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1. SPSS for Sport and Exercise Studies: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students, 2nd Edition

   By Nikos Ntoumanis

   SPSS is the international standard software package for data analysis in the social sciences. This book is the only SPSS guide designed specifically for students in the fields of sport, exercise and kinesiology. It Includes sport specific cases and data throughout....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-44339-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities

   Edited by Joseph Maguire, Birgit Krawietz, Katrin Bromber

   This volume gathers work from a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, and post-colonial studies - to explore the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the global diffusion and development of "...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88438-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Sports Biomechanics: Reducing Injury and Improving Performance, 2nd Edition

   By Roger Bartlett

   When working with athletes and sports people the biomechanist is faced with two apparently incompatible goals: preventing injury and improving performance. Now in a fully updated and revised edition, Sports Biomechanics introduces the fundamental principles that underpin our understanding of the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55838-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Understanding International Art Markets, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Iain Robertson

   Recent reports indicate that the international arts market was valued at £40 billion in 2008, having grown 11% since 2007. Although the US and UK continue to dominate, art sales out of India and Russia have shown significant increases. In the years since the first edition of Understanding...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56103-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Mental Toughness in Sport: Developments in Theory and Research

   Edited by Daniel Gucciardi, Sandy Gordon

   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...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57298-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Asian Americans in Sport and Society

   Edited by C. Richard King

   For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. Asian Americans in Sport...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87491-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Understanding Sport in International Development

   By Tess Kay

   This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on sport in international development. It introduces and explores the practice and efficacy of international sport development through the experiences of young people who become engaged in sport programmes, as described in their...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57307-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Coping and Emotion in Sport: Second Edition

   Edited by Joanne Thatcher, Marc Jones, David Lavallee

   The emotional highs and lows of competitive sport, whether experienced as a competitor, spectator or coach may be the essential ingredient that gives sport its universal and compelling appeal. Emotion is clearly a pervasive force within competitive sport, and this is reflected in the burgeoning...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57819-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Watching the Olympics: Politics, Power and Representation

   Edited by John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson

   Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the the multi-media...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-57833-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Talent Identification and Development in Sport: International Perspectives

    Edited by Joseph (Joe) Baker, Steve Cobley, Jörg Schorer

    Identifying talent in athletes and developing that ability to its fullest potential is a central concern of sport scientists, sports coaches and sports policy makers. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge in talent identification and development in sport, from the...

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-58161-5 | Paperback (Routledge)