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Trade Paperback : $49.00 Buy	The Child in Question Diana Gittins Palgrave Macmillan In this timely and eloquent book, Diana Gittins draws on a fascinating range of sources-psychoanalytic, historical, social, literary, artistic and personal-to...

Hardcover : $130.00 Buy	Tourism in Global Society Place, Culture, Consumption Kevin Meethan Palgrave Macmillan There is a wealth of scholarship on tourism from a variety of different disciplines, but few attempts to synthesize its broad themes into a coherent analytical...

Trade Paperback : $49.00 Buy	The Politics of Disablement A Sociological Approach Michael Oliver Palgrave Macmillan

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	The Leisure Industries Ken Roberts Palgrave Macmillan The Leisure Industries is the first book to scan the entire field of leisure from the point of view of leisure providers rather than from a demand-side...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Leisure Theory Principles and Practice Chris Rojek Palgrave Macmillan Leisure practices in the modern Western world exist in the context of mass education, mass communication and mass tourism. In this clear and energetic text,...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Sport in Consumer Culture John Horne Palgrave Macmillan This text offers a distinctive introduction to sport in contemporary society, drawing on recent developments in sociological theory and research, particularly...

Hardcover : $126.00 Buy	Policing Football Social Interaction and Negotiated Disorder Megan O'Neill Palgrave Macmillan This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds...

Trade Paperback : $57.00 Buy	A Handbook of Leisure Studies Edited by Chris Rojek, Anthony J. Veal and Susan M. Shaw Palgrave Macmillan This handbook addresses the history, organization and central debates in the field of leisure studies. More than 30 chapters from leading international...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Sport and International Development Edited by Roger Levermore and Aaron Beacom Palgrave Macmillan Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right,...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Football Hooliganism in Europe Security and Civil Liberties in the Balance Anastassia Tsoukala Palgrave Macmillan Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Embodied Sporting Practices Regulating and Regulatory Bodies Kath Woodward Palgrave Macmillan This is a book about bodies; material bodies and their practices and the regulatory bodies that shape embodied selves and their experiences. Sport is the focus...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure Habermas and Leisure at the End of Modernity Karl Spracklen Palgrave Macmillan This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism,...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Leisure and Consumption Common Ground/Separate Worlds Robert Stebbins Palgrave Macmillan The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure. This ambitious, agenda-setting study, provides the most in-depth examination of the...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Rugby Union and Globalization An Odd-Shaped World Global Culture and Sport Series John Harris Palgrave Macmillan In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game. This book offers a critical analysis of the sport in...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Sport and Challenges to Racism Global Culture and Sport Series Edited by Karl Spracklen and Jonathan Long Palgrave Macmillan With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure Edited by Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Serious Leisure and Nature Sustainable Consumption in the Outdoors Robert A. Stebbins and Lee Davidson Palgrave Macmillan Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA), exploring...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Qualitative Research for Physical Culture Pirkko Markula and Michael Silk Palgrave Macmillan Qualitative Research for Physical Culture is a practical guide to qualitative research methods in the multidisciplinary field of physical culture. This...

Trade Paperback : $36.00 Buy	Sport and Society in the Global Age Tim Marjoribanks and Karen Farquharson Palgrave Macmillan Modern professional sport is a key site of social action. This book focuses on the interactions of sport and society, and engages with the political, policy...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Constructing Leisure Historical and Philosophical Debates Karl Spracklen Palgrave Macmillan This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The Global Football League Transnational Networks, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age Global Culture and Sport Series Peter Millward Palgrave Macmillan This pioneering book critically addresses the themes that have come to define the global flow of images, capital and people that exist in contemporary football...

Hardcover : $180.00 Buy	The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies Edited By Helen Lenskyj and Stephen Wagg Palgrave Macmillan This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection fills a long-standing gap in the fields of Olympic studies and sports sociology by applying a...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Social Policy and the Body Transitions in Corporeal Discourse Kathryn Ellis; Hartley Dean Palgrave Macmillan Explores the way in which the body has both constituted and been constituted by social policy at differing periods in the history of the welfare state.

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Young People, Risk and Leisure Constructing Identities in Everyday Life Edited by Wendy Mitchell, Robin Bunton, and Eileen Green Palgrave Macmillan Social theorists have claimed that modern life, being increasingly risky and uncertain, is profoundly affecting experiences of everyday life and our sense of...

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