Cliff and Ossi have grown up in Plymouth on the island of Tobago, their lives turning on the axis of small-town life. One day they watch the arrival of a couple and their child at a luxurious house o
There have been more than 250,000 copies sold of this famous introduction to Buddhist meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle stories and exercises show us how to use the practice of
The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—an
On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of the nature classicFirst published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and cont
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in
A harrowing chronicle by two leading historians, capturing in real time the events of a year marked by multiple devastations. Professors Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson set out to chronicle, preserve, and explore the medical, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, technological, and even personal impacts of the 12 astonishing months of the year 2020. Written in the present tense as a journal, with critical primary sources included throughout the narrative, Journal of a Pandemic Year is about more than the virus. Through real-time expert interviews and historical analysis, the authors reveal the other illnesses--such as racism, class inequity, rampant drug addiction, and environmental abuses, among others--that have been revealed and amplified in these times of Pandemic.
Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 psychiatrist Viktor Frankl l
What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the
A treatise of Black women's transformative influence in media, entertainment, and politics, and why this intersectional movement building, especially on Twitter, is essential to the resistanceIn Recla
First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. "Confiscated by colonial police throughout the world si
There have been more than 250,000 copies sold of this famous introduction to Buddhist meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle stories and exercises show us how to use the practice of
In this all-new sequel to the Beacon bestseller Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times, editor Joan Murray has once again gathered an astonishing group of poems that speak to our personal and shared conc
