Beacon: 545 books
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movement
The science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has...
Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1971
In Homo Ludens, the classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting...
Love and Fury
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
**An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited.
Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Award in Non-Fiction**
Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he had...
Gyn/Ecology
The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author.
Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first...
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness
Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching...
The Sober Truth
Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry—and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America.
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AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet the evidence shows that AA has only a 5–10...
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Changing America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elementary school days in the conservative South, where "faggot" became more familiar to him than his own name....
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it...
Writing Hard Stories
Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Some of the country’s most admired authors—including Andre Dubus III, Mark Doty, Marianne Leone, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Richard Blanco, Abigail Thomas, Kate Bornstein, Jerald Walker, and Kyoko Mori—describe their treks through dark memories and breakthrough moments and attest to the healing...
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Two of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most radical works examining economic inequality, police brutality, and black power, which speak to our most pressing social issues of today.
Though we’re familiar with the celebrated King who shared his dream of racial equality on the steps of the Lincoln...
Dreamers
An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children—and now fighting to live here legally
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,...
When One Religion Isn't Enough
The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An exploration into the lives of people who embrace two or more religious traditions, and what this growing community tells us about change in our society
Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal
In the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static,...
A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun
The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday
Artist–Rebel–Pioneer
Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé...
Entwined
Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The remarkable story of “outsider” artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sister
From birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other...