Sociology: sport & leisure books

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity...  Read More >>

"From an Olympic gold medal-winning coach, a new playbook for effective athlete education and team building Championship...  Read More >>

"The United States is hardly a ""fit nation."" Only 20 percent of Americans work out consistently, over half of...  Read More >>

"The United States is hardly a ""fit nation."" Only 20 percent of Americans work out consistently, over half of...  Read More >>

"From an Olympic gold medal-winning coach, a new playbook for effective athlete education and team building Championship...  Read More >>

The book offers insights into the development, political uses and current situation of Taiwan sport, the contribution...  Read More >>

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Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era is an important addition to discussions on sport as work for women,...  Read More >>

"The United States is hardly a ""fit nation."" Only 20 percent of Americans work out consistently, over half of...  Read More >>

"From an Olympic gold medal-winning coach, a new playbook for effective athlete education and team building Championship...  Read More >>

Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der Sportpädagogik und -geschichte, der wissenschaftstheoretischen...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies....  Read More >>

There is something very soothing and reliable about discipline: if you force yourself into following a particular...  Read More >>

Research into sports fandom makes the sometimes counterintuitive case for why being a fan is good for us individually...  Read More >>

From Michael Bamberger, the New York Times bestselling author of Men in Green and our most celebrated contemporary...  Read More >>

Im Teil 2 der Studien werden aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven weitere Facetten der Körper- und Bewegungsbildung...  Read More >>

This book uses semiotic theory (and, secondarily, other theories) to explain the social, economic, cultural and...  Read More >>

This book studies how Cricket has evolved in a post liberal India and how technology has affected the way it is...  Read More >>

We hold on to our memories of the first years when we became cricket fans because those are the golden days of the...  Read More >>

This book presents a critical rethinking of assumptions that have informed our understanding of women’s engagement...  Read More >>

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Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of...  Read More >>

How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains...  Read More >>

A concept of game is justified and unfolded that revolves around the lure and threat of the unexpected. The author...  Read More >>

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