Health and Fitness

About the Book The Converse? All StarTM team scores with this jam-packed book on the basics of soccer. From trapping passes to heading corner kicks...

About the Book This textbook for students of physical education, athletic training, and coaching discusses common sports injuries. A sampling of to...

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 ...

About the Book This book provides an up-to-date review of our understanding of smooth muscle and integrates molecular, cellular and physiological i...

About the Book Perhaps the most reliable path to spiritual and mental calm is through meditation--a practice dating from antiquity that is basic to...

About the Book Meditation is now enjoying a renewed surge of popularity, penetrating the public consciousness as never before. What might that mean...

About the Book When the stakes are high, some players seize the moment and make themselves legends. From pitching heroics in Game 7 of the World Se...

A comprehensive book for apprehensive parents Baby Basics is a reassuring guide that takes the worry out of first-time parenting and lets you spend...

About the Book This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the many definitions, theories and approaches in public health. It is a...

Applied Nutrition

About the Book The essays in this book provide readers with answers on many current issues that relate to everyday life. The essays are only one pa...

Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, how it fosters trans...

Your comfort zone is NOT the danger zone! This paradigm-shifting guide shows you how to harness the power of joy, creativity, and ease to create th...

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...

Few things are as exhilarating and can be compared to the finishing dash of a horse race. Charting the hitherto untold story of Indian horse racing...

What is life without being healthy? Good health is the key to a healthy mind a challenge in today’s world featured by erratic lifestyles. Living Lo...

The book highlights the amazing popularity of Yoga amongst all cross-sections of human society - corporates, celebrities, sportspersons, world lead...

Sport is one of the largest industries in the world and the global reach of major sporting events is enormous. In this Very Short Introduction, Mik...

Are we born with our fears or do we learn them? Why do our fears persist? What purpose does anxiety serve? In this Very Short Introduction we disco...

Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - ...

The Pill: The Facts Seventh Edition is still the most user-friendly, comprehensive source of unbiased information on the Pill, along with other hor...

Tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. Using the insights of anthropology, this title presents ethnograp...

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...