Beacon Press
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One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
$22.95 Read moreChallenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world
What exactly is Blackness and w- Author: Blay, Yaba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013218
- Language: English
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
$21.00 Add to cart“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” –Michelle Alexander, author of The Ne… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807088986
- Language: English
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Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped from a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a
$17.00 Add to cartTHE TRUE STORY OF A CROSSDRESSING, TRANSATLANTIC ADVENTURER WHO ESCAPED FROM A SPANISH CONVENT IN 1599 AND LIVED AS A MAN–GAMBLING, FIGHTING DUELS, AND LEADING SOLDIERS INTO BATTLE
Named a New York T- Author: de Erauso, Catalina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0807070734
- Language: English
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$17.95 Add to cartFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093335
- Language: English
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Read moreIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Fat
$25.95 Read moreFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What- Author: Gordon, Aubrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 0807041300
- Language: English
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Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
$29.95 Add to cartAn intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that the condition is untreatable and those diagnosed with it are “difficult,… [more below]
- Author: Kriss, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007811
- Language: English
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My S… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #12
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0807068535
- Language: English
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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
$17.00 Add to cartThe Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver’s classic poems, and two essays all about mammal… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807068853
- Language: English
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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
$17.95 Add to cartAn adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures
“Your parents are so amazing for adopting you!- Author: Tucker, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093378
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Mindfulness: Gift Edition
$22.00 Read moreA new gift edition of the classic guide to meditation and mindfulness, featuring archival photography and beautiful calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness is a classic guide to medi- Author: Nhat Hanh, Thich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0807064904
- Language: English
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How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
$14.95 Read moreA 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 throug- Author: Fleming, Crystal M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0807039845
- Language: English
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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
$16.95 Read moreLong before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama cal
- Author: Canada, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0807044490
- Language: English
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
$18.95 Add to cartA bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the ener- Author: Eltahawy, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0807002585
- Language: English
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School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
$25.95 Read moreA chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education–one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance
Black students were forced to live a- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 080705481X
- Language: English
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Craft and Conscience: How to Write about Social Issues
$19.95 Read moreThe first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues–a critical first step in creating social change
Writers are witnesses and scribes to society’s conscien- Author: Das, Kavita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0807046493
- Language: English
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Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
$19.95 Read more“Making Americans shines a light on the barriers that immigrant students in the US face–and shares inspiring stories about students who have overcome them” –Bill Gates
A landmark work that weaves cap… [more below]- Author: Lander, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013358
- Language: English
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What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
$17.95 Add to cart“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston… [more below]
- Author: Ofri, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0807033308
- Language: English
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
$16.95 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist
53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Bri- Author: Blain, Keisha N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007250
- Language: English
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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
$21.95 Add to cartAn eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities… [more below]
- Author: Mattlin, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013331
- Language: English
