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Getting Physical:  The Rise of Fitness Culture in America By Shelly McKenzie   Call Number:  GV 510.U5 M45 2013 Publisher's Description :  From Charles Atlas to Jane Fonda, the fitness movement has been a driving force in American culture for more than half a century. What started as a means of Cold War preparedness now sees 45 million Americans spend more than $20 billion a year on gym memberships, running shoes, and other fitness-related products. In this first book on the modern history of exercise in America, Shelly McKenzie chronicles the governmental, scientific, commercial, and cultural forces that united—sometimes unintentionally—to make exercise an all-American habit. She tracks the development of a new industry that gentrified exercise and made the pursuit of fitness the hallmark of a middle-class lifestyle. Along the way she scrutinizes a number of widely held beliefs about Americans and their exercise routines, such as the link between diet and exe...

The University Library is pleased to announce that Troy Espe is the new Instructional Materials Center (IMC) assistant. Troy will coordinate the daily operations of the IMC as well as assist patrons using this area.  He will provide support for various library projects, including streaming videos, ebooks, digitization, and graphic creation. Troy was previously the building manager at Steenbock Library at UW-Madison. He attended college at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a degree in journalism, and he recently graduated from UW-Madison with a Master of Arts degree in Library and Information Studies. He and his wife, Megan, enjoy the outdoors. Troy can be reached at his office, Room 319, ext. 4246, or tespe@uwsp.edu.

The Library has upgraded to Ebsco's Academic Search Complete . Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with full-text for more than 9,000 periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing for more than 13,000 journals.  Dates of Coverage: 1887-present Updated : Daily Coverage of Subjects : archaeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and other fields. Access : Available through the Library's Homepage   (click on Search@UW tab, or click on "Databases by Subject" link) How do I access through my mobile device or add it as an app? EBSCOhost Databases -- Mobile Default search is  Academic Search Complete  or select "Choose Databases" to search other EBSCO products. Supported devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Bla...

Check out our new look and the new books recently added to the Library's Leisure Reading collection in the Main Lobby! An Invisible Thread:   the true story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny By Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski Review from Publisher's Weekly Publisher's Description :  Stopping was never part of the plan . . . She was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades. Whatever made me notice him on that street corner so many years ago is clearly something that cannot be extinguished, no matter how relentless the forces aligned against it. Some ...