Beacon: 545 books
Snob Zones
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Winner of the 2014 Bruss Silver Award and First-Time Author Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors
Towns with strict zoning...
Visions of a Better World
Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him—and that would ultimately shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States.
When...
After Freedom
The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.
The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election,...
by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only...
High Stakes
The Rising Cost of America's Gambling Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
What the explosive growth of legalized gambling means socially, politically, and economically for America.
Forty years ago, casinos were legal in just one state. Today, legalized gambling has morphed into a $119 billion industry established in all but two states. As elected officials are urging...
On the Courthouse Lawn
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known...
Invisible
How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Already appearing on must-read lists for Bitch, PopSugar, BookRiot, and Autostraddle, this is an exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be healthy, dating, having careers and children.
Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer....
The Church and the Homosexual
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In this "brave and good book which shatters bad myths" (Commonweal), McNeill shows that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality, and argues that the Church must not continue its homophobic practices.
Rare Birds
The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinction
Rare Birds is a tale of obsession, of hope, of fighting for redemption against incredible odds. It is the story of how Bermuda’s David Wingate changed the world—or...
Mirabai
Ecstatic Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in...
Jumped In
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Jumped In tells the story of the gangs of Los Angeles in the words of the gang members themselves as well as the people who interact with them on a daily basis--trying to arrest them, control them, and help them. There are priests and police officers, murderers and drug dealers, victims and grieving...
Holding Fast to Dreams
Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
An education leader relates how his experiences with the civil rights movement led him to develop programs promoting educational success in science and technology for African Americans and others.
In Holding Fast to Dreams, 2018 American Council on Education (ACE) Lifetime Achievement Award winner...
One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.
The Aesthetic Dimension
Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take...