Sport and Exercise Science

Sport and Exercise Science

Author: Jack W. Berryman

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780252018961

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Sports medicine and the scientific study of exercise, sports, and physical education are enjoying a steady rise in popularity. This volume reveals that a number of current debates concerning the body, physical health, types and degrees of exercise, athletic contest, the use and abuse of aids to performance, and much more, have their roots in the nineteenth century and earlier.


Gerontology and Geriatrics Collections

Gerontology and Geriatrics Collections

Author: Lee Ash

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 113475406X

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An essential resource for any library where research on aging is conducted--a guide to important and unique holdings in the field.


Charles Areskine’s Library

Charles Areskine’s Library

Author: Karen Baston

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9004315381

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In Charles Areskine’s Library, Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate’s private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland. By exploring a surviving manuscript dated 1731that lists a Scottish lawyer’s library, Karen Baston demonstrates that the books Charles Areskine owned, used in practice, and read for pleasure embedded him in the intellectual culture that expanded in early eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine and his fellow advocates emerged as scholarly and sociable gentlemen who led their nation. Lawyers were integral to and integrated with the Scottish society that allowed the Scottish Enlightenment to take root and flourish within Areskine’s lifetime.