Recreation & Leisure Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Casa LomaCanada'’s Fairy-Tale Castle and Its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt |
In this fifth edition, with new photography showing Casa Loma in its newly restored state, Bill Freeman takes readers on a tour of every significant room in this dramatic hillside castle, … | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 96 | 2016 | View |
Game MisconductInjury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport |
“You’re not a human being, you’re a number, a product, an asset as long as you can perform. If you can’t perform, then you’re a liability and they’ll drop you.” Professional athletes suffer … | Nathan Kalman-Lamb | 192 | 2018 | View |
Immodest and Sensational150 Years of Canadian Women in Sports |
With the Canadian women’s Olympic hockey team and other high-profile female athletes in recent years drawing a healthy share of the sports media limelight, there is a perception that … | M. Ann Hall | 96 | 2008 | View |
NEW! On Account of DarknessShining Light on Race and Sport |
For marginalized athletes past and present, achievement can bring celebrity without equality and recognition without opportunity In many ways, Ontario’s Chatham-Kent region is a microcosm … | Ian Kennedy | 213 | 2022 | View |
On This Patch of GrassCity Parks on Occupied Land |
Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, … | Daisy Couture; Matt Hern; Sadie Courture; Selena Courture | 167 | 2018 | View |
NEW! ReboundSports, Community, and the Inclusive City |
“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop. ” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the … | Perry King | 169 | 2021 | View |
NEW! RenewalHow Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy |
Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the … | Andres R. Edwards | 210 | 2020 | View |
The Big Book of Nature ActivitiesA Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning |
The average child can identify over 300 corporate logos, but only 10 native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high … | Drew Monkman; Jacob Rodenburg | 387 | 2016 | View |
The Skin I’m InRacism, Sports and Education |
This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of Black male high school students. As a former professional athlete himself, the author brings a firsthand personal … | Christopher M. Spence | 136 | 1999 | View |
They Called Me Chocolate RocketThe Life and Times of John Paris, Jr., Hockey's First Black Professional Coach |
In the ultra-competitive junior hockey leagues in the early 1960s, a young man could tolerate nearly anything that helped him stand out from the hordes of other prospects, so John Paris, Jr. did … | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 272 | 2014 | View |
Toronto’s Ravines and Urban ForestsTheir natural heritage and local history |
No matter where you are in Toronto, you are close to a ravine. In these often-hidden places you can find an astonishing diversity of birds, flowers, and trees. Jason Ramsay-Brown has spent twenty … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 200 | 2020 | View |
WanderlustA Social History of Travel |
Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne … | Laura Byrne Paquet | 312 | 2007 | View |
From AcknowledgementsFrom: Game Misconduct |
Nathan Kalman-Lamb | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add | |
From Acknowledgments and Floor PlansFrom: Casa Loma |
Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add | |
From City Parks on Occupied LandFrom: On This Patch of Grass |
Daisy Couture; Matt Hern; Sadie Courture; Selena Courture | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add | |
From Introduction |
A brief introduction to himself and six facts about him to keep in mind through the rest of the book | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |