Seven Stories Press: 508 books
Negative Ethnicity
From Bias to Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues...
Microradio & Democracy
(Low) Power to the People
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases,...
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
The latest book from "the most despicable philosopher in the West" (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech.
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond...
by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary...
The Postpartum Effect
Deadly Depression in Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The past decade has seen strides in the diagnosis and treatment of postpartum depression, which affects 400,000 women annually in the United States. Yet the most tragic of these cases—the filicides and suicides that spark tabloid frenzy—continue to be horribly misdiagnosed. Dr. Arlene Huysman,...
Clean
El programa revolucionario para restaurar la capacidad natural autocurativa del cuerpo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Cuántos de nosotros podríamos decir sinceramente que no padecemos de al menos uno de los siguientes problemas:
● Gripes o virus cada año
● Alergias o fiebre del heno
● Sobrepeso persistente
● Noches sin descanso
● Indigestión recurrente,...
Silencing Political Dissent
How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical...
A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon...
Order Without Power
An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
With the rise of the global protestor—from Arab Spring to the Occupy movement—the term "anarchist" has been littered throughout mainstream media as never before. But just as frequently, its definition is skewed or left wanting: anarchists are painted as nihilists, supporters of chaos,...
by Karl Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Weapons in Space examines how the United States is forcing forward—in violation of international treaties—to militarize space. Based on excerpts from U.S. government documents, award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman outlines the U.S. military's space doctrine, its similarity with...
Sing a Battle Song
The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of...
America's Disappeared
Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9-11? How compromised is the evidence against alleged hijackers? Why were there no military interceptions? To what extent does the testimony of more than five hundred firefighters differ from official reports of what happened at the World...
by Bruce Kayton
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they’ve left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those...