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Spring 2011 Releases from Beacon Press
Books from Beacon Press coming out between January 2011 and April 2011.
Beacon Press Spring 2011 catalog
The Beacon Press Spring 2011 catalog for titles going on sale between January 1 and April 30, 2011.
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All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King, Jr., Excerpt
Read an excerpt from All Labor Has Dignity (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=8600). People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to e...
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Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr., Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Why We Can't Wait, Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 (http://www.beacon.org/productdetai...
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Overdiagnosed by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa Schwartz, and Dr. Steven Wolo...
Read an excerpt from Overdiagnosed (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=2200). Diagnoses of every condition, from high cholesterol and high blood pressure to osteoporosis, diab...
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Letters from Black America, edited by Pamela Newkirk, excerpt
A selection of letters from Letters from Black America (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0115) Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting t...
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Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, e...
Read chapter 3, "The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex" from Queer (In)justice (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=5116). In March 2003-three decades after Sto...
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When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty...
Read chapter 8: "The Specter of Vietnam" from When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and It's First Fifty Years (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=5051). On...
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Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, Excerpt
Read chapter 2, "Blackball's Heyday," from Raceball by Rob Ruck (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4805). From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Ame...
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Recovering a Lost River, Excerpt
Read Chapter 8 of Steven Hawley's "Recovering A Lost River" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0471). In the Pacific Northwest, the Snake River and its wilderness tributaries...
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Feel-Bad Education, excerpt
Read the introduction from Kohn's latest work, "Feel-Bad Education" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0140): Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental ...
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Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman, an excerpt
Read the prelude from Arms Wide Open (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?sku=0138), the new memoir from Patricia Harman, author of The Blue Cotton Gown. In her first, highly praise...
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In Defense of Women, Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Chapter 10 of Judge Nancy Gertner's "In Defense of Women" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=1143). Today Judge Nancy Gertner dons a long black robe whi...
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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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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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