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Product Description: These provocative volumes introduce readers to some intriguing fields within the sports industry, including finance, law, media, scouting, refereeing, and facility operations. Each book thoroughly explains the career area, emphasizing job prerequisites and qualifications, duties and responsibilities, work environment, job advancement, and future job prospects...read more

Product Description: Engaging and informative, these volumes tackle the drugs commonly abused by teens and describe in detail what they can do to the body, mind, spirit, and family. Young adults read about the grim reality of drug abuse; for example, they discover the frightening development since the late 2000s about the return of heroin use that has law enforcement, educators, and health care professionals concerned and the troubling rise in heroin deaths...read more

Product Description: Identifies reasons why people choose to use steroids, describes the effects of their use on the body and brain, and discusses their prevalence in the world of sports.

Product Description: Explains what cloud computing is, where it happens, and how it has revolutionized the way companies do business.

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Product Description: The United States has the most guns per capita of any country in the world. Many Americans value the right to bear arms, which they believe is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Others believe that the Second Amendment only guarantees the right for organized militias to own guns...read more