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Beacon Press Fall 2013 Catalog

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The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth, Introduction

5 pages

Chapter 12 from Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vani...

14 pages

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American La...

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"Killing Chickens" from Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredi...

Chapter 1 from The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir b...

Prologue to Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Gal...

Introduction to Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table...

A selection from The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writing...

Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels with...

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era...

Talking with Young Children about Terrorism and War

Beacon Press Fall 2013 Catalog

Light without Fire: The Making of American's First Muslim...

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl--In...

The New Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian

Chapter 12 from Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery...

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in t...

Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Buri...

My Mother's Wars by Lillian Faderman, preface

A Selection from Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story ...

Millennial Characteristics: From Fast Future by David Bur...

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Communi...

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Nature and Environment by Beacon Press (View All 20 Documents)

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl--In...

Chapter 12 from Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery...

Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Buri...

Prologue to Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and...

Excerpt from Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Be...

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth,...

Who are the Land Grabbers? (from Fred Pearce's The Land G...

Before They're Gone, Chapter 6

Introduction, Harvest the Wind

A Mind of Winter: Poems for a Snowy Season

A chapter from Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rach...

5 Principles for a Water Ethic in Your Community by Cynth...

Soaring with Fidel Excerpt

Cabin Fever, Excerpt

Reader's Guide for Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate

Finding Higher Ground, Excerpt

Recovering a Lost River, Excerpt

Biocidal by Ted Dracos

Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas

A Reader's Guide to the Land Grabbers by Fred Pearce

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Reader's Guide for Not Quite Paradise by Adele Barker

Reader's Guide for A Queer History of the United States b...

Reader's Guide for Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate

Discussion Guide for Nina Here Nor There

A Reader's Guide for Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Lut...

A Reader's Guide for God vs. Gay? by Jay Michaelson

A Reader's Guide for Faitheist by Chris Stedman

A Reader's Guide for the Death of Josseline by Margaret R...

A Reader's Guide to All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald

A Reader's Guide to the Land Grabbers by Fred Pearce

A Reader's Guide to The Blue Cotton Gown by Patricia Harman

A Reader's Guide to Remembering the Music, Forgetting the...

A Reader's Guide to Corregidora by Gayl Jones

A Reader's Guide to Kindred by Octavia Butler

A Reader's Guide to the Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri

A Reader's Guide to The Tent of Abraham by John Chittster...

A Reader's Guide to Inheriting the Trade by Tom DeWolf

A Reader's Guide to Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra ...

A Reader's Guide to Incidental Findings by Danielle Ofri,...

A Reader's Guide to Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway

Fall 2012 Releases from Beacon Press by Beacon Press (View All 30 Documents)

A selection from Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and...

Chapter 2 from The Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey f...

Introduction to Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush...

Introduction, Gaga Feminism

Introduction, A Disability History of the United States b...

Beacon Press Fall 2012 Catalog

Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade ag...

Introduction to Family Pride: What LGBT Families Should K...

Chapter 1, Prairie Silence: A Memoir

Edward P. Jones' Introduction to Notes of a Native Son by...

Twilight Cheat Sheet From Fanpire - WARNING: SPOILERS

Introduction, Soul Repair

Chapter 5, The Sixty Thousand-Dollar Dog

Excerpt from Fanpire: The Twilight Saga and the Women Who...

Excerpt from Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Be...

A sampler from Tweet Land of Liberty by Elinor Lipman

Preface, Finding Fernanda

Chapter 5, Showdown

Introduction, "In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global ...

A selection from A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to...

Black History Month reading recommendations by Beacon Press (View All 26 Documents)

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Communi...

Introduction to The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Edward P. Jones' Introduction to Notes of a Native Son by...

Introduction, "In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global ...

A selection from A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to...

Introduction, Gather at the Table

Introduction to Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, ...

Introduction to The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave N...

Juneteenth Recipes from The Historical Cookbook of the Am...

Chapter 5, Jumped In

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

A selection from "Thou, Dear God": Prayers the Open Heart...

Chapter 5, Showdown

Excerpt, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Dom...

Introduction, Visions of a Better World

Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and L...

Letters from Black America, edited by Pamela Newkirk, exc...

Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr., Excerpt

Where Do We Go from Here by Martin Luther King, Jr, Excerpt

Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr., Excerpt

Spring 2013 Releases from Beacon Press by Beacon Press (View All 24 Documents)

Spring 2013 Catalog

Chapter 1, White Bread

The Most Expensive Game in Town, Introduction

The Cure for Everything, Introduction

Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraor...

Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule o...

Introduction, The Accordion Family

Before They're Gone, Chapter 6

Chapter 1, A Queer and Pleasant Danger

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth,...

Introduction--Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Compa...

Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Wa...

Billionaires' Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic...

Introduction, Harvest the Wind

Chapter 5, Jumped In

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Communi...

My Mother's Wars by Lillian Faderman, preface

Raising Global IQ: Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking...

Introduction for Fast Future: How the Millennial Generati...

Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Buri...

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Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Wa...

Where Do We Go from Here by Martin Luther King, Jr, Excerpt

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Ste...

Prophetic Encounters, Introduction

Chapter 1, Faitheist

Introduction to Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush...

Introduction, A Disability History of the United States b...

A selection from A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to...

Introduction to Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, ...

Introduction, Gaga Feminism

Chapter 2 from The Springs of Namje: A Ten-Year Journey f...

Excerpt from Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Be...

Edward P. Jones' Introduction to Notes of a Native Son by...

Edward P. Jones' Introduction to Notes of a Native Son by...

Edward P. Jones' Introduction to Notes of a Native Son by...

A selection from A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to...

Excerpt from Fanpire: The Twilight Saga and the Women Who...

Twilight Cheat Sheet From Fanpire - WARNING: SPOILERS

10 Myths about Unions - 18 x 24 poster

Twilight Cheat Sheet From Fanpire - WARNING: SPOILERS

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