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...

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...

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 ...

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.

It is easy to find alarming statistics on escalating violence, addiction and economic inequality in developed countries and stubborn poverty in the third world. The fascinating question has to do with cause. New York Times #1 bestselling authors Richard and Linda Eyre’s new book The Turning: Why the State of the Family Matters and What the World Can Do about It contends that the social and economic challenges faced not only in the United States, but throughout th...

Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to make ends meet? Stretching your pay check to the end of the month seems to always be a struggle. Why do so many people feel this way?Is the system rigged?Is it broken?Explore the reasons why poverty and strife are so common and financial abundance is so rare.Let’s get the discussion going on how to fix this and allow everyone to prosper.

Jasper James, the author of "A Practical Guide to Peaceful Protest," is a multifaceted figure—a respected educator, a renowned activist, and a thought leader with a diverse background as a Billboard recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Jasper's journey has been as dynamic as it has been impactful. With a social justice career spanning over a decade, they have contributed to the Board of the ACLU, held the position of President of the Women's March, and played a pivotal ro...

Synopsis"In 'Framing Africa: Rethinking Representation and Empowerment,' this book delves deep into the complex tapestry of how Africa has been portrayed by the West and the profound impact these narratives have on the self-belief of young Africans. From colonial rhetoric to modern media, it uncovers the pervasive stereotypes that have shackled the continent's image, shaping perceptions and limiting aspirations.This insightful exploration examines the historical roots of di...

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...

Pelisa has written a book which celebrates the resilience of women; her own life is testimony to that resilience. She pursues what sets her mind on relentlessly and the book conveys that. In writing this captivating and thought-provoking book, Pelisa unapologetically states her feminist stance and would not tolerate any male engineered repression of women’s ambition. She points out the tragedy of accepting under achieving men as leaders which she says foster male entitlement to positions o...