This completely revised edition of the beloved internationalclassic is now entirely in color, with historic, never-before-seenphotos in every chapter and an entirely new text.

Stories in this book cover topics important to the 14 to 18-year-old range, including regrets and lessons learned, dating and sex, family relationships, applying to college, and preparing for life after high school. The first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993, and became a publishing industry sensation, ultimately selling eight million copies. Since then, more than 150 Chicken Soup titles have been published, selling more than 100 million copies. Chicken Soup for the Soul has won dozens of awards over the past 15 years, and its founders, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have become celebrity motivational speakers and authors. 作者简介：Jack Canfield is the cocreator of The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, developing 40 New York Times bestsellers including 11 that went to #1. He is America's leading expert in creating peak performances for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, employees, and educators, who has helped hundreds of thou

The Bread Bible Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible introduced readers to a newly illuminating baking-book approach--a precisely detailed yet accessible recipe format emphasizing baking science. The Bread Bible follows the same plan, offering 150 recipes, arranged by type, for a great variety of baked goods--from muffins, popovers, and English muffins to sandwich loaves, focaccia, rolls, hearth breads, rye bread, challah, and more, with a particularly vivid (and passionate) stop at sourdough loaves. Instruction is abetted by 32 pages of photos plus 300 step-by-step illustrations that depict, for example, bagel forming, in exact, imitable detail. In addition, an introductory section, "The Ten Essential Steps of Making Bread," includes a particularly lucid discussion on the way yeast works plus an invaluable comparison of kneading methods. Like the book's final look at ingredients, these "mini-texts" provide information uncommon to most home bread bo

This newest edition of Penelope Leach’s much-loved, trusted,and comprehensive classic—an international best seller fortwenty-five years, with nearly two million copies sold in Americaalone—encompasses the latest research and thinking on childdevelopment and learning, and reflects the realities of today’schanging lifestyles. In her authoritative and practical style, Leach responds fully toparents’ every concern about the psychological, emotional, andphysical well-being of their children. She describes, ineasy-to-follow stages from birth through starting school, howchildren develop: what they are doing, experiencing, and feeling.And she tackles both the questions parents often ask—What does anew baby’s wakefulness or a toddler’s tantrum mean?—and those thatare more difficult: How should new parents time their return towork, choose day care, tell a child about a new baby or animpending divorce? Whatever the concern or question, Your Baby and Child suppliesthe information, enc

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Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets. Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they really are and how to communicate their needs in such a way that conflict doesn't arise and intimacy is given every chance to grow.