New Village Press – Books to Build Vibrant Community

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• Welcome - New Village Press

  New Village Press is the first publisher to focus on grassroots community building. Our independent, nonprofit press publishes books and hosts events that contribute to thriving, creative, and sociall...

• Asphalt to Ecosystems, Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation

  Asphalt to Ecosystems. Case studies from North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and Great Britain demonstrate natural outdoor teaching environments that support hands-on learning in science, math, languag...

• Acting Together I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, Resistance and

  Acting Together I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on pe...

• Doing Time in the Garden, Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture

  Doing Time in the Garden. Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker's Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism — the GreenH...

• Building Together, Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building

  Building Together. With case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span more than forty years, this book offers a seminal treatise on the community...

• By Heart, Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

  By Heart. A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the book's core are two stories that speak up for human imagina...