Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body image, community violence, pregnancy, and education. The authors also emphasize the incredible resiliency that young women possess in countering many of the social barriers confronting them. This work attempts to communicate the often hushed voices of girls of color, for the purpose of understanding their views on life experiences and how they negotiate social and cultural mores. In company with their perspectives are the authors' analyses guided by their years of teaching and mentoring experiences, as well as contemporary research literature from the fields of education, counseling, psychology, nursing, and anthropology. Practical strategies are also offered for those professionals assisting adolescent girls of color in and outside of schools.

Ignition - How to Startup a Tech Startup illustrates in 48 short essays how entrepreneurs can become better entrepreneurs. The two startup champions, Andreas Bauer and Julian Hall, share their experience from working very successfully in mentoring, coaching, building and growing tech startups. The essays take an outside-in view, from the perspective of a client or an investor, and cover the full spectrum of aspects of startup life: technology and product, marketing and sales, funding and fundraising, team and execution.