SEVEN STORIES PRESS

(P/B) MOGGERHANGER
Never before published, Moggerhanger is the last novel written by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe before his death in 2010. Originally intended as the third part in a trilogy, the first two of which, A Start in Life and Life Goes On, were published in England but not in America, Moggerhanger stands on its own as the last act in an amazing writer's career, a madcap, bawdy, boisterous, and above all comic novel written in a masterly, unflinching hand, Sillitoe's Don Quixote. Michael Cullen, the narrator of Moggerhanger, is an aimless and...
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(P/B) GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction work...
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(P/B) COMPANERAS
Companeras is the untold story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades. Gathered here are the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who became guerrilla insurgents and political leaders, educators and healers - who worked collectively to construct a new society of dignity and justice. Companeras shows us how, after centuries of oppression, a few voices of dissent became a force of thousands, how a woman once confined to...
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(P/B) POWER AND TERROR
In Power and Terror, his first new book following his runaway bestseller 9-11, Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today, based on a series of talks and conversations in March and May of 2002 in California, Cambridge, Mass., and New York. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an underground network of Muslim extremists or the most pow...
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(P/B) MEDIA CONTROL
An invaluable primer on media and disinformation in democratic societies. Chomsky's backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control has been updated and expanded into a two-section book, and redesigned following the acclaimed format of his Open Media anti-war bestseller, 9-11. The new edition of Media Control also includes "The Journalist from Mars," Chomsky's 2002 talk on the media coverage of America's "new war on terrorism." Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy-one in which the public actively participates,...
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(P/B) 9-11
In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post-9/11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately following. Chomsky placed the attacks in context, marshaling his deep and nuanced knowledge of American foreign policy to trace the history of American political aggression - in th...
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(P/B) NUCLEAR WAR AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE
"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe," says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II. While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimina...
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(P/B) HOWARD ZINN ON HISTORY
Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely reversing his convictions or the vision that informed them. The result was The Zinn Reader. Five years later, starting with Howard Zinn on History, updated edit...
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(H/B) MAONOMICS
In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, bestselling author and economist Loretta Napoleoni probes the Chinese economic miracle to find whether, behind it, there is a uniquely Chinese vision of democracy, one that might inspire Westerners. Highlighting China's focus on economic opportunity and the fair distribution of wealth and prosperity rather than the Western emphasis on voting, Napoleoni asks provocative questions such as: Is China realizing Marx's goal of an egalitarian society that uses profit to bene...
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(P/B) THE SWEETEST THING
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 characters. Merz discovers the horrors and delights of the world of women's boxing and gains insights into this eccentric subculture's place in American life. She also meets some of the pioneers and trailblazers of the contemporary rise in...
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CHINA'S GREAT LEAP

(P/B) THE POSSESSION

(P/B) GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE

(P/B) THE WORLD IN AN ORANGE - MAKING THEATRE WITH BARNEY SIMON

(P/B) THE FUTURE OF MEDIA - RESISTANCE AND REFORM IN THE 21ST

(P/B) DIGNITY THE COLOR OF THE EARTH THE ZAPATISTAS 1583224866

(P/B) UMBRELLA OF U.S. POWER

(P/B) THE FEW THINGS I KNOW ABOUT GLAFKOS THRASSAKIS
A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a meditation on writing itself, the story follows a biographer's investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek author named Glafkos Thrassakis. At the crossroads where magical realism and political fiction meet, Vassilis Vassilikos's buoyant literary imagination flourishes beyond the confines of conventional narrative structures. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) Simpatia
Simpatia is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken but liberated by Paulina's departure. Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past, and the death of his father-in-law, General Martn Ayala. Thanks to Ayala's will, Ulises dis...
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