Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies

This work is a serious contender to be a standard is its field for the next decade. While a number of reference works on sports have been reviewed in this journal recently, this is the first in the more specific area of sports medicine and sports studies. The authors are, in the order of the title page: Associate Professor in the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago; Professor and Director, Sports Industry Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University; and Professor of Sports Medicine, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Executive Director, Sheffield Centre of Sports Medicine, University of Sheffield. These...