The Rosen Publishing Group Inc: 881 books

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections account for nearly half of STIs diagnosed among female teens and young adults each year. While an effective preventative measure against cervical cancer, the HPV vaccine also has many risks. This timely resource explores the risks and benefits of the vaccine....

If there is one name that instills fear throughout the world of professional wrestling, it's the Undertaker. This 6'10" villain of the ring was once just Mark Calaway, a very tall kid who loved basketball. The life of Mark Calaway is followed in this exciting book, including his rise to fame, and the birth of his ring persona: the Undertaker.

Amenorrhea is the unnatural cessation of menstruation. In young women, it is often an early warning sign of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. In this engagingly written book, the author explains the main causes of amenorrhea as well as the ways in which the disorder is treated in young women....

Family structures are shaken up by illness. Whether the illness is short- or long-term, whether it’s expected or a shock, routines change and family members take on new duties. The illness of a parent may mean that money is tight. Kids might have to pitch in, cook meals, and clean house, while maintaining...

You may not realize it, but many of today's most popular dog breeds were actually bred hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago to be expert hunters. Their size, coat, color, behavior, and unique abilities were all carefully selected and engineered to assist in the hunting of game big and small, including...

Readers may be familiar with the astounding innovations and ideas developed by the Ancient Greeks. They may not know, however, how truly repulsive some of the practices of the Ancient Greeks were. Be prepared for stomach-churning descriptions of the plumbing and hygiene of Ancient Greece, not to mention...

Futures trading has a three-fold purpose—to enrich traders, to guarantee farmers and producers a sale of their goods and manufacturers, and to provide suppliers with a guaranteed supply of the commodities they need to make their finished products. Both a highly pragmatic, workmanlike tool to arrange...

There are many viable, secure, and rewarding careers available to those with little or no postsecondary education. Sanitation is one of those industries, and readers will be introduced to it in full here. Revealing the wide range of activities within the industry--going well beyond garbage pick-up...

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, no one expected that Jimmy Wales would go on to create one of the most successful and widely-used Web sites in history: Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the product of a lot of hard work. It had its ups and downs and its failures and successes before becoming the Internet phenomenon...

With the rise of the Internet and the explosion of Web-based entertainment, digital piracy has become a startlingly common crime and a huge problem that robs companies, artists, and other content creators of their creative and financial due. The fundamentally unfair nature of the crime and the harsh...

In the 18th century the explorer and mariner James Cook made his way to the American colonies to fight for the British in the French and Indian War. In the New World he would earn fame as a courageous sea captain, talented mapmaker, astronomer of Venus, and seeker of the Northwest Passage. This fascinating...

Concentration camps, the epicenters of Nazi atrocities, represent a harrowing chapter of world and human history. Part of a highly organized system intended to decimate Europe’s Jewish population and other groups deemed undesirable by Adolf Hitler’s regime, these detention and extermination facilities...

Focusing on the universal laws, characteristics, and tendencies common to nearly all gases, this book is an excellent primer on how gases behave and react under various typical laboratory and real-world conditions. It provides compelling profiles of the scientists who discovered many gases, pioneered...

A leader for the people, Solon would go down in history as the lawmaker who set the stage for Athens to become the first democratic state. Solon’s incorruptible spirit, along with his oratorical skills and poetry, were a refreshing break from the tyrants of his time, whom the people of Greek city-states...