Routledge International Handbooks
Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, Jim Denison
February 27, 2015
Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed ...
Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio
February 27, 2015
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 ...
The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophie Body-Gendrot, Mike Hough, Klara Kerezsi, René Lévy, Sonja Snacken
June 19, 2014
This new book brings together some of the leading criminologists across Europe, to showcase the best of European criminology. This Handbook aims to reflect the range and depth of current work in Europe, and to counterbalance the impact of the – sometimes insular and ethnocentric – Anglo-American ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Leigh Robinson, Packianathan Chelladurai, Guillaume Bodet, Paul Downward
March 27, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Sport Management is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to theory and practice in sport management ever published. It provides students and scholars with a broad ranging survey of current thinking in contemporary sport management, exploring best practice in core ...
Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa: Foreign direct investment and food and water security
1st Edition
By John Anthony Allan, Martin Keulertz, Suvi Sojamo, Jeroen Warner
March 19, 2014
According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but ...
Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn
March 19, 2014
The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts ...
Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirstie Ball, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon
February 21, 2014
Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as ...
Handbook of Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuela Moschella, Catherine Weaver
December 21, 2013
Since mid-2007, the world scenario has been dominated by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and its repercussions on global financial markets and economic growth. As banks around the world wrote down their losses and governments intervened to rescue domestic financial institutions, financial distress...
Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ken Albala
December 18, 2013
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into...
Handbook of Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Cushman
December 17, 2013
In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking ...
Arab Spring and Arab Women: Challenges and opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Muhamad S. Olimat
December 09, 2013
This volume examines the role of Arab women in the Arab Spring and their contribution to the ongoing process of change sweeping the region. The book begins with an examination of the process of democratization and its impediments in the Arab World since the Second World War. It then looks at the ...
Handbook of Central American Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Salvador Martí i Puig
December 09, 2013
Central America constitutes a fascinating case study of the challenges, opportunities and characteristics of the process of transformation in today’s global economy. Comprised of a politically diverse range of societies, this region has long been of interest to students of economic development and ...