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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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They Take Our Jobs!
Author: Aviva Chomsky
Product Code: 6745
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/24/2018
 
Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book that demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigration
 
 
Price: $16.00
Thirst
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 4114
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/15/2007
 

 
 
Price: $18.00
Thou, Dear God
Editor: Lewis V. Baldwin   Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Product Code: 6382
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/04/2014
 

 
 
Price: $15.00
To Be a Problem
Author: Dara Baldwin   Foreword by: Keith P. Jones
Product Code: 9405
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 07/09/2024
 

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color


 
 
Price: $24.95
Touched Out (p)
Author: Amanda Montei
Product Code: 9420
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/24/2024
 

In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children

Available for Preorder


 
 
Price: $17.95
Transfarmation
Author: Leah Garcés
Product Code: 9419
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/17/2024
 

The story of factory farmers, rescued farm animals, and rural communities standing up to big corporations and constructing their own new world that will change the way we eat

Available for Preorder


 
 
Price: $27.95
Treating Violence
Author: Rob Gore
Product Code: 9337
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/07/2024
 

The inspiring story of a Black doctor deeply affected by the violence in his childhood that plagued his Brooklyn community who was determined to be a force for change and dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues


 
 
Price: $27.95
Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools
Authors: Raynard Sanders, David Stovall, Terrenda C White   Foreword by: Karen Lewis
Product Code: 6701
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/03/2018
 

How charter schools have taken hold in three cities—and why parents, teachers, and community members are fighting back


 
 
Price: $17.00
Two Billion Caliphs
Author: Haroon Moghul
Product Code: 9374
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/16/2023
 

Explains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theology and identity ready to face tomorrow.

2024 General Assembly Featured Speaker


 
 
Price: $16.95
Unapologetic
Author: Charlene Carruthers
Product Code: 6915
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/27/2019
 
This 21st-century activist’s guide to upending mainstream ideas about race, class, and gender carves out a path to collective liberation
 
 
Price: $14.95
Unbroken Chains
Author: Melissa Hope Ditmore
Product Code: 9336
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/30/2024
 

An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy—from the stories of its survivors


 
 
Price: $18.95
Understanding the Bible
Author: John A. Buehrens
Product Code: 6170
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 06/15/2004
 

Designed to help empower skeptics, seekers, nonbelievers, and those of a liberal and progressive outlook to reclaim the Bible from literalists.


 
 
Price: $18.00