Sports

An adventurous best mate in book form, The Girl Outdoors offers up support and knowledge and empowers the reader, whether she”s thinking about cycling the length of Vietnam or just needs some help f …

Analyzing the key players and political moments in women’s professional tennis since 1968, this book explores the historical lineage of social activism within women’s tennis and the issues, expressio …

Golden Generations: The Story of the 2006 FIFA Men”s World Cup tells the tale of one of the most action-packed international tournaments in recent memory. From Philipp Lahm”s extraordinary goal jus …

When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure acti …

Sachin Tendulkar, who retired from playing in 2014, is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all time – and arguably the greatest batsman ever. From the time Tendulkar made an …

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 practition …

This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early deve …