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Explore a career with the U.S. Navy's special infantry force, the Marines.

Explores the ways better understanding of human biology and medical testing technology are contributing to making athletes legally better at their respective sports. Discusses the way that science and technology are impacting sports and how to utilize them to make human beings healthier.

Discusses a number of techniques for educators to help students learn.

Emphasizes the use of technology in professional development for educators, providing information on learning aids and workshops that incorporate technology and promote professional development.

Details the efforts of the author who established a soccer clinic for Afghan women to instill them with hope after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, which has since grown allow hundreds of Afghan girls to compete in the Afghanistan Football Federation.

"Kitchen Confidential" meets "Heat" in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the world's best restaurant and the aspiring chefs who toil to make it so exceptional. Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, El Bulli is the laboratory of Ferran Adria, the maverick creator of molecular gastronomy. Behind each of the thirty or more courses that make up a meal at El Bulli is a small army of young cooks who do the work of executing Adria's vision in exchange for nothing more than the chance to learn at his hands. Granted unprecedented access to this guild system, Lisa Abend follows the thirty-five stagiaries of the 2009 season as they struggle to master the grueling hours, cutting-edge techniques, and interpersonal tensions that come with working at the most revered restaurant on earth.

Offers advice to young athletes on how to achieve success in sports while maintaining a balance in other areas of their lives, discussing fitness, nutrition, motivation, health, training, and other topics; and includes a fifty-two week training diary.