When Kathleen Haywood and coauthor Nancy Getchell planned to travel to Champaign, Illinois, for the video and photo shoot of the sixth edition of Life Span Motor Development last February, they didn’t plan on Kathie’s shoulder pain preventing her from driving from St. Louis. Nor did they count on winter weather keeping Nancy’s flight from the East Coast in doubt until the final hours.
The kinesiology field has lost one of its inaugural leaders.
Jack Wilmore, co-author of Physiology of Sport and Exercise, died at the age of 76 on November 17th in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Jack helped lead the profession of physical education into the diverse and highly specialized sport and exercise sciences making up the field of kinesiology. Jack helped re-engineer higher education as more universities developed degrees in the kinesiology fields and professions.
These are the products that were released and offered for sale between January 1, 2014, and March 31, 2014. Clicking on a product title will take you to more information on the HK website.
One of the many joys of publishing is building relationships with our authors and sharing in their career success. I was reminded of our authors’ many successes recently when the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN) announced the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
The first question our staff asks during an acquisitions meeting is this: Does this book make a contribution? That question comes before we ask if the project will be profitable, and it’s followed by many related questions:
Does it compete with an existing Human Kinetics title?
Will it increase the knowledge in existing resources?
Is the author a highly regarded expert on the topic?
Will it enhance our publishing credibility?
Answering those questions has been part of our
In November, Human Kinetics staff celebrated the career of Yvonne Griffith, who retired after 30 years of service. It is humbling to think about Yvonne’s commitment to HK across a span of time when the company grew from a small print publisher with a handful of employees in Champaign, Illinois, to an international information company with nearly 300 employees around the world.
Yvonne’s career exemplifies a major trait of our corporate culture: change. Our staff like to use
Human Kinetics has been selling books in China for more than 15 years. Since that time we’ve worked hard to make our content available to the Chinese people.
KinesWorld
Five years ago, we reached an agreement with a former HK employee, Enyi Cai, to represent us as our distributor for China under the name KinesWorld. KinesWorld has been successful in building our institutional, journal, and e-book sales. Operating as Human Kinetics China, KinesWorld has sold at least $25,000 in products
Throughout the fall, HK technology staff members have been hard at work upgrading the platform that delivers our website. We’ve also begun a major hardware replacement to the storage systems where our files and data live.
Many people wonder why we undertake these types of initiatives, given the months of planning, development, quality testing, and implementing required before we can make the changes live. For our website and storage projects, the reasons are very different.
New
Throughout our 40-year history, HK has provided a higher level of editorial assistance to you, our authors, than many other publishers offer. While some publishers focus primarily on copyediting and production management, HK provides authors with developmental editing by in-house staff who are experts in the publishing process and in many of our subject areas. HK’s developmental editors (DEs) have an average of 13 years of editorial experience!
We at Human Kinetics will mark our 40th year in business on April 1, 2014, but we’re not waiting until then to start celebrating this accomplishment. Employees have been working for months to brainstorm, plan, and coordinate events to celebrate the 40-year journey leading up to this auspicious day.
“We thought it deserved to be celebrated for more than one day,” said Kim Scott, anniversary committee member and association management director. Scott said other employees and
