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A timely and up-to-date "go-to" reference work for business events, The Routledge Handbook of Business Events explores and critically evaluates the key debates and controversies inherent to this rapidly expanding subject of study and industry.

As the emerging center of the global economy, Asia continues to evoke great interest. This reference volume provides a comprehensive overview of the state of play in development economics in the region. The book covers every facet of this vital area and will be a useful resource for students and scholars of economics, development and area studies.

The revised and expanded second edition of the Handbook reflects new methodological orientations, new locations of study such as Asia, Canada and South America, and new responses to environmental harms.

This handbook consolidates the large and growing amount of knowledge and expertise in the field in the form of targeted contributions by leading experts. It will be of great interest to energy researchers across the world in a number of disciplines, as well as to museums, arts and environmental organisations, governments, and policymakers.

Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, this innovative handbook introduces sport-specific strength and conditioning for over 30 different sports, from soccer and basketball to triathlon and mixed martial arts. Additional chapters cover the adaptation of program design for female athletes, young athletes and athletes with a disability.

The Handbook of US-Middle East Relations provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of contemporary US-Middle East relations in historical perspective.

Suitable for students of international affairs, academics, researchers, business people and policy analysts, this title includes chapters that give information on the state of Chinese international relations in historical perspective.

The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference. Now available in a concise paperback edition, it offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of current theory, research and practice in sports, exercise and clinical biomechanics, in both established and emerging contexts.

This International Handbook gives an overview of India 's international relations, given the development of India as a major economic power in the world, and the growing interest in the impact of Asia on the international system in the future. Edited by David Scott of Brunel University, and with chapters written by a variety of experts, the Handbook of India 's International Relations offers an up-to-date, unbiased and comprehensive resource to academics, students of international relations, business people, media professionals and the general reader. There is a pre-publication price on this title. The price rises to 150 three months after publication.

Analyzes the contemporary debates in European Studies in order to present lessons for the development, design and normative evaluation of global governance. This title examines methodological, theoretical or empirical discussions within European studies in order to draw insights on the developments in global governance.

This new Routledge title sheds light on the diverse themes surrounding this very important issue area in international security. Readers will benefit from six major sections, each addressing an aspect of nuclear proliferation that is critical in determining the future trajectory of global politics. For example, why are we witnessing a move away from non-proliferation to counter-proliferation? There are case studies examining nuclear policies of the five established nuclear powers: the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and the People's Republic of China. The book also examines the present state of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, which most observers agree is currently facing a crisis of credibility.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world¿s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the current state of research on religions and development and interactions between religions and development. It uniquely looks at religions in context when thinking about their relationships to development. Different religious traditions are situated within actual locations and case studies thus allowing a better understanding of their relationships to development. Taking a global approach, the Handbook covers Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East/South-East Asia and the Middle East.

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching is the first book to survey the full depth and breadth of contemporary coaching studies, mapping the existing disciplinary territory and opening up important new areas of research. Bringing together many of the world's leading coaching scholars and practitioners working across the full range of psychological, social and pedagogical perspectives, the book helps to develop an understanding of sports coaching that reflects its complex, dynamic and messy reality. This book makes an important contribution to the professionalization of coaching and the development of coaching theory. It is important reading for all students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in this young and flourishing area.

This Handbook provides an in-depth overview of how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. China is undergoing a transitional period of rapid economic and social development. How this period is managed will have significant implications for the Chinese state and its population concerning Chinäs governance structures and economy, as well as the country¿s justice, public health, education and internal/external security concerns. This transition to a modern state is not without its challenges ¿ particularly in terms of how the Chinese state deals with diverse issues such as social inequality, corruption, separatism, increasing individualism and political reform. Many of the core internal issues facing China also have potential external repercussions, principally in terms of rising social unrest, nationalism, environmental degradation, resource shortages and attitudes towards globalization. This book aims to cover these issues and will help readers to fully comprehend Chinäs ongoing contemporary global significance.

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis is the most comprehensive guide to this exciting and dynamic branch of sport science ever to be published. The book explores performance analysis across the four main contexts in which it is commonly used: support for coaches and athletes; the media; judging sport contests, and academic research. Covering every important aspect of PA, including tactics, strategy, mechanical aspects of technique, physical aspects of performance such as work-rate, coach behaviour and referee behaviour, this is an essential reference for any serious student, researcher or practitioner working in sport performance analysis, sport coaching or high performance sport.

Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity and as a policy field, and to offer a definitive survey of current academic knowledge and professional practice.

This book, in the Routledge International Handbooks series, examines the issue of governance of the global economic and financial system and prospects for its reform. Specifically, the book will address the following three main themes: Governance; Functions of governance; and Problems and prospects of governance. The handbook will provide a thorough analysis of the issues at stake in designing international rules and institutions able to govern the global economy; illustrate and analyse virtually all the main institutions, rules and arrangements that make up global economic governance, inscribing them within the function these institutions, rules and arrangements are meant to perform; discuss the problems that affect today's global economic governance and assess alternative proposals to reform the international financial architecture.