Carlos Monterrubio, Rosa Maria Chávez-Dagostino, Xavier López-Medellín, Katherine Dashper, Helen Wadham, Natalia Balzaretti Merino, S. Pelayo Benavides, Myrna Leticia Bravo Olivas, Ludger Brenner, Ivonne Cassaigne...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Human Kinetics, ISBN-13: 9781492588566)
Support community wellness by implementing successful recreation programming. At its core, Leisure Program Planning and Delivery, Second Edition With Web Resource, recognizes the power of leisure to enhance the health and well-being of bo...Loe edasi...
This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relati...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines walking as a socially and politically situated leisure practice, exploring how movement through urban and rural spaces is shaped by broader structures of power and inequality. While walki...Loe edasi...
Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician Fourth Editionis a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production. It includes updated technology throughout, new and expande...Loe edasi...
Now in its fourth edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician is a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production.The book begins with basic electrical p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049800691)
After a century of warnings, the 500-year reign of the work ethic is over. The work ethic has shaped our character, given purpose to our lives, and driven civilization forward. Now, as technology replaces human labour, we are faced with a profound di...Loe edasi...
Learn the essential tools and methodologies for conducting research and producing quality academic work in the fields of tourism, hospitality, leisure studies and events. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students,...Loe edasi...
Learn the essential tools and methodologies for conducting research and producing quality academic work in the fields of tourism, hospitality, leisure studies and events. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students,...Loe edasi...
This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities.The...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc, ISBN-13: 9781974759194)
Sometimes even the greatest kaiju-fighting heroes need a day off.With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. But kaiju don’t attack every day! Sometimes, even the best and bri...Loe edasi...
Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a field of welfare. Investigating evolving under...Loe edasi...
First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The ar...Loe edasi...
This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has muc...Loe edasi...
In northern Britain and parts of Wales and Scotland, your life might well be dominated throughout the 1930s by unemployment, low wages, poor nutrition, ill health, and slum housing. But if you lived in the Midlands, London or the South-East, by the...Loe edasi...
This book argues for, while critically engaging with, the proposition that leisure is a human right. The structure of the book sets this proposition within historical and international legal human ri...Loe edasi...
In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure....Loe edasi...
This is the first book to explore the meaning and significance of leisure in Chinese society, as well as the relationship between leisure and work that reveals so much about a society’s cultural values. This is the first book to exp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031907777)
This edited volume analyses emerging trends in the world of leisure and human development from the perspectives of subjective well-being and policy development. It brings together a diverse group of authors to delve deep into the transformative ef...Loe edasi...
This book examines the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a range of inter-disciplinary chapters, the volume unpacks leisure life in lockdown contexts through a range of empirical, conceptual and the...Loe edasi...
Carlos Monterrubio, Rosa Maria Chávez-Dagostino, Xavier López-Medellín, Katherine Dashper, Helen Wadham, Natalia Balzaretti Merino, S. Pelayo Benavides, Myrna Leticia Bravo Olivas, Ludger Brenner, Ivonne Cassaigne...
Humans and animals have developed multiple and complex interactions in the fields of tourism, leisure, and development. However, much of the existing research on how humans and animals interact in these fields has emerged from within the context of d...Loe edasi...
Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotion...Loe edasi...
Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape of their nation. The Invention of the English Landscape examines these journeys and investigat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820367675)
Recreation without Humiliation is the first comprehensive study of Black amusement venues established by Black Americans for Black Americans. Mary Stanton’s extensive research on African American amusement parks in America explores not only...Loe edasi...
New paperback edition - Holidays with Hitler tells the story of how Germans spent their leisure time. It looks at consumerism, entertainment and travel in National Socialist Germany. Meticulously researched, this is a fascinating insight into everyda...Loe edasi...
This volume pulls together a range of case studies across a number of different sports and geographical areas that illustrate how sporting spaces and social agents negotiate their inclusion through actively producing, reproducing, sustaining and i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008622091)
‘’F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously salty’ JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARPlanes, Trains and Toilet Doors...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529245738)
This book offers a vivid, critical exploration of young adults’ experiences of the contemporary night-time economy, drawing on rich ethnographic research from Stoke-on-Trent. Adopting recent conceptual advancements in ultra-realism, critical crimi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Human Kinetics, ISBN-13: 9781492588566)
Support community wellness by implementing successful recreation programming. At its core, Leisure Program Planning and Delivery, Second Edition With Web Resource, recognizes the power of leisure to enhance the health and well-being of bo...Loe edasi...
The 20th century witnessed the collapse of the traditional separation between the realm of official culture and that of popular entertainment. This event produced dramatic consequences at all levels of social life in the West, especially in the E...Loe edasi...
This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relati...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines walking as a socially and politically situated leisure practice, exploring how movement through urban and rural spaces is shaped by broader structures of power and inequality. While walki...Loe edasi...
Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician Fourth Editionis a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production. It includes updated technology throughout, new and expande...Loe edasi...
Now in its fourth edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician is a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production.The book begins with basic electrical p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781049800691)
After a century of warnings, the 500-year reign of the work ethic is over. The work ethic has shaped our character, given purpose to our lives, and driven civilization forward. Now, as technology replaces human labour, we are faced with a profound di...Loe edasi...
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published annually since 2004, aims to promote seminal and innovative research outputs related to hospitality, leisure, tourism, and lifestyle. Specifically,...Loe edasi...
Learn the essential tools and methodologies for conducting research and producing quality academic work in the fields of tourism, hospitality, leisure studies and events. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students,...Loe edasi...
Learn the essential tools and methodologies for conducting research and producing quality academic work in the fields of tourism, hospitality, leisure studies and events. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students,...Loe edasi...
This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities.The...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc, ISBN-13: 9781974759194)
Sometimes even the greatest kaiju-fighting heroes need a day off.With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. But kaiju don’t attack every day! Sometimes, even the best and bri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035312467)
This incisive Research Handbook investigates the complex and multifaceted field of the sociology of leisure. Expert authors explore the social meaning and purpose of leisure in an era defined by postmodernity, post-industrialism, globalization, and d...Loe edasi...
Tracing the evolution of social thought on leisure in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present day, this book documents an alternative and almost totally ignored discourse of leisure as a field of welfare. Investigating evolving under...Loe edasi...
First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The ar...Loe edasi...
This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has muc...Loe edasi...
