Individual Sports Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Science and Racket Sports I

   Published March 21st 2013 by Taylor & Francis
3. 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
4. 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
5. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa

   Visualising the Game

   Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Science and Football (Routledge Revivals)

   Proceedings of the first World Congress of Science and Football Liverpool, 13-17th April 1987

   Edited by Tom Reilly, Adrian Lees, Keith Davids, W. J. Murphy

   First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and Football. Held under the auspices of the International Council of Sport, Science, and Physical Education, the Congress was a unique gathering of international scientists...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Science and Football III

   Edited by Jens Bangsbo, Thomas Reilly, A Mark Williams

   The Third World Congress of Science and Football was held in Cardiff, Wales in April 1995. The aim of the conference was to continue to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of the various branches of football and increase the awareness of the value of a scientific approach to these games....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
10. 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