Taylor & Francis India: Sports and Leisure

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…

Hardback – 2019-06-13 
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Dave Collins, Andrew Cruickshank, Geir Jordet

The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching, sports science and medicine, leadership and management, operating in different societies, living in the system as a…

Hardback – 2019-06-06 
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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,…

Hardback – 2019-04-03 
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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.…

Hardback – 2019-02-12
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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…

Hardback – 2018-11-28
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Laura Grindstaff, Ming-Cheng M. Lo, John R. Hall

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the…

Hardback – 2018-10-31
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Brett Smith, Andrew C. Sparkes

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise. The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer an in-depth survey of established and emerging qualitative methods, from conceptual first principles to…

Paperback – 2018-10-10
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Roland Carlstedt

Out of the broad arena of sport science and sport psychology, Roland A. Carlstedt presents a comprehensive collection on the neuroscience and associated psychophysiology that underlies and drives sport performance. Featuring sections ranging from the basics and foundations (anatomy and physiology)…

Paperback – 2018-10-08
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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,…

Hardback – 2018-09-26
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Routledge Studies in Sport Development

Edited by John Hughson, Kevin Moore, Ramón Spaaij, Joseph Maguire

Football is unquestionably the world’s most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football’s governing body, than to the United Nations. The sport has therefore become an important component…

Paperback – 2018-09-25
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by John Nauright, David K Wiggins

Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of racial, ethnic, cultural, political and geographical factors. These complexities…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Catherine D. Ennis

The first fully comprehensive review of theory, research and practice in physical education to be published in over a decade, this handbook represents an essential, evidence-based guide for all students, researchers and practitioners working in PE. Showcasing the latest research and theoretical…

Paperback – 2018-08-21
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Routledge International Handbooks