Sports & Recreation

Drugs in Sport

Drugs have now become a major issue surrounding most top sporting events.

Ethics and Sport

The issues surrounding ethical controversies in sport have filled the media recently.

Sport, Health and Drugs

Sport may teach people how to win gracefully; but it may also teach them how to win at any cost, even if this involves violence or cheating.

Counselling Athletes

Reversal theory is an innovative psychological theory exploring human motivation, emotion and personality. This is the first book in the field to examine how reversal theory can be used by practitioners in applied sport psychology in their counselling work with athletes.

Sports Biomechanics

Sports Biomechanics: Reducing Injury and Improving Performance is the companion volume to Introduction to Sports Biomechanics, also written by Roger Bartlett.

Science and Golf II

This book contains the papers presented at the second World Scientific Congress of Golf. The overall theme of the congress is the application of science, scientific method and scientific research in golf.

Leisure of One's Own

A Leisure of One's Own is a unique introduction to issues and questions about women and their leisure, offering a social psychological analysis from a feminist perspective.

Hank Aaron and the Home Run that Changed America

E-Book Extras: ONE: Stats, Facts and Highlights; TWO: An Interview with Tom Stanton Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Aaron’s historic #s 714 & 715!Baseball has witnessed more than 125, 000 major-league home runs.

The Bad Guys Won

Once upon a time, twenty-four grown men would play baseball together, eat together, carouse together, and brawl together.

Sports Geography

In this fully revised and updated edition of his classic, discipline-defining text, John Bale comprehensively explores the relationships between sport, place, location and landscape.