Routledge International Handbooks
Routledge International Handbook of Medical Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Khalid Abdulrahman, Stewart Mennin, Ronald Harden, Catherine Kennedy
June 29, 2017
Twenty-first century medical schools, postgraduate bodies and other medical education organisations are responding to rapid advances in medicine, healthcare delivery, educational approaches and technology, and globalisation. Differences in geography, culture, history and resources demand diversity ...
Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Milena Parent, Jean-Loup Chappelet
June 20, 2017
From the Olympic Games to community-level competitions, sports events can be complex and pose a particular set of managerial challenges. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management surveys the management of sports events around the world of every size and scale, from small to mega-events, ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport Expertise
1st Edition
By Joseph Baker, Damian Farrow
May 25, 2017
Understanding and developing expertise is an important concern for any researcher or practitioner working in elite or high performance sport. Whether it's identifying talented young athletes or developing methods for integrating cutting-edge sport science into daily coaching practice, scientists, ...
Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn
May 24, 2017
World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and ...
Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike McNamee, William Morgan
May 24, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport is a landmark publication in sport studies. It goes further than any book has before in tracing the contours of the discipline of the philosophy of sport and in surveying the core themes, approaches and theories that form its disciplinary fabric. ...
Routledge International Handbook of Internet Gambling
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Williams, Robert Wood, Jonathan Parke
May 24, 2017
Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet ...
Routledge Handbook of Body Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan Turner
May 18, 2017
In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and ...
Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Verner Møller, Ivan Waddington, John Hoberman
May 17, 2017
Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport. Shocking cases such as that of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal cycling team have exposed the complicated relationships between athletes, teams, physicians, sports governing bodies, drugs providers, and ...
Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon McGrath, Qing Gu
May 10, 2017
This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Tomalin
May 10, 2017
This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates that have emerged within research on religions and development, particularly with respect to theoretical, conceptual and methodological considerations, ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy: Meeting the Challenge of Major Sports Events
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Holt, Dino Ruta
February 15, 2017
What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played? How can the vast expense of mounting such events be justified? What if there is nothing left behind or what if the legacy is negative, a costly infrastructure which is unused or a debt-ridden host ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Billings, Marie Hardin
May 02, 2016
New media technologies have become a central part of the sports media landscape. Sports fans use new media to watch games, discuss sports transactions, form fan-based communities, and secure minutiae about their favorite players and teams. Never before have fans known so much about athletes, ...