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| Best Seller  | The field of sport history is a relatively new research domain situated at the intersection of a number of disciplines and sub-disciplines. This interdisciplinarity has created interesting avenues for growth and fresh thinking but also inherent... more | $183.99 $159.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sports History Sports Coaching in Europe: Cultural Histories (Paperback) This book explores the historical development of coaching traditions across Europe placing national approaches to coaching within their cultural and political context. Sports coaching is a social practice that has been shaped by its cultural context... more | go to store |
| Best Seller  | Routledge Research in Sports History Britain s Olympic Women: A History (Hardcover) Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However most Olympic histories have focused on men s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain s Olympic women how they changed Olympic spectacle and how in turn they... more | $144.40 $120.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sports History A Social History of Tennis in Britain (Hardcover) Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised... more | $181.10 $136.96 FREE shipping go to store |
 | *Shortlisted for the 2022 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize* This book is the first full-length scholarly examination of British women s involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries as well as the corresponding... more | $54.94 $48.95 go to store |
 | At the intersection of sport entertainment and performance wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture. This is the first book to offer a detailed historical and cultural analysis of British professional wrestling exploring the... more | $54.95 $43.96 go to store |
 | We live in a museum age and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne the Babe Ruth... more | $68.95 $55.16 FREE shipping go to store |
 | This book represents a renewed general view of human play with an interdisciplinary methodology encompassing philosophy anthropology sociology and the history of play and behavioural analysis of playing. more | go to store |
 | This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism but that the game provides a unique lens with which to understand the history development exigencies and contradictions of capitalist... more | $170.00 $144.00 go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and The Olympic Games and Cultural Policy (Paperback) This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically... more | $62.95 $50.36 FREE shipping go to store |
 | The pursuit of excellence in sport depends on four key facets of performance namely physical technical tactical and mental skills. However when physical technical and tactical skills are evenly matched a common occurrence at elite level it is the... more | $78.00 $70.24 FREE shipping go to store |
 | This book explores and critically assesses the challenges and experiences of LGBTQ people within sport in Europe. It presents cutting-edge research data and insights from across the continent with a focus on sport policy sport systems and issues around... more | $175.99 $144.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching difference in Sport and Physical... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | The development of both elite high performance sport and mass participation grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and... more | $208.47 $177.42 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sports Coaching Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model Book 10 (Hardcover) Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model presents a novel approach to team sports training examining football (soccer) rugby union field hockey basketball handball and futsal through the paradigm of complexity. Under a traditional prism these sports... more | $191.24 $154.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries (Paperback) Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions... more | $61.99 $49.59 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Wearable devices are being used by an increasing number of elite-level sports teams to manage and control the health performance and productivity of their athletes. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary resources Wearable Technology in Elite... more | $170.00 $125.01 go to store |
 | This is the first book to investigate the significance of Brexit for sport with a particular focus on the regulatory and legal challenges that it poses and the economic and political stresses that are likely to follow in its wake. Written by a team of... more | go to store |
 | Bringing together leading match-fixing researchers from different fields this book offers new theoretical and applied perspectives on this persistent problem in sport and wider society. The book explores the foundations of match-fixing from multiple... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Sport and Development in Emerging Nations (Paperback) For the first time this book examines the strategies of leaders of emerging nations to use sport as a tool for reaching social economic cultural political technological or environmental goals and gaining international prestige. It assesses whether... more | $51.99 $41.59 go to store |
 | This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies it illustrates what happens when sport... more | go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Society: Sport Animals and Society (Paperback) This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete and encourages the reader to think... more | $76.00 $68.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and The Fantasy Sport Industry (Hardcover) Fantasy sport has become big business. Recent estimates suggest that there as many as 33 million fantasy sport participants in the US alone spending $3bn annually with many millions more around the world. This is the first in-depth study of fantasy... more | $187.00 $164.19 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe (Paperback) Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in fostering civil society from both policymakers and academics there is a lack of evidence of the specific role of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the... more | go to store |
 | This book looks at how sport and sports organisations have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Against a backdrop of lockdowns empty stadia and a fast-moving public health crisis the book presents fascinating case studies of innovation and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Society: Sport and Mediatization (Paperback) Contemporary society is highly media-saturated and no sector more so than sport. Drawing on case studies from the Tour de France to fitness apps this book introduces the concept of mediatization and examines how media - historically and currently - are... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Business and Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport (Paperback) This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion. more | go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sports Coaching Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model Book 10 (Paperback) Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model presents a novel approach to team sports training examining football (soccer) rugby union field hockey basketball handball and futsal through the paradigm of complexity. Under a traditional prism these sports... more | $52.95 $43.99 go to store |
 | Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most... more | $164.19 $152.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities sport has been an agent of separation sectarian hatred and violence but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution... more | $187.00 $149.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics such as prayer and sport religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and flow in sport... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Sport Performance and Sustainability (Hardcover) This book examines the logic of faster higher and stronger and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the... more | $175.99 $144.00 go to store |
 | The research project or dissertation is a core component of any degree programme in the rapidly developing discipline of sport performance analysis. This highly practical and accessible book provides a complete step-by-step guide to doing a research... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Attachment in Sport Exercise and Wellness (Paperback) Attachment theory is a concept well known to mainstream psychologists informing the literature in areas as diverse as psychodynamics developmental psychology social psychology and counselling. This important new book is the first to demonstrate the... more | $72.45 $51.96 FREE shipping go to store |
 | This book examines how and why sport in general and football in particular entered the country and developed successfully between 1890 and the 1920s while placing that growth within the context of Spain s larger historical experience. The introduction... more | $160.00 $128.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Human Fatigue: Evolution Health and Performance (Paperback) Fatigue is a condition spanning the breadth of human functioning in health and disease and is a central concern in sport and exercise. Even so we are yet to fully understand its causes. One reason for this lack of understanding is that we seldom... more | $52.95 $43.99 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
 | In the past sport particularly football has been defined as a male domain. Women s interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active resistance. But increasingly women are proudly identifying themselves as supporters of their teams and... more | $169.48 $152.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Football Fans Activism and Social Change (Hardcover) The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport. The first work of its kind this book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England Italy and the Czech Republic.... more | $182.98 $152.00 FREE shipping go to store |
 | As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race ethnicity and British football this book brings together a range of academics comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical... more | $68.95 $55.16 FREE shipping go to store |
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