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The Olympics is the world’s greatest athletic event. Men and women run, swim, dive, lift, vault, serve, swing, kick and play against one another until a champion is crowned, in sport after sport. But what separates each champion from his or her competitors, who are all elite athletes themselves?
To answer that and many other questions, Scientific American is introducing its first eBook, The Science of Sports: Winning in the Olympics. It has more than 30 chapters organized into eight sections that reveal the science—and some scandal—behind athletic achievement. It explores the psychology of what’s going on inside a champion’s mind during training and competition, explains cutting edge therapies that can prevent and repair injuries, reveals the genes, hormones and brain structures that allow certain individuals to push human limits, and looks at the cat-and-mouse games that are sometimes played between athletes who are trying to cheat with drugs and officials who are trying to catch them. The eBook also presents a final section of advice—for all of us—on how to be fit and healthy. Having organized the book, I can say that some of the insights in that section alone were surprising.
The eBook is available in a variety of formats, including those for the Kindle from Amazon, the iBook from Apple, the Nook from Barnes & Noble, and the Reader from Sony. Let us know what you think. And if you have an idea for another eBook, tell us that, too; hearing from the world’s science enthusiasts makes us a better team.
About the Author: Mark Fischetti is a senior editor at Scientific American who covers energy, environment and sustainability issues. Follow on Twitter @markfischetti.
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I am interested, but you provide no link for the Nook edition and a search of Barnes and Noble gives nil results.
Link to thisAmazon tells me that the book is “Not currently available” but that it was published on July 13th.
Link to thisRacing is an indulgence of immature shallow minds.
Link to thisTrent1492, surprises aplenty…a few of the sites were a bit slow to finalize, but the Nook edition is live now and all the links (above) seem to be working. Thanks for your interest!
Link to thisI live in South Korea and my Kindle is registered for Canada, if that matters. Whatever the case, the book is still (Morning of July 18 in Korea) “Not currently available”.
Link to thisKindle link works. Also of interest is Jon Entine’s Taboo:
Link to thishttp://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Athletes-Dominate-Sports-Afraid/dp/158648026X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342582861&sr=1-1&keywords=Taboo+Jon+Entine
Again, perhaps it is my location, but the Kindle link does not work for me. Boy, after all this complaining, I guess I have to buy it when it becomes available!
Link to thisBought it. This will go will with the extra $$ I am spending for viewing on the T.V.
Link to thisNo dispute that the kindle link works! Of course it does. It takes one to the Amazon page for the book, but then it says that the book is not currently available. Doesn’t give pricing information either! Disappointing. Is this an amazon problem? Or a UK reader problem?
Link to thisHmm. UK readers not able to buy from amazon.com. Tried to find the book on amazon.co.uk and it is not there. Head >> Wall
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