Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Media Representations of Footballers' Wives: A Wag's Life

Media Representations of Footballers' Wives: A Wag's...

Author: J. Bullen
ISBN: 9781349463190
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Understanding Lifestyle Migration: Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life

Understanding Lifestyle Migration: Theoretical Approaches...

Author: M. Benson ,  N. Osbaldiston
ISBN: 9781349460458
Format: Paperback
$158.37

This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage...  Read More >>

Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures

Author: H. Thorpe
ISBN: 9781349351367
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first...  Read More >>

Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History

Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation...

Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell (San Jose State University, USA) ,  Andrew B.R. Elliott
ISBN: 9781623567286
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus...  Read More >>

Lifestyle Mobilities: Intersections of Travel, Leisure and Migration

Lifestyle Mobilities: Intersections of Travel, Leisure...

Author: Tara Duncan ,  Scott A. Cohen
ISBN: 9781409453710
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Young Athletes, Couch Potatoes, and Helicopter Parents: The Productivity of Play

Young Athletes, Couch Potatoes, and Helicopter Parents:...

Author: Jessica Skolnikoff ,  Robert Engvall
ISBN: 9781442229792
Format: Hardback
$112.95

This book addresses a variety of topics regarding the nature of ""play"" in our society. It takes a close look at...  Read More >>

The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White...

Author: Doug Merlino
ISBN: 9781608192595
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"A Seattle Times Bestseller ""The Hustle is more than just a book about basketball ... It's a book that you have...  Read More >>

Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move

Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move

Author: Maxine Leeds Craig (Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780199845293
Format: Paperback
$82.95

If you want to learn about masculinity, ask a man if he likes to dance. One man in this study answered, ""Music...  Read More >>

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: 9780415533065
Format: Hardback
$315.00

As sport has become more intense, professional and commercialized so have the debates grown about what constitutes...  Read More >>

Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making During China's National Crisis, 1931-45

Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making...

Author: Yunxiang Gao
ISBN: 9780774824828
Format: Paperback
$94.91

This book explores the casting of China's earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national...  Read More >>

Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure: Meanings, Motives and Lifelong Learning

Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure: Meanings, Motives...

Author: Sam Elkington (University of Northumbria, UK) ,  Sean Gammon (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9780415829892
Format: Paperback
$110.00

We are entering a new era of leisure. Quality rather than quantity is now the focus of researchers, policymakers...  Read More >>

Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows

Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More...

Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
ISBN: 9781306417914
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

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Sport, Medicine, Ethics

Sport, Medicine, Ethics

Author: Mike McNamee (University of Swansea, UK)
ISBN: 9781306662130
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

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