Author : Daniel D. McLean
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763707569
Dr. Jan Louise Jones, Southern Connecticut State University --Book Jacket.
Author : C. Rojek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0230625185
A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.
Author : Paul Heintzman
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441245499
This addition to the award-winning Engaging Culture series explores the link between leisure and spirituality, offering a Christian perspective on leisure concepts and issues in contemporary society. Paul Heintzman, a respected scholar and experienced recreation practitioner, interacts with biblical, historical, and contemporary leisure studies sources to provide a comprehensive understanding of leisure. He also explains the importance of leisure for spiritual growth and development. This work will appeal to professors and students as well as practitioners in the recreation and leisure services field, youth and college pastors, and camp ministries.
Author : Daniel McLean
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1449689574
With a new full-color design with perforated worksheets, the Tenth Edition of Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. It addresses contemporary issues facing the recreation and leisure profession and focuses on challenges and opportunities that impact the profession now as well as years from now. Extensive research into emerging trends helps support the text and provide insights into the future. Focusing on the ten different types of organizations --ranging from nonprofit community organizations and armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors -- this classic text text is an invaluable resource for students considering a career in the recreation and leisure industry. New to the Tenth Edition: - Discusses how specific trends, such as dramatic shifts in population make-up, the impact of technology, and marketing affect leisure-service systems and the recreation and park professions. - Focus on the role of parks and recreation on the health and wellness of our communities as well as means to combat the obesity epidemic in North America. - Includes new case studies which allow students to apply knowledge of technology in leisure, identify the value and benefits of play, and recognize the changing family structures of our modern society.
Author : Lynne Withey
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN :
'Grand Tours and Cook's Tours' is the story of intellectuals and the very rich, the not so rich, the infamous and the anonymous seeking adventure and satisfying ways of exploring the world, from the mid-18th century to World War One.
Author : A. Arcangeli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0230507980
In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. The book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.
Author : Rudy Koshar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1845205448
In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and expectations, its scope and variability, still remains largely a matter of conjecture. One message that has emerged from a multiplicity of disciplines is that research on leisure and consumption opens up a hitherto untapped mine of information on the broader issues of politics, society, culture and economics. How have leisure regimes in Europe evolved since the eighteenth century? Why has leisure culture crystallized around particular practices, sites and objects? Above all, what sorts of connections and meanings have been inscribed in leisure practices, and how might these be compared across time and space? This book is the first to provide an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: travel, entertainment, sports, fashion, 'taste' and much more. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to know more about European history and culture or simply how people spent their free time before the age of television and the internet.
Author : Tapps, Tyler
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1492543128
Introduction to Recreation and Leisure, Third Edition, presents perspectives from 52 leading experts from around the world. It delves into foundational concepts, delivery systems, and programming services; offers an array of ancillaries; and helps students make informed career choices.
Author : William A. Gleason
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804734349
This literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.
Author : Rudy Dunlap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1000481158
This book explores entanglements between politics and leisure, ranging from the electorate’s concerns with public recreation resources, to the presence of politics in casual conversation, and to the use of leisure as a means of preserving racial hierarchies in society. In noting the contributions of past scholarship, it also points toward a trend of increasingly political leisure research, where research helps to unpack the multiple ways in which power suffuses the experience of leisure. A contrast between ‘being political’, on one hand, and the tribal politicization that characterizes much of contemporary social life, on the other hand, demonstrates that scholars and educators can and should be engaged in politically-oriented scholarship, while also building a more diverse and intellectually productive academy. This edited volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars interested in race, power, polarization, and the interrelationship between politics and leisure. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Leisure Sciences.
