Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and...
Author: Anthony Bush (University of Bath, UK) , Michael Silk (University of Bath, UK) ISBN: 9780415890267 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Baseball and Social Class: Essays on the Democratic Game That Isn't

Baseball and Social Class: Essays on the Democratic...
Author: Ronald E. Kates , Warren Tormey ISBN: 9780786472390 Format: Paperback	$79.07
"""This collection of fresh essays seeks to examine the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the... Read More >>

Sport, History, and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation

Sport, History, and Heritage: Studies in Public Representation...
Author: Jeffrey Hill (Contributor) , Kevin Moore ISBN: 9781843837886 Format: Hardback	$224.40
An examination of the relationship between sport and its cultural heritage. Read More >>

Heroes or Zeros? the Media's Perceptions of Paralympic Sport

Heroes or Zeros? the Media's Perceptions of Paralympic...
Author: Otto J Schantz , Keith Gilbert (New Hampshire, USA Enfield, New Hampshire, USA Enfield, New Hampshire, USA) ISBN: 9781612290577 Format: Paperback	$145.20
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Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport

Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport
Author: Symeon Dagkas (University of Birmingham, UK) , Kathleen Armour (University of Birmingham, UK) ISBN: 9781283461344 Format: Electronic book text	$390.72
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Television Entrepreneurs

Television Entrepreneurs
Author: Dr Raymond Boyle (University of Glasgow) , Lisa W Kelly, MS ISBN: 9781283479714 Format: Undefined	$303.47
Based on extensive interviews with key industry and business figures and drawing on new empirical research into... Read More >>

Ethnographies of the Videogame

Ethnographies of the Videogame
Author: Helen Thornham ISBN: 9781283128704 Format: Undefined	$303.47
Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues... Read More >>

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding
Author: Adam Locks (University of Chichester, UK) , Niall Richardson (University of Sussex, UK) ISBN: 9781283441711 Format: Electronic book text	$369.60
Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding,... Read More >>

Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media : Narrative Immunity: Narrative Immunity

Athletes, Sexual Assault, and Trials by Media : Narrative...
Author: Deb Waterhouse-Watson (Monash University, Australia) ISBN: 9781299148291 Format: Electronic book text	$369.60
Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been... Read More >>

Serious Leisure and Individuality

Serious Leisure and Individuality
Author: Elie Cohen-Gewerc , Robert A Stebbins (University of Calgary, Canada) ISBN: 9781299485396 Format: Electronic book text	$198.00
What does it mean to be an individual and how can an individual exist within society? Serious Leisure and Individuality... Read More >>

Locker Room of Her Own, A: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes

Locker Room of Her Own, A: Celebrity, Sexuality, and...
Author: David C Ogden , Joel Nathan Rosen ISBN: 9781299607156 Format: Electronic book text	$363.00
Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles... Read More >>

Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and...
Author: Dale C Spencer (Carleton University, Canada) ISBN: 9781299685086 Format: Electronic book text	$369.60
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks,... Read More >>

The Olympic Games and the Environment

The Olympic Games and the Environment
Author: John Karamichas (Queen's University, UK) ISBN: 9781299916791 Format: Electronic book text	$237.60
This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting... Read More >>

Sport and Body Politics in Japan

Sport and Body Politics in Japan
Author: Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna, Austria) ISBN: 9781299792791 Format: Electronic book text	$330.00
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Game Over

Game Over
Author: Dave Zirin ISBN: 9781322367347 Format: Electronic book text	$50.03
Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it rule number one of the jockocracy sports and politics just don't mix. But... Read More >>

Bulls, Birdies, Bogeys & Bears

Bulls, Birdies, Bogeys & Bears
Author: Kevin Armstrong , Bob Charles ISBN: 9781322394268 Format: Electronic book text	$30.76
What is the unique and powerful connection between golf and investment markets? Why have the 'pulses' of two totally... Read More >>

The London Olympics

The London Olympics
Author: Vassil Girginov (Brunel University, UK Brunel University, UK Brunel University, UK) ISBN: 9781283919364 Format: Electronic book text	$459.36
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Global Sports Policy

Global Sports Policy
Author: Catherine Palmer ISBN: 9781849205184 Format: Paperback	$117.00
This is much more than a simple comparison of sports policy across the world. Instead, Palmer uniquely brings sport... Read More >>

The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports

The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports...
Author: Belinda Wheaton (University of Brighton, UK) ISBN: 9780415682817 Format: Hardback	$315.00
This book seeks to explore the changing representation and consumption of lifestyle sport in the twenty-first century.... Read More >>

Darts in England, 1900–39: A Social History

Darts in England, 1900–39: A Social History
Author: Patrick Chaplin , Jeffrey Richards ISBN: 9780719089046 Format: Paperback	$38.99
Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during... Read More >>

Mapping an Empire of American Sport: Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

Mapping an Empire of American Sport: Expansion, Assimilation,...
Author: Mark Dyreson (Pennsylvania State University, USA) , J.A. Mangan (University of Strathclyde, UK) ISBN: 9780415636865 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Mapping an Empire of American Sport charts the expansion of and the resistance to American power in the Western... Read More >>

Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry

Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry
Author: H. Lenskyj ISBN: 9781137291141 Format: Hardback	$171.60
This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities... Read More >>

Sporting Times

Sporting Times
Author: K. Woodward ISBN: 9781137275356 Format: Hardback	$137.28
Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using... Read More >>

Global Sports Policy

Global Sports Policy
Author: Catherine Palmer ISBN: 9781849205177 Format: Hardback	$361.00
This is much more than a simple comparison of sports policy across the world. Instead, Palmer uniquely brings sport... Read More >>

Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football: Comparative Responses across Europe

Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football:...
Author: Peter Kennedy , David Kennedy ISBN: 9780415618908 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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