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11. Science and Golf II

    Proceedings of the World Scientific Congress of Golf

    Edited by Alastair J. Cochran, Martin Farrally

    This book contains the papers presented at the second World Scientific Congress of Golf. The overall theme of the congress is the application of science, scientific method and scientific research in golf. The congress is intended to provide a forum for scientists of different disciplines to meet...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
12. Science and Racket Sports I

    Published December 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
13. Science and Football IV

    Edited by Aron Murphy, Thomas Reilly, Warwick Spinks

    This edited collection brings together the latest research into the range of sports known as football.With contributions by a large number of the leading international researchers in the field, the book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in football, and to raise the awareness of...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
14. Science and Football II

    Edited by Jan Clarys, Thomas Reilly, A. Stibbe

    This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven)....

    Published December 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
15. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

    Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

    Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

    Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
16. Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching

    Edited by Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, Jim Denison

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
17. Managing High Performance Sport

    Edited by Popi Sotiriadou, Veerle De Bosscher

    Series: Foundations of Sport Management

    How can managers design and implement effective high performance programmes in sport? What are the key challenges in managing elite athletes, sports people and teams? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive introduction to management practice, process and policy in elite and high...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
18. Twenty20 and the Future of Cricket

    Edited by Chris Rumford

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Cricket is a sport which is currently undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformation. Traditionally thought of as an English summer game, limited in appeal to Britain and its Commonwealth, cricket has, in the past a few years, achieved a global profile. This is largely due to the development of a...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
19. Complexity Thinking in Physical Education

    Reframing Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research

    Edited by Alan Ovens, Tim Hopper, Joy Butler

    Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

    In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena. Complexity provides ways of understanding that embrace uncertainty, non-linearity and the inevitable ‘messiness’ that is...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
20. Event Management in Sport, Recreation and Tourism

    Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

    By Cheryl Mallen, Lorne Adams

    Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Event Management in Sport, Recreation and Tourism provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical framework for planning and managing events. Focusing on the role of the event manager and their diverse responsibilities through each phase of the...

    Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge