Sweat : a history of exercise
Book |
Bloomsbury,
London :
2022.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
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| Niagara-on-the-Lake | 0500 HAY | Adult Health & Wellness | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
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"Hayes ties his own personal experience--and ours--to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, giving us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 1620402289
- ISBN: 9781620402283
- Physical Description: 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm.print
- Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2022.
- Formatted Contents Note: Plunge -- Finding mercuriale -- Gym rats -- No athlete -- A boxer's diary -- Library rats -- A duel -- On the nature of running -- Mercuriale in Kansas -- The art of swimming -- Inside the archive -- A refutation of those who think everyone should exercise -- The rest principle -- Esercizio a Roma -- A physical education -- A practice -- The proof -- The seventies -- The men in the mirrors -- A break -- On the road to Olympia.