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Beacon Press books seek to change the way readers think about fundamental issues, promoting such values as freedom of speech and thought, the importance of economic and social justice issues, religious pluralism, respect for our environment, and the importance of the arts in a civil society.Beacon has published several national bestsellers, and its books are frequently reviewed and discussed in national print and broadcast media.They are also used in university and secondary school curricula, citywide reading programs, and reading groups, and within a variety of organizational and faith - based reading programs.

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The Heritage
Author: Howard Bryant
Product Code: 6876
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/29/2019
 
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism
 
 
Price: $17.00
The Hivemind Swarmed
Author: David Wolinsky
Product Code: 9410
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/13/2024
 

An incisive oral history that brings together the voices of major figures in gaming, tech, media, and politics to reflect on the long shadow of Gamergate


 
 
Price: $27.95
The Jefferson Bible
Author: Forrest Church   Afterword By: Jaroslav Pelikan
Product Code: 6087
Binding Info: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 10/01/1995
 
The Jefferson Bible offers extraordinary insight into the logic of Thomas Jefferson and the Gospel of Jesus.
 
 
Price: $18.00
The Kural
Translated by: Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma   Foreword bys: Andrew Harvey, Archana Venkatesan
Product Code: 5911
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/11/2022
 

A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece, uniquely rendering the unforgettable humanity, vitality, and wisdom of its verse in incandescent English.


 
 
Price: $24.95
The Lively Place
Author: Stephen Kendrick
Product Code: 6499
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/05/2016
 
The story of one of the Boston area’s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and “residents” have influenced American culture
 
 
Price: $16.00
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh   Illustrated By: Vo-Dinh Mai   Translated By: Mobi Ho
Product Code: 5016
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/01/1995
 

 
 
Price: $16.00
The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Product Code: 8310
Binding Info: Hard cover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/25/2016
 

A new gift edition of the classic guide to meditation and mindfulness, featuring archival photography and beautiful calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh

More on order


 
 
Price: $20.00
The New Science of Social Change
Author: Lisa Mueller
Product Code: 9413
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/20/2024
 

In this accessible guide for activists, scholar Lisa Mueller translates cutting-edge empirical research on effective protest to show how to make movements really matter


 
 
Price: $27.95
The New Wild
Author: Fred Pearce
Product Code: 6480
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/05/2016
 
A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong
 
 
Price: $20.00
The Not Good Enough Mother
Author: Sharon Lamb
Product Code: 6962
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/23/2020
 
A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis
 
 
Price: $16.00
The Patriarchs
Author: Angela Saini
Product Code: 9334
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/27/2024
 

For 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


 
 
Price: $17.95
The Price of the Ticket
Author: James Baldwin
Product Code: 8904
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/21/2021
 

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country”


 
 
Price: $24.95