Online Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, Etc.
- Overview of ACL and related injuries
- Cons information about diagnosis, partial tears, treatment options, operative techniques, and complications
Careers for Sports Nuts & Other Athletic Types
- A guide to sports-related careers
- Provides information about training, education, and job skills necessary for particular careers
- Published in 2004
Existential Psychology and Sport: Theory and Application
- Focuses on larger questions of meaning, choice and responsibility that can help athletes’ development
- An introduction to applied practice in sport psychology
Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers
- Contains entries for approximately 450 surgical procedures and related topics, such as anesthetics, medications, and postoperative care
- Entries include definition, purpose, demographic information, diagnosis/preparation, aftercare, risks, morbidity, mortality rates, and alternatives
- Published in 2004
The Leadership Training Activity Book: 50 Exercises for Building Effective Leaders
- Contains instructions for 50 activities to teach and apply leadership skills
- Activities included address areas such as conflict resolution, negotiation skills, diversity, team building, presentation skills, and meeting management
- Published in 2004
Mind Games: Inspirational Lessons From the World's Biggest Sports Stars
- Attempts to identify mental process and attitudes common to successful athletes
- Uses popular sports stars as examples
- Published in 2004
Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
- Entries focus on relationship between food and health, quality of life, and disease
- Includes biographies of influential people in related fields, and profiles of related organizations
- Approximately 250 entries
- Published in 2004
Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine
- Contains over 7,500 entries covering anatomy, biomechanics, exercise physiology, nutrition, sports psychology, sports sociology, sports injuries and training principles.
- Offers brief explanations of common ESS terms.
- Published in 1998.
The Oxford Companion to the Body
- Contains over 1000 entries covering the structure and function of all systems of the body and the disorders that affect them.
- Also contains information on social and religious attitudes toward the body.
- Published in 2001.
Sports and Education: A Reference Handbook
- Contains a chronology of important events in Sports Science, biographical sketches of important figures, and major issues relating to sports and education.
- Published in 2003.
- Introduction to the theory and practice of sports coaching
- Focuses on interactions between coach, player, content, and social context
- Published in 2004
