Sociology: sport & leisure books

4358 books were found.

Surfing Spaces

Surfing Spaces

Author: Jon Anderson
ISBN: 9781032301761
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they...  Read More >>

Understanding Match-Fixing in Sport: Theory and Practice

Understanding Match-Fixing in Sport: Theory and Practice...

Author: Bram Constandt (Ghent University, Belgium) ,  Argyro Elisavet Manoli (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367754945
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Bringing together leading match-fixing researchers from different fields, this book offers new theoretical and applied...  Read More >>

Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments

Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments...

Author: Jim Cherrington (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,  Jack Black (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032125428
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book considers the ability of individuals and communities to maintain healthy relationships with their surroundings...  Read More >>

Gender-Based Violence in Children’s Sport

Gender-Based Violence in Children’s Sport

Author: Gretchen Kerr (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367505639
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book addresses the major forms of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in children’s sport, including sexual, physical,...  Read More >>

Political Expression in Sport: Transnational Challenges, Moral Defences

Political Expression in Sport: Transnational Challenges,...

Author: Cem Abanazir (Bilkent University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9781032147895
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This powerful new book looks at how private institutions governing and organising sport restrict political expression....  Read More >>

Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace

Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development...

Author: Mitchell McSweeney (York University, Canada) ,  Per Svensson (Louisiana State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032080628
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship...  Read More >>

Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity and Difference

Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity...

Author: Lucy Spowart (University of Plymouth, UK) ,  Kerry R. McGannon (Laurentian University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367691868
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated...  Read More >>

Leisure and Wellbeing

Leisure and Wellbeing

Author: Louise Mansfield (Brunel University London, UK) ,  Norma Daykin
ISBN: 9781032304144
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book provides an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical and methodological contributions critically exploring...  Read More >>

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Author: Brett Lashua (University College London, UK) ,  Simon Baker (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781032285801
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often...  Read More >>

The Messiness of Leisure Research: Explorations of Research Processes

The Messiness of Leisure Research: Explorations of Research...

Author: Felice Yuen ,  Karen Gallant
ISBN: 9781032315652
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research – experiences that are...  Read More >>

Remaking Culture and Music Spaces: Affects, Infrastructures, Futures

Remaking Culture and Music Spaces: Affects, Infrastructures,...

Author: Ian Woodward (Syddansk Universitet, Denmark) ,  Jo Haynes (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781032184999
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central...  Read More >>

Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Author: Jonathan Long (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ,  Doug Sandle (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032350400
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate...  Read More >>

Evaluation in Sport and Leisure

Evaluation in Sport and Leisure

Author: Andrew Adams (Bournemouth University, UK) ,  Kevin Harris (Hartpury University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032322629
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book presents a critical assessment of evaluation theory and practice in sport and leisure. It considers established...  Read More >>

What Are the Olympics For?

What Are the Olympics For?

Author: Jules Boykoff (Pacific University)
ISBN: 9781529230284
Format: Paperback
$19.99

While attention is on Olympic triumphs and tribulations, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply...  Read More >>

Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-changing Female Athletes

Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-changing Female Athletes...

Author: Laken Litman ,  Stephen Cannella
ISBN: 9780789345134
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Now available at a promotional price!  Read More >>

Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective

Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Applied...

Author: Abigail Boucher ,  Marcello Giovanelli
ISBN: 9783031527524
Format: Hardback
$118.77

This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative...  Read More >>

Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity: Brazilian Footballers in Central and Eastern Europe

Sport Migrants, Precarity and Identity: Brazilian Footballers...

Author: José Hildo de Oliveira Filho (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
ISBN: 9781032650357
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book takes a close look at the experiences of migrant athletes, their precarious careers, and at what this...  Read More >>

Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie

Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie...

Author: Johannes Müller
ISBN: 9783658437527
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Die Befunde zeigen, dass sich Sport für einen Teil der männlichen Insassen als Bewältigungsstrategie zur Linderung...  Read More >>

Streaming the Formula 1 Rivalry: Sport and the Media in the Platform Age

Streaming the Formula 1 Rivalry: Sport and the Media...

Author: Lawrence A. Wenner ,  Andrew C. Billings
ISBN: 9781433198175
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Taking the global sport of Formula 1 (F1) motor racing as a sustained case study, Streaming the Formula 1 Rivalry...  Read More >>

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