StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Fifth Edition, assists lifeguard candidates in preventing, recognizing, and responding to water emergencies in pool, waterpark, and waterfront settings. Combined with hands-on, scenario-based training sessions taught by authorized StarGuard instructors, the updated text and accompanying web resource teach the essentials of lifeguarding: prevention, surveillance, response and rescue, emergency care, and workplace safety and professionalism. StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards provides specific strategies for decision making. With this authoritative yet accessible guide you will learn the following: • Strategies for reducing risk at recreational aquatic venues • Essential skills for response and rescue, including how to perform land-based assists and water-based rescues • How to recognize indicators of and critical events that can lead to distress and drowning • Emergency care skills in the event of a drowning, injury, or illness, including suspected spinal injuries • Techniques for adapting lifesaving skills for special situations, such as single-guard facilities, inflatable play structures, special events, or lifeguarding individuals with disabilities • Proper techniques for dealing with bodily fluids and fecal contaminations to reduce the risk of recreational water illness The updated fifth edition contains the latest research on best practices in lifeguarding and emergency care, including the most current CPR/AED first aid content based on international guidelines. From surveillance to prevention and emergency care, StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Fifth Edition, covers all aspects of lifeguarding in an easy-to-understand format. Together, the text, online resource, and hands-on training course prepare lifeguards with the decision-making, emergency response, and first aid skills necessary for preventing water emergencies and saving lives. Additionally, StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards provides the foundation for the operational policies, procedures, and guidance delivered through the StarGuard Elite complete aquatic safety and risk management system available to aquatic facilities.

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls may rightly be called the greatest basketball player who ever lived. An NCAA title, Olympic gold medals, NBA championships, all these prove what an unbelievable athlete Michael Jordan truly was, and still is.

THE CELESTIAN KNIGHTS ARE DOOMED! And they know it. But the consequences of their actions to forestall their end have deep and tragic ramifications for their children: The Starguards.The Starguards: Novan, Sceptre, Altair, Decion, Alpha Rion, Astara, Cirrius, and Urana contemplate the future of their new worlds, even as others secretly plot for control. But war beckons when the resurgent and terrifying Lore return to haunt them. Who will save them in their darkest hour?Soon, The Starguards are thrust into conflict with time-travelling rivals, the Astrals; involved in Earth's war-torn 23rd century; cast as mistrustful superheroes; and flung into a universal apocalypse in the far future. And here at the end, after many trials, galactic wanderings, and lost loves –humans, superheroes and demi-gods face off in the ultimate destiny-defining battle against enemies never thought to have existed.The Starguards -of humans, heroes, and demi-gods is the epic beginning of a trilogy, chronicling the heroic family line from the beginning of time.

Looks at the personal life and professional basketball career of NBA star Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Follows the career of pro basketball star, Allen Iverson, including how he became interested in the game and the challenges he has faced before and after turning pro.

The battle for Earth begins now. Welcome to Flood City, the last inhabitable place left above the waters that cover Earth. It's also the last battleground between the Chemical Barons, who once ruled the planet and now circle overhead in spaceships, desperate to return, and the Star Guard, who have controlled the city for decades. Born and raised in Flood City, Max doesn't care about being part of either group. All he wants is to play his music with the city band, keep his sister from joining the Star Guard, and be noticed by his crush, the awesome drummer Djinna. Meanwhile, Ato, a young Chemical Baron, has joined his crew for what was supposed to be a routine surveillance mission, only things go from bad to worse between unexplained iguanagull attacks and the discovery of deadly schemes. Ato's just trying to stay safe, keep his twin brother alive, and not hurt anyone. So when his commander prepares to wipe out Flood City completely, Ato must decide how far he'll go. As Max's and Ato's paths collide, it changes everything. Because they might be able to stop a coming war. But can two enemies work together to save Earth?

Star Soldiers