Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever

1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation...

Author: Bill Madden
ISBN: 9780306823695
Format: Paperback
$32.99

From a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning sportswriter comes the story of the first time two black...  Read More >>

Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games

Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside...

Author: David Karen (Bryn Mawr College, USA) ,  Robert Washington (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
ISBN: 9780415718394
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games seeks not only to inform students about the sports...  Read More >>

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

Author: Juliet Macur
ISBN: 9780062277237
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management

Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management

Author: Milena Parent (University of Ottawa, Canada, and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences) ,  Jean-Loup Chappelet (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780415858649
Format: Hardback
$525.00

Surveying the management of sports events of every size and scale, this handbook presents key theory, best practice...  Read More >>

Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America

Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the...

Author: David George Surdam (Associate Professor of Economics, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Northern Iowa)
ISBN: 9780190211578
Format: Paperback
$77.95

American living standards improved rapidly during the twentieth-century. The rise of leisure, both in terms of time...  Read More >>

Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century America

Century of the Leisured Masses: Entertainment and the...

Author: David George Surdam (Associate Professor of Economics, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Northern Iowa)
ISBN: 9780190211561
Format: Hardback
$245.95

American living standards improved rapidly during the twentieth-century. The rise of leisure, both in terms of time...  Read More >>

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013-2014

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture,...

Author: William M. Simons
ISBN: 9780786498895
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Presents an anthology of seventeen scholarly essays that utilize the US national game to examine topics whose import...  Read More >>

Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles

Identity Discourses and Communities in International...

Author: Udo Merkel
ISBN: 9781137394927
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Sport Heritage

Sport Heritage

Author: Gregory Ramshaw (Clemson University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138844889
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan

How We Can Save Sports: A Game Plan

Author: Ken Reed ,  Ralph Nader
ISBN: 9781442242647
Format: Hardback
$98.99

From disturbing new research on concussions to publicly-financed stadiums that benefit wealthy team owners, Ken...  Read More >>

Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities

Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and...

Author: Harry C. Boyte
ISBN: 9780826520364
Format: Paperback
$105.47

New possibilities for democratic revitalization with educators as agents and architects, not victims, of change...  Read More >>

Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities

Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and...

Author: Harry C. Boyte
ISBN: 9780826520357
Format: Hardback
$263.87

New possibilities for democratic revitalization with educators as agents and architects, not victims, of change...  Read More >>

Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies 2014, Vol 8

Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies 2014,...

Author: Clive Palmer
ISBN: 9780956627087
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Volume 8 (2014) of the Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies (JQRSS) comprises papers from first-time...  Read More >>

More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities

More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities...

Author: Jorge Iber
ISBN: 9780896729087
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming

Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization...

Author: T. L. Taylor (Associate Professor in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262527583
Format: Paperback
$36.99

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators,...  Read More >>

More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities

More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities...

Author: Jorge Iber
ISBN: 9780896729070
Format: Hardback
$171.60

""""Examines the history of Latino/a athletes in American sports, including baseball, boxing, football, basketball,...  Read More >>

Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea

Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea

Author: Mike Brown ,  Barbara Humberstone
ISBN: 9781472424334
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, and is integral to the workings of the...  Read More >>

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