Seven Stories Press: 508 books
The Autism Puzzle
Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Toxins and Rising Autism Rates
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The alarming spike in autism in recent years has sent doctors and parents on a search for answers. And while many controversies have erupted around the issue, none have gotten us any closer to a definitive explanation, and many key concerns remain unexplored. Moving beyond the distractions of the...
The Next 25 Years
The New Supreme Court and What it Means for Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In The Next 25 Years, renowned First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus examines what will be the impact of the new Supreme Court on the future of our republic. Drawing on extensive knowledge of Constitutional law and legal precedents, Garbus, one of our most astute legal historians, defrocks the executive...
Love and Science
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man...
The Last Energy War
The Battle Over Utility Deregulation
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A fast-paced, shoot-from-the-hip "people's history," The Last Energy War is an accessible, entertaining, and infuriating narration of how the electric power business started, how it almost bankrupted the nation, and how it is now soaking the public to pay for its trillion-dollar atomic mistake.
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Drugs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Drugs is a story about Jake Stewart, a middle-class American from Texas who uses drugs and likes them. More importantly, he lives with them.
In author J. R. Helton's hilarious prose, Jake inimitably narrates the ups and downs of being a functional user of marijuana, cocaine, MDMA, alcohol,...
Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute...
Catfight
Women and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women. Tanenbaum meticulously analyzes the roots of destructive competitiveness among women, asserting that "catfights" thrive because, despite women's many gains, American women are conditioned...
Trees on Mars
Our Obsession with the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started...
Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there....
The Life of Meaning
Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, which Bob Abernethy conceived and anchors, has been described as "the best spot on the television landscape to take in the broad view of the spiritual dimension of American life . . ." by the Christian Science Monitor. "Finally," wrote the...
by Seba Al-Herz
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A best-selling book when it appeared in Arabic, The Others is a literary tour de force, offering a window into one of the most repressive societies in the world. Seba al-Herz tells the story of a nameless teenager at a girls' school in the heavily Shi'ite Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Like her...
Life of an Anarchist
The Alexander Berkman Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay...
Birth Matters
How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births...
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy
A Memoir of Dublin at the Turn of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Her days in the convent...