Tag: Professionals

April 26, 2024

The Protection with Power What Financial Professionals May Not Want You to Know

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Free Download Douglas A. Clancy Jr., "The Protection with Power: What Financial Professionals May Not Want You to Know"
English | ISBN: 1683505697 | 2018 | 176 pages | EPUB | 1299 KB
The Protection with Power shows those approaching or amid retirement that investing is simpler than their broker wants them to believe. Once they get past the myths and misconceptions in the market, readers see that there are only three things they can do with their money. Written in clear and understandable language, The Protection with Power takes pre-retirees and retirees behind the financial industry’s curtain, revealing that the broker’s "expertise" they’re paying for isn’t so great and powerful after all. Readers learn how they can participate in the market more safely, without the need to "trust" a broker or pay high broker fees.

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April 26, 2024

Professionals, amateurs and performance sports coaching in England, 1789-1914

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Free Download Professionals, amateurs and performance : sports coaching in England, 1789-1914 By Day, David
2012 | 298 Pages | ISBN: 3034308248 | PDF | 14 MB
This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013. While the relationship between amateurism and sport is well documented, the impact of this ethos on the professional coaches and trainers who directed and supported elite sporting performance has been entirely overlooked. This book explores the foundations of coaching and training practices and chronicles how traditional approaches to performance preparation evolved during the nineteenth century. Drawing on primary material to uncover the life courses of coaches and their families, the author argues that approaches to coaching replicated the traditional craft approach to skilled work. The advent of centralized, amateur-controlled governing bodies of sport created a significant shift in the coaching environment for professional coaches, meaning that individuals had to adapt to the master-servant relationship preferred by the middle classes. Cultural differences in the value accorded to coaching also contributed to a decline in the competitiveness of British athletes in the international arena. The author concludes by arguing that despite scientific advances, Edwardian coaching practices remained reliant on long-established training principles and that coaching practices in any period are inevitably an amalgamation of both tradition and innovation

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April 25, 2024

Beautiful Testing Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

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Free Download Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice) by Tim Riley, Adam Goucher
English | December 1, 2009 | ISBN: 0596159811 | True EPUB/PDF | 347 pages | 4.8/3 MB
Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it’s a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas.

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