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Welcome
from Dr. Louis Grivetti, the project's compiler:
This year, 1996, marks the centennial celebration of the modern Olympic movement. In this spirit of celebration we acknowledge and recognize the names and publications of more than 50,000 historical and contemporary scholars, linked by the thread of a united, common interest in athletics, sport, and recreation.
Athletics, games, leisure pursuits, physical education, play activities, and sports lie at the junction between the humanities, social sciences, and biological-medical sciences. While athletic activities most likely had their origin in military training, it is difficult in modern times to separate each theme: athletics from games, games from leisure pursuits and physical education, physical education from play, play from recreation, or recreation from sports.
During past and present centuries research on human athletics, games, play, recreation, and sports has been conducted by a broad range of scientists, whether dietitians, nutritionists, physiologists, or physicians. Research on these themes also has been conducted by a broad range of scholars representing the humanities and social sciences, whether anthropologists, artists, classicists, dancers, economists, geographers, historians, musicians, psychologists, social theorists, or sociologists.
In this Olympic centennial year we have identified and collected a representative sample of published accounts on athletics, games, leisure, play, and recreation. The references included at this web site represent historical as well as contemporary sources. The bibliographies presented are not inclusive or exhaustive, but may be considered representative, and a "reasonable place to begin" when conducting research on a specific theme. What makes these bibliographical efforts unique is their blend -- sources from the humanities and social sciences, and from the bio-medical sciences.
The University of California, Davis, Department of Nutrition research team offer these bibliographies to you during this centennial year for your reading, educational enjoyment, and use.
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Current Contents:
Journal articles in the biological-medical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Data
base surveyed: 1989-1995;
Mags:
Journal-Magazine articles. Data base surveyed: 1989-1995;
Melvyl:
Books, Dissertations, and Theses in the University of California, and State Library
Systems; and
Medline:
Journal articles in the biological-medical sciences. Data base surveyed: 1966-1995.
1. General: Athlete, Athletic, Athletics, Game, Leisure, Nutrition, Nutritional, Physiological, Physiology, Olympic, Physical Education, Play, Sport, and Recreation;
2. Theme: Antiquity, Century (i.e. 15th-20th), Drugs, Gender, History, Medieval;
3. Sub-Theme: Adolescence, Adolescent, Adult, Alcohol, Amenorrhoea, Anabolic Steroids, Blood Doping, Caffeine, Cigarette, Cocaine, Dietary Supplement, Eating Disorder, Elderly, Endurance, Energy Balance, Ergogenic Aid, Fluid Balance, Growth Hormone, High Elevation, Infancy, Infant, Lactation, Masters Competition, Menstrual Dysfunction, Menstrual Irregularity, Nicotine, Pregnancy, Smoker, Smoking, Smokeless Tobacco, Snuff, Supplements, Teen-Age, Teen-Ager, Tobacco;
4. Athletic, Leisure, Recreational, Sport Activities: Acrobatics,
Aerobics, Aikido, Alpine Skiing, Amusement Park, Archery, Arm Wrestling, Automobile
Racing, Aviation, Badminton, Balance Beam, Ballet, Ballooning, Ballroom Dancing,
Barnstorming, Baseball, Basketball, Biathlon, Bicycle, Billiards, Bingo, Boating, Bobsled,
Body Building, Boxing, Break Dancing, Broad Jump, Bull Riding, Bungee Jumping, Calf
Roping, Camping, Canoe, Card Games, Century Ride, Chess, Chopping Wood, Circuit Training,
Climbing, Crew, Cricket, Cross Country (Running), Cross Country (Skiing), Crew, Cruising
(Ocean), Cycling, Dance (Ethnic), Dance (General), Dance (Historical), Dance (Tap), Darts,
Decathlon, Deep-Water Diving, Deep-Sea Diving, Disco Dancing, Discus, Diving, Downhill
Skiing, Dungeons and Dragons, Eight Hundred Meters (800 Meters), English Football, Epeé,
Equestrian, Fairs, Fencing, Field Hockey, Fifteen Hundred Meters (1,500 Meters), Figure
Skating, Finger Wrestling, Fishing, Five Thousand Meters (5,000 Meters), Floor Exercise,
Flying, Foil (Fencing), Football (American), Football (Soccer), Four Hundred Meters (400
Meters) Free Diving, Free Exercise, Gambling, Gardening, Gaelic Football, Go-Kart, Golf,
Graffiti-Tagging, Gymnastics, Half-Marathon, Hammer Throw, Handball, Hang Gliding,
Heptathlon, High Bar, High Jump, Highland Games, Hiking, Hip-Hop Dancing, Hockey,
Home-related Activities, Horseshoes, Hot Air Ballooning, Hunting, Hurdles, Ice Hockey, Ice
Skating, Indian Club, In-Line Skating, Javelin, Jet-Ski, Judo, Juggling, Jump Rope, Kayak,
Karate, Kendo, Kick Boxing, Kite Flying, Lacrosse, Logging, Long Distance Running, Long
Jump, Luge, Lumberjack Competition, Mall Walking, Marathon, Marathon Dancing, Marbles,
Martial Arts, Middle Distance Running, Mile Run, Motorbike Racing, Motorcycle Racing,
Motor Scooter, Mountain Climbing, Mud Wrestling, Music (General), Music (Instrumental),
Nordic Combine, Off-Road Racing, Off-Road Vehicles, One Hundred Meters (100 Meters), One
Thousand Meters (1,000 Meters), Orienteering, Parallel Bars, Parasailing, Pentathlon,
Performing Arts, Ping Pong, Platform Diving, Play, Playground Related, Pole Vault, Pommel
Horse, Pool, Power Lifting, Quoits, Race Walking, Racquetball, Rafting, Recreation
(General), Recreation (Miscellaneous), Rings, Rock Climbing, Rodeo, Roller Coaster, Roller
Skating, Rowing, Rugby, Running (General), Running (Middle Distance), Running (Long
Distance), Running (Ultra), Saber (Sabre), Sailing, Scuba Diving, Sculling, Shot-put,
Singing, Skateboarding, Skating, Skiing, Ski Jump, Sky Diving, Sky Surfing, Slalom,
Sledding, Snooker, Snow boarding, Snowmobile, Snow Surfing, Soccer (Football), Softball,
Speed Skating, Spelunking, Sport Camps, Sprints, Squash, Stair-climbing, Surf- Board,
Surfing, Swimming, Sword-Swallowing, Synchronized Swimming, Taekwondo, Tagging-Graffiti,
Tai Chi, Target Practice, Television (General), Ten Thousand Meters (10,000 Meters),
Tennis, Track and Field, Trekking, Triathlon, Triple Jump, Tumbling, Two Hundred Meters
(200 Meters), Ultra- Endurance Event, Uneven Parallel Bars, Vault, Video Games,
Volleyball, Walking, Wall Climbing, Water Polo, Water Skiing, Weight Lifting, White- Water
Rafting, Wind Surfing, and Wrestling.
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Compiler:
Louis Grivetti, Ph.D.
DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Davis, CA 95616
FAX: (916) 752-8966
e-mail: legrivetti@ucdavis.edu
Graduate Research Assistants:
Susan Harvey, Virginia Bennett
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Roberto Cardarelli, Mary Daugherty, Alison Kirschner, Keókani Marciel
Cheryl Morgan, Shawa Moataz, Susan Napierala, Joseph Vu
visits since April 30, 1998