Beacon Press: 516 books
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society....
The Good Death
An Exploration of Dying in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.
When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania....
White Fragility
Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator...
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From the author of the much-loved memoir Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved comes an engaging and inspiring account of a daughter who must face her mother’s premature decline.
In Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words, Kate Whouleystrips away the romantic veneer of mother-daughter love to bare...
by William J. Winslade, Viktor E. Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished....
The Miracle of Mindfulness
An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1996
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware. From washing the dishes to answering the phone to peeling an orange, he reminds us that each moment holds within it an opportunity to work toward greater self-understanding and peacefulness.
Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
**Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments**
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on...
Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The classic story of nonviolent resistance in America—the Montgomery bus boycott—written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King...
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents...
Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates.
Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known...
None of the Above
The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed , and the Criminalization of Educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems rooted in the education reform movement.
In March of 2013, 35 educators in the Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy—the same charges...
by Kim E. Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
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Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present,...
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**A New York Times Best Seller
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.**
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as...
The Odd Clauses
Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. Past the ever-popular monkey house and lion cages, Boston...