Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure 9780814345276, 0814345271

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism 9780674919808

Do neoliberals hate the state? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows neolib

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Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era 9781501728778

An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing rest

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The Sociology of Leisure 9781000464047

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Hemingway and Bimini : The Birth of Sport Fishing at "The End of the World" 9781561649792, 9781561649716

Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when

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Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa 9780755619061, 9781780768625

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun

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The Price of Leisure: An Economic Analysis of the Demand for Leisure Time 9780773593572

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Birth of the State

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State of play: Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama 9781847791825

This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA

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An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê: Leisure as a Political End 9781474237932, 9781474237963, 9781474237956

Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of scholê is usually translated as ‘leisure’, there is a vast difference

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The Birth of Orientalism 9780812242614

Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App dem

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