Our Last Best Shot presents the personal stories of twelve girls and boys from across America. Their stories, and Laura Sessions Stepp's extensive research, provide real insight for parents trying to raise well-adjusted children in this difficult age. Filled with wisdom and common sense, based on cutting-edge research, and featuring an invaluable resource list, this is a book that parents and educators cannot afford to be without.

In this practical guide to vaccination of infants for parents, the authors cover such topics as vaccine ingredients, how vaccines work, what can happen when populations don't vaccinate their children, and the controversies surrounding supposed links to autism, allergies, and asthma.

Four friends in middle school face challenges both on and off the basketball court with issues that affect their families, friendships, school, and sports.

Our Last Best Shot presents the personal stories of twelve girls and boys from across America. Their stories, and Laura Sessions Stepp's extensive research, provide real insight for parents trying to raise well-adjusted children in this difficult age. Filled with wisdom and common sense, based on cutting-edge research, and featuring an invaluable resource list, this is a book that parents and educators cannot afford to be without.

Are you ready? Ken Futch is about to turn a bullet in his head into a shot in your arm. With a remarkable ability to extract the moral from every story, he makes you think, chuckleand take notes. Youll never see your world in the same way again. Kens background prepared him well to be one of Americas most applauded motivational trainers. Its said the best teachers draw on their failures, he says, so Im uniquely qualified. Ive had a bunch of them. More than once hes watched his best-laid plans backfire, leaving him bleeding, bruised, or beaten up but wiser for the experience. Each painful situation turns into a life lesson told with insight and humor. Here are just a few things youll discover in Take Your Best Shot : · Which battlefield lessons can save your career;· How to set your sights on the money shot;· When to pull the trigger to maximize a situation;· Why complaining about bad times might misfire;· How to focus on your feedback thermostat;· How to ricochet a minor opportunity into a major success.Ken Futch gives you all the ammunition you need to make significant changes in your life and career right now. Read any chapter and youll come away with a load of ideas that will aim you toward the top every time you take your best shot.

It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that -- for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four of the neighborhood's most promising players. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, The Last Shot introduces us to unforgettable characters and takes us into their world with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism. The result is a startling and poignant expose of inner-city life and the big business of college basketball.