{"product_id":"9781571676481","title":"Leisure Enhancement","description":"Teach your students the fundamentals of leisure theory and application!    \u003cp\u003eLeisure Enhancement, Third Edition provides a basic understanding of  leisure theory, concepts, and philosophy, and illustrates how they can be  applied to effectively enhance social development, improve fitness and  health, and reduce stress. This thoroughly updated text provides new  information and the latest statistics on the interrelationship between  fitness and leisure, and on leisure and recreation in the United States and  around the world. The accompanying instructor’s guide provides exams,  discussion questions, and activity ideas to bring the material in the book  to life.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents and instructors alike will benefit from this edition’s  user-friendliness and its clear links between theory and application.  Intended primarily as an introduction to leisure text, Leisure Enhancement,  Third Edition is also ideal as a resource book for leisure and recreation  majors and in leisure counseling and leisure education courses.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique combination of theoretical and practical material presents new  information on:\u003cbr\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleisure and recreation in the United States—participation patterns for  women, and racial and ethnic minorities; how leisure affects the American  economy  fitness and leisure—nutrition, aerobics, and the physiological and  psychological benefits of exercise  recreation and social development—the positive and negative effects of  various recreational activities on social development  gambling and recreational drug use—prevalent, but controllable  leisure-related problems  leisure through the life cycle—childhood, adolescence, adulthood, later  life; significant life events  leisure trends in selected countries, including Western Europe, Israel,  Japan, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, Russia and the former Soviet  Union, Australia and New Zealand    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearning objectives at the beginning of each chapter of Leisure  Enhancement, Third Edition will guide instructors and students to the most  important facts and concepts in each chapter. The detailed instructor’s  guide makes the book an excellent text for use by new or experienced  instructors and in departments where different faculty teach the applicable  courses every semester.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sagamore Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053655671024,"sku":"9781571676481","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781571676481_p0.jpg?v=1763779476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571676481","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}