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Book review
Endurance in sport, 2nd edn.
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Edited by R J Shephard, P O Astrand. Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2000, £85.00, pp 987. ISBN 0632053488
Generally when faced with encyclopaedic texts, I become fearful of superficial coverage of a wide variety of subjects with which I soon lose interest. Happily I can report that this volume, of almost 1000 pages, maintained my interest in chapters about which I had some knowledge and stimulated interest in areas about which I knew little.
As may be expected, the range of subjects is enormous and can best be described as falling into the following areas which are, indeed, …