Books published by New Degree Press

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to work in the White House or what it might be like working on a presidential campaign? Vanessa Millones invites you to join her journey; sharing stories of failure, success and growth.In this book you will read about:An insider''s view of what it was like coming out of the White House on the day after Trump won the 2016 electionThe author''s unexpected pivot in her carefully planned career from being a business major to learning the ins and outs of restaurant serviceThe discovery that family is more than blood, and what a support system truly is.Not Perfect but Wild is a must-read if you are an ambitious individual who loves structure and cringes at the idea of uncertainty. Life tends to throw curve balls and regardless of how organized, intelligent, productive or hardworking you are, making plans in life doesn''t always go according to plan. 

Myth: People from marginalized backgrounds have poorer health outcomes because of poor decision-making.Through extensive research and interviews, Health Care of a Thousand Slights, Connecting Legacy to Access to Healthcare debunks the myth, demonstrating that the historical legacy of discriminatory policies and culture has had an enduring impact on healthcare access and outcomes among marginalized communities. Readers will understand the importance of improving the quality of life for Americans of color, female-identifying Americans, and LGBTQ+ Americans, among others. Inside this book you will learn: How the legacies of policies such as forced relocation, slavery and segregation, and xenophobic immigration impact healthcare access.How women across all socioeconomic levels experience disparities in healthcare.How movements for civil rights, policy and technology are being leveraged as vehicles for change.Readers will recognize not only the links between history and present day with respect to healthcare access and outcomes, but will also understand the solutions that exist to mitigate health disparities.

Bring Your Heart: A Journey to Freedom introduces readers to Mei, a Vietnamese immigrant whose journey to the United States is filled with family, hardships, and hope. Dylan Luong weaves a tale that takes readers from South Vietnam to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  The journey begins at the end of the Vietnam War when Mei, a shy teenager, is forced out of the only home she has ever known. Her family escapes the conflict, but the perils they face along the way define who Mei will become as a person and as a parent. The tale is told through the eyes of an adult Mei, who recounts her journey in a bedtime story to her son Kevin as he grows up. Through their eyes, we gain a deeper appreciation for the hardships that immigrants face as they journey to a new land and make it their home. Through it all, love continuously wins.Bring Your Heart invites us on Mei''s journey into the unknown. Along the way, we learn what Mei loses, but even more importantly, what she gains. 

Small businesses are the single greatest driver of innovation and growth within the United States. Millions of small businesses help make this great nation what it is. In light of this more Americans need to stand up and voice their support for small businesses and their success in international trade. In Trade Crusade: Why Globalization Shouldn't be Tariffying you will learn effective advocacy through:Why entrepreneurship is so important to the economic future of the USTales from bike manufacturers and luggage retailers with firsthand experience on the harmful impacts of tariffsHow to avoid partisanship when discussing tariffs with othersHow to voice your support for small business and free tradeAnd so much more!This book is for small business owners and entrepreneurs interested in trade, tariffs, and US politics. Each day tariffs are becoming more and more important to the economic future of the United States. This book is a key resource for anyone looking to learn more about them, measure their impact, and help to unite against them.

Play to Learn: How to Use Video Games to Learn a New Language is a comprehensive examination of how the integration of video games into language learning can greatly increase long-term new language acquisition. It explores the benefits, applications, and concerns surrounding video games and their place in our modern classrooms. In addition, Play to Learn cites research on how students can learn a new language when an educator is present or absent, supplemented with personal stories and real gameplay examples.In this book, you''ll learn aboutLanguage learning theories plus personal gameplay goals and experiencesResearch on language learning using video games in both individual and classroom settings Detailed and verified steps to guide you to learn a new language using video games as a toolUsed as a resource and guidebook, Play to Learn will guide you step-by-step on how to set language learning goals, select proper games, and offers a timeline and assessment scale to measure your progress. Through expert opinions and an investigation of how video games can positively influence traditional classroom learning, this book helps diminish much of the negativity surrounding the use of video games to learn in our modern world.

This book is designed to help you build your dream life.To accomplish this goal, you will learn about pursuing your dreams from the undisputed experts: immigrants. Year after year, millions of well-meaning, but often overbearing, parents immigrate to America to bring greater socioeconomic opportunity to their families while pushing their children to enter highly-regarded, highly-paid, and highly-stable professions. The result: Millions of kids who feel that they must choose between living a life of their own or receiving the support and love of their parents.Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer: How to Pursue Your Dreams without Giving Your Parents a Heart Attack answers:Why does the pressure to pursue these careers exist?Do these careers pay off as parents expect?What are the psychological/financial implications of this pressure?Read stories from children of immigrants who charted their own path, such as Yvonne Orji who traded med school for a comedy career and now plays a main character on HBO''s Insecure.By the end of the book you will have learned how to build a fulfilling and economically viable life for yourself, all without giving your parents a heart attack.

In just 30 years, the world''s annual output of waste will reach an estimated 3.4 billion tons. This global tsunami of waste threatens our environment, our economy, even our relationships. To survive, we must not only contain it but do something with it. To turn the tide, innovative investors and inventors are building an economy that treats trash as a valued commodity and ever-renewing resource. Trash to Treasure: Exploring What It Takes to Build a Business from Waste follows the journeys of modern day pioneers making waves-and money-from waste, including:Patagonia, a global fashion manufacturer with a goal to sell fewer goods to consumers by extending the life of the company''s productsRust Belt Riders, a startup that diverts food from landfills and transforms it into garden soil which, in turn, feeds more plants to produce more food and fuel a circular economyHungry Harvest, a subscription service that rescues farmers'' not-ready-for-Instagram produce-20 million pounds of it so far-and delivers it by the boxful to front doors and food desertsShift your perspective on waste and you, too, can turn Trash to Treasure and earn disposable income from the things people throw away.

Did you know the fashion industry is the world''s second most polluting industry just behind the oil and gas sector?Most consumers go into a store and pick up a new pair of jeans; not thinking of the huge impact that goes into its production. The fabric, the dye, the people behind it; are all factors contributing to the current state of the fashion industry. Average consumers don''t realize their full impact on the planet because of one simple purchase. In The Vintage Mindset, Jillian McCarthy takes you on a journey through thrift stores and the history behind the pieces you might find there, as well as the new mindset we all need for a more sustainable future and a healthier planet.If you have pressing questions like:What does sustainable fashion mean?Why is textile knowledge so important?Will one purchase really matter?The Vintage Mindset is your go-to source for all things fashion!Jillian McCarthy wrote this book in hopes of crafting a more sustainable industry for our future. The Vintage Mindset addresses problematic practices in the fashion industry and proposes more innovative solutions. 

I am glass,But I am not your crystal glass,Transmitting light beyond its depth,I hold the beauty of my reflectionsI Am Glass is a collection of poems that explores what it means to be human and captures the bittersweet essence of life''s moments. The poems speak to a greater truth: we are all similar in the way we love, heal, question, and prevail. The book is broken into six distinct parts with each section providing an intimate look into a facet of human emotion and experience. Julia Weidman offers a balance to her work as she explores opposing themes throughout her collection: romance and heartbreak, introspection and self-empowerment, mortality and invincibility. With each poem, Julia Weidman reminds us that there is incredible strength in vulnerability. In these pages, the author hopes that we may discover and embrace that we, too, are glass.

Upper-middle class women are in the throes of the female midlife crisis, as political, social, economic, career, and parenting pressures collide. By centering on our own healing and self-care, white women have largely ignored the needs of other women, reinforcing traditional patriarchal values and culture. Part memoir, part research project, The Deal of the Dollhouse: How Toxic Self-Care Nearly Destroyed Me strives to help progressive, college-educated, white women, feel safe as they start to understand their historical and present-day roles in an often unjust society, without feeling paralyzed, overwhelmed, or judged. If you...Ever feel guilty about taking your kids to Disneyworld because you just saw another shocking statistic about food insecurity in your child''s elementary school.Fall into bed exhausted about work, worried about the state of the world, wondering if you ever should have brought kids into this mess.Are overwhelmed by the conflicting messages of "join us and fight the patriarchy" and "sit down, white lady."Can remember vividly the last time you were a "Karen."Dollhouse is the book you''ll turn to for answers and inspiration as you start the journey of exploring your privilege, aligning your values, and deeply understanding your story to build a shame-free path to allyship and community. 

After interviewing scores of patients and studying weight bias research, Hannah Hawkins has developed solutions for patients, and for providers, in removing weight discrimination from healthcare settings. Despite the fact that it has a 95% failure rate, weight loss is still the standard prescription for anyone in a bigger body, regardless of their medical complaints. Do No Harm: Fatphobia and the Medical Industry explores how fatphobia is harming patients of every size and age.In this book, you''ll learn:How and why patients are being discriminated againstWhat patients in bigger bodies can do to advocate for themselvesHow to better your relationship with your health and medical providers in natural healthy waysWhy weight loss is a mythHow providers can remove weight bias from their practiceFilled with numerous studies and stories about people proving that weight loss doesn''t improve health or work in the long term, Do No Harm will leave you with action steps to take your health into your own hands and educate the medical community on the harm of weight bias. 

You don''t need to spend decades at a job, accruing knowledge and experience, to tap into the world of big ideas. We all deserve equal access to what the world''s best minds have to offer, regardless of our background, age, education, or profession.In For All: Democratizing Big Ideas, you''ll learn about big ideas that shift how the world thinks about itself and how we exist in it. This book explores how each of us can:Tune in to mindsets and approaches that supercharge critical thinking and help us tap into our personal purposeIdentify and minimize mindsets that discourage critical thinking and distract us from our personal purposeLearn about the most valuable ideas, concepts, mindsets, frameworks, and insights that leaders from around the world would gift to their younger selves if they could go back in timePush our own thinking and learning to new levels via compelling stories, data, and analysisFor All: Democratizing Big Ideas speaks to the brilliant and underserved, the young and ambitious, and established leaders who are looking to access the next version of themselves. Let''s deeply understand our networks and environments through the lens of big ideas together.

Innovation Makers: How Campus Makerspaces Can Empower Students to Change the World is the culmination of journalist and entrepreneurship educator Emi Makino''s studies into the best practices for creating makerspaces - an important but currently ailing aspect of helping student-age creators learn experientially. By producing real prototypes in controlled, professional environments with state-of-the-art equipment but without the strict guidance of university controls to hinder their progress, Makino has touched on a key resource currently lacking not just in Japan, but around the globe. Makino relates some of the greatest stories of student-led projects that only survived because of makerspaces, including Jane Chen''s team, which has saved hundreds of thousands of children across eleven countries with their Embrace blanket. Makino creates the first real prescription for building makerspaces properly by studying those that have succeeded, such as Hongo Tech Garage. She addresses the reasons commercial-run makerspaces have largely failed, and why it behooves governments and educational facilities to work together to ensure that they become readily available so more young geniuses can help change the world for the better.