Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport, edited by Ben Carrington (University of Texas, Austin,) and Ian McDonald (University of Brighton,) continues to receive critical acclaim from well-known academic journals! The text aims to contribute to the critical analysis of sport in society by joining together Marxist and Cultural Studies approaches.

Foundations of Sports Coaching by Paul E. Robinson (University of Chichester) is a new textbook that bridges gap between coaching science and coaching practice.

The Gay Games: A History, by Caroline Symons, Victoria University, Australia, is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world.

Taking in contemporary theory as well as received traditions, Routledge Companion to Sports History, edited by S.W. Pope, West Virginia University, and John Nauright, George Mason University, is the most up-to-date reference work for scholars in sports history and those wishing to enter the field.
 

Although there is growing interest from governments in participation levels in sport, the extent to which governments actively promote ‘sport for all’ and their motives for doing so vary greatly. Participation in Sport is the first book to examine the sport participation policies of national governments across the world and to offer a comparative analysis of the motives for, and successes and failures of those policies.