Introduction to Leisure Services: Career Perspectives

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Summary: Enhanced with a bibliography, an author/subject index
Review: Introduction To Leisure Services: Career Perspectives is the collaborative effort of Richard Kraus, Elisabeth Barber, and Ira Shapiro. With opening chapters covering recreation and leisure in American life and the organized leisure-service system in place today, Introduction To Leisure Services goes on to descriptively address public recreation, park and leisure-service agencies; non-profit, volunteer oriented, leisure-service agencies; commercial recreation businesses; armed forces and employee-service programs; campus and private-membership recreation; therapeutic recreation services; contemporary sports management; travel, tourism and hospitality; and career perspectives in leisure-service agencies. Enhanced with a bibliography, an author/subject index, and two appendices ("Listing of Organizations and Societies" and "Suggested Class Assignments and Student Projects"), Introduction To Leisure Services: Career Perspectives is an enthusiastically recommended addition to academic library collections and an ideal textbook for Leisure, Sports & Recreational Services curriculums.