Sports Books

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998...

This edited collection brings together the latest research into the range of sports known as football.With contributions by a large number of the leading international researchers in the field, the book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice...

The largest collection of images by Jigoro Kano. About 200 photos of the founder of Kodokan Judo.

Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique...

The use of technology within sport is well established, most professional sport teams engage in the use of electronic performance and tracking systems. This book is the first to offer a deep and structured examination of these technologies and how they...

Mixed martial arts (MMA)-unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports- has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon, a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the...

Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had?This book considers the...

This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people's physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise...

Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an...

This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of...

Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape...

In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football...

This work sets out to explore the history of competitive rowing on the River Bann in Coleraine, County Londonderry, N.I. from 1841 until 1987. An extensive amount of original material has been collated by Keith Ferguson and Ronnie Gamble. This material...

This is a pictorial scrapbook of memories of speedway between the years 1974 to 1978- a collection of photos taken by journalist and trackside photographer, Keith Lawson. The photos have been scanned from rescued negatives that had long been neglected...

Sir Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather (1919-2005) was born in Canada. He is remembered as having been a self-defence expert, successful author, politician and Governor of Bermuda. Despite his endorsement of violent acts against other human beings, as...

Per aumentare la tua massa e ottenere un fisico più definito e prestante, devi assolutamente imparare e attuare questi tre passaggi: conoscere il tuo fisico, strutturare il tuo allenamento e prepararti psicologicamente.

Memoir of a Hockey Nobody is the unlikely true story of an average Canadian kid who grew up playing street hockey. Although he didn't learn how to skate until his late teens, he took a shot at entering the world of professional ice hockey with, shall...

For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players and the coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an...

The story of the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of its finest organization After a hundred "cursed" years, the Boston Red Sox rose gloriously to baseball domination. Under the leadership of manager Terry Francona, an extraordinary team...

The full-throttle autobiography of renowned bad-boy linebacker, Bill "Romo" Romanowski. Bill Romanowski is a caring, articulate, intelligent father of two. But when he walks onto the gridiron he becomes a wild man, the most hated and dirtiest player in...

In this long-awaited autobiography, the legendary Bill Elliott details his childhood in rural North Georgia, building cars from scratch, struggling on the anonymous small-time tracks of the South to his against-the-odds rise to the pinnacle of NASCAR...

From the author of Baseball 100"A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a nation and persevered to become a beloved figure...One of the best baseball books in years, filled with depth style and clarity." --Cleveland Plain DealerAn...

The vivid historical rage and modern day bloodlust of one of the most enduring rivalries in all of American sports--the University of Texas Longhorns versus the Oklahoma Sooners. Runnin' with the Big Dogs is the ultimate story of one of America's...

Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. Every Sunday a coach makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game, but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy...

An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina's and Duke's basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the SouthThe basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and...

What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common? They have all reached the top of their respective professions, and they all credit sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental to their success. In his...

Close your eyes and picture the Heisman Trophy. The form is easyto conjure, a graceful, fluid posethat is football past and football present in one dignified figure ...The story of the Heisman Trophyis an american epic.-- from the PrefaceNo sport in...

Top golfing instructor Jim McLean shares the secret to a better swing and a better gameIt's what every great golfer knows and every struggling player wants to know: how to find ""the slot,"" the perfect channel through which the shaft and club head can...

Many riders want to try jumping, but are intimidated. This guide helps riders of every age safely learn to jump by presenting a natural approach with progressive, step-by-step exercises, full explanations, and lots of photos and diagrams. It covers...

The ability to effectively use one's thoughts, emotions and motivation to enhance performance and well-being is one of the most important skills in sport and exercise contexts. Motivation and Self-Regulation in Sport and Exercise explores the theories,...

This book is a concise, practical introduction to Models-based Practice (MbP), a transformative approach to physical education and sport pedagogy that uses multiple pedagogical models in the design and delivery of physical education programs.

It is a story of Female Muaythai Fighters, which includes a brief history of Muaythai and people who practice it

Improve your ability to understand, interact and communicate with others using the skills of coaching and NLP. This practical book contains easy to follow models, numerous real-life examples, a unique NLP based six-session coaching model and a...

''If you've heard about this book, then you know what it's about already; if you haven't heard about this book, then you probably won't be reading this little thing that the publishers made me write! LOL'' The Reverend Malcolm Regal

The author is a dedicated follower of Castleford Tigers in the sport of rugby league and has previously published 20 books featuring this club and sport in general. His full portfolio of books adds four fictional books covering animal adventures plus...

The traditions of karate have transformed in diversity, as its popularity has spread worldwide. The work of Seihin Yamanouchi, in relating karate and Okinawan Te to dance, was a crucial element in this process. His influence on bringing these connections...

La storia di un podista qualunque. Un paio di scarpette, pantaloncini e maglietta e il sogno può iniziare. Il sogno di correre e tagliare traguardi che hai sempre desiderato raggiungere e a cui non avresti mai creduto di poter arrivare.

l movimento oggi è di fondamentale importanza. Vincere la nostra pigrizia ed iniziare un percorso di attività fisica non è cosi difficile. Dobbiamo provare a rinunciare a qualche cosa per introdurre della sana attività motoria durante la nostra giornata.

Within the world of martial arts, there exists a great chasm of incompleteness. A chasm wherein a life changing art has been reduced to a mere sport, a shadow of its original and far more complete self. This concept has been developed to fill that ever...