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Edited by Krystyna Zaton, Marek Rejman, and Andrzej Klarowicz
Published in 2012 by Wydawnictwo Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego (AWF), Wroclaw, Poland, 230 pages (soft cover), ISBN: 978-83-89156-19-8
If you are a regular and very astute cover-to-cover reader of the International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, you may be wondering whether you read this particular review last year. Worry not. IJARE's editor hasn't completely lost it and begun recycling previous Media Reviews. The fact is that Poland's Wydawnictwo Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego (AWF) has produced its annual Science in Swimming IV volume. The editors were so appreciative of the previous IJARE Media Review (of Science in Swimming III) that they forwarded me their latest work of which this is my review.
In the previous Media Review (Langendorfer, 2012), I offered the opinion that readers of IJARE might be interested in learning more about the scientific swimming studies that were being conducted in Poland. The University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw (i.e., Warsaw) and the Society for the Promotion of Science in Physical Education and in Sport in Poland support an ongoing annual scientific symposium from which selected papers comprise each volume of Science in Swimming. As with the previous volume, because most of the authors are non-native English speakers or writers, their works are translated into English and edited by several academic reviewers, Professors Tadeusz Bober and Robert Keig Stallman (an IJARE Editorial Board member). I find such an annual undertaking to be quite laudatory—and a lot of work! Anyone who has attempted to publish any kind of conference proceedings recognizes immediately the kind of time, effort, and dedication that is required to wrestle papers from presenting authors on a deadline, have them reviewed by another deadline, and finally further wrestle final revisions from the authors prior to getting them into print to meet the final deadline. To do so in one's non-native language is nothing short of remarkable.
This fourth volume of Science in Swimming illustrates a remarkable growth from the third volume just a year earlier. While the third volume was 160 pages, comprised of 15 papers divided into two main chapters, the current fourth volume features 230 pages comprising 20 individual scientific reports partitioned into three main chapter sections.
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