This textbook by Lusha Xiang and Robert Hester represents a much-needed contribution to our existing store of knowledge. Xiang and Hester’s work is extremely thorough, effectively blending established knowledge with novel discoveries over the last few years, and with excellent applications to disease states where the coupling of cardiovascular responses to either exercise, elevated metabolic demand, or simply muscle contraction can be significantly deranged.
The work is very well and clearly written, easily understood by an audience with a wide array of experiences and would be extremely beneficial to multiple curricula and independent learning efforts. The illustrations are very clear and well-integrated with the body text, and the information is extremely well referenced.
This strikes me as an excellent reference text for the integrated understanding of how the cardiovascular system responds, at multiple levels, to exercise and metabolic challenge. The authors are to be commended for this work.
<i>Jefferson C. Frisbee, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, Ontario