Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Kids in Context: Using Family-Based Leisure Education to Enhance Self-Determination in Children with Disabilities

Kids in Context: Using Family-Based Leisure Education...

Author: Charles C. Bullock ,  Danny E. Johnson
ISBN: 9781572734807
Format: Paperback
$45.10

This text grew out of a five-year research project that was based on the premise that self-determination and leisure...  Read More >>

Kids in Context: Using Family-Based Leisure Education to Enhance Self-Determination in Children with Disabilities

Kids in Context: Using Family-Based Leisure Education...

Author: Charles C. Bullock ,  Danny E. Johnson
ISBN: 9781572734791
Format: Hardback
$97.90

This text grew out of a five-year research project that was based on the premise that self-determination and leisure...  Read More >>

Slow Food: The Case for Taste

Slow Food: The Case for Taste

Author: Carlo Petrini ,  William McCuaig
ISBN: 9780231128445
Format: Hardback
$90.95

In 1986, the author decided to resist the steady march of fast food and all that it represents when he organized...  Read More >>

Football in France: A Cultural History

Football in France: A Cultural History

Author: Geoff Hare
ISBN: 9781859736623
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Football in France: A Cultural History

Football in France: A Cultural History

Author: Geoff Hare
ISBN: 9781859736579
Format: Hardback
$240.00

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Moving Writing: Crafting Movement in Sport Research

Moving Writing: Crafting Movement in Sport Research...

Author: Jim Denison ,  Pirkko Markula
ISBN: 9780820455419
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Moving Writing brings together scholars in cultural studies, sports studies, and physical education who transcend...  Read More >>

Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society

Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society...

Author: Jonathan Gershuny (, Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Essex)
ISBN: 9780199261895
Format: Paperback
$132.95

Gershuny uses 120,000 survey-diary accounts of daily life in twenty countries from the 1960s on to construct an...  Read More >>

Sport and Society: A Student Introduction

Sport and Society: A Student Introduction

Author: Professor Barrie Houlihan (Loughborough University, UK Loughborough University Loughborough University)
ISBN: 9786610700820
Format: Electronic book text
$772.46

Organized around 4 themes key to the study of sport; perspectives, inclusion, commercialization and the international...  Read More >>

Sport and Postcolonialism

Sport and Postcolonialism

Author: John Bale ,  Mike Cronin
ISBN: 9781859735442
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Sports Culture: An A-Z Guide

Sports Culture: An A-Z Guide

Author: Ellis Cashmore
ISBN: 9780415285551
Format: Paperback
$131.00

Sports Culture examines individual issues people, artefacts, events and organizations in their historical, social...  Read More >>

Terrace Legends

Terrace Legends

Author: Cass Pennant ,  Martin King
ISBN: 9781306015257
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces. They are the faces behind the biggest firms in...  Read More >>

Congratulations, You Have Just Met the I.C.F.

Congratulations, You Have Just Met the I.C.F.

Author: Cass Pennant
ISBN: 9781306027830
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

Cass Pennant was one of the best-known figures of the I.C.F. He has used his unique position as a West Ham insider...  Read More >>

Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel

Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel...

Author: Julia Harrison
ISBN: 9780774809771
Format: Hardback
$277.20

What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons?  Read More >>

Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol

Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and...

Author: Tony Collins ,  Wray Vamplew
ISBN: 9781859735589
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Laughlab: The Scientific Quest for the World's Funniest Joke

Laughlab: The Scientific Quest for the World's Funniest...

Author: The British Association For The Advancement Of Science
ISBN: 9780099446873
Format: Paperback
$24.99

At the end of the project the information was carefully examined and discoveries made about the jokes that made...  Read More >>

With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion

With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion...

Author: Timothy Chandler ,  Tara Magdalinski (The University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415259613
Format: Paperback
$120.00

The book offers a series of cutting-edge contemporary historical case-studies, broad ranging in their geographical...  Read More >>

With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion

With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion...

Author: Timothy Chandler ,  Tara Magdalinski (The University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415259606
Format: Hardback
$336.00

The book offers a series of cutting-edge contemporary historical case-studies, broad ranging in their geographical...  Read More >>

Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture

Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making...

Author: Dr Nick Prior
ISBN: 9781859735084
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture

Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making...

Author: Dr Nick Prior
ISBN: 9781859735039
Format: Hardback
$240.00

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In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in ""The Mountains""

In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in...

Author: Phil Brown
ISBN: 9780231123600
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Through fiction, memoir, music, and art, this book offers a glimpse of the Catskills experience over a century and...  Read More >>

In Perpetual Motion: Travel Behaviour Research Opportunities and Application Challenges

In Perpetual Motion: Travel Behaviour Research Opportunities...

Author: Hani S. Mahmassani ,  International Association for Travel Behaviour
ISBN: 9780080440446
Format: Hardback
$411.95

Through the interaction of a number of disparate disciplines alternative ideas and approaches are being discovered...  Read More >>

The Sporting World of the Modern South

The Sporting World of the Modern South

Author: Patrick B. Miller ,  Patrick B. Miller
ISBN: 9780252070365
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Examines how sports map the social, political, and cultural landscapes of the modern South. This title explores...  Read More >>

Ingerland Expects: Home Truths from Football

Ingerland Expects: Home Truths from Football

Author: Mark Perryman
ISBN: 9781860301902
Format: Paperback
$7.76

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Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore

Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business...

Author: Can-Seng Ooi
ISBN: 9788763000918
Format: Paperback
$95.04

Presenting a dynamic understanding of cultural tourism, this volume examines cultural mediators and how they help...  Read More >>

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