Sociology: sport & leisure books

4411 books were found.

Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age

Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming...

Author: Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350358362
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of...  Read More >>

Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives

Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives

Author: Stuart Whigham (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032680132
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book aims to advance academic study of the interconnection between sport and nationalism by reviewing the current...  Read More >>

Sport 2.0: Transforming Sports for a Digital World

Sport 2.0: Transforming Sports for a Digital World

Author: Andy Miah (Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, University of Salford, Manchester)
ISBN: 9780262551212
Format: Paperback
$82.00

Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the...  Read More >>

Sports Policy and Politics in the Western Balkans

Sports Policy and Politics in the Western Balkans

Author: Marko Begović (Faculty of Sport in Serbia)
ISBN: 9781032160733
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines how states in the post-socialist Western Balkans region have used sport as a policy tool, and...  Read More >>

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City...

Author: Kevin Baker
ISBN: 9780375421839
Format: Hardback
$100.32

"""A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten...  Read More >>

The Mindful Athlete: Mental Strategies for Success in Sports

The Mindful Athlete: Mental Strategies for Success in...

Author: Craig Hotchkiss
ISBN: 9782443877715
Format: Paperback
$79.17

"The Mindful Athlete: Achieving Peak Performance Discover a game-changing approach to sports and community building...  Read More >>

The Unconquerable Game: Ely Callaway on the Game of Golf and Life

The Unconquerable Game: Ely Callaway on the Game of...

Author: Nicholas Callaway
ISBN: 9781737205135
Format: Hardback
$105.60

"Among the 40 million active golfers in the world today, Callaway is recognized by touring pros and amateurs alike...  Read More >>

At Close Range: A Memoir of Tragedy and Advocacy

At Close Range: A Memoir of Tragedy and Advocacy

Author: Leesa Ross
ISBN: 9781682832011
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Sport

Decolonizing Sport

Author: Janice Forsyth ,  Christine O¿Bonsawin
ISBN: 9781773636344
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport...  Read More >>

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

Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story...

Author: Alex Wong
ISBN: 9781637276587
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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

The Power of New Urban Tourism: Spaces, Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism: Spaces, Representations...

Author: Claudia Ba ,  Sybille Frank
ISBN: 9780367555443
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Sport Mega-Events, Security and COVID-19: Securing the Football World

Sport Mega-Events, Security and COVID-19: Securing the...

Author: Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032192758
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs). It focuses on the 2020 UEFA European...  Read More >>

Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research and Practice

Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research...

Author: Liza Berdychevsky ,  Neil Carr (University of Otago, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781032264189
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book responds to the need to investigate the complex links between sex and leisure and their implications for...  Read More >>

Football and Risk: Trends and Perspectives

Football and Risk: Trends and Perspectives

Author: Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032301136
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This is the first book to look closely at the concept of ‘risk’ in elite and professional football from a social...  Read More >>

Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide

Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide

Author: Gregory Salle ,  Helen Morrison
ISBN: 9781509559954
Format: Paperback
$26.95

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football...  Read More >>

Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide

Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide

Author: Gregory Salle ,  Helen Morrison
ISBN: 9781509559947
Format: Hardback
$93.95

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football...  Read More >>

Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature

Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography...

Author: Manolis Tzanakis
ISBN: 9783031488382
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Based on the author’s experience as a former diving instructor and on an historical and sociological research of...  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: 9781501198090
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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

Sport in Hong Kong: Culture, Identity, and Policy

Sport in Hong Kong: Culture, Identity, and Policy

Author: J.A. Mangan ,  Tobias Zuser
ISBN: 9781433185373
Format: Hardback
$250.67

This book accommodates perspectives across sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, policy studies, and history...  Read More >>

Global Sports and Contemporary China: Sport Policy, International Relations and New Class Identities in the People’s Republic

Global Sports and Contemporary China: Sport Policy,...

Author: Oliver Rick ,  Longxi Li
ISBN: 9783031185977
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform...  Read More >>

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