Kinesiology: General Reference

Contains both the official rules and simplified explanations of play, penalties, and equipment for 31 games played internationally. Karate, rugby, American football, volley ball, squash, croquet, boxing, lacrosse, and softball are some of the sports included. A number of diagrams and photographs are featured.

A reference for fans, librarians, sportscasters, writers, and researchers, providing information on some 5,400 "firsts" in about 110 sports, from airplane racing to wrestling. Emphasis is given to sports most popular in the US, along with extensive coverage of all Olympic sports. For each sport, coverage is chronological, from earliest times to the highlights of the 2000 Olympics. Five indexes, by subject, year, month and day, personal name, and geographical location, make it easy to find answers to specific questions.

Highlighting America's most accomplished women in sports, from Ping- Pong champion Ruth Hughes Aaron to gymnast Kim Zmeskal, this A-Z guide provides some 600 entries on individuals and sports as well as numerous related topics, including tournaments, organizations, leagues, awards, health issues, segregation, sexism, dress codes, and the media. It illustrates how women have overcome odds time after time and excelled in a surprising variety of sports and pursuits.

This three-volume set acknowledges the importance of women in sports at the global level, both from a historical perspective and in light of rapid developments in the field at the close of the 20th century. About 400 topics are categorized into sports and athletic activities, women's sport in society and the culture of women's sport, health issues, organizations, events, national programs, and people. Approximately 150 articles discuss the history of particular sports, the history and current status of women's participation in each, and the basic rules of play.

Intended for general readers, this volume contains some 1,500 entries about various aspects of exercise health and sports medicine.

Concentrating on the activities of leisure, recreation, and tourism, and emphasizing the concepts, models and theories that characterize this interdisciplinary field, the authors offer entries on historical origins as well as current developments of more than 500 diverse topics--e.g., gambling, privatization, resource management, off-road vehicles, therapeutic recreation, xenophobia. The encyclopedia has an international focus and would be useful to students and researchers in anthropology, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology. It does not cover sports.

This volume provides clearly written, alphabetically arranged information on topics of interest to the public and health professionals. More than 150 entries ( Abrasions to Youth participation in sports ) describe causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of sports injuries for amateur and professional athletes.

The first volume contains sections on particular sports, with historical information, basic science concepts, and stories from the annals of sports. Volume two deals with the physiology of sport. Entries include heart and circulatory system, knee, and respiration provide information about how the body works under stress, what type of damage or trauma might be incurred in certain sports, and how injuries can be prevented.

Bernier (Plymouth State University) provides athletic training students and professionals with a quick overview of essential elements of athletic training in this pocket (4.25x7") reference defining 2,100 terms. About 20 appendices give information on manual muscle testing, orthopedic special tests, and peripheral nerve innervations, as well as symbols and measures, acronyms and abbreviations, pharmacology, muscles, and pain assessment.