Sport: general

Why do people run?

This vintage book contains a simple, beginner-friendly guide to Jiu-Jitsu.

Tennis is one of the world's most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate.

Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike?

This book guides sport coaches, parents and administrators in creating a caring and task-involving sport climate that helps athletes perform their best and have an enjoyable and meaningful sport experience.

This book questions the limitation of exercise capacity in women by discussing female physiology from the perspectives of respiratory, circulatory, skeletal, body composition, and training adaptations.

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Introduction to Sport Marketing is a clear, straightforward, and concise introduction to the theory and practice of sport marketing, and the only sport marketing textbook you will ever need.

In recent years, football's status as "e;the world's sport"e; has shown little sign of waning.

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today.

"e;Let's Dance"e; is a fantastic vintage guide to social dancing.

Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world.

Richie McCaw, Rugby World Cup winning captain and the New Zealand All Black's most capped player of all time, is unquestionably the greatest player of his generation.

In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the steep-sided Hill of Cronus.

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport.

Football is big business.

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.

One of the best managers in the early years of professional baseball, Frank Selee (1859-1909) built two great teams.

A history of the team as told through stories of 101 players and managers who guided it through lows and highs to success.

Blending the latest academic research with case studies of famous figures, this highly insightful book presents 'doubt' as a central concept for psychology.

From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene.

Ultramarathons don't leave much room for mistakes.

The place of football in the colonial and post-colonial past is explored and both British and Portuguese influences on the development of the game are considered.

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature.

A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sportsUnwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics-and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced.

This book critically evaluates the complex relations between physical activity, health imperatives and cultural and social opportunities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

';Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created ';the beautiful game.

Knot-making is simpler than ever.

Neale Smith, ehemaliger PGA Playing Pro und Performance-Berater der PGA Tour Professionals: "Craig Davies und Vince DiSaia haben ein fantastisches Verständnis der funktionalen Anatomie und ihrer Funktionsweise im Körper eines Athleten.

A visually stunning road trip through pro baseball's wacky, wondrous, and revered ballpark attractionsExploding scoreboards, treetop seats, and neon skylines are just three of the more than 100 ballpark design features, field eccentricities, historic displays, traditions, concession items, and even super-fans and mascots profiled in this armchair baseball journey.

This edited collection of papers presented at the 18th International Symposium of Biomechanics in Sport, highlights cutting-edge research material on sports biomechanics from many of the leading international academics in the field.

Reversal theory is an innovative psychological theory exploring human motivation, emotion and personality.

How does thinking affect doing?

This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts.

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.

Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world.

At the end of the 1883 baseball season, things looked rosy--attendance had skyrocketed and the National League and American Association were at peace.

This innovative and user-friendly book uses a design thinking approach to examine transformative learning and liminality in physical education.

This book is a practical guide and concise sports medicine reference, written exclusively for the sport of soccer.

Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women's sports Mixed martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events introduces students to key areas of marketing and promotion that are essential if destinations are to compete successfully in the rapidly expanding global business event sector.

In Varsity Green, Mark Yost cuts through cliches and common misconceptions to take a hard-eyed look at the current state of college athletics.

Surfing has fascinated filmmakers since Thomas Edison shot footage of Waikiki beachboys in 1906.

An important addition to the tried and trusted Complete Guide series, The Complete Guide to Teaching Exercise to Special Populations is a vital resource for fitness professionals who prescribe exercise programmes to anyone categorised as belonging to a special group.

The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity.

Have you ever wondered what people did for fun throughout history?