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In Decoding America & Coming Home to Yourself: The Immigrant Experience, author Simone Johnson Smith offers hope and guidance in navigating the complexities of immigrant life. Drawing from her own journey and insights from her acclaimed podcast, The Immigrant Experience in America, Smith skillfully explores the immigrant's disorienting shift from a collectivist to an individualistic culture, delving into the profound culture shock and the transformative process of becoming a hybrid identit...

***In Decoding America and Coming Home to Yourself:***The Immigrant Experience, author Simone Johnson Smith offers hope and guidance in navigating the complexities of immigrant life. Drawing from her own journey and insights from her acclaimed podcast, The Immigrant Experience in America, Smith skillfully explores the immigrant's disorienting shift from a collectivist to an individualistic culture, delving into the profound culture shock and the transform...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In Decoding America & Coming Home to Yourself: The Immigrant Experience, author Simone Johnson Smith offers hope and guidance in navigating the complexities of immigrant life. Drawing from her own journey and insights from her acclaimed podcast, The Immigrant Experience in America, Smith skillfully explores the immigrant’s disorienting shift from a collectivist to an individualistic culture, delving into the profound culture shock and t...

Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success.

Would you like to have Thanksgiving without yelling at your uncle about politics? How about spending the day with your in-laws on the opposite side of the aisle without walking on eggshells? Your best friend from high school? Your neighbor? The list goes on. Persuade, Don't Preach will give you the tools to have productive conversations with those you don't see eye to eye with.DescriptionAs a society, we've become so polarized, we don't know how to...

INDIA The world's largest democracy, faces a grave threat to its foundational principles: a corrupt judicial system. This ebook delves into the intricate web of corruption that permeates the Indian judiciary, examining its causes, consequences, and potential solutions

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 *New York Times-*bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic“One of the most important books of the current moment.”—Time**“A rousing c...

A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovationMany of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school. We tend to think that great social c...

**Cynicism is making us sick, but Stanford Psychologist Dr. Jamil Zaki has the cure."A ray of light for dark days” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author**In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders, religions, and political parties all think human virtue is evaporating. Cynicism is an understandable response to a world full of injustice and inequality. But in many cases, it...

We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find...

" Dignity for All gives us the essential tools to stop abuses of rank and to build high-performing institutions and organizations based on respect." —Wes Boyd, co-founder, MoveOn.orgIn his books Somebodies and Nobodies and All Rise, Robert Fuller exposed rankism—abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. In Dignity for All, Fuller and Pamela Gerloff offer ...

At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change. Marshall Ganz is one of the world's leading authorities on democratic organizing, and this book is the culmination of his decades of teaching, research, and work. In People, Power, Change, Ganz distills f...