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.
Modern economic systems, which formalized the division between work time and leisure time, have helped reinforce the idea that the most fundamental feature of leisure is that it is a time when we are free from work and other obligations ...
The following are new to this edition: • New editors and contributors from around the world, including emerging scholars • Updated data throughout the book • New chapter sections • An expanded chapter on international perspectives ...
Introduction to Recreation and Leisure
Introduction to Recreation and Leisure Services
When the market leader , McDonald's , opened its restaurants in the 1970s , people drove some McDonald's has about distance to the restaurants , but people wanted to eat at places convenient to 29,000 franchisees them .
Recreation Theory An early explanation of play that was regarded as the converse of the Schiller - Spencer view was developed by Moritz Lazarus , a German philosopher , who argued that rather than serving to burn excess energy ...
Leisure and Recreation in Canadian Society: An Introduction
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.
This book is the first of offer a comprehensive introduction to the Serious Leisure Perspective, from fundamental principles and key concepts to in-depth and wide-ranging case studies of serious leisure pursuits.
Many perspectives could be taken to provide an introduction to recreation services, but this book targets recreation services embodied in specialties such as parks and recreation, sports, tourism, event management, outdoor leadership and ...