Why We Love to Tour: Gazing from the Serious Leisure Perspective offers a fresh and nuanced explo...

Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with ...

This work looks into how, why, and when people pursue things in life that they desire, those that...

The 'Serious Leisure Perspective' (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand th...

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's worl...

This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play...

This is a book for all readers who want to learn about amphibians, the animal group that includes...

  The Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP) is a theoretic framework developed by Robert A.  Stebbins...

Guided by the precept that to understand any phenomenon well, it is necessary to start by looking...

This work looks into how, why, and when people pursue things in life that they desire, those that...

This book is a study of committed reading, an activity animated by three main motives: utilitaria...

Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a compreh...

Non-work obligations can undermine our well-being and lifestyles, but scholars of work and leisur...

The 'Serious Leisure Perspective' (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand th...

Between Work and Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that work and leisure are separate an...

This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships...

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's worl...

Achievement meritorious enough to generate discussion covers considerable territory. This book co...

Anselm Strauss observed 40 years ago that the idea of social world was suffering from weak concep...

This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships...

Acknowledging that the challenge facing social science is how to inject some order into the commo...

How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the...

The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough t...

This short book discusses the relatively new concept of project-based leisure in leisure research...

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As the greying of our population continues, retirees are enjoying more and more healthy years of ...

Leisure education enhances the effective use of free time by informing people of the many leisure...

Volunteerism is a topic of increasing importance in this age of budget cuts and declining employm...

Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a compreh...

There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, ...

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Barbership singing is often dismissed by its critics as merely an enjoyable hobby. Though long po...

Friendly social relations during free time, referred to here as leisure-based sociability, consti...

Genealogy of the Greenlee Families: In America, Scotland, Ireland and England: With Ancestors of ...

As the greying of our population continues, retirees are enjoying more and more healthy years of ...

Occupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment to a...

Building on Goffman's observations on the moral basis of social interaction, this book elaborates...

Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompas...

The Stebbins Genealogy; Volume 1

The Stebbins Genealogy; Volume 1

Genealogy of the Greenlee Families

Genealogy of the Greenlee Families

The Stebbins Genealogy; Volume 2

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowled...

The Stebbins Genealogy; Volume 2