Seven Stories Press: 508 books
Global Governance
The Battle over Planetary Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Global Governance, policy analyst Kristin Dawkins offers a refreshingly hopeful and astute roadmap towards a democratic future, framing the respective roles and accomplishments of corporations, governments, and citizen activists in light of the day-to-day needs of communities around the world....
Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational...
by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian...
The Approaching Great Transformation
Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
"A brave book by a smart person with a masterful command of economic theory."—Publisher's Weekly
How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? *The Approaching Great Transformation *begins to answer this massive question, focusing...
Urban Injustice
How Ghettos Happen
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he’s spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he explains in beautiful and simple language how the myth that the urban poor siphon off precious...
Gene Wars
The Politics of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this book, Kristin Dawkins discusses the international policies that are shaping this future, including those that govern the...
Dead Heat
Global Justice and Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define...
Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory...
by Juliet Schor
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment, community, and quality of life above business and profit. She a traces back how after W.W.II,...
Destination Paradise
Among the Jihadists of the Maldives
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A breathtaking work of political reportage steeped in a deep understanding of the roots of Islamist terrorism.
Western tourists are not always aware that the Maldives, a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean, is a Muslim country, or that the Republic of Maldives is the non-Arab country with...
India Divided
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization,...
by Ezequiel Adamovsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against...
No Debate
How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two...
The Future of Media
Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Co-edited by acclaimed media scholar Robert W. McChesney, the book features chapters by Bill Moyers, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Rep. Bernie Sanders, and Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley, among many others. With the American political landscape dominated by the influence of big business,...