Routledge International Handbooks
The Global Arms Trade: A Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Tan
May 21, 2015
The Global Arms Trade is written by a team of security experts drawn from around the world, analysing a phenomenon which has continued to flourish despite the end of the Cold War and the preoccupation with global terrorism after 11 September 2001. It provides a clear description and analysis of the...
Handbook of Critical Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Parker
May 01, 2015
Choice Recommended Read Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today, ...
Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Mental Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Panteleimon Ekkekakis
April 23, 2015
A growing body of evidence shows that physical activity can be a cost-effective and safe intervention for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of mental health problems. As researchers and clinicians around the world look for evidence-supported alternatives and complements to established ...
Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Albert Gollhofer, Wolfgang Taube, Jens Bo Nielsen
February 27, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement ...
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 ...
Routledge Handbook of African Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Nic Cheeseman, David M. Anderson, Andrea Scheibler
November 12, 2014
Providing a comprehensive and cutting edge examination of this important continent, Routledge Handbook of African Politics surveys the key debates and controversies, dealing with each of the major issues to be found in Africa’s politics today. Structured into 6 broad areas, the handbook features ...
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
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By Kirstie Ball, Kevin 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 ...