Beacon: 545 books
The Vulnerable Observer
Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of witnessing.
by Nathan Birr
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Attorney Hillary McKenzie is not only the most beautiful woman Jackson has ever met, but also the most infuriating. So when she hires him to find a Las Vegas call girl named Arielle Coal—hoping that Arielle will testify on behalf of her client—he swallows his disdain for Hillary and for the task...
Blood of the Tiger
A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Blood of the Tiger takes readers on a wild ride to save one of the world’s rarest animals from a band of Chinese billionaires.
Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than ever—from a menace few experts saw coming.
There may be only three...
As Long as Grass Grows
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism
Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist...
Telling Truths in Church
Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion,...
by Nathan Birr
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
After being shot and left to bleed out in an L.A. cemetery on New Year’s Eve, P.I. Jackson Douglas wakes in the hospital, attempting to recall the face of the shooter and the events that brought him to the cemetery in the first place. As he recovers, he replays the previous three months, trying...
The Healing Connection
How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In The Healing Connection, Jean Baker Miller, M.D., author of the best-selling Toward a New Psychology of Women, and Irene Stiver, Ph.D., argue that relationships are the integral source of psychological health. In so doing they offer a new understanding of human development that points a way to change...
The Power in the Room
Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.
Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen...
Living Islam Out Loud
American Muslim Women Speak
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Living Islam Out Loud presents the first generation of American Muslim women who have always identified as both American and Muslim. These pioneers have forged new identities for themselves and for future generations, and they speak out about the hijab, relationships, sex and sexuality, activism,...
The Business of Changing the World
How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty
Drawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress. Old aid...
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly...
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way...
See Me Naked
Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“A fascinating, troubling, and finally heartening book that subtly shows ways that Christians might reconcile their bodies with their devotion to God. Highly recommended for individual Christians but also for pastors and church groups.”—Library Journal, starred review
Stories of sexual...
The End of Animal Farming
How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing...