Health and Fitness

About the Book A comprehensive overview of clinically important infections of the urinary tract Urinary tract infections (UTIs) continue to rank am...

About the Book The PhD Thesis covers a review of sanitation technology options for urban slums including existing technologies, their application s...

About the Book Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine int...

About the Book It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why gover...

About the Book Ergonomics is concerned with the 'fit' between people and their work. With an increasing number of people becoming conscious about t...

About the Book Quality, Evidence and Effectiveness is unique in bringing together, for the first time, the critical concepts of quality assurance a...

About the Book Following the tradition of its predecessor, the fifth edition of Nutrition: Maintaining and Improving Health continues to offer a wi...

About the Book Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protecti...

About the Book The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices w...

About the Book The Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing offers an innovative approach to one of Britain's oldest sports. While it considers the tra...

About the Book An essential and short guide for employees who need to know more about health and safety in the workplace without wanting to spend ...

Skills in Neighbourhood Work is a practice textbook. It explains the skills, knowledge and techniques needed by community workers and other practit...

The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is a comprehensive text that provides students with meaningful lab experiences in the area of s...

Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy raises awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal professional practice skills. The book chap...

The Science and Physiology of Flexibility and Stretching is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book to cover the underlying physiology and psych...

SPORT COACH LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTING COACHES IN PERFORMANCE SPORT (PB 2025)

This is a complete, step‑by‑step, reader‑friendly introduction to leadership theories and their application in sport organizations. It outlines key...

Now in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, Managing Sport Organizations introduces the fundamentals of sport management across every industr...

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitat...

Most people have good days…and not so good days. When they step back and ask what makes the difference, many conclude that it’s that stuff that hap...

The Science of Esports draws from contemporary research and coach expertise to examine esports athlete health and performance from a range of disci...

This important book outlines how, despite varying levels of global socio-economic development, governments around the world can guarantee their cit...

Guided by the conceptualization of content knowledge, this book covers sports analysis (identification of techniques and tactics), skill analysis (...

Data Analytics in Football provides students, researchers, and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It o...

Performance analysis has become an essential tool for coaches, athletes, sports organisations and academic researchers. Collecting and interpreting...

Introducing the core concepts, issues and debates in the study of gender and sport, this is an accessible, engaging and thought-provoking textbook ...

The athlete development process spans from initial sport engagement to elite-level performance to effective career transition out of sport. This is...

Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology presents a labyrinth of choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as trai...

Counselling Skills in Applied Sport Psychology is a new text that provides a ‘how to’ in basic counselling skills for sport psychology students and...

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Managing Sport Development is a complete introduction to sport development, covering key concept...

Risk assessment and risk management are top of every mental health organisation’s agenda. This updated and expanded new edition provides an informa...

This fully revised and expanded second edition focusses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, the...

Fatigue is an important concern for athletes at all levels, recreational sport and exercise participants, athletic coaches, personal trainers, and ...

Written by internationally known experts The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation draws on the latest research in sport psychology and spo...

Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Performance offers a clear, practical, and accessible guide to building a comprehensive understanding of sport a...

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Introduction to Sport Marketing is a clear, straightforward, and concise introduction to the theo...

This second edition of Exercise Physiology: For Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential human anatomy and applied physiolog...

This book introduces the fundamentals of sport governance, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader. It explains to students and pract...

Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice critically considers the ethical dimensions of promoting health with individuals and commun...

This is the first book to explore fully the connections between sport studies and criminology, opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sp...

Written by a team of leading international experts, this book explores key factors and issues in contemporary sport, including the current state of...

This book presents a critical assessment of evaluation theory and practice in sport and leisure. It considers established and emerging forms of eva...

Within the Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES) and allied disciplines, reflective practice has become firmly established as a fundamental aspect of e...

Evolving from the concept of coach education, which is generally accepted to be the more formal, didactic mode of transmitting information to coach...

The Applied Sport and Exercise Practitioner is designed to help all developing sport and exercise practitioners navigate the world of applied work....

Coaches, practitioners and medical staff working in the worldwide sport of rugby will frequently apply scientific principles to their programmes to...

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce. Based on more than two decades of work ...

Everyone talks innovation and we can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but few repeatable pro...