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Selected Readings from Summer 2011 Books
Excerpts from books coming out between May 1 and August 31, 2011.
Beacon Press Summer 2011 Catalog of Titles
Catalog of titles from Beacon Press coming out between May 1, 2011, and August 31, 2011.
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Introduction, Visions of a Better World
Read the introduction from Quinton Dixie and Peter Eisenstadt's Visions of a Better World (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0045), the first biographical exploration of one of...
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Let the Students Speak! Excerpt
Read Chapter 6 from David Hudson, Jr.'s "Let the Students Speak!" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4454), an accessible and lively history of free speech, for and about stude...
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Introduction, Playbook for Progressives
Read the introduction from Eric Mann's Playbook for Progressives(http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4735). An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Pr...
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High Stakes Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Sam Skolnik's "High Stakes" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0629). America is becoming hooked on gambling. From the millions of dens and dorm rooms lit...
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Cabin Fever, Excerpt
Read Chapter 13 from Tom Montgomery Fate's Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0096). Try to imagine Thoreau married, with ...
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Finding Higher Ground, Excerpt
Read Chapter 3 from Amy Seidl's Finding Higher Ground (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?sku=8598). While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our ...
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Nina Here Nor There, an excerpt
Read the beginning of Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0092). Ambitious, sporty, feminine "capital-L lesbians" ...
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A Queer History of the United States, Excerpt
Read an excerpt from Michael Bronski's "A Queer History of the United States" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4439), the first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bi...
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Reader's Guide for Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate
A reader's guide for Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate. A modern Walden--if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan--Cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in...
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Reader's Guide for A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
A Reader's Guide for A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski--the first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the...
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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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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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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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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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