Books published by Pyp Academy Press

It is 2020 and the SH!T has hit the fan.  How can you possibly still get SH!T done when bombarded by wildfires and murder hornets, not to mention a raging pandemic?  Get SH!T Done takes the reader through a week already on the verge of overwhelm when an out of the blue request comes via text.  Find out how she that week gets transformed into a success by using her SH!T Sheet with four simple steps to get rid of overwhelm and actually get SH!T done (including making a llama cake??). Then, read how four different people put the Get SH!T Done method into action and the lessons they learned along the way.A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to Lend a Hand Uganda, a nonprofit that feeds and educates Ugandan orphans and vulnerable children to help them get out of poverty.

For many Americans, the rise of white supremacy is a recent phenomenon. The truth is quite thecontrary. In this book, David R. Morse details how racism and nativism have been constants inAmerica, from the founding of Jamestown to the administration of Donald Trump.The most egregious example of racism has been directed at African Americans, who came to thiscountry not of their own free will, but as slaves. From the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, toBlack Lives Matter, the struggle for equality has been ongoing and so often contested by Whites.Additionally, as various immigrant groups have come to the U.S., the public and the governmenthave responded by vilifying them, often with violence, once they arrive.This book makes a cogent argument that people who are, or were, different from the country''swhite Anglo founders have always been viewed with suspicion. At the same time, Blacks and immigrantgroups have contributed to the nation''s growth and the development of a national identity.With individual chapters for specific ethnic groups, this book explores the implications of race andethnicity on science and the Census, and how racial classifications and theories have changed overtime. Morse also looks to the future and examines various evidence that points to the role of race inthe coming decades, as America''s White population approaches less than half the U.S. population.

 In I Can''t Swim But I Haven''t Drowned Yet, Melissa Marshall chronicles the history of the disability rights movement though her lifetime of disability rights activism. Follow her through high school where she is denied an education at the same time that equal education for disabled people became federal law; onto college where she been among the first, if not the first person to major in disability studies; then to law school where she, again, struggled for equal access. In Melissa''s career, she has fought to close state institutions for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health conditions; advocated for people found not guilty by reason of insanity; managed hot lines for people with disabilities impacted by disasters. She has promoted social justice for disabled people using everything from community organizing to doing civil disobedience to legal and disability bias training.I Can''t Swim But I Haven''t Drowned Yet is packed with stories from the trenches of the disability rights movement and tips that Melissa has learned from her experience embracing disability rights activism as a lifestyle. Part light hearted memoir and part analysis of the disability rights movement and ableism, this book should be read by students of disability rights history; people involved in the disability rights movement; activists of all types; and anyone who is curious about how far disabled people have come in securing their rights and how far they still have to go.