Sport

This handbook provides a definitive guide to the regulation of international and national sport through the lens of both regulatory, governance and legal frameworks. This book is an essential resource for students and academics exploring issues in international and national sports law, sports regulation and sport governance.

This book extends current knowledge and understanding of festival experiences. Relying on a series of international case studies, this book offers readers unique and important insights that emphasise the benefit of edutainment activities for enhanced audience learning, engagement, and festival satisfaction.

This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup, examining events from its inception in 1871-2 to the beginning of the Football League in 1888-9.

This edited collection bringS together sociologically informed accounts from former high-performance athletes about their retirement experiences and post-sporting careers. The authors explore how retiring from elite sport impacted their relationship to exercise and physical activity, identity, and long-term mental health.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China. It explores topics including the history of Chinese traditional sport, the rise of modern sport, physical education, and leisure and tourism.

GOLFLAND IRELAND describes each one of Ireland's golf courses. Both practical reference work and highly desirable gift, it is stylishly laid out, showcasing fabulous photography by David Cannon, the world's finest golf photographer. From Old Head to Rosapenna, and points in between, all Irish golf is here.

This handbook takes an in-depth look at the transformative impact of social media on sport.

Human strength testing has advanced as technology has evolved. This book continues this evolution by developing and presenting applications in the assessment and training of strength in humans, broadening the scope of information available to physical therapists, coaches, and physical trainers specializing in strength training.

Based on the spatial perspective, this book takes the urban area of Xi'an, China, as the main research region and studies the balance of resource allocation, focusing on educational resources and school layout.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

A comprehensive statistical guide to domestic football in France from the start in 1894-2024. Contains home-and-away charts for the top division as well as final tables. Also has final tables for the 2nd division.+ play-offs and includes French Cup results for later rounds and line-ups for Finals too.

Contains a statistical record of every Spanish Liga 1 game played from 1928 to 2024 with home-and-away charts showing results and final tables for each season. Final tables for Liga 2 are also included together with Spanish Cup Quarter-final and Semi-final results plus line-ups and statistics for the Finals themselves from 1902-2024.

This book contains a complete match-by-match statistical record and brief overview of the football tournaments played in all 31 Olympiads.

The definitive account of sport's concussion crisis, how its 'dirty secret' was finally made public and what sport must now do to save itself.

> Explores the benefits of practicing yoga on social life and humanity. Discusses impact of yoga on the socioemotional development and happiness.

Despite being 1,500 years old, chess has never been more relevant than it is today. The Chess Revolution explores chess as a cultural phenomenon from its biggest stars and most dramatic moments to the impact of the internet and AIChess, as it turns out, isn't just one of the greatest games ever devised. It has inspired writers, painters and filmmakers, and was a secret mover behind technical revolutions like artificial intelligence that are transforming society. In The Chess Revolution the acclaimed Chess.com journalist Peter Doggers reveals how computers and the Internet have further strengthened the timeless magic of chess in the digital era, leading to a new peak in popularity and cultural relevance.

This concise and thought-provoking book examines the myths and realities surrounding the wider value of sport. It asks a fundamental question: what is it about sport that leads to grand claims about its supposed capacity to do so many good things for society?