E-books: Sport and Leisure Studies

Edited by David Shilbury, Lesley Ferkins

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Governance is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the wide range of issues shaping sport governance. It considers the evolution of the sport industry from a largely amateur, volunteer-driven sector into the globalised business that it is today and examines…

eBook – 2019-12-06
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Nancy Lough, Andrea N. Geurin

Combining knowledge from sport management, marketing, media, leadership, governance, and consumer behavior in innovative ways, this book goes further than any other in surveying current theory and research on the business of women’s sport around the world, making it an unparalleled resource for all…

eBook – 2019-05-21
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by J. Timothy Lightfoot, Monica J. Hubal, Stephen M. Roth

Technological advances over the last two decades have placed genetic research at the forefront of sport and exercise science. It provides potential answers to some of contemporary sport and exercise’s defining issues and throws up some of the area’s most challenging ethical questions, but to date,…

eBook – 2019-03-14
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Robert J. Lake

Tennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate.　 Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world’s most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on and off court.…

eBook – 2019-02-05
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Simon Chadwick, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop, Christos Anagnostopoulos

Soccer is the world’s most valuable sport, generating bigger revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than any other. It is virtually impossible to understand the business of sport without understanding the football industry. This book surveys contemporary football in…

eBook – 2018-11-19
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Holly Collison, Simon C. Darnell, Richard Giulianotti, P. David Howe

Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale. The emergence of the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) sector, comprised of governments, NGOs, sport organizations and others,…

eBook – 2018-10-09
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Sport Development

Edited by Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews, Jamie Pearce

The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core mission to uncover and explicate all facets of…

eBook – 2018-06-14
Routledge

Edited by Anthony Elliott

Ours is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions. But there is also a darker side. Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions,…

eBook – 2018-03-05
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Joe Piggin, Louise Mansfield, Mike Weed

Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. This is the first book to critically examine the policy and practice of physical activity from a multi-disciplinary, social-scientific perspective. Moving beyond the usual…

eBook – 2017-12-22
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Mark Dodds, Kevin Heisey, Aila Ahonen

Contemporary sport business is international. From global sport competitions and events, sponsorship deals and broadcasting rights to labour markets and lucrative flows of tourists, anybody working in sport business today has to have an international perspective. This book offers the broadest and…

eBook – 2017-09-13
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram, Noam Shoval

Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at…

eBook – 2017-07-28
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Edited by Milena M. Parent, Jean-Loup Chappelet

From the Olympic Games to community-level competitions, sports events can be complex and pose a particular set of managerial challenges. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management surveys the management of sports events around the world of every size and scale, from small to mega-events,…

eBook – 2017-07-14
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Routledge International Handbooks