Seven Stories Press: 508 books
One Hand Jerking
Reports From an Investigative Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Counterculture legend Paul Krassner gazes on the fires of pop culture, politics and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us make sense of our senseless world, with an introduction by Lewis Black (The Daily Show) and a foreword by Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show).
From cults to pornography,...
The Sweetest Thing
A Boxer's Memoir
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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...