Product Description: India's Rise as an Asian Power examines India's rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region...read more

Product Description: The pursuit of excellence in sport depends on four key facets of performance, namely physical, technical, tactical and mental skills. However, when physical, technical and tactical skills are evenly matched, a common occurrence at elite level, it is the performer with greater levels of mental toughness that seems to prevail most often...read more

Product Description: Sport and Exercise Psychology: International Perspectives represents the collection of extended papers by the invited keynote speakers and two early career awardees at the 11th ISSP World Congress of Sport Psychology. The 10 papers of this collection, edited by Tony Morris, Peter Terry, and Sandy Gordon, are grouped together in pairs in five different topics: Sport Psychology Theory and Practice Sport Psychology Practice Psychology of Exercise Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology Motor Skill and Expert Performance The chapters in Sport and Exercise Psychology: International Perspectives reflect a range of important work in sport and exercise psychology, as well as clearly demonstrate the significant impact that the contributors have had on the field...read more

Product Description: South Asia has inherited a volatile ethnic and social mix that generates powerful political unrest between the nations of the region. Within this setting India continues its quest for regional great power status. This volume asks whether India can continue to build on its military base and extend its strategic reach, or whether the problems of a troubled nation and neighbourhood act as a restraint on these aspirations...read more