Sports and Leisure Paperbacks

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. Sport in the City

   Cultural Connections

   Edited by Michael Sam, John Hughson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport is now a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

   Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Mental Toughness in Sport

   Developments in Theory and Research

   Edited by Daniel Gucciardi, Sandy Gordon

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

   The pursuit of excellence in sport depends on four key facets of performance, namely physical, technical, tactical and mental skills. However, when physical, technical and tactical skills are evenly matched, a common occurrence at elite level, it is the performer with greater levels of mental...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008

   "To Remember is to Resist"

   Edited by Russell Field, Bruce Kidd

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport. After a world-wide campaign, the anti-apartheid movement succeeded in barring South Africa from the Olympic Games, while US athletes from the Olympic Project for Human Rights used the ...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. Projectile Dynamics in Sport

    Principles and Applications

    By Colin White

    How can we predict the trajectory of a baseball from bat to outfield? How do the dimples in a golf ball influence its flight from tee to pin? What forces determine the path of a soccer ball steered over a defensive wall by an elite player? An understanding of the physical processes involved in...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge