Sports & Leisure Studies

Understanding the Olympics explores the full social, cultural, political, historical and economic context to the Olympic Games

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In Sports Publicity, Joe Favorito, former Vice President of Public Relations for the New York Knicks, uses his professional experience to gives a practical overview of all aspects of sports publicity.

In this book, author Sam Carr explains how attachment theory can help us to better understand well-established themes and processes in sport and exercise, including motivation, social relationships, cognitive models of coping, and group processes.

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This edited collection is the first to focus on biomechanical aspects of child development.

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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