Sports Development Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. The Making of Sporting Cultures

   By John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sports Law

   4th Edition

   By Simon Gardiner, John O'Leary, Roger Welch, Simon Boyes, Urvasi Naidoo

   Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. Research Methods in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Edited by Kathleen Armour, Doune Macdonald

   This is the first research methods book to focus entirely on physical education and youth sport. It guides the reader through the whole research process; from the first steps to completion of a dissertation or practice-based project, and introduces key topics such as: formulating a...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Sport, Violence and Society

   By Kevin Young

   Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
7. Children and Exercise XXIV

   The Proceedings of the 24th Pediatric Work Physiology Meeting

   Edited by Toivo Jurimae, Neil Armstrong, Jaak Jurimae

   Children and Exercise XXIV presents the latest scientific research into paediatric exercise physiology, endocrinology, kinanthropometry, growth and maturation, and youth sport. Including contributions from a wide-range of leading international experts, the book is arranged into six thematic...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Evolutionary Playwork

   2nd Edition

   By Bob Hughes

   Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children’s play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being of...

   Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
9. Sport Education

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Peter Hastie

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Sport Education: International Perspectives presents a series of studies of the innovative pedagogical model that has taken the physical education world by storm. Since the emergence of the Sport Education model in the mid-1990s, it has been adopted and adapted in physical education programs around...

   Published September 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport

    Edited by Symeon Dagkas, Kathleen Armour

    Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

    'We can reach far more people through sport than we can through political or educational programmes. In that way, sport is more powerful than politics. We have only just started to use its potential to build up this country. We must continue to do so.' – Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela's...

    Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge