this volume marks a pioneering contribution to family studies, to our understanding of leisure, to policy formation for related services, and-mainly-to the interaction of these spheres. Sociologists will find not only that their dominance of the leisure field will be complemented at the level of theory but also that more effective bridges will be provided to such field as gerontology, community reaction, counselling, and various forms of therapy. --Max Kaplan, American Journal of Sociology