Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture...
Author: Gary Alan Fine , A01 ISBN: 9780226264981 Format: Hardback	$46.95
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Parenting in Youth Sport: From Research to Practice

Parenting in Youth Sport: From Research to Practice...
Author: Nicholas Holt , Camilla Knight ISBN: 9781138120679 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport

Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport
Author: Richard Giulianotti (Loughborough University, UK) ISBN: 9780415829731 Format: Hardback	$525.00
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Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global...
Author: James Farrer , Andrew David Field ISBN: 9780226262888 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Drawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime... Read More >>

Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global...
Author: James Farrer , Andrew David Field ISBN: 9780226262741 Format: Hardback	$163.95
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Football Clichés: Decoding the Oddball Phrases, Colorful Gestures, and Unwritten Rules of Soccer Across the Pond

Football Clichés: Decoding the Oddball Phrases, Colorful...
Author: Adam Hurrey ISBN: 9780143128526 Format: Paperback	$42.24
"""A Penguin Sports original""--Back cover." Read More >>

The Athletic Experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Past, Present, and Persistence

The Athletic Experience at Historically Black Colleges...
Author: Billy Hawkins , Joseph Cooper ISBN: 9781442253681 Format: Hardback	$228.00
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Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time

Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time
Author: David B. Sachsman , Robert A. Stebbins ISBN: 9781412855945 Format: Paperback	$103.00
Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure Read More >>

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700
Author: Anthony Cooke ISBN: 9781474407625 Format: Paperback	$64.66
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Racism and the Olympics

Racism and the Olympics
Author: Robert G. Weisbord ISBN: 9781412856683 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Globally, billions of fans feverishly focus on the summer and winter Olympics. In theory, international fraternalism... Read More >>

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700
Author: Anthony Cooke ISBN: 9781474400121 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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Women's Cricket and Global Processes: The Emergence and Development of Women's Cricket as a Global Game

Women's Cricket and Global Processes: The Emergence...
Author: Philippa Velija ISBN: 9781137323514 Format: Hardback	$145.17
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From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play

From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of...
Author: Carroll Pursell (Adjunct Professor of Modern History, Australian National University and 62 Dawes St.) ISBN: 9781421416502 Format: Paperback	$67.99
Along the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly,... Read More >>

Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research

Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research
Author: Gyozo Molnar (University of Worcester, UK) , Laura Purdy (Edge Hill University, UK) ISBN: 9781138015289 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Ethnography has become an important method for researching and interpreting the social world, not least in the field... Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation

Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation
Author: John Jenkins , John Pigram (University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, AUS) ISBN: 9780415868204 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Sport in a Changing World

Sport in a Changing World
Author: Howard Nixon II ISBN: 9781612058573 Format: Paperback	$133.00
This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful ""golden triangle"" of sports, media, and business interests... Read More >>

Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities

Cricket, Migration and Diasporic Communities
Author: Thomas Fletcher (NFA Statement bounced but we do have bank details. requested address) ISBN: 9781138892736 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how... Read More >>

Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s

Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s
Author: Sean Brawley (University of New South Wales, Australia) , Nick Guoth (Australian National University, Australia) ISBN: 9781138946804 Format: Paperback	$101.00
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Sport in the Middle East: Power, Politics, Ideology and Religion

Sport in the Middle East: Power, Politics, Ideology...
Author: Fan Hong (University of Western Australia) ISBN: 9781138950689 Format: Paperback	$101.00
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Rethinking Drug Use in Sport: Why the war will never be won

Rethinking Drug Use in Sport: Why the war will never...
Author: Bob Stewart (Victoria University, Australia) , Aaron Smith (RMIT University, Australia) ISBN: 9781138947740 Format: Paperback	$96.99
Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug... Read More >>

Understanding UK Sport Policy in Context

Understanding UK Sport Policy in Context
Author: Jonathan Grix , Lesley Phillpots (University of Birmingham. UK) ISBN: 9781138948372 Format: Paperback	$101.00
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Values in Youth Sport and Physical Education

Values in Youth Sport and Physical Education
Author: Jean Whitehead (University of Brighton, UK) , Hamish Telfer (University of Cumbria, UK) ISBN: 9781138940123 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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The Native American Mascot Controversy: A Handbook

The Native American Mascot Controversy: A Handbook
Author: C. Richard King ISBN: 9781442256286 Format: Paperback	$79.99
Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented... Read More >>

Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games

Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in...
Author: Michael Weinreb ISBN: 9781451627824 Format: Paperback	$50.13
From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: ""A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage... Read More >>

Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life

Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting...
Author: Steve Redhead ISBN: 9781138923157 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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