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Originally published in 1865, this classic has been adopted into the canon of children's literature. In the tale, young protagonist Hans Brinker wants more than anything to win a local speed-skating race -- and to get his hands on the beautiful silver skates awarded to the winner. Faced with a series of tragedies and tribulations, Hans makes sacrifices for the benefit of those around him and inspires others to virtue in the process. A must-read for fans of Aesop's Fables...

Skating --- Brothers and sisters --- Netherlands --- Sibling relations --- Sisters and brothers --- Families --- Ice skating --- Winter sports --- Siblings

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665 Bejaarden --- Skis and skiing --- -bewonersparticipatie --- verpleeghuizen --- bejaardentehuizen --- ouderen --- RVT's --- 324 --- Skees and skee-running --- Skiing --- Skiers --- Winter sports --- History --- -rust- en verzorgingstehuizen --- sociale problemen en zorg voor ouderen --- Theses --- Old age homes --- Older people --- Institutional care --- Services for --- -History --- -Old age homes

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This book provides detailed information on the different forms of injury that are associated with training for and participation in Alpine skiing, covering risk factors and epidemiology, incidence, injury patterns, and, above all, preventive strategies and current management approaches. Conditions addressed in individual chapters include concussion, traumatic dislocations due to high-energy trauma or inappropriate movements, overuse injuries resulting from dry-land training or skiing on snow, the fractures typically associated with present-day Alpine skiing accidents, and musculoskeletal disorders. The importance of a sound understanding of biomechanics and physiological systems for the design of suitable training protocols and trauma prevention is clearly explained, and in-depth information and guidance are provided on training and testing for elite skiers and return to sporting activity following injury. Among the other topics addressed in individual chapters are the relationship of changes in skiing equipment over recent decades to particular types of injury and the potential consequences of exposure to hypobaric hypoxia and other stressors at high altitude. The book will be of great value to all medical professionals who work with or care for Alpine skiers, as well as for trainers and the skiers themselves.

Medicine. --- Orthopedics. --- Rehabilitation. --- Sports medicine. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Sports Medicine. --- Athletic medicine --- Athletics --- Medicine and sports --- Physical education and training --- Sports --- Medicine --- Sports sciences --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Medical aspects --- Skiing injuries. --- Skiers --- Skis and skiing --- Winter sports injuries --- Wounds and injuries --- Accidents and injuries

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The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of winter sports in a harmonized and comprehensive way for a diverse audience of engineers, equipment and facilities designers, and materials scientists. The book examines the physics and chemistry of snow and ice with particular focus on the interaction (friction) between sports equipment and snow/ice, how it is influenced by environmental factors, such as temperature and pressure, as well as by contaminants and how it can be modified through the use of ski waxes or the microtextures of blades or ski soles. The authors also cover, in turn, the different disciplines in winter sports:  skiing (both alpine and cross country), skating and jumping, bob sledding and skeleton, hockey and curling, with attention given to both equipment design and on the simulation of gesture and  track optimization.

Civil Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Winter sports. --- Arctic sports --- Ice carnivals --- Ice sports --- Sports --- Engineering design. --- Surfaces (Physics). --- Chemistry, Physical organic. --- Engineering Design. --- Characterization and Evaluation of Materials. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Physical Chemistry. --- Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films. --- Chemistry, Physical organic --- Chemistry, Organic --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Physics --- Surface chemistry --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Design --- Materials science. --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Physical chemistry. --- Materials—Surfaces. --- Thin films. --- Chemistry, Theoretical --- Physical chemistry --- Theoretical chemistry --- Chemistry --- Biological physics --- Biology --- Medical sciences --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Films, Thin --- Solid film --- Solid state electronics --- Solids --- Coatings --- Thick films