Sport and Leisure Management Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport

   Ethical, Legal and Social Perspectives

   Edited by Mike McNamee, Verner Møller

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant anti-doping policy and...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Global Sport Business

   Community Impacts of Commercial Sport

   Edited by Hans Westerbeek

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Global Sport Business: The Community Impact of Commercial Sport involves a range of pressing issues that come with the arrival of sport as a commodity in the world economy. It can be argued that, throughout the past two centuries, sport has always been recognized as both a frivolous pursuit of...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Gay Games

   A History

   By Caroline Symons

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Terrorism and the Olympics

   Major Event Security and Lessons for the Future

   Edited by Anthony Richards, Peter Fussey, Andrew Silke

   Series: Political Violence

   The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat. The enormous media profile and symbolic significance of the Olympic Games, the history of terrorists aiming to use such...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. The Impact and Evaluation of Major Sporting Events

   Edited by Holger Preuss

   The aim of politicians is to attract new investment to their city or region in order to develop infrastructure such as telecommunications, transportation, housing or even sport and entertainment facilities. Sporting events are also intended to achieve intangible ends such as a better image, more...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. Sport Tourism

   Edited by Heather J. Gibson

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The study of sport tourism is on the cusp of moving from a descriptive phase of research into an analytical phase. Consequently, many academics and graduate students are searching for theories upon which to ground their work. This book draws upon theories and concepts from sociology and...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
7. The Political Economy of Global Sporting Organisations

   By John Forster, Nigel Pope

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   At the global level, sport is ruled by a set of organizations including giants such as the IOC (Olympics), FIFA (soccer), and the IAAF (athletics) as well as sporting minnows such as the World Armsport Federation (armwrestling). Many of these bodies have been surrounded by controversy during...

   Published September 16th 2007 by Routledge