Research Guides: Kinesiology: Find E-books

E-book databases

R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The R2 Digital Library from Rittenhouse is a web-based e-book platform that aggregates book content from key health science publishers. Cook Library has access to over 600 titles in the R2 Digital Library's Nursing, Allied Health, and Exercise Science collections.

Try searching "exercise science" or "athletic training" or "physical education" or "sports management" (in quotation marks) in either the e-Book Collection from Ebsco or ebrary Academic Complete to find full text electronic books. You might also want to limit the publication date range to find the most recent books available. Includes titles like Fundamental Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, Psychosocial Strategies for Athletic Training, Issues in Teaching Series : Issues in Physical Education, and Human Resource Management in the Sport and Leisure Industry,

EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Provides a collection of over 210,000 electronic books, including reference books.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary e-book database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection includes more than 150,000 titles from more than 220 academic, STM, and professional publishers. Towson University's Ebook Central collection also includes 8 separate databases in business, marketing and economics; humanities; life and physical science; medical sciences; computers and information technology; engineering and technology; social and behavioral sciences; education; and reference and maps. In order to download books for offline viewing, you will need Adobe Digital Editions. This collection of ebooks used to be hosted on Ebrary and EBL.

Below is a sample of some of the books available online from the ebook providers.

Sport and Neoliberalism by David L. Andrews & Michael L. Silk (Editors)
A Companion to Sport by David L. Andrews & Ben Carrington (Editors)
Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport by Victoria Robinson
Playing with the Boys by Eileen L. McDonagh; Laura Pappano
In this informative, well-written book, McDonagh) and Pappano offer relevant information critical to understanding the role of gender in sport...Discussions of participation versus competition and the social construction of sports are timely, relevant, and important, particularly regarding current institutional barriers and how they must be broken if women are to enjoy the equality in sport and leisure activities for which they have struggled.
CHOICE, 2008
Sport Gender and Power the Rise of Roller Derby by Adele Pavlidis; Simone Fullagar; Meredith Jones (Series edited by)
Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space, this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation, belonging and embodied contest, in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently, embrace pain and overcome limits.
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