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Offers clear, well-illustrated explanation of the structural and functional changes associated with disease, the clinical manifestations of disease, and how to determine treatment.
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Prepare students for a career in Sport Management with this foundational text.
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Widely used and revered text offers a broad introduction Community & Public Health.
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Provides a modern look at the health of women of all cultures, races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexual orientations.
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Engage readers through personal accounts of drug use, misuse, and abuse.
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Equips readers to identify and manage their stress, reduce anxiety, and develop personal resiliency.
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Health, Fitness, & Sport Educational Resources
Jones & Bartlett Learning Offers a Wide Array of Textbooks and Resources for Health, Fitness, and Sport Programs Span Degree Disciplines
Disciplines including Personal Health & Wellness, Community Health & Planning & Promotion, Recreation & Leisure, Physical Education (teaching K12), Kinesiology & Exercise Science, Sport Management, and Athletic Training to individual courses in Stress Management, Women's Health, Drugs and Society, Human Disease and more. Additionally, Jones & Bartlett Learning supports instructors with the ancillaries and tools required to teach the foundational knowledge and skills students will need for careers as fitness and wellness professionals, health educators, sport managers, physical educators, drug addiction counselors, athletic trainers, and other occupations.
For majors in Personal Health & Wellness or Fitness, Jones & Bartlett Learning has a noteworthy collection of titles features many top sellers, including Health and Wellness by Edlin and Golanty; Alters and Shiff Essential Concepts for Health Living by Housman and Odum; Fit to Be Well by Thygerson; Physical Activity & Health by Kotecki. Community Health/Planning/Promotion majors benefit from JBL titles like McKenzie’s An Introduction to Community and Public Health by Seabert; Community and Public Health Education Methods by Bensley; Principles of Health Education and Promotion by Cottrell; or Planning, Implementing, & Evaluating Health Promotion Programs by McKenzie. While in Recreation & Leisure, learn the fundamentals with Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society by Hurd.
Finally, for programs in Physical Education, Jones & Bartlett Learning offers titles that focus on administration, teaching social and emotional learning, infusing self-advocacy into PE, conducting qualitative research, motor learning and development, and coaching.
Pivoting to standalone course Health & Wellness offerings, Jones & Bartlett Learning titles include New Dimensions in Women’s Health by Alexander; Managing Stress by Seaward; Crowley's An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations by Reisner; Drugs and Society by Hanson; and Becoming an Addictions Counselor by Myers.
Within the Sport Management major, choose Jones & Bartlett Learning market-leading introductory title Principles and Practice of Sport Management, by Masteralexis and Mary Hums, or move across the curriculum to sport facility and event management with Aicher’s Sport Facility and Event Management, or sport marketing with Bruton’s Sports Marketing: The View of Industry Experts, or sports business with Rosner’s The Business of Sports, or sports law with Miller’s Legal Aspects of Sports Law, or sport ethics with Champion’s Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals, or sport leadership with Burton’s Sport Leadership in the 21st Century, and more.
For Kinesiology & Exercise Science programs, Jones & Bartlett Learning titles teach basic concepts related to muscles and anatomical movement—such as Foundations of Kinesiology by Oglesby and Anatomical Kinesiology by Gross—to more advanced topics like sport psychology with Rhodes’s Psychology of Physical Activity, exercise physiology with Boone’s Introduction to Exercise Physiology, biomechanics with McLester’s Applied Biomechanics: Concepts and Connections, to exercise evaluation with Leutholtz’s Exercise Prescription for Special Populations: Chronic Diseases, Unique Populations, and Challenging Diagnoses, kinesiology measurement with Baumgartner’s Measurement for Evaluation in Kinesiology, to motor development with Goodway’s Understanding Motor Development: Infants, Children, Adolescents, Adult, research in kinesiology with Baumgartner’s Conducting and Reading Research in Kinesiology, and strength conditioning with Peterson’s A Practical Guide to Personal Conditioning.
In Athletic Training, introduce the profession with Pfeiffer and Mangus’s Concepts of Athletic Training by Trowbridge and Ferris. Or expound upon AT masters-level concepts and equip athletic training students to become successful practitioners via coverage in musculoskeletal care and assessment, with Kutz’s Musculoskeletal Assessment in Athletic Training and Therapy and AAOS Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care, or in leadership/management, with Kutz’s Leadership and Management in Athletic Training.