Forthcoming Sports and Leisure Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Athletes, Sexual Assault, and "Trials by Media"

   Narrative Immunity

   By Deb Waterhouse-Watson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   To Be Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

   Edited by John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and...

   To Be Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. Strategic Sport Development

   Edited by Stephen Robson, Kirstie Simpson, Lee Tucker

   The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been. In response to this, strategic sports development has emerged as a means...

   To Be Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. An Introduction to Sports Coaching

   Connecting Theory to Practice

   Edited by Robyn Jones, Kieran Kingston

   An Introduction to Sports Coaching provides students with an accessible and engaging guide to the scientific, social scientific, medical and pedagogical theory that underlies the practice of quality sports coaching. Now in a fully updated and revised second edition, it introduces students to the...

   To Be Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Projectile Dynamics in Sport

   Principles and Applications

   By Colin White

   How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield? How do the dimples in a golf ball influence its flight from tee to pin? What forces determine the path of a soccer ball steered over a defensive wall by an elite player? An understanding of the physical processes involved in...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Science and Football VII

   The Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress on Science and Football

   Edited by Hiroyuki Nunome, Barry Drust, Brian Dawson

   Science and Football VII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as ‘football’. These include soccer, the national codes (American football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football), and the rugby codes (union and league). Bridging the gap between theory...

   To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sport Brands

   By Patrick Bouchet, Dieter Hillairet, Guillaume Bodet

   Series: Routledge Sports Marketing Series

   Sport brands are a central element of modern sport business and a ubiquitous component of contemporary global culture. This groundbreaking book offers a complete analysis of the topic of sport brands from both a marketing management approach (strategy and implementation) and a psycho-sociological...

   To Be Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Olympics, Media and Society

    Edited by Kim Bissell, Stephen Perry

    When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes. This book explores whether it is ever possible to experience the Olympic Games as an athletic event without...

    To Be Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge