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Spring 2010 books from Beacon Press

Beacon Press books released January through August 2010.

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Beacon Press Spring 2010 Catalog

The Beacon Press catalog of new titles coming out March 2010 through August 2010.

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Are We Born Racist?

An excerpt from Are We Born Racist?: New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=1157). Where do our prejudices come from? Why a...

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  • 06 / 28 / 2010
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Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement t...

Read an excerpt from Quality Education as a Constitutional Right (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=3282). Legendary civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses i...

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  • 06 / 18 / 2010
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Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington

Now available in paperback. Read the prologue from Nobody Turn Me Around, a dramatic account of the 1963 March on Washington—the demonstration that changed America (http://www.beacon.org...

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  • 06 / 18 / 2010
16 p.

A City So Grand

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, read an excerpt from Stephen Puleo's A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=5043)....

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  • 06 / 17 / 2010
15 p.

An excerpt from She Looks Just Like You

NOW IN PAPERBACK, read a section from She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood by Amie Klempnauer Miller. Part love story, part comedy, part quest, this is ...

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  • 06 / 17 / 2010
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The Boys from Little Mexico - Chapter 1

Read Chapter 1 from The Boys from Little Mexico (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0152). Woodburn High’s Bulldogs, aka Los Perros, started their 2005 soccer season with eight...

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  • 06 / 10 / 2010
19 p.

An excerpt of From the Closet to the Courtoom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That...

NOW IN PAPERBACK, read two sections from Chapter 2 of From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation by Carlos A. Ball (http://www.beacon.org/pro...

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  • 05 / 26 / 2010
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An excerpt from Pornland--"Racy Sex, Sexy Racism: Porn from the Dark Side"

NOW IN PAPERBACK, read an excerpt from Pornland (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0154). Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two...

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  • 05 / 24 / 2010
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An excerpt from Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality by Gail Dines

Read an excerpt from Pornland (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0154). Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She atte...

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  • 05 / 21 / 2010
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An excerpt from The Overloaded Liberal by Fran Hawthorne

NOW IN PAPERBACK, read an excerpt from chapter 1 of Fran Hawthorne's book, The Overloaded Liberal, which tackles the ethical dilemmas of everyday life (http://www.beacon.org/productdetail...

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  • 04 / 12 / 2010
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An excerpt from The Match: "Savior Siblings" and One Family's Battle to Heal ...

NOW IN PAPERBACK, read an excerpt from the The Match (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0121). My Sister’s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s quest to cure their daughter’s debi...

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