Sport and Exercise Science Books

New and Published Books

1. The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation

   Edited by Monna Arvinen-Barrow, Natalie Walker

   Athletes routinely use psychological skills and interventions for performance enhancement but, perhaps surprisingly, not always to assist in recovery from injury. This book demonstrates the ways in which athletes and practitioners can transfer psychological skills to an injury and rehabilitation...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 March 21st 2013 by Taylor & Francis
3. Science and Racket Sports I

   Published March 21st 2013 by Taylor & Francis
4. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. 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 March 21st 2013 by Taylor & Francis
6. Food, Nutrition and Sports Performance III

   Edited by Ronald J. Maughan, Susan Shirreffs

   As sport has become more professionalised over the last thirty years, so the role of nutrition in promoting health and performance has become ever more important to athletes who search for the extra edge to succeed in their respective sports. With the expansion in the provision of medical and...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport

   Ethical, Legal and Social Perspectives

   Edited by Mike McNamee, Verner Møller

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant anti-doping policy and...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Anti-doping: Policy and Governance

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mike McNamee

   The book addresses a series of key aspects of contemporary anti-doping policy. At the broader philosophical level, questions are asked about whether the scale of anti-doping activity and the intrusiveness of anti-doping policy in the lives of athletes is proportionate to the problem of doping....

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Complexity and Control in Team Sports

   Dialectics in contesting human systems

   By Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

   Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
10. 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...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge