Seven Stories Press imprint: 475 books

The Sweetest Thing

A Boxer's Memoir

by Mischa Merz
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary...

Hello Cruel World

101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

by Kate Bornstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival...

The Rich Don't Always Win

The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970

by Sam Pizzigati
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately...

The Battle for Saudi Arabia

Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power

by As'Ad Abukhalil
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem...
by As'Ad Abukhalil
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed...

Insurgent Iraq

Al Zarqawi and the New Generation

by Loretta Napoleoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

An unparalleled look into the Iraqi insurgency and the multitude of forces that continue to shape it, Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation presents a chilling account of the regrouping of terror networks, and the development of an Iraqi resistance since the invasion by coalition forces...

Hamas

From Resistance to Government

by Paola Caridi
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict? Italian journalist...
by Arundhati Roy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy...

Told You So

The Big Book of Weekly Columns

by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.” **—*****The New York Times *** The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big...
by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, based on testimony he delivered before Congress, Ralph Nader describes how corporations are picking our pockets, and what we can do to stop them. While the United States continues to experience unprecedented cuts in social service programs and millions of Americans...

In Pursuit of Justice

Collected Writings 2000-2003

by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Ralph Nader is one of America’s most controversial—and uncompromising— public figures. He is a man on a mission who believes that taking on the powers that be involves more than just talking about it—it also means taking action. From car safety in the 1960s to opposition to the World Trade...

When Harlem Nearly Killed King

The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

by Hugh Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure. Pearson...

Full Spectrum Dominance

U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond

by Rahul Mahajan
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

In this compelling big-picture assessment of the U.S. war on Iraq, Mahajan combines his experience as an anti–Iraq sanctions activist with a keen analysis of U.S. foreign policy in the post–Cold War era to provide the analysis that has been overlooked in the mainstream debate. Situating Iraq within...

Arctic Voices

Resistance at the Tipping Point

by Subhankar Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012

**"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where 'voices of resistance are gathering, are getting...
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