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RR 2014/113 Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport (3rd ed.) Gertrud Pfister and David Levinson Berkshire Publishing Group Great Barrington, MA 2013 ISBN 978 1 933782 62 1 URL: www.berkshirepublishing.com/ product.aspx?projid = 85 Last visited December 2013 $599 Also available as a 3 vol. printed set (ISBN 978 1 933782 67 6 $499)
Keywords Electronic media, Encyclopedias, Sports
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-12-2013-0325
The third edition of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport is a massive undertaking with the print version published in three volumes and totaling 1,460 pages. According to the back cover there are 80 new entries and coverage of 2014 and 2016 Olympic sports. The e-book version is currently available through MyiLibrary and Berkshire expects it to be available through other e-book providers in the future. The version under review is an Adobe.pdf file. As such, it has certain features from the e-book version, such as color photographs, but does not have a navigational table of contents or index, features that would be active in the e-book version on an e-book vendor platform. For the purposes of this review one would need to find an entry in the table of contents or index and scroll to that entry. The table of contents feature also serves as a navigational tool.
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport is arranged in a traditional encyclopedia format, with an alphabetical list of articles covering virtually every sport in the world from Basketball to Naginata. It also provides content that covers sports more generally, such as Ownership, Nutrition...