New Releases by Erika Lee

Discover the endless possibilities of dreaming through the eyes of a child. In this enchanting nonfiction children''s picture book, join Max as he navigates his worries about dreaming and uncovers his limitless potential to dream big. With vivid illustrations and an inspiring narrative, "How Big is a Dream?" is a heartfelt story that encourages children to pursue their passions, overcome their fears, and embrace the world with confidence and imagination.

From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade nonfiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American. Asian American history is not made up of one single story. It’s many. And it’s a story that too often goes untold. It begins centuries before America even exists as a nation. It is connected to the histories of Western conquest and colonialism. It’s a story of migration; of people and families crossing the Pacific Ocean in search of escape, opportunity, and new beginnings. It is also the story of race and racism. Of being labeled an immigrant invasion, unfit to become citizens, and being banned, deported, and incarcerated. Of being blamed for bringing diseases into the country. It is also a story of bravery and hope. It is the story of heroes who fought for equality in the courts, on the streets, and in the schools, and who continue to fight in solidarity with others doing the same. This book is a stirring account of the ordinary people and extraordinary acts that made Asian America and the young people who are remaking America today.

''Don''t Forget Ralph'' gives young readers an inside glimpse of a young boy, suffering from social anxiety, trying to navigate the world around him. With the help of his ''stuffed'' friends, the boy meets another boy, and a lifelong, ''real'' friendship begins.

Government and industry leaders warn regularly of shortages of engineers and scientists needed to sustain economic growth; worldwide billions of dollars are dedicated to projects designed to increase the number of workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, including programs designed to improve post-secondary STEM education. Despite this, college represents a major point of attrition: in the United States, fewer than 40% of students who enroll planning to major in a STEM discipline complete a related degree. Conventional theories of college student retention focus on classroom practice, faculty and staff development, and improving the transition of low-income students from community colleges to four-year programs. However, more recent models of college retention address sociological, economic, and psychological factors. The latter suggest modifiable factors and skills such as social connection, coping techniques, and self-attributions may provide more effective targets for retention programs. A widespread and longstanding belief exists that engineering students differ notably from non-engineers on such psychological factors and also experience higher levels of stress and distress. However, there is a dearth of research into these questions. This study sought to address this gap by exploring differences in the well-being and experiences of distress and suicidality among a national sample of undergraduates studying different fields. It also probed the relationships between undergraduates’ well-being, experiences of distress and suicidality, and three malleable mental health factors, that is, factors amenable to improvement with intervention. The variables examined in this study are perfectionism, social connectedness, and coping self-efficacy. Using structural equation modeling, the study tested hypothesized relationships between perfectionism, coping self-efficacy, and social connectedness and distress and suicidality. In addition, t-tests, multiple linear regression, and correlational analyses were used to examine differences between engineering students and all other undergraduates on well-being, distress and suicidality, perfectionism, social connectedness, and coping self-efficacy. Results indicated overall well-being mediates known connections between perfectionism, coping self-efficacy, and social connectedness and distress and suicidality in both engineering students and those studying other fields. Differences between these groups were observed in levels of overall well-being but not distress and suicidality. Engineers and other students also showed differing levels of social connectedness and certain aspects of perfectionism and coping self-efficacy. These findings may help explain observed differences in engineering students’ mental health and provide targets for retention programs

This is a workbook of self-discovery with short stories and artistic expression that serves as a spiritual reminder to work towards pouring more love, time and energy into developing self.

Are you looking for the perfect gift for someone close to you? This is a great journal for men, women, teens, kids. Great for taking down notes, reminders, crafting to-do lists & achieve your goals. Also a great creativity gift for decoration or for a notebook for school or office! FEATURES CHIC JOURNAL: 120 pages for easy organization and notes. Classic vibrant design.Perfect as gift. FAST SHIPPING WORLDWIDE: We ship fast worldwide in 1 working week maximum! We dont ship from China. PREMIUM THICK PAPER: Thicker paper resistant to aggressive wet inks so let your inner artist out! (Increased resistance to bleeding, rough erasing, and shading). Reduce the print on the reverse side. No bleach and acid-free. WEIGHT REDUCTION: Reduce weight to reduce postage. Well-package portable journal which can be easily placed in backpack, it is easier to carry with no matter where you go. AMAZING QUALITY/PRICE: Its made and shipped by Amazon, so you have 100% guarantee you gonna be satisfied. Make sure to look at our other products for other book ideas and covers by clicking on the author name

At the tender age of 21, Destiny Jones had everything going for her: a promising acting career, loving boyfriend who adored her, a scholarship to NYU. But it wasn''t enough to quiet the self-doubt that plagued her. She would have to lose it all to find herself. This epistolary "slice of life" novel spans twenty five years between September of 1994 and June of 2019. It is woven together as a dual narrative and told from the perspective of star-crossed lovers Destiny and Matthew. The letters written by Matthew are all set in the fall of 1994 when his beloved was away at NYU and he stayed behind in their hometown of Palm Desert, California. The couple had been together less than a year and this was the first time they were apart. Destiny''s diary entries span the agonizing twenty year aftermath of their eventual split.

At the tender age of 21, Destiny Jones had everything going for her. A promising acting career. A loving boyfriend who adored her. A scholarship to NYU. But it wasn''t enough to quiet the self-doubt that plagued her. She would have to lose it all to find herself. This epistolary "slice of life" novel spans twenty five years between September of 1994 and June of 2019. It is woven together as a dual narrative and told from the perspective of star-crossed lovers Destiny and Matthew. The letters written by Matthew are all set in the fall of 1994 when his beloved was away at NYU and he stayed behind in their hometown of Palm Desert, California. The couple had been together less than a year and this was the first time they were apart. Destiny''s diary entries span the agonizing twenty year aftermath of their eventual breakup.

This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans'' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. Now updated with an afterword reflecting on how the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged xenophobia, America for Americans is an urgent spur to action for any concerned citizen.

Thua Thien Hue province in Vietnam is a coastal province with the largest lagoon system in Southeast Asia which has been affected by natural disasters such as floods, storms and droughts. In recent years, changes in climate had strong impacts on the lives and work of the local people, especially those with low incomes as their major livelihoods in the region are heavily reliant on climate and natural resources and on that ground, any changes in the weather patterns heavily affected productivity and household''s income. The study uses both primary and secondary data to investigate how natural disasters have affected household welfare in rural Vietnam. Primary data were collected through focus group discussions, individual interviews, and key informant interviews in four communes of Thua Thien Hue province as case studies. The study finds that among the households with different coping strategies, non-farming households have the best adaptive capacity to annual natural hazards. Local people recognize the importance of transferring from on-farm to nonfarm activity to achieve economic resilience to a disaster thereby seek opportunities to move from farming to non-farm activities such as the industry, construction sector and services. This suggests to strengthen the need of provision of nonfarm activities given its role in sustaining household welfare against natural hazards. Under increasing risk and uncertainty pervasive in farming system, if there is no or few potentials to diversify into non-farm income sources in the future, people in the affected areas have no options than becoming poorer.

A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. “In her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States” (Huffington Post). The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both “despised minorities” and “model minorities,” revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country. Published fifty years after the passage of the United States’ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these “powerful Asian American stories…are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdue” (Los Angeles Times). But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an “epic and eye-opening” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.

In this thesis, my goal is to determine a rectangular 3D cuboid that outlines the boundaries of a cuboid-shaped object shown in an image. The position of the corners of each cuboid are manually labeled, or annotated, in a 2D color image. Given the color image, the labels, and a 2D depth image of the same scene, an algorithm extrapolates a cuboid''s 3D position, orientation, and size characteristics by minimizing two quantities: the deviation of each estimated corner''s projected position from its annotated position in 2D space and the distance from each estimated surface to the observed points associated with that surface in 3D space. I found that this approach successfully estimated the 3D boundaries of a cuboid object for 72.6% of the cuboids in a data set of 1,089 manually-labeled cuboids in images taken from the SUN3D database.

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was a prison and their final destination, before being sent home. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Drawing on extensive new research, including immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on the barrack walls, the authors produce a sweeping yet intensely personal history of Chinese "paper sons," Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world. Their experiences on Angel Island reveal how America''s discriminatory immigration policies changed the lives of immigrants and transformed the nation. A place of heartrending history and breathtaking beauty, the Angel Island Immigration Station is a National Historic Landmark, and like Ellis Island, it is recognized as one of the most important sites where America''s immigration history was made. This fascinating history is ultimately about America itself and its complicated relationship to immigration, a story that continues today.

The lungs, during active viral infection, are a source of abundant RSV antigens, and RSV infection has previously been shown to cause defects in the anti-viral function of memory RSV-specific CD8+ T cells. The model presented herein, in which memory CD4+ T cells complete differentiation in the lungs, amid plentiful viral antigens, provides a possible mechanism by which these anti-viral CD4+ T cells are modulated by RSV.

Lee explores Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, a period from 1882 to 1943 when the U.S. ended its historic welcome to immigrants.