"There are textbooks galore, but there aren't many crafted as intelligently as this one. This book will change the way that students understand leisure. It will give them an easier entry to that place where difficult ideas fuse into something intelligible, where real understanding sits and the educated imagination is stirred."
- Tony Blackshaw, Sheffield Hallam University

Defining Leisure and Leisure Studies
Studying and Measuring Leisure
Time, History and Leisure
Caution - Children at Play
Growing Up and Getting Out
Staying in and Settling Down
Divided Leisure: Leisure and Social Class
Turning Points
Home Alone: Demography and Ageing
Leisure and the Future