Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates

Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates...

Author: K. Spracklen
ISBN: 9780230280519
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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The Global Football League: Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age

The Global Football League: Transnational Networks,...

Author: P. Millward
ISBN: 9780230274440
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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The Story of Swimming

The Story of Swimming

Author: Susie Parr
ISBN: 9781905928071
Format: Hardback
$64.69

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Sports in American Life: A History

Sports in American Life: A History

Author: Richard O Davies (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
ISBN: 9786613410849
Format: Electronic book text
$174.08

This new edition of Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports history makes use of the very latest research...  Read More >>

Football, Fascism and Fandom

Football, Fascism and Fandom

Author: Alberto Testa ,  Gary Armstrong (University of North Carolina)
ISBN: 9786613479525
Format: Electronic book text
$82.34

Passionate, political and principled, the UltraS are the hardcoresubculture of football supporters found in the...  Read More >>

Football, Fascism and Fandom

Football, Fascism and Fandom

Author: Alberto Testa ,  Gary Armstrong (University of North Carolina Brunel University, UK Brunel University, UK Brunel University, UK University of North Carolina University of North Carolina University of North Carolina)
ISBN: 9781283479523
Format: Electronic book text
$82.34

Passionate, political and principled, the UltraS are the hardcoresubculture of football supporters found in the...  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: 9781608192151
Format: Hardback
$68.64

A powerful, provocative examination of race and class in America-told through the lives and experiences of ten boys...  Read More >>

The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army, and the Night That Saved Hockey

The Greatest Game: The Montreal Canadiens, the Red Army,...

Author: Todd Denault
ISBN: 9780771026355
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This game wasn't about money, points, or trophies. Instead it was played for pride, both personal and national....  Read More >>

Florida's Snowbirds: Spectacle, Mobility, and Community since 1945

Florida's Snowbirds: Spectacle, Mobility, and Community...

Author: Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon ,  Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon
ISBN: 9780773538542
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A portrait of the social and cultural effects of flying south for the winter.  Read More >>

Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sport

Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sport

Author: Gamal Abdel-Shehid ,  Nathan Kalman-Lamb
ISBN: 9781552664391
Format: Paperback
$46.95

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Sport for Development, Peace & Social Justice

Sport for Development, Peace & Social Justice

Author: Robert Schinke, PhD, CSPA ,  Stephanie Hanrahan
ISBN: 9781935412342
Format: Paperback
$126.76

This book goes beyond the individual benefits of sport to look more closely at what sport can offer to groups of...  Read More >>

How Fantasy Sports Explains the World: What Pujols and Peyton Can Teach Us About Wookiees and Wall Street

How Fantasy Sports Explains the World: What Pujols and...

Author: AJ Mass ,  Matthew Berry
ISBN: 9781616082956
Format: Hardback
$44.99

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Surfing Life: Surface, Substructure and the Commodification of the Sublime

Surfing Life: Surface, Substructure and the Commodification...

Author: Mark Stranger
ISBN: 9780754674436
Format: Hardback
$336.00

A study of surfing and social change that provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures...  Read More >>

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

Author: John Urry ,  Jonas Larsen
ISBN: 9781849203777
Format: Paperback
$133.00

A fully revised edition of a seminal text from a world class authority in tourism. Each chapter has been significantly...  Read More >>

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: 9780415578035
Format: Hardback
$315.00

'We can reach far more people through sport than we can through political or educational programmes. In that way,...  Read More >>

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

Author: John Urry ,  Jonas Larsen
ISBN: 9781849203760
Format: Hardback
$400.00

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Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism

Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and...

Author: Joshua I Newman ,  Michael D Giardina
ISBN: 9786613360328
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon...  Read More >>

Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, media and markets 1950-2010

Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States,...

Author: Alan Tomlinson (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Christopher Young (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9780415592222
Format: Hardback
$210.00

In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures...  Read More >>

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