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PrefaceJack Mendelsohn's liberal ministry of sixty-two years continues to express his passion for Beacon Press Books. As author as well as preacher and prophet, he is esteemed by unitarian Universalists as well as a lively circle of action oriented citizens. Here now he celebrates Beacon Press books, published by the Unitarian Universalist Association—a precious shocase of real religion expressed as art, sex, education, literature, spirituality, and democracy. Beacon Press on historic Beacon Hill, Boston, is an esteemed member of the Association of American University Presses Beacon Press Website
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People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements
America has a long history of protest and rebellion. In People's Movements, People's Press, Bob Ostertag recounts the history of the alternative print media that has arisen out of five social movementsâ€”abolition, woman suffrage, environmental, gay liberation, and Vietnam antiwar. By telling the story of the newspapers and magazines of these movements, Ostertag shows the power of the written word to mobilize activists behind a political cause.
Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages
The inspiring story of America's only successful battle for gay marriage "the court cases, the protests, and finally, the weddings!"
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.
The Place of Tolerance in Islam
A prominent critic of Islamic Puritanism leads a lively debate by arguing that Islam is a deeply tolerant religion. Injunctions to violence against nonbelievers stem from misreadings of the Qur'an, Abou El Fadl claims, and even jihad, or so-called holy war, has no basis in Qur'anic text or Muslim theology but instead grew out of social and political conflict. Leading scholars of Islam offer nuanced commentary.
American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
How vengeance has replaced rehabilitation in our prisons and its terrible costs. In this dramatic expose of U.S. penitentiaries and the communities around them, Sasha Abramsky finds that prisons have dumped their age-old goal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. The new "ideal," unknown to most Americans, is a punitive mandate marked by a drive toward vengeance.
The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World
A powerful argument for using conservation biology and grassroots organizing to build wilderness on a large scale. With appropriate urgency and a thorough understanding of history and the issues, Jonathan Adams offers a sound conservation strategy in The Future of the Wild,
Writing the Western Landscape
The early twentieth-century works by Mary Austin and John Muir are nature-writing classics. Austin and Muir both adopted the American West as their home and wrote about its grand and wild landscapes in ways that came to define the genre of western nature writing.
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Among the physicist-turned philosopher’s most famous works, The Psychoanalysis of Fire probes the human perception and experience of fire, throughout history, in symbols and literature, and in daily life. One of the 20th century’s great phenomenologists, Bachelard is hailed for his ability to explore the ordinary with provocative originality.
The Media Monopoly: Sixth Edition
This sixth edition of the classic work on control of the modern media describes the digital revolution and reveals startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States.
Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession
This dramatic memoir by one of America’s most respected journalists and media critics takes us from the author’s narrow escape from a Turkish massacre of Armenians as a young child, to his secret acquisition of the Pentagon Papers, to the transformation of American journalism over the last half century.
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