Sport

Empower your mind, strengthen your body and build your best life with this girl-power guide to strength training. With helpful tips, practical advice and energizing affirmations, this wellness and weightlifting companion will support you on your journey to becoming your strongest self.

This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure - sport relationship from societies that have staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games and contains valuable information for those who live in societies that aspire to host the Games. This collection provides not just insight into the past and present effects of th

This original collection explores critically sporting practices, spaces and affiliations in order to understand issues around identity, (post-) migration, diaspora and transnationalism for global South Asian populations. The chapters provide a critical (re-) examination of the roles that sport plays within and in relation to South

This book critically engages with the role sporting organisations play in the maintenance and development of communities in their variety of forms.It was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

This important and engaging collection explores the underappreciated history and continuing significance of sport in the Pacific. In particular, it directs attention to the movement of people and sporting practices exploring the importance of borrowing, appropriation, diaspora, racism, and imperialism.This book was published as a special

This thought-provoking book embarks into the captivating world of religious tourism and explores the intricate relationship between travel and spirituality, shedding light on whether tourists are seekers of profound meaning or simply pleasure-seekers. The chapters in this book were originally published in Tourism Recreation Research.

This book develops readers' understanding and conceptualisation of the issues, challenges, and opportunities associated with teaching and coaching lifestyle sports. The book covers topics such as coach development, youth sport participation, athlete learning, and creating a 'meaningful' physical education experience.

This book develops readers' understanding and conceptualisation of the issues, challenges, and opportunities associated with teaching and coaching lifestyle sports. The book covers topics such as coach development, youth sport participation, athlete learning, and creating a 'meaningful' physical education experience.

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research.

This book addresses tourism and its development in the post-communist context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The book consists of 14 chapters (divided into two sections), a new introduction and a reflective concluding section. All 14 main chapters in this book were originally published in the Tourism Geographies journal.

Football is the world's most popular sport and is entrepreneurial by nature. This book provides a holistic understanding of how football can include innovation, risk taking and proactive activity and will be useful for those interested to learn more of the football industry and entrepreneurship in the global context.

Examining the evolution of recent theoretical and methodological trends in pilgrimage studies and featuring essays from leading scholars in various fields in the humanities, this book is an essential read for all researchers of pilgrimage, religious history, religious tourism, and anthropology.

This book examines the logic of 'faster, higher, stronger', and the techno-scientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport's environmental responsibilities.

Inclusion in Tourism provides examples of discrimination and marginalisation in tourism practices and avenues designed to recognise and overcome personal or institutional biases, setting a road map for researchers interested in establishing a more inclusive approach to tourism and tourism research.

Two titans of the Weird collide in this collaboration with the social media and publishing phenomenon Weird Walk, including notes and real-life walk recommendations for each story to help readers to arrange their own journeys into the rambling weird. This collection features classics alongside lesser-known finds from the Library's collections.

Take a journey into London's unexplored and hidden corners with Jack Chesher – creator of @LivingLondonHistory and author of the Sunday Times-Bestselling London: A Guide For Curious Wanderers.