Sport and Leisure Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China

   Communists and Champions

   By Fan Hong, Lu Zhouxiang

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Sports Development

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mick Green

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport Across Asia

   Politics, Cultures, and Identities

   Edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Science and Soccer

   Developing Elite Performers

   Edited by Mark A. Williams

   Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Science and Soccer is still the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to the physiology, biomechanics and psychology behind the world's most popular sport. Offering important guidance on how science translates into practice, the book...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Sports Coaching Research

   Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

   By Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World

   Contests of Virtue

   By Heather Reid

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports

    Edited by Belinda Wheaton

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports (also referred to as action sport, extreme sports, adventure sports) have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visibility across public and private space. book seeks to explore the changing...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge