Sociology: sport & leisure books

4379 books were found.

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 >>

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications,...

Author: Jimmy Sanderson ,  Melinda R. Weathers
ISBN: 9781793649775
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This edited collection brings together a collaboration of sport and health scholars and practitioners to evaluate...  Read More >>

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly...

Author: Max Jack (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions)
ISBN: 9780197686911
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few--ultra. Embracing a...  Read More >>

Women's Football, Culture, and Identity

Women's Football, Culture, and Identity

Author: Kate Themen (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032330082
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the experiences of amateur players in women’s football, challenging conventional discourses that...  Read More >>

Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses, Regulation, Rupture

Social Control and Disorder in Football: Responses,...

Author: Mark Turner (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032591223
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This is the first book to focus on the interrelated issues of social control and disorder in football. It shows...  Read More >>

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

Author: Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
ISBN: 9781032226859
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both...  Read More >>

Unbound: Unforgettable True Stories from the World of Endurance Sports

Unbound: Unforgettable True Stories from the World of...

Author: Bill Donahue ,  Alex Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781538189726
Format: Hardback
$57.99

Unbound is a fascinating collection of stories from the world of endurance sports, written by award-winning journalist...  Read More >>

Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages

Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times:...

Author: David L. Andrews ,  Holly Thorpe
ISBN: 9783031143892
Format: Paperback
$475.17

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Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France  

Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour...

Author: Bertrand Fincoeur ,  Kirsten Frandsen
ISBN: 9782889154630
Format: Paperback
$64.95

A book that fills a niche in academic analysis of the Tour de France. The Tour de France is an event known worldwide...  Read More >>

An Experiment in Leisure

An Experiment in Leisure

Author: Marion Milner ,  Akshi Singh (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781032757537
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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An Experiment in Leisure

An Experiment in Leisure

Author: Marion Milner ,  Akshi Singh (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781032757568
Format: Hardback
$273.00

With a new foreword by Akshi Singh, An Experiment in Leisure remains a striking and captivating adventure in thinking...  Read More >>

Designed for Recreation: A Practical Handbook for All Concerned with Providing Leisure Facilities in the Countryside

Designed for Recreation: A Practical Handbook for All...

Author: Elisabeth Beazley
ISBN: 9781032741970
Format: Hardback
$168.00

Originally published in 1969, at a time when there was an ever-increasing number of people going to the coast and...  Read More >>

The Virtue of Playfulness: Why Happy People Are Playful

The Virtue of Playfulness: Why Happy People Are Playful...

Author: boomer trujillo (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
ISBN: 9781032717746
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle,...  Read More >>

Sailing and Social Class

Sailing and Social Class

Author: Alan O'Connor (Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032703572
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical...  Read More >>

The Golf Bucket List: 100 Ideas for Enjoying the Great Game of Golf

The Golf Bucket List: 100 Ideas for Enjoying the Great...

Author: Jeffrey Thoreson
ISBN: 9781646046850
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Golf has always been a popular sport, but in recent years, it has been gaining popularity with younger crowds, becoming...  Read More >>

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian...

Author: Patrick Moser
ISBN: 9780252088018
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships...  Read More >>

A Nation of Family and Friends?: Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

A Nation of Family and Friends?: Sport and the Leisure...

Author: Aarti Ratna
ISBN: 9781978834125
Format: Hardback
$316.80

"In A Nation of Family and Friends, sociologist Aarti Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between...  Read More >>

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian...

Author: Patrick Moser
ISBN: 9780252045912
Format: Hardback
$271.00

Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships...  Read More >>

Olympic Games and Global Cities: What Future for an Olympic System in Turmoil?

Olympic Games and Global Cities: What Future for an...

Author: Alexandre Faure
ISBN: 9789819995981
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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The International Working Group on Women and Sport 1994-2024: The Challenge of Change

The International Working Group on Women and Sport 1994-2024:...

Author: Elizabeth C.J. Pike (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781032412191
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book comprehensively evaluates the role of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) - the world’s...  Read More >>

Gems: How Four Generations of Women's Basketball Built the Sport

Gems: How Four Generations of Women's Basketball Built...

Author: Howard Megdal
ISBN: 9781637271988
Format: Hardback
$73.92

An expansive and compelling chronicle tracing the rise of modern women's basketball Elvera “Peps” Neuman got lost...  Read More >>

World Class: The Life and Work of Grant Wahl

World Class: The Life and Work of Grant Wahl

Author: Grant Wahl ,  Dr. Céline Gounder
ISBN: 9780593726761
Format: Hardback
$70.00

"""This collection of Grant's work is a great testament to not only what he did when he was here, but what he's...  Read More >>

Media, Place and Tourism: Worlds of Imagination

Media, Place and Tourism: Worlds of Imagination

Author: Stijn Reijnders (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL) ,  Emiel Martens (University of Amsterdam, NL)
ISBN: 9781032341040
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Accessible and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume highlights the connections between media, tourism and place,...  Read More >>

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