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Mick Green

    Routledge International Handbooks: Routledge Handbook of Sports Development
    The Skirmishers
    • The Skirmishers. An elite military unit tasked to distract, disrupt and confuse the enemy during Special Forces operations in Afghanistan. Banded together as a bunch of misfit soldiers by the British Army, only the charismatic Major Mike Sharpe could successfully reveille these way-ward troops. As their final deployment draws near, the Skirmishers find themselves making tough choices about their futures. However, the mysterious Colonel Tom Sawyer has other ideas. His plan is accelerated when one of the Skirmishers is attacked in an East London pub, carried out by members of an organised crime syndicate. As the team find themselves embroiled in London’s criminal underworld, these violent conflicts reveal secrets which threaten to tear the Skirmishers apart. Join Mike Sharpe, Steph Holgate and the rest of the team in this fast-paced, explosive new novel by Mick Green.

      The Skirmishers2023
    • Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the <em>Routledge Handbook of Sports Development</em> 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. Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development, from youth sport and mass participation to the development of elite athletes, the book identifies and defines the core functions of sports development, exploring the interface between sports development and cognate fields such as education, coaching, community welfare and policy. The book presents important new studies of sports development around the world, illustrating the breadth of practice within and between countries, and examines the most important issues facing practitioners within sports development today, from child protection to partnership working. With unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage, the <em>Routledge Handbook of Sports Development</em> is the definitive guide to policy, practice and research in sports development. It is essential reading for all students, researchers and professionals with an interest in this important and rapidly evolving discipline.

      Routledge International Handbooks: Routledge Handbook of Sports Development2011