Beacon: 545 books
Fast Future
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism
They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation’s unique...
The New Media Monopoly
A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers,...
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
**Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 **
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response...
Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the world fed. Through the use of factory “farms,” genetic engineering, and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust in technology and ask consumers...
Marketplace of the Marvelous
The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point
Despite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still adhered to ancient healing methods such as induced vomiting and bleeding, blistering, and sweating...
Harvest the Wind
America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Winds sweeping across the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind's promise more...
Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago
At the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Anita Hill spoke out courageously about workplace sexual harassment. Now she turns to the topic of home. As our country reels...
The World in Flames
A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world
When The World in Flames begins, in 1970, Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing...
Salaam, Love
American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**From the editors of the groundbreaking anthology Love, InshAllah comes a provocative new exploration of the most intimate parts of Muslim men’s lives. **
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Muslim men are stereotyped as either oversexed Casanovas willing to die for seventy-two virgins in heaven or controlling, big-bearded...
Ruined By Reading
A Life in Books
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996
'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.
Longfellow
A Rediscovered Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the"one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart" (Dana Gioia).
Calhoun's Longfellow emerges...
The Age of Genomes
Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in history
Almost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once seen...
Swan
Poems and Prose Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Widely regarded as the "rock star" of American poetry, Mary Oliver is a writer whose words have long had the power to move countless readers. Regularly topping the national poetry best-seller list and drawing thousands to her sold-out readings across the coutnry, Oliver is unparalleled in...
Not Quite Paradise
An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage
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Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes...