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  • Re-thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

    Edited by Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich, Anthony Bush ...
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sports Coaching Research

    Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

    by Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Futebol Nation

    The Story of Brazil through Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol Nation is an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Physical Literacy

    Throughout the Lifecourse

    Edited by Margaret Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    What is physical literacy?What are the benefits of being physically literate?The term ‘physical literacy’ describes the motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge that individuals develop in order to maintain physical activity at an appropriate level throughout their life. Physical literacy encompasses far more than physical education in schools or structured sporting ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Boy Wonder

    Tales from the Sidelines of an Irish Childhood

    by Dave Hannigan ...
    A collage of personal memories passed over into family myth, Boy Wonder is a funny and moving account of a childhood spent, like countless others, on pitches, sidelines and stands, struggling to make sense of competition and the outsized role it plays in the lives of men and boys, fathers and sons. From tough lessons on the parish field and the politics of afterschool football to the euphoria of ... Read more

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  • SPORT/FITNESS/CULTURE

    by Karin Volkwein-Caplan ...
    SPORT FITNESS CULTURE provides an overview of the socio-cultural factors that influence sport, physical activity and fitness. An interdisciplinary theoretical background is followed by an analysis on current issues of importance. SPORT FITNESS CULTURE focuses on the influences of culture and society on human movement. The text introduces and analyzes current issues of importance whether it is ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Play

    Edited by Malcolm MacLean, Wendy Russell, Emily Ryall ...
    Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value. Made up of contributions from leading international thinkers and inviting readers to explore the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

    Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sport and Exercise Science

    by Rhys Thatcher, Joanne Thatcher, Mel Day, Matthew Portas, Simon Hood ...
    Series series Active Learning in Sport Series
    This text introduces students to the essentials of the major contributing disciplines – biomechanics, physiology and psychology. It provides detailed knowledge and understanding of each subject area combined with explicit advice on how to study effectively, research further and think critically. Case studies clearly relate theory to practice and learning exercises support readers throughout the ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory

    Edited by Elizabeth C.J. Pike, Simon Beames ...
    Adventure and outdoor sports - from rock climbing to freestyle kayaking – are a modern social phenomenon that can tell us much about the relationship between sport, culture and contemporary society. In this engaging new introductory text, adventure sports are used to illustrate key concepts in social theory and to demonstrate why an understanding of social theory is essential for any student ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Physical Education

    A New Perspective

    by Steven Stolz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    The discipline area of physical education has historically struggled for legitimacy, sometimes being seen as a non-serious pursuit in educational terms compared to other subjects within the school curriculum. This book represents the first attempt in nearly thirty years to offer a coherent philosophical defence and conceptualisation of physical education and sport as subjects of educational value, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education

    Fear, Risk and Moral Panic

    Edited by Heather Piper ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In our increasingly risk-averse society, touch and touching behaviours between professionals and children have become a fraught issue. In sports coaching and physical education, touching young sports performers and participants has, in some contexts, come to be redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches find themselves operating in a framework of regulations and guidelines that create anxiety, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD