The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter ar......more

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain......more

The first in an ongoing series designed to take readers from zero experience to writing their own video games and intera......more

The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama invites readers into the fascinating world where fo......more

The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama invites readers into the fascinating world where fo......more

This book presents a practical guide to applying contemporary systems thinking methods in sport, as well as case study a......more

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Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsian), which have largely contrib......more

This handbook offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growing secto......more

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within west......more

This book is a comprehensive study on analog historical simulation games, and explores the theoretical concepts and prac......more

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making p......more

This is a concise introduction to leadership and governance theory and how they are applied in sport. Presenting a serie......more

This is a concise introduction to leadership and governance theory and how they are applied in sport. Presenting a serie......more

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the con......more

For this entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series, it’s a look at the shooter genre to discuss its history, design, and......more

This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to stop the 2016 Summer Olympics i......more

This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to stop the 2016 Summer Olympics i......more

Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the vi......more

Women’s Football provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanic......more

Women’s Football provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanic......more

This book examines the relationships between sport event hosting and community development goals and explains how commun......more

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical ......more

Sports Science in India: Practice and Perspective brings together key Indian academics and experts in the field of sport......more

This is the first book in English to offer an overview of the development of the sport industry in Spain and Portugal, e......more

This book examines the role that research plays in pedagogical practices when teaching disabled children and young peopl......more

This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to......more

While women’s cricket, and women’s sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and......more

This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings......more

This is the first book to introduce flipped learning in the context of physical education. It is a timely exploration of......more

The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Sustainable Development is a comprehensive and powerful survey of the ways in which ......more

This powerful new book looks at how private institutions governing and organising sport restrict political expression. U......more

This book looks at how sport, and sports organisations, have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic....more

This book introduces the fundamentals of sport business governance, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reade......more

This book examines the phenomenon of ’digital guru media’ (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, exper......more

This book provides important new insights into social issues in the rapidly growing field of esports, filling a gap in t......more

Through immersive ethnography, this book explores how fighters at a Muay Thai/Kickboxing gym in East London attempt to r......more

This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths-sometimes recognized, often les......more

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated that mo......more

Coach Education in Football is the first book to explicitly explore social, cultural, and historical aspects, by providi......more

The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass thr......more

Bringing together leading match-fixing researchers from different fields, this book offers new theoretical and applied p......more

This book provides an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical and methodological contributions critically exploring ......more

This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarsh......more

This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research - experiences that are so of......more

This book presents a critical assessment of evaluation theory and practice in sport and leisure. It considers establishe......more

This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the chall......more

This book examines the developments in women’s sports history in Britain in the last 10 years, following on from its suc......more

This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure and social ju......more

Now, in its second edition, Applied Exercise Psychology emphasizes the application of evidence-based knowledge drawn fro......more

Now, in its second edition, Applied Exercise Psychology emphasizes the application of evidence-based knowledge drawn fro......more

If you enjoy video games as a pastime, you are certainly not alone--billions of people worldwide now play video games. H......more

Why It’s OK to Be a Gamer defends gaming through a virtue theoretic approach, introducing the philosophy of video games ......more

The fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes in mob......more

This second edition of Exercise Physiology: For Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential human an......more

This second edition of Exercise Physiology: For Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential human an......more

This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women’s football, challenging conventional discourses that cent......more

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a h......more

The new edition of Sport Cyberpsychology is the only textbook in this field that provides a detailed overview of theorie......more

The new edition of Sport Cyberpsychology is the only textbook in this field that provides a detailed overview of theorie......more

Game Design Critic Joshua Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Series to focus on the youngest genre......more

Bringing together the most prestigious writings on mental health in sport and physical activity from the International S......more

Now in its second edition, this book provides a focused, comprehensive overview of up-to-date mental health research, mo......more

This book represents the first critical examination of the social, cultural, and political significance of mountain biki......more

This book takes a close look at social media in sport and considers its significance for sport business and for the wide......more

This is a handbook for leading a professional football club to commercial success. Covering every aspect of the business......more

Want to become a writer in the games industry? Then this is the book is for you. Award-winning game writer Anna Megill p......more

This is a handbook for leading a professional football club to commercial success. Covering every aspect of the business......more

This book examines the ways in which cricket has reflected and reproduced some of the social and political tensions of t......more

This book provides readers with the tools and methods with which to create effective serious tabletop games. It covers t......more

This new text provides a ’how to’ in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and practitioners. The book ......more

This new text provides a ’how to’ in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and practitioners. The book ......more

This international compilation offers a range of potential solutions to case studies that cover pertinent issues within ......more

In this revised new edition of the leading student and researcher overview of the development of sports expertise, a tea......more

In this revised new edition of the leading student and researcher overview of the development of sports expertise, a tea......more