Flanagan (kinesiology, California State U., Northridge) introduces undergraduate kinesiology students and graduate students in athletic training, physical therapy, and chiropractic medicine to human biomechanics. She links concepts to everyday experiences and emphasizes concepts over computation and expressing them physically, mathematically, and graphically. The book is organized into 17 lessons that cover the whole body, joint, and tissue levels of biomechanical analysis, then the integration of the three levels in the context of analyzing movement to improve performance or reduce risk of injury. Basic knowledge of anatomy and algebra is required, and trigonometry and geometry reviews are provided. Online access to practice problems, web links, and other learning tools is included. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)