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Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport, and on the approaches taken by sports organisations to prevent and manage these.

Providing a transdisciplinary overview of this cutting-edge subject, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and scholars of environmental communication, environmental sociology, human geography and environmental studies more broadly.

This handbook discusses and analyzes the history and development of OPEC, its global importance, and the role it has played, and still plays, in the global energy market.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.S. prisons and synthesizes the research on the many facets of the prison system.

This Handbook provides a thorough understanding of environmental journalism around the world. This volume is an essential text for both upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates who study journalism and global environmental issues.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Practice Research is the first book to focus on practice research for social work. Bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, the USA and the Asia Pacific region, it provides an up-to-the minute overview of the latest thinking in practice research.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors is a definitive resource about addictive behaviours, emphasizing substance misuse, gambling, and problematic technology use.

This Handbook introduces and systematically explores the thesis that despite widespread assumptions about an increasing trend towards secularization in Western societies, the economy, economic practices and economic thought are of a profoundly theological nature.

The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. Using work from contributors across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book explores the use of the veil following the Iranian Islamic revolution, Islamic fashion and marketing, the political role of the headscarf, the veiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians, and secular forms of modest dress to form the most comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic.

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 upon social, environmental, economic, political, and cultural life in countries of origin and settlement. Such transformations impact not only those who are migrating, but those who are left behind, as well as those who live in the areas where migrants settle. The Handbook of Migration Studies offers a conceptual approach to the study of international migration, exploring clearly the many modes of exit, reception and incorporation which involve varied populations in disparate political, economic, social and cultural contexts. How do these movements also facilitate the transmission of ideologies and identities, political and cultural practices and economic resources? Uniquely among texts in the subject area, the Handbook also provides a section devoted to exploring methods for studying international migration. Featuring forty-seven essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, the Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies offers a contemporary, integrated and comprehensive resource for students and scholars of sociology, politics, human geography, law, history, urban planning, journalism, and health care.

In the context of the increasing global movement of people and a growing evidence base for differing outcomes in child welfare, Routledge Handbook of Global Child Welfare provides a compelling account of child welfare, grounded in the latest theory, policy and practice. Drawing on eminent international expertise, the book offers a coherent and comprehensive overview of the policies, systems and practices that can deliver the best outcomes for children. It considers the challenges faced by children globally, and the difference families, services and professionals can make. This ambitious and far-reaching handbook is essential reading for everyone working to make the world a better and safer place for children.

A study in the transformation of the energy security policy arena brought on by two developments - the increased availability of energy in many parts of the world and increasing concerns over the harmful effects of fossil fuels on the environment.

The Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking will provide an interdisciplinary introduction to trafficking in human beings (THB). 50 original essays will guide the reader into the full interdisciplinary range of trafficking in human beings (THB), providing the necessary understanding of the scope of THB and the most pressing challenges to law, policy makers, academia and civil society, as well as to trafficked persons and those assisting them.

The first fully comprehensive review of theory, research and practice in physical education to be published in over a decade, this handbook represents an essential, evidence-based guide for all students, researchers and practitioners working in PE. Showcasing the latest research, it offers insights into programme development, student learning, and teaching across a variety of learning environments.

The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is the first book to offer a fully comprehensive survey of established and emerging qualitative methods, from conceptual first principles to practice and process. Written by world-leading qualitative researchers, the book reflects upon the nature of qualitative research in sport and introduces the full range of research traditions within which qualitative researchers work.

The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies is a landmark work of reference, going further than any other book in considering the historical and contemporary significance of football around the world. It is an essential tool for any student or scholar undertaking social scientific research in football and is a fascinating read for any serious football fan.

The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war¿s interrelated conflicts. Often overlooked, the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new research over the past twenty-five years. The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 brings together the insights of this research through an array of fresh essays by leading scholars in the field, offering an overview of current understandings of the war that will be a vital reference for students and researchers alike.The essays in this volume examine a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the war. With full consideration given to American, Canadian, British, and native viewpoints, the international group of contributors place the war in national and international context, chart the course of events in its different theaters, consider the war¿s legacy and commemoration, and examine the roles of women, African Americans, and natives. Capturing the state of the field in a single volume, this handbook is a must-have resource for anyone with an interest in early America.

This handbook covers a range of topics that shows the breadth, depth and strength of dramatherapy as a developing and maturing profession

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.

Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, this comprehensive survey of young people¿s involvement in sport focuses on a key transitional period of our lives, from the later teenage years into the early twenties. Covering youth sport in all its forms and at all levels, from elite competition to leisure and school physical education, it also explores youth sport across the world, in developing and developed countries, and touches on some of the most significant themes in contemporary sport studies, including physical activity and health, lifelong participation, and talent development.

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 studies, explaining motor behaviour in depth from the molecular level to behavioural consequences.The book addresses not only basic and theoretical aspects of motor control and learning but also applied areas like robotics, modelling and complex human movements. This book is both a definitive subject guide and an important contribution to the contemporary research agenda. It is therefore, important reading for students, scholars and researchers working in sports and exercise science, kinesiology, physical therapy, medicine and neuroscience.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality offers a guide of unparalleled depth and breadth to the many complex inter-relationships between sport, gender, and sexuality. Consisting entirely of new empirical and theoretical essays by leading and emerging researchers and scholars from around the world, the books maps the historical, theoretical and empirical terrain of gender and sexuality studies in sport. It examines structural and cultural forms of gender segregation, homophobia, heteronormativity and transphobia, as well as the ideological struggles and changes that have led to nuanced ways of thinking about the sport, gender, and sexuality nexus. This is a landmark work of reference that will be a key resource for all advanced students and researchers working in sport studies, gender studies, sexuality studies or sociology.

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.

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 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.

The book presents a coherent and systematic guide to the current state-of-the-art research and theory in criminology in China and Greater China and will be of interest to those engaged with crime and criminal justice and Asian Studies.

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.

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.

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.

The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. This book guides readers through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to various approaches within the field.