Sociology: sport and leisure

Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion.

Games and Gamesters of the Restoration (1930) reprints two vastly different books The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Lives of the Gamesters (1714) that together give a comprehensive and representative view of gamesters and gambling in the latter half of the seventeenth century - a time that saw an explosion in such pursuits following the end of Cromwell's rule.

Entdecken Sie die zeitlose Kunst des hyggeligen Wohnens und Lebens mit diesem praktischen Ratgeber zum dänischen Lebensgefühl Hygge.

Join Marcus and friends as they solve another mystery in The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Goblin's Revenge.

Don't feel left out in the roar of the crowd.

What makes the ultimate Sunday League footballer?

The World Cup's kicked off!

Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.

Originally published in 1967, Time of One's Own asks the question: How do young Scots spend their free time nowadays?

Originally published in 1967, Time of One's Own asks the question: How do young Scots spend their free time nowadays?

How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?

There is a huge category of sports fan: people who love a bloody good argument.

*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book.

Everyone has gone football crazy!

A young boy nearly paralyzed in a car accident runs for the first time in his life during a baseball game.

Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger generation of amateur and professional boxers.

Das Toiletten Buch: Deutscher Fußball – Kuriose Fakten und faszinierende GeschichtenTauchen Sie ein in die Welt des deutschen Fußballs und entdecken Sie die kuriosesten Fakten und faszinierendsten Geschichten, die dieser Sport zu bieten hat.