Sports & Leisure Studies

Edited by A. Mark Williams, Robin C. Jackson

The ability to anticipate and make accurate decisions in a timely manner is fundamental to high-level performance in sport. This is the first book to identify the underlying science behind anticipation and decision making in sport, enhancing our scientific understanding of these phenomena…

Paperback – 2019-03-01
Routledge

By Ian Renshaw, Keith Davids, Daniel Newcombe, Will Roberts

For the last 25 years, a constraints-based framework has helped to inform the way that many sport scientists seek to understand performance, learning design and the development of expertise and talent in sport. The Constraints-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design…

Paperback – 2019-02-20
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Constraints-Based Methodologies in Sport

By George B. Cunningham

Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which people differ—including race, gender, age, mental and physical ability, appearance, religion, sexual orientation, and social class—and the importance of these…

Paperback – 2019-02-18
Routledge

Edited by Robert J. Lake

Tennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate.　 Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world’s most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on and off court.…

Hardback – 2019-02-12
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

By Daniel Covell, Sharianne Walker, Curt Hamakawa

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Managing Sport Organizations introduces the fundamentals of sport management across every industry sector, from youth and intercollegiate sport to professional leagues. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it covers every key topic, issue…

Paperback – 2019-02-12
Routledge

By Paul Grimshaw, Michael Cole, Adrian Burden, Neil Fowler

This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and easily, and provides lecturers with a flexible…

Paperback – 2019-01-14
Garland Science

By Josephine Perry

Performing Under Pressure is an essential resource on improving sporting performance in high-pressure situations. Perry’s work guides coaches and athletes through nine key elements of the sporting mindset to help athletes to perform at the highest standards, even under the most pressurized of…

Paperback – 2019-08-13
Routledge

Edited by John Harris, Nicholas Wise

This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport. Focusing on people and places on the fringes, it examines contemporary issues and challenges within the global game. Such a collection is timely, as the sport’s governing body…

Hardback – 2019-08-13
Routledge
Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society

By Dominic Malcolm

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport. The life-changing impact of head injury and the possible threat that chronic traumatic encephalopathy poses to children and young athletes in particular is calling into question the long-term future of some of our most…

Paperback – 2019-08-09
Routledge