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"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Im...
$8.45
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. C..
60 on Up: The Truth About Aging in America
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The Golden Years You've got to be kidding . . . Part serious, part comic, these words reflect our ambivalence about aging in the twenty-first century. Is it a blessing or a curse With refreshing candor and characteristic wit, best-selling author Lillian Rubin looks deeply into the issues of our gr..
A Celestial Omnibus: Short Fiction on Faith
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Short Fiction on FaithLuminous fiction on themes of faith and meaning from favorite writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Andre Dubus, Louise Erdrich, Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, E. M. Forster and others. Author: Maney, J.P. Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Paperback Language: Englis..
A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-Americ...
$11.39
In this fascinating collection of essays, Albert Raboteau reexamines the rich history of the African-American religious experience. Through his exploration of traditions that include the Baptist revivals, the AME Church, Black Catholics and African Orisa religions, Raboteau demonstrates how the acti..
A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile C...
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Most people know juvenile offenders only from daily headlines, and the images portrayed by the media are extreme and violent: predators and even "superpredators." Distorted and incomplete, these pictures shape the way Americans think and feel about city kids, poor kids, children of color.A Kind and ..
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning ...
$30.83
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfictionThe first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and inter..
A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
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A focused personal and ethical examination of life in the face of death, by one of our most acclaimed essayists. Author: Mairs, Nancy Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0807062499 ISBN-13: 9780807062494..
A Twist of Faith: An American Christian's Quest to...
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American Christians, veteran reporter John Donnelly has discovered, are an ever-increasing source of aid in Africa, with some experts estimating that U.S. churches supply more resources to Africa than USAID. In A Twist of Faith, he tells the unlikely story of how faith and determination compelled on..
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”-Brent Staples, New York Times Book ReviewA breakaway bestse..
American business & foreign policy, 1920-1933 (Bea...
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An important book. Author: Hoff, Joan Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0807054259 ISBN-13: 9780807054253..
An Essay on Liberation
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In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer con..
Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics
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A collections of essays written on the subject of anarchy by author Herbert Read Author: Herbert Edward Read Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0807043931 ISBN-13: 9780807043936..
Angels Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetor...
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As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect under conditions of dis..
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, t...
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One of America's most distinguished scholars of race shows us how public education needs to be seen in the light of the influence of "color-blind racism as a system of power." Drawing examples from schools, media, and the workplace, Collins gives us a book of social analysis that is also an energizi..
Armies and the art of revolution (Beacon BP 463)
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Book by Chorley, Katharine Campbell (Hopkinson) Chorley Author: Chorley, Katharine Campbell (Hopkinson) Chorley Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0807043818 ISBN-13: 9780807043813..
Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life
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“For those puzzled by Northern Ireland, Belfast Diary offers a well-written, sympathetic and clear-eyed view” of life during the Troubles (New York Times Book Review)In the late 1960s, the ongoing conflict between the Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists of Northern Ireland-divided by thei..
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History ...
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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 pr..
Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in C...
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Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike other Western reporters, most of whom rarely leave Bogotá, Leech learns the truth about conflicts and the U.S. war on drugs directly from the source: farmers, male a..
Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800
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'Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a highly pertinent representation of black masculinity that will reward students of gender, slavery and the sensibilities o..
Blake, or The Huts of America
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Boston. 1970. Beacon Press. 20x14. 321p. Author: Delany, Martin Robison Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807064181 ISBN-13: 9780807064184..
Boston ways: high, by, and folk
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Book by Weston, George F Author: Weston, George F Publisher: Beacon Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807051802 ISBN-13: 9780807051801..
Buxton Spice (Bluestreak)
$14.30
Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.'*Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to lif..
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, V...
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Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, co..
Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child ...
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For the last ten years Betsy Groves has been working with children traumatized by witnessing violence. In this book she shows how children understand, respond to, and are affected by violence, especially domestic violence. Groves makes the powerful case that traumatic events carried out by family me..
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the L...
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This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone’s table, “[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor” (Dr. Jane Goodall)In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too oft..