Product Description: Inside what life is really like for the new generation of professional cooks—a captivating tale of the make-or-break first year at a young chef’s new restaurant.   For many young people, being a chef is as compelling a dream as being a rock star or professional athlete...read more

A look at the adolescence of girls shatters the media-enforced idea that all girls are destined for depression and misery, with information and instruction from experts and heart-warming personal stories of mothers and daughters.

Features a collection of essays about a parent's rite of passage that ensues when children leave the home, and features contributions by thirty-one popular writers, including Anna Quindlen, Susan Shreve, and Roger Wilkins.

An optimistic roadmap to girl adolescence draws on the author's experience with raising a daughter in her coming-of-age years, during which she gained insight into the societal pressures faced by today's girls and fostered a determination to be her daughter's advocate. Reprint.

An account of a year in the lives of young women at two girls' schools, one an elite Los Angeles prep school and the other the Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem, considers the challenges of single-sex education faced by students and educators. Reprint.

The famed restaurateur combines evocative personal anecdotes about his love affair with fine cuisine with a host of delectable recipes that include a host of tasty appetizers, soups, entrees, risottos, pastas, and desserts, including Brasato al Barolo, L'Abbacchio di Paola, Passato di Verdura, and Croccante Semifreddo. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Based on more than three years of research and interviews, and weaving together the latest scientific research and public policy with stories of the human toll of the disease, this behind-the-scenes account looks at the battle against breast cancer. Reprint. NYT.

An inside look at the ad industry's reigning hot shop captures the volatile process of ad making, discussing power struggles, brainstorming sessions, the creative process, setbacks, integrity, and success. 60,000 first printing.

Offers an in-depth look at what it takes to become a professional woman tennis player, and examines the women's tennis circuit as seen through the lives of three talented young players, their coaches, agents, and families