John S. Metcalfe Libri

Mountain Bike Fitness Training is a comprehensive training manual for the recreational or competitive mountain biker wishing to improve their performance in off-road riding. It is also a valuable resource for those who want to improve their general fitness, and have chosen the sport of mountain biking as a fun way to better health. The book includes in-depth guidelines on every aspect of mountain bike fitness training. The reader will learn how to: assess their fitness: work out training programs tailored to their needs; formulate a realistic diet plan; and ride a smarter and more ergonomic race. Where applicable, detailed descriptions of do-it-yourself fitness tests skill drills, and training excercises are given, allowing the reader to boost their fitness and skill at home with a minimal amount of specialist equipment. Every area of mountain bike fitness is comprehensively explained with easy to understand scientific information and relevant mountain biking examples.

This volume contains a collection of papers all concerned with the exploration of economic and social dynamics in relation to the innovation process and its outcomes. This theme is firmly rooted in the Schumpeterian tradition in which an economic perspective is mutually embedded in a wider awareness of the role of other disciplines. Indeed since Schumpeter's time, the degree of specialisation within the social sciences has risen many fold, new sub disciplines continue to emerge, highly specialised theoretical tools and empirical methods continue to be developed, and new fields for the study of management and business overlap with the more traditional social sciences. There is, consequently, a need for connecting principles to offset the dangers of intellectual fragmentation. Evolutionary economics and evolutionary analysis more generally, certainly provide some of these connecting principles. The various contributions to this volume reflect upon this research programme in a number of ways.