Sports and Leisure Books

New and Published Books

1. Science and Racket Sports I

   Published June 19th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
2. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. A Contemporary History of Women's Sport

   By Jean Williams

   Series: Routledge Research in Sports History

   This work is an historical survey of women’s sport across the twentieth century and into the present day. Although the transfer from traditional to modern forms shifted noticeably in the eighteenth century, and accelerated in the nineteenth, this book’s focus is on the contemporary debates around...

   Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Pure Sport

   Practical sport psychology, 2nd Edition

   By John Kremer, Aidan Moran

   Should you always "think about it"? Are you "only as good as your last game"? Is it just a matter of "keeping your eye on the ball"? The answer to these questions is no, and to help you steer a course through the many challenges of a sporting career this second edition of Pure Sport sets out, in...

   Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Developing Sport Expertise

   Researchers and Coaches Put Theory into Practice

   Edited by Damian Farrow, Joe Baker, Clare MacMahon

   The development of an athlete from basic performance to elite level of accomplishment is a long and complicated process. Identifying and nurturing talent, developing and fine tuning sport skills, and maintaining high levels of performance over the course of a career requires many thousands of hours...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Scuba Diving Tourism

   Edited by Ghazali Musa, Kay Dimmock

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism. Knowledge of scuba diving has long been hidden among broad discussions of water-based sports and activities and this focused book aims to shed further understanding...

   Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe

   An Institutional Perspective

   Edited by Hallgeir Gammelsæter, Benoit Senaux

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades....

   Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Digital Media Sport

   Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society

   Edited by Brett Hutchins, David Rowe

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
9. The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China

   Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics

   Edited by Kevin Caffrey

   The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States

    Cathedrals of Sport

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, Robert Trumpbour

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    Many Americans know more about the stadiums that loom over their cityscapes or college campuses than they do about any other aspect of the nation’s geography. Stadiums serve as iconic monuments of urban and university identities. Indeed, the power of sport in modern American culture has produced ‘...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge