Bloomsbury Sport imprint: 203 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport features specially commissioned essays from a team of leading international scholars. The book, by providing an overview of the advances in the philosophical understanding of sport (and related practices), serves as a measure of the development of...
Philosophy of Sport
Key Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Philosophy of Sport: Key Questions provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the philosophy of sport. Each chapter is framed by a question that explores the main issues, ideas and literature in the field ranging from questions about the nature and value of sport, the sporting body, aesthetics...
by Rob Steen
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award****2014
Spectator sport is living, breathing, non-stop theatre for all.
Focusing on spectator sports and their accompanying issues, tracing their origins, evolution and impact, inside the lines and beyond the boundary, this book...
Sport Psychology: The Basics
Optimising Human Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This comprehensive and accessible resource can be used as textbook or a self-help book and is aimed at students, athletes, coaches, sport scientists or indeed any-one looking to enhance their performance, whatever their sport or activity. The psychological concepts may even be useful for those working...
Ride the Revolution
The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
When Marie Marvingt decided to ride the 1908 Tour de France she was told 'absolument, non!' by M. Degranges and the Societe du Tour de France. Instead she rode each stage 15 minutes after the official race had departed and finished all 4,488 kms of the parcours - a feat that only 36 of the 110 men...
Rainbows in the Mud
Inside the Intoxicating World of Cyclocross
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Cyclocross is no longer cycling's hidden gem. Its rapid growth in the USA and UK means this intense and dramatic sport is exploding into the mainstream. With a season running from September to February, cyclocross is cycling's only purely winter discipline, demanding a combination of athleticism,...
Kicking Off
How Women in Sport Are Changing the Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
There's a battle being fought. It's raging on the sports fields, in the newsrooms and behind the scenes at every major broadcaster. Women in sport are fighting for equality with more vigour than ever, but are they breaking down the barriers that stand in their way? Sarah Shephard looks behind the...
The Monuments
The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called 'Monuments', the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the grand slams...
A Ringside Affair
Boxing’s Last Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
For three decades at the end of the twentieth century – throughout boxing's most engrossing era – James Lawton was ringside, covering every significant bout, spending time with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hitman Hearns, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson,...
Dare to Tri
My Journey from the BBC Breakfast Sofa to GB Team Triathlete
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Dare to Tri is the amazing story of TV presenter Louise Minchin's journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to representing Great Britain at the World Triathlon Championships. This is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through-sport that will both entertain and inspire.
'I didn't even...
by Sarah Bolitho, Debbie Lawrence, Elaine McNish
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Many fitness professionals and sports coaches working with clients find difficulties in ensuring their clients stay motivated. Any professional prescribing a fitness programme to a client knows that the biggest roadblock to success is the client's ability to make a change in their day-to-day life....
Sports Journalism
The Inside Track
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
'I always turn to the sport section first. The sport section record people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.' - Earl Warren.
Sports journalism, once dismissed as the 'toyshop' editorial department, has grown in importance as sport has become bigger and bigger business,...
The End of the Road
The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs....
Achieving Excellence in High Performance Sport
Experiences and Skills Behind the Medals
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
What does it take for a person starting out in their
career to succeed in a highly challenging environment? Apart from the technical
skills, what are the key values, attitudes and behaviours that deliver
outstanding performance in a constantly changing and demanding world?
This book examines these...