professions

Explores how different community helpers, such as doctors, teachers, firefighters, librarians, mail carriers, veterinarians, dentists, and police officers, performed their duties in the past, and asks readers what they might do in the future.

Presents a compilation of primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, quotes, articles, and charts, that provide information about careers andoccupations in the U.S., covering the labor force, unemployment, earnings and benefits, workers' rights, and other topics.

Offers insider knowledge and tips for consumers on one hundred businesses, professions, and institutions including insurance agencies, real estate brokers, funeral directors, home builders, dentists, financial planners, plumbers, and personal trainers.

This book presents an explanation of various types of careers, describing the tools and skills required for each.

Describes careers as a historian, covering museum curator, conservator, costume designer, tour guide, and more.

Provides information about more than sixty college majors, each with discussion of related occupations, high school subjects, leisure-time activities, skills, and values and personal attributes.

Discusses how to become a part of a mountain rescue team and examines the tools and techniques used by these teams to rescue people during all seasons.

Sixteen-year-old Andrew has never taken his father's advice to focus seriously, and as he prepares to enter the real world, he finds himself wishing he has had more direction in his life.