Beacon Press: 516 books
Telling Truths in Church
Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion,...
The Healing Connection
How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In The Healing Connection, Jean Baker Miller, M.D., author of the best-selling Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Irene Stiver, Ph.D., argue that relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing they offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change...
The Power in the Room
Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.
Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen...
Living Islam Out Loud
American Muslim Women Speak
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Living Islam Out Loud presents the first generation of American Muslim women who have always identified as both American and Muslim. These pioneers have forged new identities for themselves and for future generations, and they speak out about the hijab, relationships, sex and sexuality, activism,...
The Business of Changing the World
How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty
Drawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress. Old aid...
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way...
See Me Naked
Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“A fascinating, troubling, and finally heartening book that subtly shows ways that Christians might reconcile their bodies with their devotion to God. Highly recommended for individual Christians but also for pastors and church groups.”—Library Journal, starred review
Stories of sexual...
The End of Animal Farming
How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing...
Biocidal
Confronting the Poisonous Legacy of PCBs
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The first full account of the scientific and political dynamics of global PCB contamination, and its threat to human health and the environment
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Whether or not you've heard of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), it's likely that this toxic chemical can be found in your cells. PCBs were invented...
by Bettye Collier-Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century to the modern civil rights movement.
Back in print for the first time in over a decade, this landmark collection features writings from well-known black writers, activists,...
by Jean Baker Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In the twenty years since its publication, this best-selling classic (which has sold more than 200,000 copies) has become famous for its groundbreaking demonstration of how sexual stereotypes restrict men's and women's psychological development. Toward a New Psychology of Women revolutionized concepts of strength and weakness, dependency and autonomy, emotion, success, and power.
Rectify
The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Makes a powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal.
In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number...
by Norman Crane
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Young love, first kisses and the infernal influence of old movies. Or: the dangers of smoking.