Sociology: sport & leisure books

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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
$284.00

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 >>

Eric Dunning and the Sociology of Sport

Eric Dunning and the Sociology of Sport

Author: Dominic Malcolm (Loughborough University, UK) ,  Ivan Waddington
ISBN: 9781032579009
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book celebrates the life and career of Eric Dunning. Eric Dunning was a pioneer of the sociology of sport,...  Read More >>

Barista in the City: Subcultural Lives, Paid Employment, and the Urban Context

Barista in the City: Subcultural Lives, Paid Employment,...

Author: Geoffrey Moss (Temple University) ,  Keith McIntosh (Temple University)
ISBN: 9781032272030
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural...  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 >>

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

Gambling and Sports in a Global Age

Author: Darragh McGee (University of Bath, UK) ,  Christopher Bunn (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781801173056
Format: Hardback
$199.24

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. Establishing a scholarly platform to inform interventions in research...  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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Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir

Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me:...

Author: Kenny Smith
ISBN: 9780593863688
Format: Paperback
$81.84

"A revealing, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny ""The Jet"" Smith—superstar basketball commentator,...  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

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Raising Empowered Athletes: A Youth Sports Parenting Guide for Raising Happy, Brave, and Resilient Kids

Raising Empowered Athletes: A Youth Sports Parenting...

Author: Kirsten Jones
ISBN: 9781637276167
Format: Paperback
$50.16

A timely and down-to-earth guide for parents navigating the extraordinary pressures of youth sports  Read More >>

Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

Author: Curtis Fogel ,  Andrea Quinlan
ISBN: 9780774869126
Format: Hardback
$230.29

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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
$284.00

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

Tell Me a Story I Don't Know

Tell Me a Story I Don't Know

Author: George Ofman
ISBN: 9781637275429
Format: Hardback
$58.08

In Tell Me a Story I Don't Know, veteran sports reporter and broadcaster George Ofman shares his most fascinating...  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 >>

Strong Women: Inspirational athletes at the top of their game

Strong Women: Inspirational athletes at the top of their...

Author: Suzanne Wrack
ISBN: 9781802792256
Format: Hardback
$36.99

Recounting how women have not only fought their way into the world of sport but to the top of their game, this book...  Read More >>

Tough Guys

Tough Guys

Author: Dale Arnold
ISBN: 9781637271926
Format: Hardback
$73.92

There is only one sport, outside of actual combat disciplines, where two participants can square off in old fashioned,...  Read More >>

Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting Modernities

Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting...

Author: Mariann Vaczi (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) ,  Alan Bairner (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032329963
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the...  Read More >>

Cricket, Capitalism and Class: From the Village Green to the Cricket Industry

Cricket, Capitalism and Class: From the Village Green...

Author: Chris McMillan (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781032261652
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This ambitious new study argues that not only is the story of cricket inescapably entwined with that of capitalism,...  Read More >>

The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture...

Author: Frank Andre Guridy
ISBN: 9781477328576
Format: Paperback
$48.99

The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements,...  Read More >>

The Sociology of Leisure

The Sociology of Leisure

Author: Stanley Parker
ISBN: 9781032100876
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Always an Athlete

Always an Athlete

Author: Jenne Blackburn
ISBN: 9781621908593
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Offers a comprehensive study of the ways in which athletes climb what author Jenni Blackburn terms ‘The Mountain’...  Read More >>

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