Sports

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. Often cons...

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field  Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges...

Dynamics, motion, sensation...they are karate's connective tissueand they are the heart of this book. Karate Science: Dynamic Movement will help yo...

Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explor...

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the s...

For years, amateur golfers have been going to see pros to learn how to improve their game. If there were some major technical difficulties that the...

For most of the 20th century, professional cycling was dominated by riders from the continental strongholds of France, Italy, Belgium and Spain, bu...

Save lives, earn money, stay in shape, and have fun as a lifeguard Lifeguarding For Dummies will give you insight into what it takes to be a lifegu...

Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclists known as 'Overlanders' set out on a race around Australia. On 24 November 1896 a wir...

'He's a great coach. He lives and breathes the game. There's nothing he doesn't know' Brian O'Driscoll'The best coach Irish rugby - arguably Irish ...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China...

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological per...