Sociology: sport & leisure books

Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee...  Read More >>

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The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement represents a collection of work that reveals and explores the often...  Read More >>

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Best Before examines the ways in which the obsessions with technological obsolescence and supersession and an industry...  Read More >>

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<p>This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport,...  Read More >>

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Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective applies a critical lens to the function of sport in society, particularly...  Read More >>

Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet,...  Read More >>

This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a...  Read More >>

Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and...  Read More >>

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It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging the place of sport....  Read More >>

"""Probes the soaring cost of the youth sports economy, targeting the dreams and aspirations of parents obsessed...  Read More >>

Sport and International Development offers a critical sociological analysis of the emerging Sport for Development...  Read More >>

While many books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice and experience, this is the first to...  Read More >>

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By presenting rigorous situated histories of changing training regimen in different cultures, this collection of...  Read More >>