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  • THE FOOTBALL MANAGERS
    TONY PAWSON
    There are few posts more dramatic, more controversial, or more public than a football Manager’s. The pressures of success, and failure; the problems of finance and business management; the challenge of tactics and training: these are just some of the issues which Tony Pawson examines in this book, originally published in 1973. He not only traces the development of the Manager f...

    $1,480.00

  • SPORTS MEDICINE, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT AND DOPING
    IVAN WADDINGTON / CHRISTOPHE BRISSONNEAU
    Tracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport. Combining historical and sociological analysis, the book shows how sports medicine, as it developed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, became increasi...

    $1,240.00

  • SPORTS BETTING
    PRZEMYSŁAW NOSAL
    This is the first book to focus on sports betting from a sociological perspective. Drawing on multi-stage sociological research, it deepens our understanding of an increasingly significant aspect of the contemporary sport industry. The book examines how bettors engage in sports betting – why they perceive it to be attractive, what betting represents to them and how they know ho...

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  • SPORT AND THE MEDIA
    MERRYN SHERWOOD / ANTHONY KERR / ASHLEIGH-JANE THOMPSON / MATTHEW NICHOLSON
    Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus combines in-depth analysis of the rapidly developing sport media industry with a clear and straightforward guide to practical sport media management skills. The book explains how the media works, as well as the practical skills necessary to manage the communication process. It explores the...

    $1,260.00

  • POLITICS, SOCIAL ISSUES AND THE 2023 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
    This book takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book is arranged into two thematic sections, with the first examining power structures and inequalities and the second exploring nationalism...

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  • PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS
    Physiological and Functional Assessment of Professional Football Players presents a science-based approach to enhance athletes' performance and prevent muscle injuries. Professional football players undergo a rigorous competitive season with frequent and numerous competitions, exposing them to significant stress that can detrimentally affect their performance and lead to seriou...

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  • SPONSORSHIP IN MARKETING
    T. BETTINA CORNWELL
    Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sponsorship in Marketing introduces the fundamentals of sponsorship-linked marketing, helping the reader to understand how sponsorship can be planned, executed, and measured. Drawing on original research and exploring key theory, best practice, and cutting-edge issues, this book fully explains how to implement successful partner...

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  • PARROTFISH OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
    MICHELLE BRAYSHAW
    The astounding array of colours found on the Scarini tribe (family: Labridae), commonly known as the Parrotfish, is showcased to breathtaking effect in this book. Photographer and artist Michelle Brayshaw reveals the plethora of colour changes which these fish display through ontological (slow) and physiological (fast) processes. The obvious differences occur in the three phase...

    $4,500.00

  • CORRUPTION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND COMPLIANCE IN SPORT
    PETTER GOTTSCHALK
    This book takes an in-depth look at corruption in sport and its intersection with criminal justice and governance processes. Focused on the high-profile case of alleged corruption in the International Biathlon Union (IBU), the book draws important conclusions for criminal justice as well as reform in sport and for the investigation and prosecution of white-collar crime. Adoptin...

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  • OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONIES
    DANIEL MALANSKI
    This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth. Covering the period from the Moscow Olympics in 1980 to Tokyo 2020, the book examines when, how and why the Olympic opening ceremonies’ artistic programme became the multi-act spectacles seen today. It argues that the e...

    $1,240.00

  • CONDITIONED GAMES FOR TEAM SPORTS TRAINING
    FILIPE MANUEL BATISTA CLEMENTE
    Conditioned Games for Team Sports Training allows the reader to discover the dynamic world of conditioned games, popularly known as “small-sided games.” This groundbreaking book unlocks the secrets to revolutionizing training dynamics, via comprehensive exploration of conditioned games, unveiling the unique characteristics that set conditioned games apart, and examines the impa...

    $1,240.00

  • FOOTBALL COACHING
    Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice is an essential guide for any student who is studying not just an undergraduate or postgraduate football coaching degree but any degree that has a focus on coaching. In addition to this, it is also a vital resource for any football coach, especially those working through their UEFA coaching qualifications. Football coaches con...

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SPORT AND SOCIAL MEDIA
    BILLINGS, ANDREW C.
    This handbook takes an in-depth look at the transformative impact of social media on sport. With broader and deeper coverage than any previous book on this topic, the handbook explores how sports media is co-created and curated, collectively, at the individual, group and organisational level, and considers the implications for the ways in which sports media, through social medi...

    $1,380.00

  • VELOCITY-BASED TRAINING
    AMADOR GARCIA RAMOS
    Velocity-based training (VBT) is a contemporary method of resistance training (RT) that has become popular among sport scientists and practitioners due to the proliferation of devices that allow accurate real-time monitoring of movement velocity during RT exercises. The main input of VBT is the lifting velocity of repetitions performed with maximal intent (i.e., executed as fas...

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  • BLOCKCHAIN IN SPORTS
    STUART THOMAS / KIERAN D. TIERNEY / JASON POTTS
    This is the first book to examine the impact of blockchain technology on the business of sport. It introduces the fundamentals of blockchain and explores its current and prospective applications in sport, as well as the implications – both positive and negative – of blockchain for the future of the global sport industry. The book opens by explaining how blockchain works, assumi...

    $640.00

  • MAKESHIFT FIELDS
    DALE JACOBS
    Makeshift Fields is a snapshot of grassroots baseball in Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Played as it is in the rain and cold, on temporary diamonds that are sometimes less than ideal, baseball is still fragile in these places. This book is the story of people who love the game, the story of people who believe that baseball can flourish where it’s been planted, with each...

    $178.00

  • NATIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION IN TURKISH FOOTBALL
    JOHN KONUK BLASING
    Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, this fascinating book examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization. Drawing on original ethnographic research with Turkish football fans, as well as players and coaches, the book argues that Turkish sport, particularly football, has ...

    $1,240.00

  • WALKING ITALY
    RACHAEL MARTIN
    Offers a guide to Italy's scenic walking routes, combining history, stories, and practical advice for both walkers and armchair travelers. Walking holidays have become more popular, and it certainly looks like they’re here to stay. In 2022 Mintel found that walking is the UK’s most popular active holiday, while in June 2023, the New York Times ran a headline that claimed 2023 a...

    $165.99

  • THE CHAMPIONS? THIRTY YEARS OF THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
    DOIDGE, MARK
    Covering the impact on domestic leagues, clubs, fans, and players, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of 30 years of the Champions League and how it has impacted football. The year 1992 has become a key year in the development of football. Not only was the Premier League formed in this year, but the Champions League was also launched. Both were designed to placate th...

    $1,480.00

  • POSITIVE SPORT ORGANIZATIONAL INSIGHTS
    MINJUNG KIM / BRENT D. OJA / CHRISTOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS
    This book is a concise and accessible introduction to positive organizational behavior in sport, a new and dynamic approach to sport management. Clearly explaining core concepts, including the central concept of psychological capital, the book shows how ‘positive sport organizations’ (PSO) can deliver improved performance and enhance employee well-being. Standing at the interse...

    $640.00

  • ANTISEMITISM IN FOOTBALL
    This book investigates the nature and prevalence of expressions of antisemitism within the context of football in Europe and beyond, as well as attempts to challenge and combat this problematic phenomenon. Drawing on empirical research, the book presents a series of case studies of countries in which both football and antisemitism have been prominent, including England, Italy, ...

    $1,240.00

  • SPORT AND CRIME
    ELLIS CASHMORE / KEVIN DIXON / JAMIE CLELAND
    This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that’s harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challenges the conventional idea of sport as wholesome and beneficial, arguing that sport is often a trigger for crime, in both history and contemporary life. The book explores how murder,...

    $1,160.00

  • MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND THE 2023 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
    YANITY, MOLLY
    This book takes a close look at the themes of media and communication in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book examines how the tournament was represented through traditional, digital and social forms of media, and considers how an ana...

    $1,240.00

  • REIMAGINING TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN SPORT
    ANDY BORRIE / EMILY RYALL
    Reimagining Talent Development in Sport takes a fresh look at the processes, systems and fundamental beliefs about talent. It brings together researchers, practitioners and former Olympic athletes to re-imagine the way talent development programmes work and the foundational values they are built on. This book imagines an environment that is able to achieve both sporting success...

    $1,160.00

  • THE INTERSECTIONAL ATHLETE BODY ON REALITY TV
    LAURA LANGLADE
    The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV examines the treatment of women, non-White and queer participants on MTV’s The Challenge, a physical competition lauded as ‘America’s fifth sport’, interrogating the treatment of the intersectional body within the reality TV landscape and the influence of professional sports culture. Positing that participants’ success hinges more o...

    $640.00

  • SPORT IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
    This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the fastest growing sports markets worldwide. Featuring multi-disciplinary work from leading Indian scholars in sociology, economics, politics, law and business, the book demonstrates how sports help us to better understand the sociocultural and economic forces that have shaped modern Ind...

    $1,140.00

  • NATIONAL SYMBOLS AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
    JÖRG KRIEGER
    This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing on the case of national flags at the Olympic Games, it explores the history of national symbols at the Olympics and asks what this issue can tell us about the politicisation of sport in the twenty-first century. Drawing on multi-disciplinary research from history, ...

    $640.00

  • CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SPORTS MARKETING
    MANOLI, ARGYRO ELISAVET
    This book explores key and topical issues that are emerging in the field of sport marketing, while calling for further attention to the thriving sports industry. Marketing was one of the first topics to attract sport academics’ attention, based on its close relationship with revenue generating activities, for example ticket and merchandise sales, and television coverage. Soon a...

    $1,480.00

  • SPORT, ADVERTISING AND GLOBAL PROMOTIONAL CULTURE
    This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society. Arguing that advertising and promotional culture remain key driving forces in relation to social structures and systems that contribute to enduring patterns of economic and other forms of inequality, this book examines how sport and related areas of social life continu...

    $1,240.00

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
    LESLEE A. FISHER
    Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology: Intergenerational Voices and An Embodied Approach provides a narration of the history of social justice work in sport and exercise psychology as advanced through the voices of those leaders who have dared to imagine a more just and equitable sporting world. By situating their history through critical genealogy, within an ana...

    $1,160.00