Sports & Leisure Studies

Research Methods in Physical Education and Youth Sport covers qualitative and quantitative methods. Each chapter includes summaries, practical activities, case studies, dialogues with researchers, and suggestions for further reading.

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Evolutionary Playwork, 2e is the only book to combine childcare practice with evolutionary and developmental psychology.

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The essays in this special issue of Sport and Society originate from a research symposium at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Through drawing parallels with art and theater, Stephen Mumford argues that spectators can shape the way they observe sports.

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The End of the Obesity Epidemic has won the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of The American Educational Studies Associaton.

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"Houlihan and Green have done a remarkable job of editing this comprehensive, exhaustive book on sports development around the world....This will be a valuable resource for all students of physical education and sport, providing them with a worldview of how sport is used as a tool in development and in producing world-class athletes....Highly recommended." —J. A. McClung, Berea College