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Sport Medicine - Exercise Science, Fitness, & Wellness

Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources in Sport Medicine, Fitness & Wellness, and Exercise Science

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Library Guide for Sports Medicine     

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Selected E-Books

eBook Collection by EBSCOhost

Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.

Recent Titles in Print

Find these books and many more in the Reference and circulating collections on the main floor of Montgomery Library:

PHYSIOLOGY    
QP 84.6 .F668 2022     Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep
QP 376 .W465 2021   Your Brain on Exercise
     
MEDICINE    
RA 440.3 .A8 H44 2020   Health Promotion in the 21st Century: New Approaches to Achieving Health for All
RA 563 .M56 M28 2022   Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America
RC 394 .C7 S73 2021   The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future
RC 1230 .H46 2022    Doping: A Sporting History
RC 1235 .H88 2021   Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
RT 4 .T63 2022     Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
     
SCHOOL & COLLEGE ATHLETICS    
GV 223 .S48 2019   Strength Coaching in America: A History of the Innovation That Transformed Sport
GV 346 .O84 2019   Sports Crazy: How Sports are Sabotaging American Schools
GV 351 .C56 2019   Big-Time Sports in American Universities
     
PHILOSOPHY & HISTORY OF SPORT    
GV 571 .V35 2021   Games People Play: A Global History of Sport
GV 583 .G6992 2019   The Great American Sports Page
GV 649 .R68 2021   The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia
GV 697 .A1 B568 2021   The Reason We Play: American Sports Figures and What Inspires Them
GV 706 .R44 2019   The Philosophical Athlete; 2nd Ed.
GV 706.4 .L55 2022   Lifestyle Sports and Identities: Subcultural Careers through the Life Course
GV 706.5 .N678 2022    Not playing around: Intersectional identities, media representation, and the power of sport
GV 706.5 .S7357 2021   Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice: Religious, Sociological, Psychological, and Capability Perspectives
GV 708.5 .S68 2022   Sports & Aging: A Prescription for Longevity
GV 742 .S86 2021   Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination
     
SPORTS MANAGEMENT    
GV 733 .S65 2021   The Myth of the Amateur: A History of College Athletic Scholarships
     
WATER SPORTS    
GV 836.4 .C37 2022    Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming
     
BALL GAMES    
GV 862.5 .H47 2019   Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball
GV 863 .A1 S6887 2019   Tumultuous Times in America's Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War Over Free Agency
GV 875 .H58 T38 2021   Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball
GV 875 .N35 N44 2020   The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues: Historians Reappraise Black Baseball
GV 885.513 .M45 2020   The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA
GV 885.5 .S73 2019   Breaking Barriers: A History of Integration in Professional Basketball
GV 938 .C65 2019   How Football Began: A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born
GV 943 .M86 2019   Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game
GV 943.9 .S64 D54 2019   Digital Football Cultures: Fandom, Identities and Resistance
GV 950 .H57 2021   The History of American College Football: Institutional Policy, Culture, and Reform
GV 951 .C78 2021   When the Cheering Stop: Life After the NFL
GV 992 .R88 2021   Tennis: A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals
     

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Interlibrary Loan
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Browse the Collection

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

Library of Congress Classification Guide for Recreation, Leisure and Sports Medicine

GV 1-1860 Recreation, Leisure
GV 181.35-181.6                 Recreation leadership, administration of recreation services
GV 182-182.5 Recreational areas and facilities, recreation centers
GV 191.2-200.66 Outdoor life, outdoor recreation
GV 201-555 Physical education and training
GV 557-1198.995 Sports
GV 711 Coaching
GV 712-725       Athletic contests, sports events
GV 750-770.27 Air sports
GV 770.3-840 Water sports
GV 840.7-857 Winter sports
GV 861-1017    Ball sports
GV 1040-1060.4 Cycling
GV 1060.5-1098    Track and field
GV 1199-1570 Games and amusements
GV 1580-1799.4 Dancing
QM 1-511 Human Anatomy (General)
QP 1-345 Physiology (General) 
RC 1200-1245     Sports Medicine


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