Sports & Leisure Studies

Research Methods in Sports Coaching
Edited by Lee Nelson, Ryan Groom and Paul Potrac

This upcoming textbook is a key resource for anyone researching sports coaching.

Packed full of examples, cases and scenarios it leads the reader through each phase of the research process, and is the only book to focus on the challenges and techniques involved in coaching research. Read more here.

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Qualitative Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health
From Process to Product
By Andrew C. Sparkes, Brett Smith

The perfect text to guide students through qualitative approaches in Sport Excercise and Health

Routledge Handbook of Ergonomics in Sport and Exercise
Edited by Youlian Hong

The Routledge Handbook of Ergonomics in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge scientific research into ergonomics in sport and exercise.

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Sport, Fun and Enjoyment
An Embodied Approach
By Ian Wellard

Sport, Fun and Enjoyment explores the pleasurable aspects of sport within the context of everyday recreational and competitive physical activities.

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BASES is the professional body for sport and exercise sciences in the UK. It was formerly known as BASS – the British Association of Sports Sciences and was founded in September 1984. Routledge has been a supporter of BASES for a number of years by providing book prizes for their conferences and offering discounts on all our sport titles to their members. For more information, please visit their website: www.bases.org.uk/Home
 

Founded in 1995 in Nice, France, the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) is a sport scientific society dedicated to the collection, generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge at the European level. Routledge works closely with ECSS to provide their members with reviews of new books, discounts on book purchases and promote the ECSS Annual Congress.
 

This book provides an all-encompassing overview of drugs in sport, exploring everything including the social implications, policy and the health issues that surround drugs in sport.

Although there are clearly no simple solutions to the problem Rethinking Drug Use in Sport makes a strong case for adopting a forward-thinking approach not only to protect those involved, but also the credibility of sport itself. read more

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Our Sport, Excercise and Leisure Research and Reference online catalog has just gone live.

The catalog features our new titles, as well as our bestselling backlist collections of relevant and popular works. You will find whatever you need to further your own research or professional interests, challenge and support your students, or to provide essential reference materials for your institutional library.

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Previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, Women, Sport, Society: Further Reflections, Reaffirming Mary Wollstonecraft explores the contributions and achievements of women in a variety of historical and geographical contexts…read more.

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Race and ethnicity is in sport is still an area that is highly researched by scholars who are trying to pinpoint what effect it still has in the sporting world and how it shapes the sporting community. Below are just a handful of the books we have on race and ethnicity in sport, which cover a range of issues such as its impact on sport management, coaching, how it influences sport policy to fan culture.

Why not take a listen to Dennis Deninger, author of Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See, on New Books in Sports, the podcast that 'offers sports talk that will make you smarter' !

Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Sean O'Connor and David Hassan, recently celebrated the publication of their new book, Sport Management in the Middle East, at the booklaunch in Abu Dhabi, with His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Bin Mubarak Al Nahayan (UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development) .