Basketball today is the most popular global sport. This volume on basketball covers broadly the complete field of basketball. Ideal for professionals and general reader alike, this volume contains sections covering the history of the game, the major competitions, the playing nations, the great players and the famous clubs, rules and regulations, different tactics and techniques, playing regulations, equipment, fouls, positions and structures, shooting, passing, dribbling, variations and similar games and much more. This book also includes biographies of great players of the past today's best players along with their statistics. This book starts with the most basics and explains the hows and whys of basketball at a pace where even the most ignorant can soon know as much about the sport as any professional.

Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning in the context of educating. Teaching demands a special responsibility. Teaching requires authority. One of the greatest disasters to befall educational practice has been the miscomprehension of subject matter knowledge. Teachers-to-be are supposed to get their knowledge from subject matter disciplines. But knowledge given out in the form of "bodies of knowledge" is not the highly selected knowledge needed for teaching. The specialized knowledge and value claims of disciplines must be reworked for use in teaching. Amidst plenty of similar literature, the present book is unique as this elaborately X-rayes some vital and crucial issues viz. What is Personality Development?; Psychoanalytical Theories of Personality Development; Humanistic Theories of Personality Development; Nomothetic Theories of Personality Development; Causes of Mental III-Health; Behaviour Modification and Personality; Behaviour

Therapy; Psychological Perspectives of personality; etc. The book will prove of utmost use for students, researchers, teachers, educationists and administrators/policy planners.

This book contains biographies of great sportsmen and descriptions of the sports with which they are associated. Millions of people, from every country, of nearly every age, of every ideology, love sports, Sports games and play have figured prominently in all countries. Each entry in this book contains a succinct but carefully evaluation of subject's a career and contributions, as well as an up-to-date bibliography. Sports personalities from all over the world are included. There is some variation in the length of each, depending, in large part, on a subject's accomplishments, the complexity of his or her professional commitments, interest in the individual's life and accomplishments as reflected in what has been published about him or her, and the extent to which the available information about the individual has been accessible.

Old sayings go a 'Health is wealth' and 'Sound mind in sound body'. In the present context when global environmental and climatic conditions have deteriorated to the extent that man's survival itself is at stake, 'health education' has become of prime concern and significance, The judiciously selected articles contained in this volume, put light on Patterns of the Past; Methods of Teaching; Conceptual Approach: Trauma and Triumph; Unit Method of Teaching; Experiments in Health Education; New Approaches to Health Education; Guidance in Health Education; Guidance in Health Education; Health Education and Health Services; Evaluation in Health Education; Administration of School Health Programmes; Challenge of Teaching Health Education; Safety Education; Planning Health Education etc.

The present volume, which elaborately discusses various aspects of health education will prove of utmost use for the students and academics besides departmental officials and administrators concerned.