Rugby Books

New and Published Books

1. Science and Football VII

   The Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress on Science and Football

   Edited by Hiroyuki Nunome, Barry Drust, Brian Dawson

   Science and Football VII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as ‘football’. These include soccer, the national codes (American football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football), and the rugby codes (union and league). Bridging the gap between theory...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Complexity and Control in Team Sports

   Dialectics in contesting human systems

   By Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

   Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. Science and Football (Routledge Revivals)

   Proceedings of the first World Congress of Science and Football Liverpool, 13-17th April 1987

   Edited by Tom Reilly, Adrian Lees, Keith Davids, W. J. Murphy

   First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and Football. Held under the auspices of the International Council of Sport, Science, and Physical Education, the Congress was a unique gathering of international scientists...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports

   Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance, second edition

   By Paul Gamble

   Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports is designed to help trainers and coaches to devise more effective high-performance training programs for team sports. This remains the only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and features all-new chapters covering...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Science and Football VI

   The Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Science and Football

   Edited by Thomas Reilly, Feza Korkusuz

   Science and Football VI showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as football. These include the games of association football, the rugby codes (union and league), and the national codes (American, Australian and Gaelic). The book aims to bridge the gap between...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge
7. Australian Sport

   Antipodean Waves of Change

   Edited by Kristine Toohey, Tracy Taylor

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Australia is only a small player in the world’s political and economic landscapes, yet, for many decades, it has been considered to be a global powerhouse in terms of its sporting successes. In conjunction with this notion, the nation has long been portrayed as having a preoccupation with sport....

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
8. A Social History of English Rugby Union

   By Tony Collins

   From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history,...

   Published January 12th 2009 by Routledge
9. Performance Assessment for Field Sports

   By Christopher Carling, Tom Reilly, A. Mark Williams

   What are the most effective tools, techniques and technologies available to coaches and sport scientists in the assessment of player and team performance? This is the first book dedicated to the assessment of performance in field sports such as soccer, rugby, hockey and lacrosse. It provides...

   Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge
10. Rugby's Great Split

    Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League Football, 2nd Edition

    By Tony Collins

    Since it’s first publication, Rugby’s Great Split has established itself as a classic in the field of sport history. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, this deeply researched and highly readable book traces the social, cultural and economic divisions that led, in 1895, to schism in the...

    Published July 13th 2006 by Routledge