Beacon: 545 books
Powered by Girl
A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements
Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want...
Among Chimpanzees
Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
**Foreword by Jane Goodall
A former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save man’s closest relative.**
Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses show them to be extinct in four African...
The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive...
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner
Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A 2008 Indie Next Pick
In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. It’s a fascinating portrait,...
The Springs of Namje
A Ten-Year Journey from the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
A Peace Corps volunteer’s inspirational story about the power of small change
In 2001, Peace Corps volunteer Rajeev Goyal was sent to Namje, a remote village in the eastern hills of Nepal. Brimming with idealism, he expected to find people living in conditions of misery and suffering; instead,...
Finding Higher Ground
Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive—yet realistic—position...
by Herbert Marcuse
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the...
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor
For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories...
Closing the Food Gap
Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both...
The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2001
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire...
The Twilight of Equality?
Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
By now, we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. *The Twilight of Equality?*searches out these links...
Beyond Growth
The Economics of Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics."
--Utne Reader
"Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics, Herman E. Daly...
The Missing Class
Portraits of the Near Poor in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible...
Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools
The Impact of Charters on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
How charter schools have taken hold in three cities—and why parents, teachers, and community members are fighting back
Charter schools once promised a path towards educational equity, but as the authors of this powerful volume show, market-driven education reforms have instead boldly reestablished...