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The Human Kinetics Library Core Collection combines Bloomsbury’s digital excellence with Human Kinetics’ market-leading sports and physical activity content, featuring an exclusive package of approximately 200 ebooks and more than 400 videos, covering topics that include athletic and strength training, biomechanics, nutrition, sport and exercise psychology, sport law and management, and much more.
The collection contains approximately 200 market-leading ebooks from Human Kinetics, including textbooks, supplementary monographs and materials for practitioners.
Also included are over 300 videos from Human Kinetics, including demonstrations of exercise movements and explanations of key physical activity concepts.
Topics covered include:
Active Aging | Nutrition and Supplements |
Anatomy | Outdoor and Adventure Recreation |
Athletic Training and Therapy | Physiology of Sport and Exercise |
Biomechanics | Program and Facility Management |
Coaching | Psychology of Sport and Exercise |
Cognition and Mental Health | Research Methods, Measurements, and Evaluation |
Disability in Sport | Risk Management |
Ergonomics and Occupational Health | Ethics in Sport |
Exercise Prescription, Instruction, and Assessment | Sociology of Sport |
Fitness and Health | Sport Law |
Health Promotion | Sport Management, Marketing and Finance |
History of Sport | Sports Analytics and Performance |
Kinesiology and Exercise Science | Strength Training |
Leadership | Therapeutic and Inclusive Recreation |
Motor Behavior | Youth Sports and Fitness |
Specific sports and activities covered include:
Archery | Football (Soccer) | Rugby |
Baseball | Golf | Running, Jogging and Cross Country |
Basketball | Gymnastics | Skiing and Snowboarding |
Bodybuilding | Hiking and Backpacking | Softball |
Cheerleading | Hockey | Swimming |
Cycling and Mountain Biking | Lacrosse | Track and Field (Athletics) |
Dance | Martial Arts and Self-Defense | Triathlon |
Diving | Racket Sports | Volleyball |
Ice Skating | Tennis | Water Sports and Activities |
Football (American) | Rock Climbing and Mountaineering | Weight Lifting |
Advanced Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, systematically details the effects of acute and chronic exercise training on each component of the cardiovascular system: the heart, the vasculature, and the blood (including blood clotting factors).
This book provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the aerial adventure industry. The first of its kind, this text combines the key components of high and low ropes challenge courses, zip lines, canopy tours, and aerial adventure parks into one essential guide for students and existing professionals.
Most people will experience back pain at some point in their lives, but only a few have the resolve to seek answers and find relief. Back Exercise: Stabilize, Mobilize, and Reduce Pain explores the anatomy and movement of the spine and offers exercises that will help you move—and feel—better.
Divided into three parts, the book begins by giving you the tools to find excitement and joy in your runs and sustain your running for the long term.
In this book, you will learn tools and techniques to help you prepare for and overcome some of the biggest mental and emotional challenges you may encounter in ultrarunning. You’ll find more than 35 practical activities that will guide you in taking an introspective look at your own potential roadblocks so you can develop and strengthen the skills you need to run with confidence.
Neurophysiological Basis of Motor Control, Third Edition, emphasizes the neurophysiological mechanisms relevant to the processes of generating voluntary movements, helping students better understand how the brain generates control signals and how the body executes them.
This resource is a must-have for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives designed to promote education and health for students through meaningful engagement of family members, community members, and school faculty and staff members.
Promoting Heath and Academic Success provides direction for educators, school health professionals, and health agencies interested in promoting student health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and advocacy for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the WSCC approach.
Recreational Therapy Assessment is an evidence-based guide that illustrates best practices in performing those assessments in different settings so the needs of each client can be addressed.
This text focuses on sport and recreation practices on these lands now claimed by Canada, it is set within a larger historical context of interconnecting social and cultural practices to speak to the sustained tensions, complexities, and contradictions prevalent in Canadian society.