Author: William Kraemer File Type: pdf Designed for undergraduate course work, this exercise physiology textbook unites research and theory with real-world application so students can easily relate to the concepts being presented. The unique applied approach fully engages you in discovering how the human body works and responds to exercise.Youll not only gain a solid foundation in exercise physiology concepts, youll also learn how to apply these concepts on the job to optimize athletic performance and well-being. Moreover, youll come to understand the vital health benefits of exercise and physical activity for all individuals at all ages, including special populations.Beginning with basic exercise physiology concepts, the text progressively builds your knowledge by integrating these concepts into practical discussions of nutrition and training.The text stresses a research-based approach, enabling you to locate and evaluate the evidence you need to make good decisions. Numerous examples further underscore the importance of basic concepts and research in addressing real-life challenges in exercise and athletic training.

Author: Peter Rietbergen File Type: pdf From about 13,000 BC it began to get warmer in Europe.. begins this all-encompassing survey of European cultural history. This book is a major and original contribution to the idea of Europe and its formation, from its Celtic and German origins, the influence of the Greeks and the Romans, the role of Christianity and the fruitful, if sometimes bloody, contacts with other cultures such as Islam.Peter Rietbergen portrays Europes history as a series of four grand phases of continuity and change set in the context of political, social and economic developments. A large selecton of illuminating excerpts are included to support the arguments. Europe is comprehensive, thorough and highly readable, and it will provide a stimulus for discussion among students and general readers alike.From Library JournalDutch historian Rietbergen (Univ. of Nijmegen) offers a broad historical summary of European societal development over the last 5000 years. Religion gets very close attention, as do certain seminal developments printing, gunpowder, migration from country to city, and industrialization. Interspersed excerpts from primary sources (Grotius, Chaucer, Michaelangelo) add some variety to the text, though not always gravity (Iron Maiden lyrics?). The final quarter of the book, dealing with the 20th century, turns more toward sociology with less convincing results?Rietbergens prejudices (against the European Union, for instance) show through. Hundreds of more detailed books on European culture are available this ones value is its breadth and synthesis. It would make a good primer for undergraduates or the interested lay reader, though it does presuppose some historical knowledge. For college and large public libraries only.?Robert Persing, Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib., Philadelphia 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviewspaper 0-415-17230-6 By Rietbergen (Modem HistoryUniv. of Nijmegen, Netherlands), a magisterial review of Europes cultural history from the Roman Empire to the post-WWII era. Rietbergen denies that Europe is a strictly geographical expression instead for him, Europe is codea series of world-views, of peoples perspectives on their reality, sometimes only dreamt or desired, sometimes experienced and realized as well. Despite the cultural diversity of Europe, the author perceives several unifying themes one is Catholicism and its offshoots, which for centuries after the collapse of Rome defined the civilization of Europe. A modern unifying trend is the gradual evolution of many European countries toward constitutional and democratic government, which emphasizes the political and economic freedom of the individual. To present these themes historically, Rietbergen divides European history into four distinct cultural phases the gradual emergence of a pan-European entity in the Roman Empire, which gave political unity to far-flung lands formerly dominated by Celtic and Germanic barbarians the coalescence of a Christian Europe with a Roman character, which resulted in a uniquely European civilization in contrast to the eastern Christian and Islamic civilizations around the Mediterranean the development of new ways of looking at man and the world with the emergence of humanism, the Renaissance, the great world explorations, and the Enlightenment and the modem age, with its emphasis on consumption and communication, material culture and progress. The author concludes that Europe is evolving toward a future in which classical tradition, Christianity, and ethnic identity will have less cultural significance for Europe than in the past, but in which distinctive humane European values will continue to have an impact on the world. A thoughtful though ponderous meditation on the development of thecodeEuropean idea and its significance for the world. -- 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP.