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Higher Education Resources NEW! A new approach to career development Audiences: Supplemental textbook for recreation, parks, and tourism students to position their undergraduate coursework, practicums, field experiences, and internships to align with their future career path. Career Development in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism: A Positioning Approach outlines a step-by-step plan for career development based on the technique of positioning. The positioning approach shows you how to increase your chances of securing your preferred job by placing yourself in close proximity to the person with whom you want to work, the place or organization where you want to work, and/or the position that fulfills your career goals. This text will help students decide on the job they want and then begin building the skills, experiences, and professional connections they need in order to get the job. The book includes exercises to help students better understand each step in the positioning approach; sample resumes, letters, and emails; and success stories from people who have used the positioning approach to reach their career goals. It also offers techniques for succeeding in more traditional job searches, including preparing for the formal job interview. Career Development in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism: A Positioning Approach Robert B. Kauffman, PhD ©2009 • Paperback • 248 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-7633-3 • $39.00 ($45.95 CDN) Support student autonomy and leadership in service-learning projects Audiences: A workbook for university and high school students in recreation, physical education, and health courses in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of service-learning programs. This unique workbook puts students in control by providing step-by-step guidance through the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating service-learning projects. This all-in-one resource has the following features: • A practical, customizable process that offers students unlimited creativity in project design and execution • Group projects, activities, and worksheets to guide students through the planning process • Tools, tips, and techniques that enable students to navigate the complexities of their projects • Reflection activities, journal assignments, and student checklists to help establish and maintain progress • Instructions for designing a needs assessment and evaluation survey • Icebreakers and group activities that will help build group cohesiveness In addition to the student resources, there is also an online teacher resource guide to assist teachers in supporting their students through each step in the process. Service Learning for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation: A Step-by-Step Guide Cheryl A. Stevens, PhD ©2008 • Paperback • 120 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6022-6 • $24.00 ($27.95 CDN) View an excerpt online! Promotes profitability, environmental sustainability, and community enrichment through commercial recreation enterprises Audiences: Textbook for undergraduate courses in commercial recreation, event, and tourism businesses; supplemental text in recreation core courses; reference for professionals in the field. Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses provides both explanatory industry models and a practical overview of the recreation, event, and tourism (RET) field. Readers will find discussions of the business planning process and industry-specific concepts and content that link to the core principles of the field. They’ll explore contemporary operations and management practices while discovering the diverse career opportunities currently available. A unique feature of the book is documenting and demonstrating how recreation, event, and tourism businesses can move toward a more environmentally and socially sustainable future. Green Tips throughout the book offer guidance in environmentally friendly and sustainable business practices. The book also presents examples of how expenditures in green technology and practices can produce short- and long-term financial gains. An online student resource includes supplemental information, business plan worksheets, activities, references, and Web sites that students can use to further explore the ideas in the book. Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses: Start-Up and Sustainable Operations with Web Resource Robert E. Pfister, PhD, and Patrick T. Tierney, PhD ©2009 • Paperback • 296 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6353-1 • $49.00 ($57.95 CDN) e-book ISBN 978-0-7360-8570-0 • $27.00 ($31.95 CDN) View an excerpt online! Ancillaries are available and are FREE to course adopters. See www.HumanKinetics.com/RecreationEventandTourismBusinesses for more information. 34 (800) 747-4457 US • (800) 465-7301 CDN • 44 (0) 113-255-5665 UK • (08) 8372-0999 AUS • (09) 448-1207 NZ
NEW! Navigate the complexities of recreation facility management Audiences: Textbook for undergraduate courses in facility management, design, or operations of recreation areas and facilities. Resource for new professionals in the field. Recreation Facility Management introduces students to recreation facilities and facility management. The text begins with a detailed look into the foundations of recreation facility management, including defining recreation facility management and its key components, as well as describing the duties of the manager and the basic areas of the actual facilities. It also details the practical knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage a wide variety of facilities, including facility design, equipment management, financial management, human resources, facility usage, and auxiliary spaces. Throughout the book readers will find examples from a variety of settings that will help them learn to apply their knowledge to different types of recreation facilities. The text also includes access to an online student resource with learning activities, forms, worksheets, and Web links that will help students tie the concepts in the book to practical matters on the job. Recreation Facility Management: Design, Development, Operations, and Utilization with Web Resource Richard F. Mull, Brent A. Beggs, PhD, and Mick Renneisen ©2009 • Paperback • 312 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-7002-7 • $59.00 ($69.95 CDN) Ancillaries are available and are FREE to course adopters. See www.HumanKinetics.com/RecreationFacilityManagement for more information. View an excerpt online! Higher Education Resources An engaging and real-world look at sport facility management Audiences: Text for students in sport facility management or sport facility and event management courses. A reference for professionals. NEW EDITION! Available January 2010 Managing Sport Facilities continues to engage students with extensive real-world examples and information on managing a wide range of facilities. This text provides students with a complete look at what it takes to develop and run a sport facility with an approach that combines various topics and disciplines. Students will learn the history of the sport facility industry and the primary goals and objectives of facility managers; how to build and finance a facility; facility operation; administration of marketing, finance, and other critical areas; and event administration and management. Updates to this second edition include an expanded section on risk management and new information on security issues. The text offers profiles that provide a close-up look at the challenges and rewards of facility management and updated content in the Facility Focus and Behind the Scenes sections. Managing Sport Facilities, Second Edition Gil Fried, JD ©2010 • Hardback • Approx. 368 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-8290-7• $69.00 ($80.95 CDN) Ancillaries are available and are FREE to course adopters. See www.HumanKinetics.com/ManagingSportFacilities for more information. Prepare students to be effective recreational sport managers Audience: Text for undergraduate and graduate students in recreational sport management courses. Recreational Sport Management, Fourth Edition, is significantly expanded and improved to keep students up to date in recreational sport management practices and prepare them for solid careers in the field. It continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the concepts and applications of effective recreational sport programming and administration and it contains an even broader view of recreational sport management in various settings, as well as new chapters on facility management, equipment, and maintenance; a new chapter on career implications; and expanded chapters on fitness, informal sport, planning, and finance. A bound-in CD-ROM includes more than 60 forms and checklists for use by professionals in their daily operations Recreational Sport Management, Fourth Edition Richard F. Mull, Kathryn G. Bayless, and Lynn M. Jamieson, ReD ©2005 • Hardback with CD-ROM • 360 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-5131-6 • $52.00 ($60.95 CDN) Ancillaries are available and are FREE to course adopters. See www.HumanKinetics.com/RecreationalSportManagement for more information. Contemporary Sport Management, Third Edition Janet B. Parks, DA, Jerome Quarterman, PhD, and Lucie Thibault, PhD, Editors ©2007 • Hardback • 520 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6365-4 • $76.00 ($89.95 CDN) Teaching With Movies: Recreation, Sports, Tourism, and Physical Education Teresa O’Bannon, PhD, and Marni Goldenberg, PhD ©2008 • Paperback • 176 pp ISBN 978-0-7360-6508-5 • $24.00 ($27.95 CDN) View an excerpt online! For more textbooks, visit www.HumanKinetics.com/Recreation 35
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