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Available for pre-order27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and endurance show how vital they are to our country Compiled by a longtime chef who knows how indispensable—and fascinating—they areImmigrants play an essential role…
Hardcover | By Marc Meyer | From Beacon PressTagged as: Immigration, Immigration -
Available for pre-orderFrom the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P.
Paperback | By Omo Moses | From Beacon PressTagged as: Anti-Racism, History, History, Racial Justice -
Available for pre-orderA deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking environmentalist masterpiece, including an introduction and annotations by renowned social and environmental critic Bill McKibbenA Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic paletteFirst
Hardcover | By Bill McKibben, Henry David Thoreau | From Beacon PressTagged as: Contemplation, Environment, Nature, Nourishing the Spirit, Personal Inspiration, Transcendence -
Available for pre-orderThe 24 Hours in Charlottesville author offers a minute-by-minute account of the January 6 riots through never-before-heard stories of those who were thereNeus goes beyond mainstream reporting to reveal important truths about the US white nationalist movementThis bracing
Hardcover | By Nora Neus | From Beacon PressTagged as: History, History -
Available for pre-orderAn intersectional analysis of evangelical purity culture’s influence on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the United StatesWith a foreword by Linda Kay Klein, author of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I…
Hardcover | By Linda Kay Klein, Sara J. Moslener | From Beacon PressTagged as: Gender Justice -
An esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics—at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and orientationThe January 2025 Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Book Club selection.Blendin…
Paperback | By William Ayers | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, America, Culture, Freedom, History, History, Politics, Social Justice -
An accessible exploration into how we can use trauma psychology to unravel and transform our harmful beliefsIn Radical Unlearning, journalist and transgender antiracist activist Lewis Raven Wallace argues that breaking out of the frameworks of thought and behavior we’ve been taught in our
Hardcover | By Lewis Raven Wallace | From Beacon PressTagged as: Change, Personal Inspiration, Psychology, Trauma -
Available for pre-orderA stunning, collectible edition of Howard Zinn’s landmark memoir that chronicles his lifelong commitment to social justice and steadfast belief that ordinary people can change historyA Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic paletteIs change…
Hardcover | By Howard Zinn | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, Personal Stories, Social Justice -
Available for pre-orderAn incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild themThe March 2025 Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Book Club selection.After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave,…
Paperback | By Serene Khader | From Beacon PressTagged as: Culture, Equity, Gender, Intersectionality, Justice, Women -
Available for pre-order An investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment Settler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities of Indigenous people have been usurped, misconstrued, and weaponized.
Hardcover | By Dina Gilio-Whitaker | From Beacon PressTagged as: Identity
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