Sociology: sport & leisure books

4827 books were found.

Iniciación al pádel a través del juego: Propuestas lúdicas predeportivas para la formación humana y deportiva

Iniciación al pádel a través del juego: Propuestas lúdicas...

Author: Alberto Sánchez Sixto ,  Julio Ángel Herrador Sánchez
ISBN: 9788419175861
Format: Paperback
$43.82

Se debe adecuar el deporte a un nuevo marco social posmoderno, donde los jóvenes han encontrado otras maneras más...  Read More >>

Theater des Konsums: Vorstudien für eine Soziologie der Verbraucherbühnen

Theater des Konsums: Vorstudien für eine Soziologie...

Author: Kai-Uwe Hellmann
ISBN: 9783658415594
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Diese Aufsatzsammlung beschäftigt sich vornehmlich mit der Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen die Erfahrung gemacht...  Read More >>

Move and Meet: Eine Studie zu Teilhabeprojekten im Sport aus der Perspektive der Angewandten Ethnologie

Move and Meet: Eine Studie zu Teilhabeprojekten im Sport...

Author: Laura Verweyen
ISBN: 9783658420413
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Dieser wurde als anwendungsorientierter Teil der vorliegenden Studie im Bereich der Angewandten Ethnologie konzipiert...  Read More >>

In the Big Inning: Where Faith Meets Sports: A Christian Sportswriter's Perspective

In the Big Inning: Where Faith Meets Sports: A Christian...

Author: John Strege
ISBN: 9781959099536
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In a captivating journey through the heart of faith and the arena of sports, In the Big Inning invites you to explore...  Read More >>

Arab Youths: Leisure, Culture and Politics from Morocco to Yemen

Arab Youths: Leisure, Culture and Politics from Morocco...

Author: Laurent Bonnefoy ,  Myriam Catusse
ISBN: 9781526127457
Format: Hardback
$200.00

A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab...  Read More >>

Iceman: Why I Was Born to Score

Iceman: Why I Was Born to Score

Author: George Gervin ,  Scoop Jackson
ISBN: 9781637272312
Format: Hardback
$79.20

An entertaining and deeply personal autobiography from one of basketball's all-time great scorers To see George...  Read More >>

When It Mattered Most: The Forgotten Story of America's First Stanley Cup Champions, and the War to End All Wars

When It Mattered Most: The Forgotten Story of America's...

Author: Kevin Ticen
ISBN: 9798987407608
Format: Paperback
$65.97

This is the inspiring story of the first American team to win the Stanley Cup, with six new chapters on their pursuit...  Read More >>

Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence Against Women

Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture,...

Author: Walter DeKeseredy ,  Stu Cowan
ISBN: 9781487547103
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society...  Read More >>

Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love

Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through...

Author: Gotham Chopra ,  Joe Levin
ISBN: 9781797164892
Format: Audio
$105.57

"From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto...  Read More >>

Spectacle, Entertainment, and Recreation in Late Ottoman and Early Turkish Republican Cities

Spectacle, Entertainment, and Recreation in Late Ottoman...

Author: Nilay Karaca (Altınbaş University Faculty of Architecture) ,  Seda Kula (Gebze Technical University Faculty of Architecture)
ISBN: 9781789388305
Format: Hardback
$273.95

An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities,...  Read More >>

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade: The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade:...

Author: Paul Dunscomb
ISBN: 9781032541709
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004,...  Read More >>

The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America...

Author: Michael MacCambridge
ISBN: 9781538706695
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports...  Read More >>

Ignorant Man's Son: A Memoir

Ignorant Man's Son: A Memoir

Author: Victor James Hill
ISBN: 9798987398142
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Victor James Hill saw himself in his community's kids. As a child of the Projects, he'd witnessed deadly shootings,...  Read More >>

Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story of the Toronto Raptors

Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story...

Author: Alex Wong
ISBN: 9781637272015
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The improbable story of the birth of modern-day pro basketball in Toronto In just over 25 years, the Toronto Raptors...  Read More >>

Agony: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & the Ancient Greeks

Agony: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & the Ancient Greeks

Author: Joshua Kulseth ,  David Larmour
ISBN: 9780989537155
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Joshua Kulseth and David Larmour compare today's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gyms, training, and competitions to Ancient...  Read More >>

Sociology of Sport

Sociology of Sport

Author: George H. Sage ,  D. Stanley Eitzen
ISBN: 9780197622711
Format: Paperback
$191.95

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Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

Author: Curtis Fogel ,  Andrea Quinlan
ISBN: 9780774869126
Format: Hardback
$212.18

Is sexual assault tolerated in Canadian sport? After reaching the provocative conclusion that sexual assaults are...  Read More >>

Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

Author: Katie Barnes
ISBN: 9781250276629
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes...  Read More >>

Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives

Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Sarah Crews (University of South Wales, UK) ,  P. Solomon Lennox (Northumbria University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032320564
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Boxing, Narrative and Culture: Critical Perspectives is the first interdisciplinary response to the dominant boxing...  Read More >>

Macho Men in South African Gyms: The Idealization of Spornosexuality

Macho Men in South African Gyms: The Idealization of...

Author: Jacques Rothmann
ISBN: 9783031154423
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book explores the experiences of self-identified heterosexual and gay men in contemporary South African gym...  Read More >>

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