Beacon Press
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
$17.00 Read moreWhat science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0807010030
- Language: English
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
$26.95 Read moreThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
I- Author: Diangelo, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0807047406
- Language: English
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Nature and Walking
$16.00 Read moreTogether in one volume, Emerson’s Nature and Thoreau’s Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0807014192
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$25.95 Read moreA 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture- Author: Tucker, Ricky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807003484
- Language: English
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
$18.95 Add to cartA new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history–and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it.
Around no- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 080707800X
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
$19.95 Add to cartFind hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning.
Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentr- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 23 2020
- ISBN10: 080700555X
- Language: English
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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
$20.00 Add to cartIn this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a wa… [more below]
- Author: DeSalvo, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0807072435
- Language: English
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Watershed
$17.00 Add to cartA classic of politics, murder, and espionage
“Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller…In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn’t just work, i- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016276
- Language: English
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Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
$17.00 Add to cartFor readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.
Originally publish- Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers
- Author: Fauset, Jessi Redmon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0807006602
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$28.95 Add to cartIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documenta… [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006114
- Language: English
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God’s Country
$17.00 Add to cart“Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears.” ―David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
This ‘comic and fierce’ novel spoofs the classic Western format with t- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807016292
- Language: English
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
$18.00 Add to cartThis fascinating critique of race science, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, is an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” (Slate).
“An importa- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0807028428
- Language: English
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Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging, accessible introduction to Buddhism for those who are looking to explore a new spiritual tradition or understand the roots of their mindfulness practice.
Are you curious about Buddhism bu- Author: Salguero, C. Pierce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0807064564
- Language: English
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The Radiant Lives of Animals
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award
From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal wo- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0807047929
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
$27.95 Read moreThe first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
Beginning with pre-Rev- Series: Revisioning History
- Author: Mays, Kyle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0807011681
- Language: English
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Palmares
$17.95 Read more2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction
A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection A New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection – A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick – A- Author: Jones, Gayl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007153
- Language: English
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history–and futur… [more below]
- Author: Podemski, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007781
- Language: English
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
$20.00 Read moreMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.
A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the succe- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000698
- Language: English
