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

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

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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

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

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

This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this can tell......more

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

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

This handbook is a comprehensive text that underscores the importance of learning and context for those who sculpt the e......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 ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to......more

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers’ sport events that were organised or were p......more

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

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

This book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in children’s sport, including sexual, physical, and ......more

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

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

This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdiscipli......more

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

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

Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher education, asserting the need fo......more

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

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

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. It will be of great i......more

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

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

This book proposes a conceptual framework to focus on the life journey of physical activity, which is guided by the moni......more

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

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

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate contex......more

This book presents a critical assessment of evaluation theory and practice in sport and leisure. It considers establishe......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 book is a concise, practical introduction to Models-based Practice (MbP), a transformative approach to physical edu......more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book proposes a new fitness framework that encompasses all fitness indicators in a holistic and comprehensive manne......more

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

This book presents a practical guide to applying contemporary systems thinking methods in sport, as well as case study a......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 provides a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge in the field of food protein hydrolysates an......more

This book summarizes advances in the development of organic-inorganic semiconductor heterojunctions, points out challeng......more

Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been ......more

This book examines the logic of ’faster, higher, stronger’, and the techno-scientific revolution that has driven tremend......more

This comprehensive, multidisciplinary and expert-led book provides insight into the most current and insightful topics w......more

This book explores strength sports as a site of political contestation and a platform for insurgent gender practices. It......more

This book offers in-depth analysis of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The first World Cup to be held in the Middle Eas......more

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK....more

This book examines the development of sport sponsorship and its impact on global public health. It argues that sport gov......more

This is the first book to examine the growing movement of organised networks of LGBT+ football supporters, exploring act......more

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity ......more

This book provides a comparative analysis of sport and physical activity policies, processes, and practices across the h......more