Seven Stories Press: 508 books
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...
Rose
Love in Violent Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio explores the impacts of passive violence, abuse, war, and cultural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path toward healthy and imaginative sex and love.
Rose breaks new ground in answering a fundamental question in most...
by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state,...
Flying Close to the Sun
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy...
Up Against the Wall Motherf**er
A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows...
by Kirk Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
How does one explain US Middle East policy? When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote their bestselling book The Israel Lobby, they attributed our pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others have criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle East watcher Professor...
Listen, Yankee!
Why Cuba Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.
Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban...
North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the...
Obamanomics
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Bestselling author John R. Talbott, who predicted the housing and mortgage crisis, pictures in Obamanomics--written well in advance of the historic 2008 elections--a Barack Obama presidency based on justice and cooperation—principles that have not held sway in Washington, DC, for quite some time....
Propaganda, Inc.
Selling America's Culture to the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An eye-opening overview of American cultural policy fully updated through the end of the Bush presidency, Propaganda, Inc. reveals how the United States Information Agency became a bureaucracy deeply distrustful of dissent, and one-way in its promotion of American corporate interests overseas.
Nancy...
Talk Softly
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Actress and model Cynthia O'Neal was living her dream life—married to the famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of two young sons, resident of the Dakota downstairs from John Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and frequent guest at dinner parties with Leonard...
by Coco Fusco
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The world was shocked by the images that emerged from Abu Ghraib, the US-controlled prison in Iraq. Lynndie England, the young female army officer shown smiling devilishly as she humiliated male prisoners, became first a scapegoat and then a victim who was "just following orders." Ignored...
World Report 2012
Events of 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. *World Report 2012 *gives...
World Report 2017
Events of 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual...