Sports and Leisure Books

New and Published Books

1. Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health

   A Narrative Approach

   Edited by Fiona Dowling, Hayley Fitzgerald, Anne Flintoff

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Issues of equity remain an essential theme throughout the study and practice of physical education (PE), youth sport and health. This important new book confronts and illuminates issues of equity and difference through the innovative use of narrative method, telling stories of difference that...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. An Introduction to Primary Physical Education

   Edited by Gerald Griggs

   Physical Education is a core component of the primary school curriculum. The primary years are perhaps the most significant period for motor development in children, a time during which basic movement competencies are developed and which offers the first opportunity for embedding physical activity...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

   Edited by Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Despite society’s current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children’s health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people’s lives. In this important...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

   Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Parissa Safai

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Encoding the Olympics

   The Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide

   Edited by Luo Qing, Giuseppe Richeri

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Commissioned by the IOC, this pioneering comparative study – the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Olympic Aspirations

   Realised and Unrealised

   Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
7. Disability in the Global Sport Arena

   A Sporting Chance

   Edited by Jill M. Le Clair

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges oversights and assumptions about the ‘normal’...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Olympic Marketing

   By Alain Ferrand, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Benoit Seguin

   The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans. It has been estimated, for example, that 3.6 billion people (about half of...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Gay Games

   A History

   By Caroline Symons

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Global Sport Marketing

    Contemporary Issues and Practice

    Edited by Michel Desbordes, André Richelieu

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management

    Globalization has had a profound impact on the sports industry, creating an international market in which sports teams, leagues and players have become internationally recognized brands. This important new study of contemporary sports marketing examines the opportunities and threats posed by a...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge