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The Psychology of Sports Injury: From Risk to Retirement provides a critical overview of the psychology of sports injury......more

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This is a fundamental text for the study of sport history. It answers the ’why, ’ ’how, ’ and ’what’ questions, introduc......more

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"As esports has grown, the need for professional legal representation has grown with it. Justin’s Essential Guide to the......more

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This book examines emerging debates and questions around cycling to critically analyse and challenge dominant framings a......more

Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play. It showcases t......more

Wine is one of the oldest forms of alcoholic beverages known to man. Estimates date its origins back to 6000 B.C. Ever s......more

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Offering a complete introduction to sport development policy and practice, this book covers key theory, themes, issues, ......more

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Good qualitative research can help sport management researchers and industry professionals solve difficult problems and ......more

Good qualitative research can help sport management researchers and industry professionals solve difficult problems and ......more

Now in its fourth edition, this text is still the only sport law textbook to introduce sport legal studies from a manage......more

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Description: Many new games are from first-time designers or are self-published, so there is a tremendous thirst for inf......more

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPG......more

This book explores the intersection of craft, design and sustainability in the developing world. It argues that most sus......more

Fatigue is a condition spanning the breadth of human functioning in health and disease and is a central concern in sport......more

Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profi......more

From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, th......more

This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexua......more

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Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them mo......more

Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them mo......more

This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in physical education to suggest Model......more

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Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in......more

Managing Major Sports Events: Theory and Practice is a complete introduction to the principles and practical skills that......more

Written by a team of international experts and emerging talents from around the world, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural......more

Over the last 50 years, the ultras have become the most widespread, outspoken and spectacular form of football fandom ac......more

The game of American football may be the greatest team sport that exists. It epitomizes the need of a "team" first appro......more

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport is the first book to introduce key concepts and best practice in crisis and dis......more

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport is the first book to introduce key concepts and best practice in crisis and dis......more

Community Leisure and Recreation Planning offers an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to planning community leisure an......more

Identifying and developing talented athletes to their fullest potential is a central concern of sport scientists, sports......more

Sport and Secessionism examines how sporting cultures reflect, inform and sometimes frustrate secessionist movements aro......more

Identifying and developing talented athletes to their fullest potential is a central concern of sport scientists, sports......more

This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights t......more

This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights t......more

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research f......more

High Performance Youth Swimming provides an in-depth view of the physiological, biomechanical, and multifaceted underpin......more

There are thousands of books relating to poker, blackjack, roulette and baccarat, including strategy guides, statistical......more

This book offers new perspectives on game-based coaching (GBC), one of the most important practices for session design a......more

Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of ’gym goers’ and the fitnes......more

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity. This book explores ......more

In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas S birk Petersen explains why the World Anti-D......more

Why should we exercise? When should we exercise? Why don’t we exercise? The Psychology of Exercise separates fact from f......more

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The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture’s increasingly important cul......more

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This volume serves to expand theory-driven understandings of active sport tourism by showcasing five empirical studies e......more

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This book takes a close look at how the sport industry has been impacted by the global Coronavirus pandemic, as entire s......more

Experiencing Food: Designing Sustainable and Social Practices contains papers on food, sustainability and social practic......more

Digital sport marketing is a new, dynamic and rapidly evolving area that is having a profound impact on contemporary spo......more

Digital sport marketing is a new, dynamic and rapidly evolving area that is having a profound impact on contemporary spo......more

This book analyses the concept of community by critically exploring its many manifestations in leisure. It unpacks patte......more

This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of b......more

This interdisciplinary collection explores the nexus of social justice and sport to consider how sport and physical educ......more

Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. This is the first collection de......more