Publishers Beacon Press

Cover for Pamela S. Nadell · Women Who Would Be Rabbis: a History of Women's Ordination, 1889-1985 (Paperback Book) [New edition] (1999)

Women Who Would Be Rabbis: a His... (1999)

Pamela S. Nadell

Cover for Carol Corbett Burris · On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-first-century Struggle Against Resegregation (Paperback Book) (2015)

On the Same Track: How Schools C... (2015)

Carol Corbett Burris

Cover for Danielle Ofri · When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error (Hardcover Book) (2020)

When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confro... (2020)

Cover for Charlene Carruthers · Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Paperback Book) (2019)

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, an... (2019)

Charlene Carruthers

Cover for Imani Perry · Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Paperback Book) (2019)

Looking for Lorraine: The Radian... (2019)

Cover for Lara Bazelon · Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction (Paperback Book) (2019)

Rectify: The Power of Restorativ... (2019)

Cover for V.P. Franklin · The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover Book) (2021)

The Young Crusaders: The Untold ... (2021)

Cover for Margaret Peacock · A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year (Hardcover Book) (2022)

A Deeper Sickness: Journal of Am... (2022)

Margaret Peacock

Cover for Michael A. Messner · Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity (Paperback Book) (1995)

Power at Play: Sports and the Pr... (1995)

Michael A. Messner

Cover for Marian Wright Edelman · Wasting America's Future (Paperback Book) [First edition] (1994)

Wasting America's Future (1994)

Marian Wright Edelman

Cover for Stephen Steinberg · Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Paperback Book) [3rd edition] (2001)

Turning Back: The Retreat from R... (2001)

Stephen Steinberg

Cover for Aubrey Gordon · What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Hardcover Book) (2020)

What We Don’t Talk About When We... (2020)

Cover for Janet Jakobsen · Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Paperback Book) (2004)

Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation ... (2004)

Cover for E.j. Graff · What is Marriage For?: the Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Paperback Book) (2004)

What is Marriage For?: the Stran... (2004)

Cover for Rebecca Todd Peters · Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice (Paperback Book) (2019)

Trust Women: A Progressive Chris... (2019)

Rebecca Todd Peters

Cover for Juergen Habermas · Toward a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics (Paperback Book) [1st Published As Beacon Ppbk in 1971 edition] (1971)

1st Published As Beacon Ppbk in 1971 edition

Toward a Rational Society: Stude... (1971)

Juergen Habermas

Cover for Linda F. Nathan · When Grit Isn't Enough: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools (Paperback Book) (2018)

When Grit Isn't Enough: Why We C... (2018)

Linda F. Nathan

Cover for Philip Slater · The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal (Paperback Book) (1990)

The Pursuit of Loneliness: Ameri... (1990)

Cover for Lisa Dodson · Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America (Paperback Book) (1999)

Don't Call Us Out of Name: The U... (1999)

Cover for Etta Kralovec · The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning (Paperback Book) (2001)

The End of Homework: How Homewor... (2001)

Cover for Sasha Abramsky · American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment (Paperback Book) (2008)

American Furies: Crime, Punishme... (2008)

Cover for Alan Collinge · The Student Loan Scam: the Most Oppressive Debt in U.s. History and How We Can Fight Back (Paperback Book) (2010)

The Student Loan Scam: the Most ... (2010)

Cover for David W. Moore · The Opinion Makers (Paperback Book) (2009)

The Opinion Makers (2009)

Cover for Philip Slater · A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal (Paperback Book) (1992)

A Dream Deferred: America's Disc... (1992)

Cover for Linda Stout · Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing (Paperback Book) [1st edition] (1997)

Bridging the Class Divide: And O... (1997)

Cover for Ronald V. Dellums · Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power (Paperback Book) [First Printing edition] (2000)

First Printing edition

Lying Down with the Lions: A Pub... (2000)

Ronald V. Dellums

Cover for Lani Guinier · Who's Qualified?: A New Democracy Forum on the Future of Affirmative Action - New Democracy Forum (Paperback Book) [1st edition] (2001)

Who's Qualified?: A New Democrac... (2001)

Cover for Jane Eisner · Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy (Paperback Book) (2004)

Taking Back the Vote: Getting Am... (2004)

Cover for Polly J. Price · Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America (Hardcover Book) (2022)

Plagues in the Nation: How Epide... (2022)

Cover for Arthur Browne · One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York (Paperback Book) (2016)

One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle... (2016)

Cover for Howard Zinn · You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History (Paperback Book) (2018)

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving... (2018)

Cover for Thomas Ross · Just Stories (Paperback Book) (1997)

Just Stories (1997)

Cover for William Ayers · A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Paperback Book) (1998)

A Kind and Just Parent: The Chil... (1998)

Cover for Jane Balin · Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change (Paperback Book) [2nd Printing edition] (1997)

2nd Printing edition

Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law S... (1997)

Cover for David R. Dow · Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row (Paperback Book) (2006)

Executed on a Technicality: Leth... (2006)

Cover for Christopher Finan · From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: a History of the Fight for Free Speech in America (Paperback Book) (2008)

From the Palmer Raids to the Pat... (2008)

Christopher Finan

Cover for Geoffrey Canada · Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (Paperback Book) (2010)

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal... (2010)

Geoffrey Canada

Cover for David L. Hudson · Let The Students Speak! (Paperback Book) (2011)

Let The Students Speak! (2011)

David L. Hudson

Cover for Michael Bronski · A Queer History of the United States - ReVisioning History (Paperback Book) (2012)

A Queer History of the United St... (2012)

Michael Bronski

Cover for Tom Wooten · We Shall Not be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina (Paperback Book) (2014)

We Shall Not be Moved: Rebuildin... (2014)

Cover for Dina Gilio-Whitaker · Who Gets to Be Indian?: Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Who Gets to Be Indian?: Ethnic F... (2025)

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Cover for Jennifer Ruth · The Right To Learn: Resisting the Right-wing Attack on Academic Freedom (Paperback Book) (2024)

The Right To Learn: Resisting th... (2024)

Cover for Alex Zamalin · Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop (Hardcover Book) (2025)

Counterculture: The Story of Ame... (2025)

Cover for Anthony Pinn · The Black Practice of Disbelief (Hardcover Book) (2024)

The Black Practice of Disbelief (2024)

Cover for Yashica Dutt · Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System (Hardcover Book) [Updated edition] (2024)

Updated edition

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of... (2024)

Cover for W. Ralph Eubanks · When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land (Hardcover Book) (2026)

When It's Darkness on the Delta:... (2026)

W. Ralph Eubanks

Release January 13, 2026

Cover for Bronislaw Malinowski · Sexual Life of Savages (Paperback Book) [1st edition] (1987)

Sexual Life of Savages (1987)

Bronislaw Malinowski

Cover for Faye Ginsburg · Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Paperback Book) (1992)

Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gen... (1992)

Cover for Paula Gunn Allen · The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (Paperback Book) [2 Revised edition] (1992)

2 Revised edition

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the ... (1992)

Paula Gunn Allen

Cover for Renato Rosaldo · Culture & Truth: the Remaking of Social Analysis (Paperback Book) (1993)

Culture & Truth: the Remaking of... (1993)

Cover for Emily Martin · Flexible Bodies (Paperback Book) (1995)

Flexible Bodies (1995)

Cover for Sidney Mintz · Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past (Paperback Book) (1997)

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: E... (1997)

Cover for Sherry B Ortner · Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture (Paperback Book) [New edition] (1997)

Making Gender: The Politics and ... (1997)

Sherry B Ortner

Cover for William Flores · Latino Cultural Citizenship (Paperback Book) (1998)

Latino Cultural Citizenship (1998)

Cover for Ralph Cintron · Angels Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of Everyday (Paperback Book) (1998)

Angels Town: Chero Ways, Gang Li... (1998)

Cover for Mary Zeiss Stange · Woman The Hunter (Paperback Book) [New edition] (1998)

Woman The Hunter (1998)

Mary Zeiss Stange

Cover for Paula Gunn Allen · Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting, Border-crossing Loose Cannons (Paperback Book) (1999)

Off the Reservation: Reflections... (1999)

Paula Gunn Allen

Cover for David Carrasco · City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (Paperback Book) (2000)

City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Emp... (2000)

Cover for Carol Burke · Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, And The High-And-Tight (Paperback Book) (2005)

Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, A... (2005)

Cover for Timothy Taylor · The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death (Paperback Book) (2005)

The Buried Soul: How Humans Inve... (2005)

Cover for Claude Levi-Strauss · The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Paperback Book) [New edition] (1971)

The Elementary Structures of Kin... (1971)

Claude Levi-Strauss

Cover for Claude Levi-Strauss · Totemism (Paperback Book) [1st. edition] (1971)

Totemism (1971)

Claude Levi-Strauss

Cover for Johan Huizinga · Homo Ludens: a Study of the Play-element in Culture (Paperback Book) (1971)

Homo Ludens: a Study of the Play... (1971)

Cover for Dana Frank · What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times (Hardcover Book) (2024)

What Can We Learn from the Great... (2024)

Cover for Herman E. Daly · For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (Paperback Book) [Revised edition] (1994)

Revised edition

For The Common Good: Redirecting... (1994)

Cover for Herman Daly · Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (Paperback Book) [New edition] (1997)

Beyond Growth: The Economics of ... (1997)

Cover for Dana Frank · Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Paperback Book) (2000)

Buy American: The Untold Story o... (2000)

Cover for Philippe Van Parijs · What's Wrong With a Free Lunch? - New Democracy Forum (Paperback Book) [First edition] (2001)

What's Wrong With a Free Lunch? ... (2001)

Philippe Van Parijs

Cover for William H. Gates · Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Paperback Book) (2004)

Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why... (2004)

William H. Gates

Cover for Ellen Frank · The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation About the Deficit, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America (Paperback Book) (2005)

The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misi... (2005)

Cover for Mark Winne · Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture (Paperback Book) (2011)

Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners... (2011)

Cover for Robin DiAngelo · White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback Book) (2018)

White Fragility: Why It's So Har... (2018)

Cover for Erika Janik · Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction (Paperback Book) (2017)

Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Year... (2017)

Cover for Linda Hogan · The Radiant Lives of Animals (Hardcover Book) (2020)

The Radiant Lives of Animals (2020)

Cover for Rob Ruck · Raceball (Paperback Book) (2012)

Raceball (2012)

Cover for Benjamin van Rooij · The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse (Hardcover Book) (2021)

The Behavioral Code: The Hidden ... (2021)

Benjamin van Rooij

Cover for Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (Paperback Book) (2019)

Indigenous Peoples' History of t... (2019)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Cover for Shaun O'Connell · Remarkable, Unspeakable New York (Paperback Book) (1997)

Remarkable, Unspeakable New York (1997)

Shaun O'Connell

Cover for Philip C. Winslow · Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Land Mines and the Global Legacy of War (Paperback Book) (1998)

Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Land ... (1998)

Philip C. Winslow

Cover for Pat Willard · Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice (Paperback Book) (2002)

Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond... (2002)

Cover for Vijay Prashad · Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Paperback Book) (2002)

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: ... (2002)

Cover for Howard Zinn · Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Paperback Book) (2002)

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians... (2002)

Cover for Stephen Kendrick · Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America (Paperback Book) (2006)

Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blac... (2006)

Stephen Kendrick

Cover for Marilynn S. Johnson · Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City (Paperback Book) (2004)

Street Justice: A History of Pol... (2004)

Marilynn S. Johnson

Cover for Graham White · The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech (Paperback Book) (2006)

The Sounds of Slavery: Discoveri... (2006)

Cover for Francis Russell · A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike (Paperback Book) (2005)

A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidg... (2005)

Francis Russell

Cover for Thomas Foster · Sex And The Eighteenth-Century Man (Paperback Book) (2007)

Sex And The Eighteenth-Century Man (2007)

Cover for Penny Coleman · Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War (Paperback Book) (2007)

Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress ... (2007)

Cover for Stanley Meisler · When the World Calls: the Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years (Paperback Book) (2012)

When the World Calls: the Inside... (2012)

Stanley Meisler

Cover for Moore, Barrington, Jr. · Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Paperback Book) [Reprint edition] (1993)

Reprint edition

Social Origins of Dictatorship a... (1993)

Moore, Barrington, Jr.

Cover for Catherine Ceniza Choy · Asian American Histories of the United States (Hardcover Book) (2022)

Asian American Histories of the ... (2022)

Catherine Ceniza Choy

Cover for Neil Miller · Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil (Paperback Book) (2011)

Banned in Boston: The Watch and ... (2011)

Cover for Elizabeth Cummins Munoz · Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies (Hardcover Book) (2022)

Mothercoin: The Stories of Immig... (2022)

Elizabeth Cummins Munoz

Cover for King, Martin Luther, Jr. · Strength to Love (Hardcover Book) (2019)

Strength to Love (2019)

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Cover for D Michael Shafer · Legacy: The Vietnam War in the American Imagination (Paperback Book) (1992)

Legacy: The Vietnam War in the A... (1992)

D Michael Shafer

Cover for Joel Martin · Sacred Revolt (Paperback Book) [Reissue edition] (1993)

Reissue edition

Sacred Revolt (1993)

Cover for Rosemary Radford Ruether · Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family (Paperback Book) (2001)

Christianity and the Making of t... (2001)

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Cover for Philip Warburg · Harness the Sun America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future (Paperback Book) (2016)

Harness the Sun America's Quest ... (2016)

Cover for Richard Hofstadter · Social Darwinism in American Thought (Paperback Book) [Revised edition] (1992)

Revised edition

Social Darwinism in American Tho... (1992)

Richard Hofstadter

Cover for Matthew Restall · Maya Conquistador (Paperback Book) (1999)

Maya Conquistador (1999)

Matthew Restall