This beginners' guide to ice skating includes chapters on the first time on ice, ice safety, skating backward, curving, circles, figure skating, and other techniques.
Describes the widespread use of anabolic steroids, brake drugs, amphetamines, cocaine, and marijuana by athletes and discusses what the sports world has done to cope with drug abuse.
Describes the development of such tools and procedures of modern medicine as the stethoscope, X-ray, laser beam, trachea tube, operating room procedures, and others.
Examines the physical, emotional, and social effects of the Vietnamese War on those who survived it, both the veterans and the refugees who came to America.