BCUIM Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
BCUIM on X
Black Country Urban Industrial Mission - Workplace Chaplaincy Group sponsored by Christian Churches in the Black Country (UK) “Connecting Church & the Economy”
Leviathan
Thomas HobbesBCUIMB. #OTYD 1588 Thomas Hobbes, a founder of modern political philosophy. Best known for 1651 book Leviathan, expounding an influential formulation of social contract theory & also contributed to history, jurisprudence, geometry, physics, theology & ethics. 1/2 https://t.co/oaCwvoIvVm
Paperback, 2017
$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Road to Wigan Pier
George OrwellBCUIM#OTD 1937 George Orwell published his “The Road to Wigan Pier”, documenting his sociological investigations into bleak working class living conditions & poverty in industrial north of England during depression before WW2. 🧵 1/4 https://t.co/zxG7LSwdF3
Paperback, 1972
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsBCUIMD. #OTD 1897 Harriet Jacobs, escaped slave whose 1861 autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" became a classic & was influential in the abolitionist movement. https://t.co/3PyjQzrQJj
Paperback, 2001
$5.00Member price:$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah EquianoBCUIMB. #OTD 1745 Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian writer & abolitionist. Enslaved as child, earned freedom in 1766. Autobio:”The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” depicted horrors of slavery & aided passage of Slave Trade Act 1807 abolishing African slave trade. 🧵1/2 https://t.co/q4TBbCFn2r
Paperback, 2017
$4.75Member price:$4.75 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Christianizing the Social Order
Rauschenbusch WalterBCUIMB. #OTD 1861 Walter Rauschenbusch, theologian & pastor. His 1912 essay “Christianizing the Social Order” addressed social inequality, injustice & poverty, calling for Christian action. He believed Christians should be active in politics, voicing the conscience of society. https://t.co/CI0nQF2QVR
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95Member price:$35.96 + Free shipping10% off