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BOOK PICK: The Long Loneliness – The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

By Dorothy Day

A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself “to bring[ing] about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.”

BOOK PICK: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

By The People of the United States of America
This pocket edition of America’s founding documents is a must for every student, teacher, and informed citizen.

BOOK PICK: The Communist Manifesto

By Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

In the 150 years since its publication, no other treatise has inspired such a dividing and violent debate, and after the recent collapse of several regimes which had initially embraced it, a retrospective interpretation of the essential ideas it advocates is presented in this comprehensive volume. This edition [...]

BOOK PICK: Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm X

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X.  His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times.
“Extraordinary.  A brilliant, painful, important [...]

BOOK PICK: Teachers As Cultural Workers- Letters to Those Who Dare Teach

By Paulo Freire

In Teachers as Cultural Workers, Freire speaks directly to teachers about the lessons learned from a lifetime of experience as an educator and social theorist. Freire’s words challenge all who teach to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning. He shows why a [...]

BOOK PICK: Ignatius of Loyola – Personal Writings

By Ignatius of Loyola

St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556), founder of the revolutionary Jesuit Order, is one of the key figures in Christian history. These Personal Writings reveal the intense inwardness and devotional depths of the private man. His Reminiscences give a vivid account of his conversion and psychological turmoil, of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, [...]

BOOK PICK: St. Francis and the Foolishness of God

By Marie Dennis, Joseph Nangle, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Stuart Taylor

To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.

BOOK PICK: Salted with Fire: Spirituality for the Faithjustice Journey

By Fred Kammer, S.J.

Salted with Fire blends the realities of social injustice and the burdens of working for justice and peace with a hopeful spirituality, all brewed in the cauldron of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. The book is for the young, who dream dreams of a more just world, and for their elders, [...]

BOOK PICK: Rules for Radicals

By Saul Alinsky

The father of modern community organization, Saul Alinsky taught a generation of activists and politicians how to effectively construct social change. In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky writes with passion and intelligence, carefully outlining “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Indispensable since its first publication in 1971, this [...]

BOOK PICK: Race Matters

By Cornel West

With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America?s ongoing racial debate.
Cornel West is at the forefront of thinking about race. In Race Matters he addresses a range of issues, from the crisis in black [...]