Pete Michalski

This title should have universal appeal for adolescents, who have to negotiate changing relationships with families and friends as they grow into young adulthood. Different chapters focus on how to handle general family disputes, nourish relationships with friends, and get along with siblings. Advice for healthy and safe socializing and recreation outside of the sphere of one's family is also offered. The reader is encouraged to see conflict from different perspectives and treat relationship friction with understanding and openness, making this a valuable resource for youth entering the world on the unsteady legs of adolescence.

This helpful instructional title goes far beyond the simplistic directive "Just look online " that many young researchers may be given when they are assigned school research. With so many resources online, ranging from academically rigorous to sloppy and suspect, the modern young researcher needs to be armed with strategies and tools that will yield the best information and help him or her organize and present that information effectively. In a modern school environment, the digital tools discussed in this book go a long way toward insuring success and excellence.

The contemporary era has been the most revolutionary for women in sports, with more females involved in athletics than ever before, at all age and skill levels, largely due to the push to make school sports inclusive for girls and women. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and historical overview of figure skating. It covers all aspects of participation in the sport and staying safe on the ice. Included are anecdotal and inspirational success stories of figure-skating luminaries, and special attention is paid to recent advances and trends in the sport.