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How momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothers On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance,...

Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever...

Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White...

No Meat Required is a bestselling culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food?Diet for a...

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States...

#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem,...

James Baldwin?s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers...

A young South Asian American woman's story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer?he daughter of a forbidden marriage...

Owls And Other Fantasies: Poems And EssaysAuthor: Mary OliverPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2006Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Plum Bun: A Novel Without A MoralAuthor: Jessie Redmon FausetPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: Mar 08, 2022Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: Gail DinesPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: April 26, 2011Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807001546ISBN-13: 9780807001547

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a...

As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong...

In stunning full color and accessible text, a graphic adaptation of the American Book Award winning history of the United States as told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples?erfect for readers...

An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public school education For well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place...

Shake Loose My Skin: New And Selected Poems (Bluestreak)Author: Sonia SanchezPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: Apr 07, 2000Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights how parents can avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, and make their child feel truly accepted, valued, and celebrated for who they are...

MLK?s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the...

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of ?kinky f*ckery,? as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of...

2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019? (Library Journal)...

Swan: Poems And Prose PoemsAuthor: Mary OliverPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: Mar 27, 2012Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807069140ISBN-13: 9780807069141

From a Washington Post critic and self-described meathead: a witty, incisive, poignant exploration of male body image, from the history of the gym to the politics of superheroes to the world of...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022 Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 ?Gayl Jones?s work represents a watershed in American literature." ?Imani Perry Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with...

A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse it In the United States, to be a Black American is to be a Black Christian. And...

One of the world's great meditation teachers offers thirty-four guided exercises that will bring both beginning and experienced practitioners into closer touch with their bodies, their inner selves,...

?No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and...

Described by Cornel West as ?a towering public intellectual and the leading universalist philosopher of his generation,? Forrest Church was one of the preeminent liberal theologians of our time. His...

An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions?and the next looming case In The Court v. The...

For fans of unheralded women?s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz?one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime ?No other American correspondent...