Seven Stories Press imprint: 475 books
by Michael McCaughan
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people’s choice. It was, in his words,...
by Antonio Negri, Raf Valvola Scelsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today’s leading leftists, presenting his most up-to-date analysis of global events and insight into the prospects for the Left in an age of neoliberalism. In his most accessible work yet, philosopher Antonio Negri discusses the state...
Globalizing Civil Society
Reclaiming Our Right to Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the "destructive nihilism" of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern indigenous...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the...
by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Ralph Nader's newest work of the imagination, Animal Envy, is a fable about the kinds of intelligences that are all around us in other animals. What would animals tell us—about themselves, about us—if there were a common language among all animal species? A bracingly simple idea, one that has...
by Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay...
The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous...
Islands of Resistance
Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between...
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Sixteen-year-old Martha's luck is finally changing. Taken in by a kind young priest, Father Ralph Fitzgerald, and his wealthy mother, she gets a taste of "how the other half lives" and resolves to make a better life for herself once and for all. Soon she's off to school to become a secretary:...
The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11
What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The 9/11 Commission Report is widely declared to be the definitive account of the most devastating attack ever to take place on American soil, but in truth the most vital questions about 9/11 have not been asked, and an ever-growing number of facts casts clouds of suspicion over the actions and motivations...
A Political Odyssey
The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this candid portrait, former two-term senator from Alaska and 2008 presidential candidate Gravel expounds on his views of the military-industrial complex, the imperial presidency, postwar US foreign policy, and corporate America; critically assesses figures he worked with, such as Jimmy Carter...
The Zinn Reader
Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible....
Army of None
Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt...