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Author : Richard Waterhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582869684
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Private Pleasures, Public Leisure written by Richard Waterhouse and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Kummer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351308068
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Private Pleasure, Public Plight written by Hans Kummer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations--the United States, Sweden, and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact to shape human behavior. Despite their many similarities, the three societies offer remarkably contrasting urban forms, and thus provide a unique opportunity for comparative research. The findings suggest goals for urban community development in America that can help regain a sense of human scale and establish more meaningful face-to-face contact among urban dwellers. David Popenoe is professor of sociology at Rutgers University. He has had visiting appointments in the Centre for Environment Studies (London), the University of Stockholm, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Among his other books are: Distributing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies; The Suburban Environment: Sweden and the United States; Neighborhood, City and Metropolis; The Urban Industrial Frontier and a basic text on sociology that will soon appear in its seventh edition.
Author : E. Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137398515
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sport and the British World, 1900-1930 written by E. Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.
Author : Rachel Maines
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801891469
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hedonizing Technologies written by Rachel Maines and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.
Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199706532
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics written by Alison Bashford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.
Author : A J Veal
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
ISBN 13 : 1486009352
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australian Leisure written by A J Veal and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For first year students in tertiary leisure studies programs, both Leisure Studies and Social Science. Australian Leisure 4e provides an introduction to and analysis of a broadly defined concept of leisure. It integrates Australian and international knowledge so that the book is an Australian interpretation, based largely on local sources, but which engages with relevant international research and theory. This edition has been extensively reviewed and updated and includes new chapters on social networks, global cultures and events. Leisure is not just sport, or the arts, or outdoor recreation, it is all these things and more, including tourism, gambling, hobbies, television watching, entertainment, play and doing nothing in particular. The purpose of the text is to illuminate leisure and its place in past, present and future Australian society. The text is designed to lead students into the subject and provide pointers to more detailed study, through discussion questions and guides to further reading.
Author : Simon Sleight
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113479004X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914 written by Simon Sleight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ’Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the incipient Australian nation. Looking beyond those institutional sites so often assessed by historians of childhood, he ranges across the outdoor city to chart the relationship between a discourse about youth, youthful experience and the shaping of new urban spaces. Play, street work, consumerism, courtship, gang-related activities and public parades are examined using a plethora of historical sources to reveal a hitherto hidden layer of city life. Capturing the voices of young people as well as those of their parents, Sleight alerts us to the ways in which young people shaped the emergent metropolis by appropriating space and attempting to impress upon the city their own desires. Here a dynamic youth culture flourished well before the discovery of the ’teenager’ in the mid-twentieth century; here young people and the city grew up together.
Author : John Rainford
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458717240
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Consuming Pleasure written by John Rainford and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug-use.
Author : K. Spracklen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230348726
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Constructing Leisure written by K. Spracklen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of leisure on its own in fact, it is impossible without engaging in the debate about what counts as leisure (in the present and in the past). Writing a history of leisure, then, entails writing a philosophy of leisure: and any history needs to be a philosophical history as well. That is the purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through historical time, how leisure was constructed and understood by historical actors, how communicative reason and free will interacted with instrumentality at different times, how historians have reconstructed past leisure through historiography, and finally, how writers have perceived the meaning and purpose of leisure in alternative histories. Providing a sweeping overview of the field, Karl Spracklen charts how the concept of leisure was understood in Ancient history, through to modern times, and looks at leisure in different societies and cultures including Byzantium and Asian civilizations, as well as looking at leisure and Islam. Spracklen concludes with a chapter on future histories of leisure.
Author : David Mosler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313010730
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Australia, the Recreational Society written by David Mosler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its very inception Australia has been a derivative society: First as part of the British Empire and then, soon after World War II, what Mosler considers the American Empire and the new end-of-century Americanized global culture. This has meant that Australia has struggled to attain its own identity. Mosler explores that struggle for national independence, a struggle that seems to be doomed to failure. According to Mosler, the reasons for this failure lie in Australia's propensity to remain a recreational culture; a culture more attuned to pleasure and dependence than regimented hard work and the concomitant collective pattern of national assertiveness. The Australian economy, defense arrangements, culture, and psychology have been dominated by other nations and transnational forces. The prospects for the nation in the future appear to be somewhat grim unless this historical pattern of dependence and lack of respect, indeed almost contempt, for national institutions is reversed. A provocative analysis that will be of interest to scholars, students, researchers, and anyone interested in Australian history and contemporary life and culture.
