The seventh edition of this classic textbook continues to provide a detailed overview of the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. It has been heavily revised to reflect recent societal changes and the challenges that face the leisure-services industry in the 21st century. Students will learn how 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. To reflect these trends, the text now focuses on ten different types of organizations, ranging from nonprofit community organizations or armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors.
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The author was not content to simply write a book about recreation. The book is loaded with political editorializing, including a section blaming the Detroit riots of the 60's on "society", constant harping about the inequalities of the recreation opportunities for rich and poor, and a pervasive hostility towards private recreation resources. I do not recommend the book at all except as a mildly amusing piece of trite socialist hogwash.
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Parks, recreation, and the leisure services in the twenty-first century continue to experience enormous changes as a result of development in lifestyles, technology, economics, governmental philosophy, and almost every aspect of human endeavor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organized leisure services, recreation sponsors, therapeutic recreation service, armed forces recreation, leisure involvement, human services approach, public recreation programs, recreational involvement, recreation movement, recreation agencies, government recreation, recreation programming, leisure programs, recreation professionals, campus recreation, park agencies, recreational participation, community recreation programs, special recreation, municipal recreation, recreation participation, park professionals, recreation field, leisure today, therapeutic recreation specialists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York Times, World War, Girl Scouts, National Park Service, Middle Ages, New England, Little League, Forest Service, Camp Fire, African Americans, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Physical Education, Native American, State College, Venture Publishing, Employee Services Management, New Jersey, Industrial Revolution, Los Angeles, National Therapeutic Recreation Society, North America, Boy Scouts of America, Central Park, Department of Defense New!
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Parks, recreation, and the leisure services in the twenty-first century continue to experience enormous changes as a result of development in lifestyles, technology, economics, governmental philosophy, and almost every aspect of human endeavor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organized leisure services, recreation sponsors, therapeutic recreation service, armed forces recreation, leisure involvement, human services approach, public recreation programs, recreational involvement, recreation movement, recreation agencies, government recreation, recreation programming, leisure programs, recreation professionals, campus recreation, park agencies, recreational participation, community recreation programs, special recreation, municipal recreation, recreation participation, park professionals, recreation field, leisure today, therapeutic recreation specialists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York Times, World War, Girl Scouts, National Park Service, Middle Ages, New England, Little League, Forest Service, Camp Fire, African Americans, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Physical Education, Native American, State College, Venture Publishing, Employee Services Management, New Jersey, Industrial Revolution, Los Angeles, National Therapeutic Recreation Society, North America, Boy Scouts of America, Central Park, Department of Defense New!
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- Leisure Services in Canada: An Introduction by Mark S. Searle on page 21, page 116, and page 231
- Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga on page 28, and page 46
- Little Blue Book: Westchester/ Orange/ Rockland/Putnam Counties 2008-09 by WebMD on page 108, and page 208
- The Sane Society by Erich Fromm on page 36, and page 46
- New Passages by Gail Sheehy on page 140, and page 146
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- Sport Tourism (Sport in the Global Society) by Heather J. Gibson on page 28
- Taiwan's Modernization: Americanization and Modernizing Confucian Manifestations by Wei-Bin Zhang in Back Matter
- Countryside Recreation: A handbook for managers by Mr Peter Bromley in Back Matter
- Outdoor Recreation Management (Routledge Advances in Tourism) by John J. Pigram in Back Matter
- The Countryside Ideal: Anglo-American Images of Landscape by Michael Bunce in Back Matter
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