Beacon: 545 books
Revive Us Again
Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin...
The Student Loan Scam
The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The Student Loan Scam is an exposé of the predatory nature of the $85-billion student loan industry. In this in-depth exploration, Collinge argues that student loans have become the most profitable, uncompetitive, and oppressive type of debt in American history.
This has occurred in large...
Raising Global IQ
Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A groundbreaking roadmap for improving global literacy and conflict-resolution skills in middle and high schools across the United States
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In Raising Global IQ, Carl Hobert calls on K–12 teachers, administrators, parents, and students alike to transform the educational system by giving students...
Success Through Diversity
Why the Most Inclusive Companies Will Win
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable
In our fast-changing demographic landscape, companies that proactively embrace diversity in all areas of their operations will be best poised to...
Saving Talk Therapy
How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A hard-hitting critique of how managed care and the selective use of science to privilege quick-fix therapies have undermined in-depth psychotherapy—to the detriment of patients and practitioners
In recent decades there has been a decline in the quality and availability of psychotherapy in...
Some of My Friends Are...
The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Examines why it’s difficult to form friendships with people of different races, how we can make those connections, and how they will encourage more meaningful conversations about race.
Surveys have shown that the majority of people believe cross-racial friendships are essential for improving...
Less Medicine, More Health
7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care.
You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too...
Our Grandchildren Redesigned
Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A panoramic overview of biotechnologies that can endlessly boost human capabilities and the drastic changes these “superhuman” traits could trigger
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Biotechnology is moving fast. In the coming decades, advanced pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetic interventions will be used not only...
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?
How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life
What would happen if an average Joe tried out for American Idol, underwent a professional makeover, endured Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Cleanse,” and followed the outrageous rituals of the rich...
by Nathan Birr
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
California P.I. Jackson Douglas intends to sleep half of his 30th birthday away. But plans change when Jackson is contacted by his neighbor Connie and a “valley girl” named Shay, both of whom want to hire him. He reluctantly takes their cases, and while both seem harmless enough, he can’t shake...
by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned...
Once in a Promised Land
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
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Once in a Promised Land is the story of a couple, Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing their own dreams of opportunity and freedom. Although the two live far from Ground Zero, they cannot...
by Anne Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Amy Winslow isn’t looking for a mystery; she doesn’t even like secrets. In fact, secrets have nearly destroyed her life. When a terrible accident forces her to take control of her brother’s mysterious California lighthouse, Amy finds herself immersed in its shocking past and uncertain future....
by Anne Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
After being the backdrop for 1948's critically acclaimed tragic romance, Cape Seduction, Northern California's Dragon Rock Lighthouse sat shuttered and abandoned for decades-and it also happened to be the last place up-and-coming Hollywood starlet Darla Foster was seen alive.
When photojournalist...