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Tourism and Leisure Mobilities: Politics, Work, and Play

Product Description: This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring. A mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder, and as a result re-conceptualizes social theory...read more

By Mary Mostafanezhad (editor)

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9781138921054 | Routledge, August 12, 2016, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring.

Social Theory, Sport, Leisure

Product Description: Ken Robertsâ Social Theory, Sport and Leisure offers a clear, compact primer in social theory for students needing to engage with the application of sociological perspectives to the study of sport and leisure. Written in a straightforward style and assuming no prior knowledge, the book offers a fresh and easy to read overview of sociologyâs contribution to sport and leisure studies...read more

By Ken Roberts

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9781138936720 | Routledge, March 21, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Ken Robertsâ Social Theory, Sport and Leisure offers a clear, compact primer in social theory for students needing to engage with the application of sociological perspectives to the study of sport and leisure.

Paperback:

9781138936737 | Routledge, March 17, 2016, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Ken Robertsâ Social Theory, Sport and Leisure offers a clear, compact primer in social theory for students needing to engage with the application of sociological perspectives to the study of sport and leisure.

The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play: Play As Leisure, Leisure As Play

By Robert A. Stebbins

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9781137513014 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 12, 2015, cover price $100.00

Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Place and Identities

Product Description: This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities...read more

By Sam Elkington (editor)

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9781137428523 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 27, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life.

Capitalism and Leisure Theory

Product Description: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification...read more

By Chris Rojek

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9780415734608 | Routledge, September 25, 2013, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society.

9780403045594, titled "Bayou Folk" | Reprint edition (Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1989), cover price $79.00 | also contains Bayou Folk | About this edition: Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory.

9780422790604 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, November 1, 1985, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Great book for research, study, or review!

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9780415734622 | Routledge, April 7, 2015, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society.

Careers in Serious Leisure: From Dabbler to Devotee in Search of Fulfilment

By Robert A. Stebbins

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9781137399724 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 2, 2014, cover price $100.00

Paperback:

9780373271795, titled "Promises, Promises" | Harlequin Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $4.50 | also contains Promises, Promises

The Serious Leisure Perspective: An Introduction

Product Description: The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience. Bringing together the study of serious leisure, casual leisure and project-based leisure, it is an essential component of the Leisure Studies curriculum and an invaluable tool for exploring the significance of leisure in contemporary society...read more

By Sam Elkington

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9780415739818 | Routledge, July 25, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

Paperback:

9780415739825 | Routledge, July 14, 2014, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time; Library Edition

Product Description: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If thatâs true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity...read more

By Brigid Schulte

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9781491530580 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, May 15, 2014), cover price $62.97 | About this edition: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

By Brigid Schulte

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9780374228446 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 11, 2014, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?

Paperback:

9781408826683, titled "Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time" | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 13, 2014, cover price $21.65

CD/Spoken Word:

9781501209987 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, March 3, 2015), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?

9781501209970 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, March 3, 2015), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?

9781491530566 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 15, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?

9781491530573 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, May 15, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Can working parents in Americaâor anywhereâever find true leisure time?

Race, Ethnicity, and Leisure: Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice

By Gordon Walker (editor)

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9780736094528 | Human Kinetics, September 4, 2013, cover price $59.00

Leisure & Tourism: Cultural Paradigms

Product Description: This book is a 'back to the future' examination of traditional leisure as experienced by peoples from countries around the world. The stories and accounts narrated in the essays are a (re)discovery of core leisure values, and these remind us to focus on the essence of leisure while discerning the superficial and the meaningless...read more

By Veena Sharma (editor)

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9788131604342, titled "Leisure and Tourism: Cultural Paradigms" | Rawat Pubns, July 1, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book is a 'back to the future' examination of traditional leisure as experienced by peoples from countries around the world.

Leisure and Aging: Theory and Practice

Product Description: The number and percent of older people in developed countries continue to grow, thanks to medical advances and decreases in fertility and mortality rates. And that means that tomorrow’s recreation and leisure professionals will be more challenged than ever to meet the needs of an increasingly older culturally diverse population...read more

By Heather J. Gibson, Ph. D. (editor) and Jerome F. Singleton, Ph. D. (editor)

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9780736094634 | Human Kinetics, December 31, 2011, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: The number and percent of older people in developed countries continue to grow, thanks to medical advances and decreases in fertility and mortality rates.

Leisure Enhancement

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By Michael J. Leitner and Sara F. Leitner

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9780789015334 | 3 edition (Routledge, February 1, 2004), cover price $130.00

9781560249580 | Routledge, May 1, 1996, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Almost every chapter of the second edition of Leisure Enhancement has been updated with dozens of new references, totaling well over 100 in all.

Paperback:

9781571676481 | 4th edition (Sagamore Pub Trade, November 26, 2011), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Used book

9780789015341 | 3 edition (Routledge, January 1, 2004), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Teach your students the fundamentals of leisure theory and application!

9781560249597 | Routledge, December 1, 1996, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: Almost every chapter of the second edition of Leisure Enhancement has been updated with dozens of new references, totaling well over 100 in all.

9780866568470 | Routledge, August 1, 1989, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Book by Leitner, Michael

An African American Pastor Before and During the American Civil War: The Literary Archive of Henry McNeal Turner: the Chaplain Writings

This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among playersâas well as their reasons for playing.

By Andre E. Johnson (editor)

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9780773425729 | Edwin Mellen Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $129.95

9780226249438, titled "Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds" | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $27.00 | also contains Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds | About this edition: This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.

Social Psychology of Leisure

Product Description: In recent decades, the social psychology of leisure has emerged as a prominent perspective for understanding the role and impact of leisure in people's lives. It is a dynamic field of study influenced by researchers in leisure studies and theories and research in the fields of psychology and social psychology...read more

By Roger C. Mannell

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9781892132925, titled "A Social Psychology of Leisure" | 2 edition (Venture Pub, July 1, 2011), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In recent decades, the social psychology of leisure has emerged as a prominent perspective for understanding the role and impact of leisure in people's lives.

The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure

By Stephen Wagg (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780230216839 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2011), cover price $120.00

Paperback:

9780230216846 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2011), cover price $38.00

Key Concepts in Leisure

Product Description: Leisure studies encompasses the broadest range of leisure and sports pursuits and marries management, administration and sports, as well as customer service.Â Key Concepts in Leisure presents an indispensable guideÂ to theÂ key themes and concepts in this rapidly developing, fast-paced and demanding industry...read more

By Diane Canwell

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9780230224285 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 2009, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Leisure studies encompasses the broadest range of leisure and sports pursuits and marries management, administration and sports, as well as customer service.

Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Culture of "Recreation"

Product Description: The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports...read more

By Simon Coleman (editor)

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9781845453725, titled "The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Culture of "Recreation"" | Berghahn Books, December 15, 2008, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place.

Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Practice for Human Communication

Product Description: Human beings have suffered a communication eclipse as a result of rapid technological advancements and conspicuous consumption. Consequences of this communication eclipse can be devastating to the human condition. Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Praxis for Human Communication invites us to understand the ontological and phenomenological difference between leisure and recreation...read more

By Annette Holba

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9780874627534 | Marquette Univ Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Human beings have suffered a communication eclipse as a result of rapid technological advancements and conspicuous consumption.

Leisure Studies: Critical Concepts in the Social Studies

Product Description: Edited by two leading scholars in the field, Leisure Studies is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Leisure Studies...read more

By Joanne Connell (editor) and Stephen Page (editor)

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9780415411660 | Routledge, January 31, 2007, cover price $1590.00 | About this edition: Edited by two leading scholars in the field, Leisure Studies is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences.

Leisure And Leisure Services in the 21st Century: Toward Mid Century

By Geoffrey Godbey

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Hardcover:

9781892132598 | Venture Pub, May 30, 2006, cover price $38.95

Outdoor Recreation Management

By John M. Jenkins and John J. Pigram

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Hardcover:

9780415365406 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2006), cover price $256.00

Paperback:

9780415365413 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 1, 2006), cover price $66.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203016824 | 2 edition (Routledge, December 1, 2005), cover price $240.00

Gaming As Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity And Experience in Fantasy Games

'This book presents the most current research in fantasy games and examines the cultural and constructionist dimensions of fantasy gaming as a leisure activity. Each chapter investigates some social or behavioral aspect of fantasy gaming and provides insight into the cultural, linguistic, sociological, and psychological impact of games on both the individual and society'--Provided by publisher.

By Sean Q. Hendricks (editor), J. Patrick Williams (editor) and W. Keith Winkler (editor)

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9780786424368 | 1 edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 15, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 'This book presents the most current research in fantasy games and examines the cultural and constructionist dimensions of fantasy gaming as a leisure activity.

Leisure Theory: Principles And Practice

Product Description: Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure...read more

By Chris Rojek

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9781403905697 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2005, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure.

Paperback:

9781403905703 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2005, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure.

Reclaiming Leisure: Art, Sport And Philosophy

Product Description: Leisure activities account for much of our time - and money. But are contemporary forms of leisure good for us? Are they really leisure? And how much does (and should) leisure matter? Classical philosophers paid attention to these questions...read more

By Hayden Ramsay

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9781403947031 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 29, 2005, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Leisure activities account for much of our time - and money.

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