Contemporary Sport Management

Paul M. Pedersen

For over 25 years, Contemporary Sport Management has been the most comprehensive, authoritative introductory text in the field, and the improved eighth edition promises to serve the needs of sport management students even better. Sixty contributors representin...

Sport Nutrition

Asker Jeukendrup , Michael Gleeson

For students planning to work in a sport- or exercise-related career, it is crucial to understand the essential role nutrition plays in health, adaptations to physical activity and exercise, weight maintenance, and sports and exercise performance. Sport Nutrit...

The Sport Scientist and load monitoring through EPTS in team sports

José María Oliva Lozano , Vicenzo Rago

The evolution of load monitoring processes is advancing at a dizzying pace. The evolution of sports as an industry has conditioned training theories and has brought about a notable change in such fundamental aspects as load prescription. Thanks to EPTS and oth...

Strategic Sport Communication

Paul M. Pedersen , Pamela C. Laucella , Edward (Ted) M. Kian , Andrea N. Geurin

Sport continues to experience unprecedented popularity, with growth driven by the evolving ways in which sport teams, athletes, and media communicate with their audiences and fan bases. In turn, the dynamic world of sport communication offers burgeoning career...

Sports, Media, and Society

Kevin Hull

Whether espoused by sports leagues, teams, or individual athletes, social issues are part of the sporting world fabric. The sports media often plays the gatekeeper, deciding how messages are presented and to what extent they’re covered—if at all. Sports, M...

Sports Analytics

Data-Driven Sports and Decision Intelligence

A Mansurali , P. Mary Jeyanthi , Dieu-Hack Poly , Albert Mamod

This book allows readers embark on a journey through the exhilarating world of sports enhanced by the power of data-driven insights. From the nail-biting moments on the field to the strategic decisions behind the scenes, this comprehensive guide unveils the se...

Sideline Management in Sports

Sérgio Rocha Piedade , Mark R. Hutchinson , David Parker , João Espregueira-Mendes , Philippe Neyret

This book is a comprehensive reference guide for team physicians to manage common or rare clinical issues that may occur on the sidelines and field of play in recreational, professional or elite sports. Musculoskeletal injuries and health-related clinical issu...

Sports Law and Regulation

Cases, Materials, and Problems

Matthew J. Mitten , Timothy Davis , N. Jeremi Duru , Barbara Osborne

Sports Law and Regulation provides a comprehensive and timely discussion of youth, high school, college, Olympic, and professional sports legal issues, including gender and racial equity, health, safety, risk management, and intellectual property law issues. A...

Sport, Law and Philosophy

The Jurisprudence of Sport

Miroslav Imbrišević

Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport discusses the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. There is a general recognition that law and sports bear strong similarities. Both ...

The Youth Athlete

A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care

Brian J. Krabak , M. Alison Brooks

The Youth Athlete: A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care includes topics that provide the most comprehensive and holistic understanding of the youth athlete. The foundation of the book focuses on the growth and development of t...

A History of Sport in Europe in 100 Objects

Daphné Bolz , Michael Krüger

Modern sport originated in Europe. During the age of Enlightenment, gymnastics and athletics from Antiquity were rediscovered and changed into new cultural and educational forms, which shaped both the body and the mind. The industrialisation of Britain and Eur...

Sports Ministry

David B. Lewis , David Irby , William Galipault , Wayne Rasmussen

The first college textbook for sports ministry courses, Sports Ministry offers a how-to process for developing viable sports ministry programs locally and internationally that proclaim the Gospel and positively influence the world we live in through shared spo...

Beyond the Game: Athletes, Events, Spectators and Venues in Sports Marketing

Göker GÜLAY

Welcome to the world of sports marketing, where the intersection of athleticism, business acumen, and digital innovation unfolds. In this book, we embark on an intellectual journey that dissects the intricate domain of sports marketing, navigating through esse...

Sports Law in Kenya

Felix Majani

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in Kenya deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing internationalizatio...

EA Sports FIFA

Feeling the Game

Raiford Guins , Henry Lowood , Carlin Wing

If there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, fútbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the digital - EA's football simulation series FIFA - with profound im...

Sports in American History

From Colonization to Globalization

Gerald R. Gems , Linda J. Borish , Gertrud Pfister

Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, helps students grasp the compelling evolution of American sporting practices. This text examines sports history as a social and cultural phenomenon, generates a...

Sports Psychology

Dr. Rajwant Singh

Sports psychology is an interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from the fields of Kinesiology and Psychology. It involves the study of how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and ...

Sports Broadcasting

Kevin Hull

"This undergraduate textbook provides students with the information and skills needed to be a well-rounded sports television or radio broadcaster. Students will learn how to write for broadcast, shoot and edit video, and prepare for all the additional tasks ne...

Sports Didactics in Europe

History, Current Trends and Future Developments

Brigitta Höger , Konrad Kleiner

During the past decades, the scientific discipline of Sports Didactics has developed in a heterogenous manner across national borders and individual university locations in Europe. Its position and situatedness has been characterised by its relation to and dif...

SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS.

MARKO. BEGOVI

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SBAs in Sport, Exercise, and Musculoskeletal Medicine

Robin Chatterjee

Candidates can prepare with confidence for postgraduate exams in sports and exercise medicine (SEM) with this revision guide. Containing over 400 SBA questions the content is carefully mapped to the Membership of Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine UK (MFS...

Home Advantage in Sport

Causes and the Effect on Performance

Miguel A. Gómez-Ruano , Richard Pollard , Carlos Lago-Peñas

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA), the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins ...

A Modern Guide to Sports Economics

Koning, Ruud H. , Kesenne, Stefan

This timely Modern Guide offers critical insights into developments in both professional and recreational sports through the lens of the economic forces that determine them. It explores the benefits of the relationship between sports and economics, highlightin...

The Sociology of Sports

An Introduction, 3d ed.

Tim Delaney , Tim Madigan

This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport, presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination ...

Sports Plays

Eero Laine , Broderick Chow

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 and fo...

Birth Advantages and Relative Age Effects in Sport

Exploring Organizational Structures and Creating Appropriate Settings

Adam L Kelly , Jean Côté , Mark Jeffreys

Birth Advantages and the Relative Age Effect in Youth Sport examines the role of additional birth advantages and socio-environmental factors that young athletes may experience in organized youth sport....