Sociology: sport & leisure books

By examining the activities of young people whom marketers today call ""tweens"", this book provides fresh historical...  Read More >>

Contains photographs that show our forebears at their leisure. This work shows how the technology of cinema was...  Read More >>

Understanding Sport Culture traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and...  Read More >>

Participation in the sport fan experience is very meaningful for a significant portion of the membership of a society....  Read More >>

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Participation in the sport fan experience is very meaningful for a significant portion of the membership of any...  Read More >>

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"Offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of food and drink in America, this extensive guide provides...  Read More >>

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Explores the sport studies' relevance for contemporary sports academics. This title is of interest to undergraduate...  Read More >>

A fresh exploration of the representation of poverty and class in American literature and film, through the juxtaposition...  Read More >>

This wide-ranging collection of essays seeks to challenge the 'common-sense' assumption that entertainment activities...  Read More >>

This volume examines the claim that computer games can provide better literacy and learning environments than schools....  Read More >>

This book is an ethnographic study of the martial art of taijiquan (or 'tai chi') as it is practiced in China and...  Read More >>

A study of the commercial public dance institution in early twentieth-century Chicago as seen through the eyes of...  Read More >>

International Perspectives on the Management of Sport is the first multi-contributed book that addresses the various...  Read More >>

International Perspectives on the Management of Sport is the first multi-contributed book that addresses the various...  Read More >>

What are the essential research methods for students studying leisure, sport and tourism? What are the main benefits...  Read More >>

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Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot...  Read More >>

What are the essential research methods for students studying leisure, sport and tourism? What are the main benefits...  Read More >>

When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side,...  Read More >>

Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon...  Read More >>

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