Starting from your own past? the serious business of leisure history.

Cindy S. Aron, Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States, New York, Oxford University Press, 1999; 324 pp.; ISBN 0-19-505584-5 Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth, London, Pimlico, 1999; 310 pp.; ISBN 0-7126-6596-X Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen, The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1999; 321 pp.; ISBN 0262-22059-8 Terry Staples, All Pals Together: The Story of Children’s Cinema, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1997; 254 pp.; ISBN 0-7486-0718-8 David Seed, American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999; 216 pp.; ISBN 1-85331-227-4 Mike Huggins, Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History, London, Frank Cass, 2000; 270 pp., ISBN 0-7146-4982-1 Lucy Rollin, Twentieth-Century Teen Cultures by the Decades: A Reference Guide, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1999; 396 pp., ISBN 0-313-30223-5 John Burnett, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain, London, Routledge, 1999; 254 pp.; ISBN 0-415-13182-0 Steven M. Gelber, Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in Modern America, New York, Columbia University Press, 1999; 374 pp.; ISBN 0-23111393-5