Beacon: 545 books
The Upstairs Wife
An Intimate History of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
**A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women
An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection**
For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had...
Nina Here Nor There
My Journey Beyond Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s type, for...
Same Family, Different Colors
Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.
Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is...
Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition)
Power and the Production of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Foreword by Hazel V. Carby
A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar
Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Christopher...
The Opportunity Equation
How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.
Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage...
Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!
Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Parents, young people, community organizers, and educators describe how they are fighting systemic racism in schools by building a new intersectional educational justice movement.
Illuminating the struggles and triumphs of the emerging educational justice movement, this anthology tells the...
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
The classic collection of Dr. King's sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression.
As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to...
The Accordion Family
Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,and the Private Toll of Global Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman addresses this phenomenon in this timely and original book that uncovers fascinating links between globalization and...
A Matter of Breeding
A Biting History of Pedigree Dogs and How the Quest for Status Has Harmed Man's Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
** A provocative look at the “cult of pedigree” and an entertaining social history of purebred dogs**
In this illuminating and entertaining social history, social critic Michael Brandow probes the “cult of pedigree” and traces the commercial rise of the purebred dog. Combining consumer...
The Lonely American
Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during...
Common Fire
Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
**A landmark study that reveals how we become committed to the common good and sustain such commitments in a changing world.
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"A perceptive, groundbreaking analysis of inspired lives. . . . This is a guidebook for the soul."
-Daniel...
The Boston Italians
A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters of the North End. Focusing on this first and crucial...
On the Same Track
How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A public school principal’s account of the courageous leaders who have dismantled the tracking systems in their schools in order to desegregate classrooms
What would happen if a school eliminated the “tracks” that rank students based on their perceived intellectual abilities? Would low-achieving...
The Way of Jesus
Living a Spiritual and Ethical Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Renowned poet and novelist Jay Parini’s The Way of Jesus is a book for progressive Christians and spiritual seekers who struggle, as Parini does, with some of the basic questions about human existence: its limits and sadnesses, and its possibilities for awareness and understanding.
Part guide...