Sociology: sport & leisure books

4683 books were found.

Sports in Africa, Past and Present

Sports in Africa, Past and Present

Author: Todd Cleveland ,  Tarminder Kaur
ISBN: 9780821424254
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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Skateboarding and Religion

Skateboarding and Religion

Author: Paul O'Connor
ISBN: 9783030248598
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing...  Read More >>

Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South...

Author: Courtney Szto
ISBN: 9781978807938
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced...  Read More >>

Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia...

Author: Michaela Benson ,  Karen O'Reilly
ISBN: 9781349702404
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made

The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made

Author: Mark Williams ,  Tim Wigmore
ISBN: 9798200194728
Format: Audio
$65.97

The inside track on how champions are made, written by one of the world's top sports scientists and an award-winning...  Read More >>

The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made

The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made

Author: Mark Williams ,  Tim Wigmore
ISBN: 9798200194711
Format: Audio
$65.97

The inside track on how champions are made, written by one of the world's top sports scientists and an award-winning...  Read More >>

Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm

Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure...

Author: Thomas Raymen ,  Oliver Smith
ISBN: 9783030177386
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated...  Read More >>

The SuperFight: Marvelous Marvin Hagler - Sugar Ray Leonard

The SuperFight: Marvelous Marvin Hagler - Sugar Ray...

Author: Brian Doogan
ISBN: 9781838133702
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Inspiring, redemptive, definitive story of one of sport's enduring rivalries, as polarising and provocative in its...  Read More >>

Lower League Football in Crisis: Issues of Organisation and Legitimacy in England and Germany

Lower League Football in Crisis: Issues of Organisation...

Author: Daniel Ziesche
ISBN: 9783030537463
Format: Hardback
$290.37

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football,...  Read More >>

The Rise and Size of the Fitness Industry in Europe: Fit for the Future?

The Rise and Size of the Fitness Industry in Europe:...

Author: Jeroen Scheerder ,  Hanna Vehmas
ISBN: 9783030533472
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as...  Read More >>

An Ethnography of Urban Exploration: Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space

An Ethnography of Urban Exploration: Unpacking Heterotopic...

Author: Kevin P. Bingham
ISBN: 9783030562502
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban...  Read More >>

Convergent Wrestling: Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle

Convergent Wrestling: Participatory Culture, Transmedia...

Author: CarrieLynn Reinhard (Dominican University, USA) ,  Christopher Olson (Dominican University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367660673
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book explores the ways in which professional wrestling has been affected by the current era of ‘convergence’,...  Read More >>

Youth Sport and Social Capital: Bleachers and Boardrooms

Youth Sport and Social Capital: Bleachers and Boardrooms...

Author: Sean F. Brown
ISBN: 9780367660963
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research

Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research...

Author: Megan Chawansky ,  Lyndsay Hayhurst
ISBN: 9780367663490
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book explores the use of sport for development and peace (SDP) in local and global contexts. It seeks to generate...  Read More >>

Football, Fandom and Consumption

Football, Fandom and Consumption

Author: Oliver Brooks
ISBN: 9780367661694
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted with fans at all levels, the book explores the tensions between...  Read More >>

Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity

Sport Policy and Politics in an Era of Austerity

Author: Dan Parnell ,  Peter Millward
ISBN: 9780367661632
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida: Surfing, Musicking, and Identity Marking

Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida: Surfing, Musicking,...

Author: Anne Barjolin-Smith
ISBN: 9789811574771
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs.  Read More >>

Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football: An Englishman Abroad

Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football: An...

Author: Alan Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781527558878
Format: Hardback
$263.87

At Wembley in 1966, England's football captain Bobby Moore received the World Cup from Queen Elizabeth and FIFA...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Sport

The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Sport

Author: Rory Magrath ,  Jamie Cleland
ISBN: 9783030198015
Format: Paperback
$413.97

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Billiards Training Log: Every Pool Player Pocket Billiards Practicing Pool Game Individual Sports

Billiards Training Log: Every Pool Player Pocket Billiards...

Author: Hartwell Press
ISBN: 9781636051376
Format: Paperback
$41.37

This useful Billiards Training Log Book is a must-have for anyone that loves to record their pool playing activities!...  Read More >>

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