap between yourself and rivals, as Coach and Tsutaya of Japan have convincingly done. •A category killer can’t kill what’s not in its category. When basketball legend Bill Russell faced a taller, stronger Wilt Chamberlain, he led the Celtics to victory by inventing a different game. The same thinking lets Target prosper in a Wal-Mart world—and can help you outcompete the “unbeatable” rival in your own industry. •When you come to a fork in the road—take it! Only a fraction of companies survive when industries experience technological or strategic transitions. To be a survivor, learn the secret that enabled Microsoft to weather the advent of the Internet—the art of the double bet. •Stuckinabusinessbox? Findthebiggerbox—and then the biggest.When growth stagnates, capture more of your customer’s dollars through demand innovation and big-box thinking, as companies from Continental AG and Ikea to Procter & Gamble have done. •Your competitors can also be your greatest enablers of profit. Stop competing yourself to death! The key is knowing when to compete and when to collaborate, as Apple has shown with its revolutionary approach to the music business. In the 1980s conventional wisdom was that you could have high quality or low cost, but not both—until Japanese makers of cars and electronics showed otherwise. Now, high quality and low cost are required just to enter the marketplace. Today, we face a similar paradox when it comes to risk and reward. Rather than shrink from the high risk so integral to the tumultuous global economy, Adrian Slywotzky shows how it can be your greatest source of growth and future reward.

Praise for The Power of We "In The Power of We, Jonathan Tisch reminds us again that working together still yields the best results. Jon has spent a lifetime mobilizing people and organizations to get a job done in business and in civic service. His experience, optimism, intelligence, and common sense are reflected in this fresh look at the rewards of partnerships." -President Bill Clinton "The Power of We offers a clear and compelling lesson in how today''s business leaders can create new synergies and gain competitive advantage by learning how to partner successfully." -Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company "Jon Tisch has lived the strategy he describes in The Power of We, and now this extraordinary man and successful leader shares his strategy with us. Building partnerships at all levels-social, intellectual, and political, as well as entrepreneurial-will be one of the keys to progress in the coming decades. Jon Tisch provides a road map for those who grasp that reality." -John Sexton, President, New York University "Being a leader requires vision, focus, and influence. Jonathan Tisch has exhibited all three in this great body of work about what it takes to be a partner and something bigger than yourself. The Power of We is a must read." -Pat Riley, President, the Miami HEAT

When the market doesn''t seem to be growing, you need this guide "for mature companies looking to rejuvenate themselves" in order to keep your business competitive (Publishers Weekly). Though most companies claim to be growth oriented, surprisingly few actually achieve double-digit growth-and over the past 10 years, that percentage has steadily decreased.

Includes test-taking strategies, practice questions and explanatory answers for each part of the exam, full-length practice tests, and advice for taking the computer adaptive test.

The biggest, most important issue in business today--becoming digital--touches not only traditional enterprises but the most avant-garde of Internet companies as well. Old-economy companies must take steps to avoid becoming victims of capitalism''s creative destruction, the unofficial system that flushes out the old to make way for the new. For dot-com companies the question is whether or not they are flash-in-the-pan businesses with no long-term prospects of profitability and customer loyalty. Most of the early efforts to answer the question "How digital is your business?" have been shrouded in techno-speak: a veritable Tower of Babel unconnected with the real needs of business. Slywotzky and Morrison show, first of all, that becoming digital is not about any of the following: having a great Web site, setting up a separate e-business, having next-generation software, or wiring your workforce. What they so creatively demonstrate is that a digital business is one whose strategic options have been transformed--and significantly broadened--by the use of digital technologies. A digital business has strategic differentiation, a business model that creates and captures profits in new ways and develops powerful new value propositions for customers and talent. Above all, a digital business is one that is unique. How Digital Is Your Business? is a groundbreaking book with universal appeal for everyone in the business world. It offers: * Profiles of the future: the in-depth story of the digital pioneers--Dell Computer, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Cemex. * Insight into how to change a traditional enterprise into a digital business: the stories of GE and IBM. * An analysis of the profitable dot-coms: AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay. While How Digital Is Your Business? has great stories and case studies, its most invaluable central idea is that of digital business design and the array of powerful digital tools it offers for use in creating a digital future for your own company.