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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. 

The concepts of yellow fever and racial fetishization are often considered topics of conversation many individuals do not care about or actively avoid. Yet their influence on how we interact with our world is more profound than we realize.In Not Your Yellow Fantasy, Giboom Park examines how individuals are consciously and unconsciously perpetuating the spread and continuous influence of racial stereotypes toward Asian Americans in romantic and sexual relationships. While reflecting on the impact of yellow fever on her own life, Park helps us better understand how we are all impacted by the detrimental effects of racial fetishization. This book explores:* How and why Asian women came to be perceived as hyper-sexual, mysterious or submissive and docile beings.* The influence of Asian fetishization and the derogatory "Yellow Fever" fetish on pornography, trafficking, and dating platforms.* The consequential oppression of women's rights and BIPOC communities as a result of Asian fetishization.From the persistence of mail-order brides and white supremacy to sex trafficking, the topic of Asian fetishization can no longer be ignored. Now is the time to address its existence and work toward a world of inclusion and equality.

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.

The importance of solitude - voluntary or otherwise - is always a timely subject. It is the hallmark of some of the world''s greatest minds who have gifted us with art, music, and culture. The Lonesome Thread: Reflections of Solitude, Boredom, & Creativity is a collection of stories gathered from history and around the globe. The book is broken into three sections:∩╗┐Time and Space contains stories about leaders, entrepreneurs, and warriors who have withdrawn from society, walked the world alone, and successfully returned transformed. From tech founders to medieval knights, circumnavigate the world of solitude.Tools and Reflections includes personal anecdotes that provide tactics and techniques to shape your mindset and rediscover your personal interests and goals. Can boredom make us more creative? How can we increase the value of our time? Does skydiving relate to mindfulness?Creation and Gratitude contains inspiring stories of people who use their time unplugged from society as a means to recharge and reenergize themselves to be better stewards of the human race. Learn about the mindsets of Ironman athletes and veteran poets. The Lonesome Thread is for those who have a curiousity to learn more about themselves. It is for anyone with a pile of unfinished projects or incomplete goals and a desire to create more time for creativity and self-fulfillment. Are you ready to dive in?

Life is full of swift transitions. It''s in those moments of transition that purpose plays a pivotal role, begging us to ask the questions, Why? and What can I do? With a youthful view on an ancient concept, The Power of Infinite Potential explores the intersections of purpose, potential and fulfillment through the examples of others. It shows us that endless possibilities can exist for everyone, at all times, when we learn to maximize our purpose and minimize our fear. This book is a welcome addition to anyone''s library who is on a path of self-discovery and seeking to learn more about yourself and how you fit into the context of your own world. The transformative power of the natural universe is present and available in all of us, and it''s yours for the taking. The Power of Infinite Potential helps point the way.  

A Blade knows all, sees all, and tells few.Warden Alexander Laurent faces returning to a kingdom and a life he left behind long ago. He didn''t expect to see her so soon, or the look on her face-the look he''s responsible for. When he stumbles onto a plot that endangers not only Caidy, but the entire kingdom, Alex takes the burden upon himself to stop it even if it costs him everything.Lady Caidelene is busy preparing for the fabled Harvest Festival, the most important celebration in Rosemoor Dell, when Alex returns suddenly. She had dreamed of his homecoming, but not like this - it''s like he can barely look at her. As the Festival draws closer, and Alex pulls further away, Caidy is left wondering: did he ever really love her?Summer Twilight is set in the intricate world of the Mezrani Empire, where not everything is as it seems. Can Alex and Caidy find a way to survive a dangerous plot to destabilize the throne? Or will they find themselves caught in the machinations of the Empire itself; their fates inextricably tied with that of the world?

The Night before the Morning After is a rock and roll diary of Newman's wild life and times. Beginning in Antibes, the story brings readers to New York, New Jersey, D.C., Paris, and Jordan. Between outrageous travel stories, improbable encounters, and scandalous romantic entanglements, Newman offers a behind-the-scenes expose and critique of life at an elite boarding school and at Princeton. It's Salinger meets Easton Ellis meets Bukowski, written by and for the iPhone generation. It is at once a portrait, critique, and celebration of the American experience in the 21st century.

We can achieve a lot by ourselves - we can create impressive and important things, even - but when we collaborate, what we can achieve is greatness.Enter a new renaissance with The Art of Collaboration: a collection of interviews from business owners and artists about their group efforts in their personal and professional lives. Author Sydney Welch will help you harness collaboration as she explores topics like: Utilizing emotional intelligence in the workplace. Working with introverts versus extroverts. Navigating conflicts amongst team members. Staying passionate about your art, especially when it does not pay the bills. Students, teachers, business owners, artists, and creative people alike will obtain better insight into how group efforts can positively affect workplaces, classrooms, studios, and the world. With advice from CEOs, filmmakers, clothing designers, professors, musicians, and more, you will learn how to turn your ideas into reality through the use of collaboration.