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Stebbins </a> </li> </ul> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="main"> <div id="banner-bot"> <div id="banner-top"> <div id="banner"> <div class="wsite-header"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="wsite-content" class="wsite-elements wsite-not-footer"> <h2 class="wsite-content-title" style="text-align:left;">Digital Library</h2> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;display:block;"> This digital library features full-text papers and books on subjects related to the serious leisure perspective. It is a work-in-progress that will be compiled as new material becomes available. If you are the author of work that could be included in this collection that you'd like to make available to readers, please <a href="http://www.soci.ucalgary.ca/seriousleisure/MainPages/Contact.htm">contact us</a>. To start this library are books in PDF format as well as several installments of a column by Robert A. Stebbins entitled "Leisure Reflections" in the Leisure Studies Association (LSA) Newsletter. Digital versions of books These are large PDF files and may take a few minutes to download. (If you have trouble downloading, try again later from a different computer; we've found these files to be unpredictable.)  <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/amateurs.pdf.pdf_03-21.pdf" target="_blank">Amateurs: On the Margin Between Work and Leisure</a> (1979), by Robert A. Stebbins <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/canadian_football_pdf.pdf" target="_blank">Canadian Football: The View from the Helmet</a> (1993), by Robert A. Stebbins <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/the_franco-calgarians.pdf">The Franco-Calgarians: French Language, Leisure, and Life-style in an Anglophone City </a>(1994), by Robert A. Stebbins <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/new_orleans_2.pdf" target="_blank">The Connoisseur's New Orleans</a> (1995), by Robert A. Stebbins  <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/tolerabledifferences.pdf">Tolerable Differences: Living with Deviance</a> (1996), 2nd edition, by Robert A. Stebbins <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/franco-volunteer_book.pdf">The Urban Francophone Volunteer: Searching for Personal Meaning and Community Growth in a Linguistic Minority</a>, Vol. 3, No. 2 (New Scholars-New Visions in Canadian Studies quarterly monographs series). Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Canadian Studies Centre, 1998, by Robert A. Stebbins (typescript only). <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/the_french_enigma.pdf" target="_blank">The French Enigma</a>, (2000) by Robert A. Stebbins <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/challenging_mountain_nature.pdf" target="_blank">Challenging Mountain Nature: Risk, Move and Lifestyle in Three Hobbyist Sports</a>, (2005), by Robert A. Stebbins Leisure Reflections Series, by Robert A. Stebbins (20 articles have been removed for inclusion in copyrighted publications.) Leisure Reflections...No. 1: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections1.pdf">Choice and Experiential Definitions of Leisure</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 63, November 2002. Leisure Reflections...No. 3: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections3.pdf">Leisure and Citizen Participation: A Salutary Reciprocity</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 65, July 2003. Leisure Reflections...No. 4: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections4.pdf">Relaxation: Rocking-Chair Leisure and More</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 66, November 2003. Leisure Reflections...No. 5: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections5.pdf">Shopping as Leisure and Obligation</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 67, March 2004. Leisure Reflections...No. 6: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections6.pdf">Career and Life Course: Leisure as Process</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 68, July 2004. Leisure Reflections...No. 8: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections8.pdf">Recreational Specialization, Serious Leisure and Complex Leisure Activity</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 70, March 2005. Leisure Reflections...No. 10: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections10.pdf">Non-Western Leisure: How to Study It</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 72, November 2005. Leisure Reflections...No. 13: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections13.pdf">The Serious Leisure Perspective</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 75, November 2006. Leisure Reflections...No. 14: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections14.pdf">Leisure Studies, The Happy Science</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 76, March 2007. Leisure Reflections...No 16: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections16.pdf">A Leisure-Based, Theoretic Typology of Volunteers and Volunteering</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 78, November 2007. Leisure Reflections...No. 17: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections17.pdf">The Leisure Basis of Caring</a>, LSA Newsletter No. 79, March 2008. Leisure Reflections...No. 21: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflection21.pdf">Paid to Volunteer: Linking Leisure and Work</a>, LSA Newsletter, No. 83, July 2009. Leisure Reflections...No. 22: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections22.pdf">Nature Challenge Activities: Answering the Call of the Wild</a>, LSA Newsletter, No. 84, November 2009. Leisure Reflections...No. 25: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections25.pdf">Flow in Serious Leisure: Nature and Prevalence</a>, LSA Newsletter, No. 87, November 2010. Leisure Reflections...No. 26: <a href="/uploads/8/3/3/8/8338986/reflections26.pdf">Personal Memoirs, Project-Based Leisure and Therapeutic Recreation for Seniors</a>, LSA Newsletter, No. 88, March 2011. 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