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Cruise liners, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and oil tankers are some of the massive watercraft breaking records and keeping the world economy moving and safe. This fascinating resource provides snapshots of innovative and impressive ships of the future, using these awe-inspiring vessels as an introduction to basic engineering principles. A dynamic overview of present and future seagoing giants also tackles the green and energy-efficient innovations that will make the coming century particularly important. Students will marvel at these cutting-edge craft while absorbing valuable STEM lessons.

The modern skylines of major cities around the globe are both majestic and awe-inspiring. Since the turn of the century, ever more impressive and innovative skyscrapers have been built. This resource features the tallest and most famous buildings standing, and inspires young aspiring architects and engineers to dream of ever taller buildings. The sky''s the limit for readers, who will gain valuable insights into engineering basics while their imaginations are stirred by images and descriptions of these architectural giants from all over the world.

This title discusses the terrible physical and mental consequences of prescription drug abuse and addiction, especially to the developing bodies and minds of teens. Written for middle school students, the text is vividly descriptive yet scientific-minded, discussing prescription drugs in physiological and cultural contexts. Graphic and disgusting images catch the attention of young readers, hammering home the very real dangers of prescription drug abuse.

Hamid Karzai was the president of Afghanistan. This biography gives an authoritative and balanced account of this man who is the first post-Taliban leader of his country. Written in an engaging yet journalistic style, readers will learn about not only Karzai and his country, but the delicate dynamics of the Middle East today.

Whether building a skyscraper, constructing a bridge, or digging deep under the ground, construction workers face extreme and potentially dangerous circumstances every day. This volume describes and explores the demands, challenges, and rewards of this hands-on line of work.

Islam is one of the world’s fastest growing religions. Many non-Muslims, however, may know little about it. It is the world’s second largest faith after Christianity and has made an invaluable contribution to the sciences, art, culture, and politics in both the Islamic world and the West. Muslims around the world—from countries like Indonesia, Iran, and Algeria, to American cities places like New York City, Dearborn, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio—are an amazingly diverse group. Like the many different faith groups within Christianity and Judaism, Muslims worship in many ways. Some are very devout, while others are more secular. In this book, you will meet members of a worldwide Islamic community. At the same time, you will see them struggle to fit in with their non-Muslim neighbors, while negotiating the jagged lines running among fundamentalism, moderation, and secular life.

Beginning to rap at the age of 9, Ludacris (born Christopher Brian Bridges) drew on a wide range of musical influences supplied by his father, who steeped his son in many genres of popular music. Soon he was recording boisterous and madcap rap albums, each of which went double or triple platinum. He has sold 13 million records and is tied for second in the category of solo rapper with the most Billboard Hot 100 Number One Hits. Not content to confine himself to music, Ludacris has also appeared in several high profile, popular, and critically successful films. Despite run-ins with media giants Oprah Winfrey and Bill O’Reilly over the content of his lyrics, Ludacris is generally regarded as a genial and light-hearted rap superstar, one whose range of talents are only beginning to be revealed to an increasingly enthusiastic public.

Delaware may be almost last in size amongst the 50 American states, yet in many ways it is indeed the "First State," as its motto declares. Casting one of the decisive votes in favor of the Declaration of Independence, and the very first state to sign the Constitution, Delaware has long led the nation into the future, a role it continues to play. It has been at the forefront of many important developments in American society such as desegregation, the growth of big business and financial services, technological innovation, and scientific breakthroughs. Delaware is not only the little state that could; it is the little state that did and continues to do. This book presents its fascinating and inspiring story.

Graphic organizers are an important tool in both school and business for visual learning and information processing. They are no longer confined to posters, flip pads, or the pages of reports. Graphic organizers have gone digital. Now diagrams, charts, and other "mind maps" can be generated, posted, viewed, interpreted, and presented on computer. This means that they can be used on one''s website, inserted into a multimedia presentation, and revised or updated with new information on a daily basis. This book is an essential guide for students in how to design, create, and use digital graphic organizers, from the most basic to the more complex and sophisticated. This book gives readers an edge in mastering and using these invaluable tools effectively. Graphic organizers covered in detail here include timelines, pie charts, step-by-step charts, Venn diagrams, flow charts, and KWHL charts.

There are certain computer skills that are both essential to employability and incredibly useful in everyday life. The ability to construct, use, and interpret spreadsheets is one of these skills. Familiarity with spreadsheet programs is an increasingly obligatory prerequisite for any office job, as is the creation, maintenance, and effective interpretation of spreadsheets and their data. Spreadsheets are an essential professional and academic asset and a useful personal tool. This book tells readers everything they need to know to get started creating spreadsheets for various tasks and utilities; plugging in relevant data; maintaining, updating, and revising the spreadsheet; and drawing accurate conclusions from the processed data. With step-by-step instructions for various standard tasks, this book makes working with spreadsheets both fun and easy.

How horrific will things get if we face a global food shortage? This riveting narrative explains the current state of our food supplies and where we’re headed. Readers will learn how our actions have created our challenges, and how proactive solutions will remedy them.

A superb guide to safe, ethical, and enjoyable waterfowl hunting, this book covers everything a young hunter needs to know—from what to wear and pack to shooting strategies and the construction of duck blinds. Strongly emphasizing gun safety and adherence to state and federal regulations throughout, readers are provided with information about gun safety courses, the necessary hunting permits and licenses, and other laws relating to hunting limits, seasons, and private and public property. The ethics of hunting are emphasized, including a discussion of how to hunt in a humane and sustainable way. The book is full of practical pointers concerning hunt planning, optimum waterfowl hunting weather and habitats, foul weather gear, first-aid kits, the setting of decoys and construction and use of duck blinds, bird calls, and other inside tips that are the equivalent to a lifetime''s worth of wisdom acquired by a veteran hunter.

Chemistry is often a daunting subject for students, fostering a bewilderment that sets in upon their first encounter with the Periodic Table. This book demystifies an important aspect of the subject—chemical reactions—and demonstrates exactly how fascinating and fun chemistry can be. Starting out by explaining just what a chemical reaction is—and what it isn''t—the book details in accessible language the various kinds of chemical reactions that are possible. It draws upon readily comprehensible everyday examples, like rusting metal, baking bread, battery power, digestion, rotting eggs, and burning candles. The book then turns to a survey of the history of chemical research, beginning in the Ancient and Classical Worlds, progressing to the Medieval alchemists and Renaissance innovators, and ending with the leading lights of modern chemistry. Readers will be introduced to luminaries such as Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Louis Pasteur, Dmitri Mendeleyev, the Curies, and Ernest Rutherford. It concludes with an inspiring examination of how current research and cutting edge developments are using chemistry and chemical reactions to save lives and insure continued life on Earth. This book amply illustrates the accessibility, relevance, and gee-whiz fun of chemical reactions.

Foursquare and other, similar location-based services are no longer merely sophisticated toys that allow users to broadcast their location, but have transformed into real marketing opportunities. Foursquare can also be an important way for teens and parents to always be in contact and aware of each other''s present location. This book introduces readers to all the surprising things that location-based services allow users to do, as well as some of the dangers and pitfalls associated with the technology that should be avoided.

It has become almost impossible to imagine a world without Google, the most popular and powerful Internet search engine that as revolutionized the way we seek and locate information. This book seeks to show students how to get the most out of Google—with its search engine, maps, videos, news, docs, and email features—when working on school projects, research papers, and multimedia presentations. Google helps users navigate through this bewildering universe of knowledge, but this book will provide readers with a greater degree of guidance, showing them how to harness Google''s various abilities to locate exactly what they''re looking for. Discussions of online netiquette—including the avoidance of cyberbullying, plagiarism, and inappropriate content—round out the discussion.

Readers get a view behind the gilded doors which will reveal the inner workings of pyramid and Ponzi schemes, telemarketing scams, identity theft, creative accounting, phishing, and other large-scale frauds and scams that impact not only big money investors but cost ordinary working citizens as well. Intriguing historical and current examples of institutional ruinous shell games include Madoff, WorldCom, Enron, and Jon Corzine''s MF Global. Most importantly, this book also offers readers expert advice on how to avoid some of the more common frauds perpetrated on consumers and individual investors. A fascinating account of billionaire crooks and their con games, a sobering account of bankrupt victims, and a cautionary tale for all ordinary consumers and investors bring reality to this array of scams. This book captures the full folly, danger, and tragedy of financial frauds and scams. Readers will be fully engaged and encouraged to participate in discussion with 10 Great Questions to Ask an Economics or Finance Teacher and Myths and Facts sections.

Started in Chicago, Illinois, Groupon has expanded to dozens of cities all around the world and has become an Internet sensation. Mason’s billion-dollar idea has revolutionized e-commerce. Groupon has taken the good and the bad in stride, using setbacks, challenges, and competition to learn valuable lessons and improve its strategies for continued growth and worldwide expansion. It has revolutionized the ways in which we interact with our local economy, including our neighborhood businesses and merchants. This is the remarkable story of Andrew Mason and his billion dollar idea that is saving consumers around the world billions of their own dollars while providing a boost to recession-challenged local businesses. This volume includes Fact Sheets on Mason and Groupon, as well as an informative timeline.

Hunting is an enriching outdoor activity that can draw one closer to nature and its rhythms and be a great bonding experience with friends and family. Yet, given that guns are involved, it is potentially dangerous and great care must be taken to avoid danger on the hunt. This book lays out all the potential hazards and most common mistakes and accidents, while also spelling out exactly what steps to take and preparations to make to insure a safe and successful hunt. This book covers all the bases so that its readers will too, giving them the tools and knowledge they need to enjoy a long life full of transformative experiences in the wilderness.

This informed and easy-to-follow volume defines and describes debt and default and how they affect the average person and his or her family. Causes and effects of different kinds of debt are explored, as well as the consequences, such as bankruptcy. Other topics that are discussed include the U.S. national debt debate, paying off interest, the debt ceiling, government shutdowns, and the European debt crisis. The economic crises confronting U.S. states and cities are also examined, along with the effects on emergency and essential services and education. Students learn about the emotional and physical tolls debt and bankruptcy can take on families. Readers also investigate ways to attack the symptoms of debt, reset priorities, learn about financial planning, and help to positively influence their family and community’s futures.

Teens who are handy have many opportunities to earn money, whether being their own bosses or earning wages at a local business, they can pick and choose the path that suits them best. Gaining experience through physical labor opens up a world of opportunity for those with the patience and talent to pursue such work. Readers learn that earning money doing handy jobs is a great way to develop skills, problem-solving abilities, and discipline. With this accessible volume, teens discover practical ways to manage time and money, whether self-employed or as an employee, how to acquire valuable experience and skills, and how to get the satisfaction of earning their own money. It also provides tips, such as knowing the local labor laws that affect them, how to network and advertise, and how to perfect their job seeking and interviewing skills.

Building maintenance workers are engaged in operating and maintaining computerized power plant systems, and light plumbing and electrical work in various types of buildings. This valuable guide instructs readers in how to parlay their handyman skills into a stable, secure, varied, and never boring career in a variety of buildings and institutions. The skills required for each specialty and type of building are presented, and proven job search and interview strategies are shared. Invaluable advice concerning workplace dynamics and etiquette, interactions with the public, relations with bosses and coworkers, and employee benefits is offered. This is an eye-opening look at all of the great employment possibilities available behind the scenes of nearly every building we pass every day.

James Dashner has earned praise from readers and critics for his intricate plots and sympathetic characters who are challenged by extraordinary situations in fantastical surroundings. This biography reveals Dashner''s story: His birth in Austell, Georgia, his days as an accounting student at Brigham Young University, and his creation of the Jimmy Fincher saga, The 13th Reality series, and The Maze Runner, among other YA fantasy novels. The narrative describes Dashner''s writing technique and his advice to aspiring young authors. Sidebars focus on his writing process. For easy reference, there are sidebars on his life, works, and critical reviews, plus a detailed timeline.

One of the largest empires the world has ever known, the Empire of Mali flourished in West Africa from 1235 CE until 1464. The empire remains well known for its wealth and significant cultural influence, still felt hundreds of years later, both in modern Mali and its neighbors. The language, laws, and customs of the Empire of Mali spread throughout West Africa and along the Niger River, creating an enduring legacy that continues to influence and characterize the region. The empire''s rich history, enthralling folklore, transporting art and music, enduring cultural and political influence, and modern-day legacy are all presented here in vivid color and dynamic presentation, with a treasure trove of full-cover photographs, maps, illustrations, and artwork. Among other standards, this text supports Common Core''s mandate regarding analyzing the relationship between primary and secondary sources, citing evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, and determining the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source.

There is currently a heroin epidemic afflicting North America, and it is not confined only to urban areas or to older, seasoned drug addicts. The latest epidemic has swamped suburban and rural areas and drawn many teens into its deadly wake. The drug can take over the lives of even first-time or casual users. Addiction makes slaves of heroin users and often leads to a life of sickness, crime, and regret. Addicts risk sacrificing everything they cherish in their lives for the drug, receiving jail time for drug-related offenses, and losing their own lives in the process. Discovering how the drug destroys the brain and body of a user, and how addiction devastates the lives it touches, can help one make the decision to avoid heroin at all costs. That is exactly what the information presented here achieves--readers will come away shaken, with a new and stark understanding of heroin''s true toxicity and its utterly false and destructive allure.

The gun rights issue has been among the most contentious debates since the founding of the United States. This instructive volume offers close but comprehensible readings of the Second Amendment set against the backdrop of fluctuating social and political contexts. Additionally, it documents the evolution of arguments for and against "the right to bear arms." Readers will understand why this provocative issue has continued to rage in the courts and among politicians through the years and may do so for years to come.

Chemist Isaac Asimov was acclaimed for his fiction and nonfiction writing. As a Russian Jewish immigrant, Asimov told stories from an early age. Among the most celebrated is his Foundation Trilogy, which earned numerous awards and led him to become one of the most widely respected authors of the twentieth century. He expanded on some of his early ideas in novels and stories, including his beloved Robot novels. Asimov made science accessible and entertaining for everyone and is credited with popularizing "hard science fiction," which attempts a realistic imagining of humans using science and technology within imaginary worlds and universes.