Sociology: sport & leisure books

4685 books were found.

Recreation: Current Selected Research

Recreation: Current Selected Research

Author: James H. Humphrey ,  Fred Humphrey
ISBN: 9780404639020
Format: Hardback
$102.21

A selection of current research on recreation, covering topics such as the impact of the four-day working week,...  Read More >>

Leisure in Art and Literature

Leisure in Art and Literature

Author: Tom Winnifrith ,  Michael Mallett
ISBN: 9781349113552
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England

Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial...

Author: Thomas S. Henricks
ISBN: 9780313274534
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An exploration of the development of English sport during the eight centuries preceding the industrial era. Focusing...  Read More >>

Mind-Body Maturity: Psychological Approaches To Sports, Exercise, And Fitness

Mind-Body Maturity: Psychological Approaches To Sports,...

Author: Louis Diamant
ISBN: 9780891168928
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise

Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise

Author: Sarah Whatmore
ISBN: 9781349116171
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Psychology and Sociology of Sport

Psychology and Sociology of Sport

Author: Lee Vander Veldenn ,  James H. Humphrey
ISBN: 9780404634025
Format: Hardback
$102.21

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Ritual and Record: Sports Records and Quantification in Pre-Modern Societies

Ritual and Record: Sports Records and Quantification...

Author: John M. Carter ,  Arnd Kruger
ISBN: 9780313256998
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This volume expands the debate over the origins and purposes of sports records. After introductions by Guttmann...  Read More >>

Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes...

Author: Robert Kubey ,  Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
ISBN: 9780805807080
Format: Paperback
$105.00

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball

Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball...

Author: Kenneth M. Jennings
ISBN: 9780275934415
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Impressively researched and well written, this valuable study by a business professor at the Universiy of North...  Read More >>

Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen: The Irish and American Movies

Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen: The Irish and...

Author: Joseph M. Curran
ISBN: 9780313264917
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Curran maintains that movies reflected and influenced their viewers' perceptions of the Irish and that both the...  Read More >>

Sports, Games, and Play: Social and Psychological Viewpoints

Sports, Games, and Play: Social and Psychological Viewpoints...

Author: Jeffrey H. Goldstein ,  Jeffrey H Goldstein
ISBN: 9780898598759
Format: Hardback
$375.19

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Leisure for Leisure: Critical Essays

Leisure for Leisure: Critical Essays

Author: Chris Rojek
ISBN: 9780333461709
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914

Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport...

Author: J A Mangan
ISBN: 9780714632896
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Sport and Society in Latin America: Diffusion, Dependency, and the Rise of Mass Culture

Sport and Society in Latin America: Diffusion, Dependency,...

Author: Joseph L. Arbena
ISBN: 9780313247743
Format: Hardback
$103.00

The first study of its kind, Sport and Society in Latin America vividly demonstrates the ways in which sport can...  Read More >>

Psychology & Sociology of Sport

Psychology & Sociology of Sport

Author: Lee Vander Veldenn
ISBN: 9780404634032
Format: Hardback
$99.00

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From Fair Sex to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras

From Fair Sex to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization...

Author: J A Mangan (University of California, Berkeley, USA) ,  Roberta J Park (University of Strathclyde, UK)
ISBN: 9780714632889
Format: Hardback
$336.00

A collection of essays bringing together the different perspectives of women's studies and the social history of...  Read More >>

Leisure, Sport, and Working Class Cultures: Theory and History

Leisure, Sport, and Working Class Cultures: Theory and...

Author: Hart Cantelon ,  Robert Hollands
ISBN: 9780920059586
Format: Paperback
$73.79

These readings put the issue in a historical perspective to show that ""sport"" and ""leisure"" are part of and...  Read More >>

Sports in America

Sports in America

Author: James A. Michener ,  Steve Berry
ISBN: 9780345483065
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Originally published: New York: Random House, 1976.  Read More >>

To Play the Game: Analysis of Sports

To Play the Game: Analysis of Sports

Author: J. Bowyer Bell
ISBN: 9780887381027
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Division of Labor, A Political Perspective.

Division of Labor, A Political Perspective.

Author: Elliott Krause
ISBN: 9780313231629
Format: Hardback
$90.00

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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture...

Author: Johan Huizinga
ISBN: 9780807046814
Format: Paperback
$63.36

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Writing on Raving

Writing on Raving

Author: McKenzie Wark ,  Geoffrey Mak
ISBN: 9781682196281
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Writing on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing...  Read More >>

Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Fandom

Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Fandom...

Author: Daniel L. Wann (Murray State University, USA) ,  Jeffrey D. James (Florida State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032588865
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Sports, and the fans that follow them, are everywhere. The third edition of Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social...  Read More >>

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