Seven Stories Press,U.S - Böcker

Discusses the term terrorist in comparison to freedom fighter, as the two concepts are perceived in American politics.

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Discusses the rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, examining U.S. relations with Islamic countries and the policies that have led to antipathy toward the United States.

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In Terrorism and War, Howard Zinn shows that while truth is indeed the first casualty of war, there are other casualties as well including civil liberties on the home front and human rights abroad. He also explores the history of U.S. militarism a...

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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.

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A new collection of poems by the winner of the 2001 National Book Award chronicles 40 years in the career of one of the nation's most talented poetic voices.

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In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She recounts the lives of three of her friends a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a playwright who were k...

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A sociological examination of competitive behavior between women considers its unique factors, the reasons and benefits of female competition, and the converse possibilities that can occur when women unite, citing historical examples of women work...

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The director of Africa's National Democratic and Human Rights Organization describes his experiences in the human rights movement including those during British rule and Moi's regime, chronicling his education and political career.

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A new and diverse anthology from the author of Wyoming presents an array of novel excerpts, short stories, poetry, memoir, a screenplay excerpt, and an interview, including selections from the Sailor and Lula novels, tales from Night People, child...

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Available for the first time in English, a novel by one of Greece's most renowned modern writers explores the line between the real and the fictional.

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Shiva, "one of the world's most prominent radical scientists"("Ms. Magazine"), shows the effects of colonialism's creation of the schism between Hinduism and Islam; analyzes globalization's effects on India's resources; and pro...

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Exiled Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman chronicles the crimes of Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile. He begins with the 1973 U.S.-supported coup that brought Pinochet to power and the devastation it caused in Latin America, and follows the...

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"Most diseases can be separated from one's self . . . schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut's depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. This edition features a new Foreword by Kurt ...

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Longtime Colombian diplomat Nieto explores U.S.-Latin American relations by decade and by country, focusing on those places and periods facing insurgent-counterinsurgent conflicts. Cuba, as the target of unrelenting U.S. hostility since the 1959 r...

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In Acts of Aggression, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said examine the background and ramifications of the conflict providing an in-depth analysis of U.S.-Arab relations, the contradictions and consequences of U.S. foreign policy toward "rogue state...

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In The Umbrella of U.S. Power, Chomsky refers to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a better world, " while chronicling how far off the trail the United States often is with respect to actual political practice and c...

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Much of the U.S. media is consolidated in the hands of a few large companies, which results in journalism biased toward the corporate point of view, this book contends. The authors argue for local control, chronicle the rise of grassroots media ac...

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An introductory guide to postpartum depression highlights the causes and treatments for this common ailment, discussing the hormonal and emotional factors at play, the potential consequences of the illness, family support needs, and more. Original.

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Snow examines how American propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history.

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Presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a psychosexual development viewpoint, probing the roots of human identity.

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To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was simple; she asked women, a lot of them, everything - and published the results.

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A Place to Live presents Natalia Ginzburg's singular voice in all its austere beauty. These autobiographical essays explore the writer's life, motherhood, World War II displacement, the deprivations of postwar Italy, and more. Lynne Sharon Schwart...

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This critically acclaimed novel imagines the life journey of the legendary Mexican painter, and shows that Frida Kahlo's voyage was an inward one, rendered in the evocative prose of a renowned American poet.

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Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, this novel from the O. Braverman explores the intertwined lives of three women--a prosperous whore, a murderous housewife, and a weary matriarch--who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and viol...

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From the award-winning author of Night People, Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, and Wyoming comes this wide-ranging group of darkly satiric stories. Included is "The Big Love of Cherry Layne, " "Room 584, The Starr Hotel, " &quo...

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A history as well as a manual for change, Negative Ethnicity is a compelling account of genocide in Rwanda, Sudan, Algeria, and other countries, based on both the author's firsthand observations and stories he was told by other witnesses. A vetera...

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By positing that the father of modern psychiatry was "fundamentally an artist, " Lesley Chamberlain explores the meaning of Freud's life and work through a new lens. His rigorous examination of the dynamism and structures of the unconsci...

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An analysis of United States foreign policy and strategies argues that continued United States military occupation in Iraq is an act of political dominance and not conducive to democracy or independence.

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Essays critiquing the fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy to unilateralism cover such topics as the domestic impact of post-9/11 policies on spending priorities and civil liberties and the new military strategy of the Bush administration.

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Describing the latest developments in international organization, Dawkins uses clear explanations of the issues and institutions and offers a practical agenda to help activists find new opportunities.

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