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Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi, an excerpt
Read an excerpt from Sowing Crisis by Rashid Khalidi (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=0311): During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and ...
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Beacon Press and the Pentagon Papers
Forty years ago, Beacon Press published what was then the most complete version of the Pentagon Papers. Excerpts had been previously published in the Washington Post, New York Times, and ...
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Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, excerpt
In Love the Sin, Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini make a solid case for loving the sinner and the sin. Rejecting both religious conservatives' arguments for sexual regulation and libe...
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Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, excerpt
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage shouldn't bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and ...
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Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man, excerpt
With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Moreover, it is rarely associated specifically with early American men...
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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, excerpt
Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-LGBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his elemen...
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The Tricky Part, excerpt
Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor he'd met at a Catholic boys' camp. Almost thirty years later, at the age of f...
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Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights, excerpt
The enormous advances of the civil rights movement have made it easier for LGBT youth to be "out," yet their increased visibility has led to myriad legal issues involving such critical ma...
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Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World
Come Out and Win will educate, engage, and agitate LGBT and straight activists to become involved in the political movement to win full equality under the law and sexual/gender freedom. S...
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The Daddy Shift, excerpt
Click here to read Chapter 1 from Jeremy Adam Smith's "Daddy Shift" (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=2121), a revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood-for men, their familie...
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Soaring with Fidel Excerpt
Click here to read Chapter 1 from David Gessner's Soaring with Fidel (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=8578). One September, after writing about ospreys on Cape Cod for year...
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, excerpt
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white...
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Taking a Chance on God excerpt
Read chapter 1, "Developing a Mature Faith Life," from Taking a Chance on God, by John McNeill (http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?sku=7945). The second book in John McNeill's pathb...
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Excerpt, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic Life
Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her fri...
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The Student Loan Scam, excerpt
Read chapter 3, "Collection Abuses," from The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History--and How We Can Fight Back by Alan Michael Collinge (http://www.beacon.org/produc...
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