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CONTENTS
Current Affairs/Social Sciences
GOD IN PAIN
SLAVOJ IEK AND BORIS GUNJEVI

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THE AUTISM PUZZLE
BRITA BELLI
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SCORCHED EARTH
FRED A. WILCOX
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WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIE
FRED A. WILCOX
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MAONOMICS
LORETTA NAPOLEONI
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NIGHT WANDERERS (World English)
WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI
8
ARCTIC VOICES
SUBHANKAR BANERJEE
9
REBEL BOOKSELLER
ANDREW LATIES
10
RISE OF THE VIDEOGAME ZINESTERS
ANNA ANTHROPY
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ON RACE, ON HISTORY, and ON WAR
HOWARD ZINN
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CENSORED 2012
MICKEY HUFF and PROJECT CENSORED
13
WORLD REPORT 2012
KENNETH ROTH and HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
14
Womens Issues
UNRULY WOMEN
KARLENE FAITH
15
BODY POLITIC
BARBARA SEAMAN with LAURA ELDRIDGE
16
UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
MINKY WORDEN
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Graphic Works
THE GRAPHIC CANON
edited by RUSS KICK
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ANTI-CAPITALISM
EZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY
19
Fiction/Literature
BUZZ ALDRIN, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU IN
ALL THE CONFUSION?
JOHAN HARSTAD
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UNSTUCK IN TIME
GREGORY SUMNER
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GOD IN PAIN
Inversions of Apocalypse
Slavoj iek and Boris Gunjevi c
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world todayChristianity,
Judaism, and Islamby one of the worlds most articulate philosophers, Slavoj iek, in conversation with fellow Slovenian
philosopher and priest Boris Gunjevi c.
The most dangerous philosopher in the West. Adam Kirsch, New Review
iek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is the master of
counterintuitive observation. The New Yorker
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each of the worlds major faith-based systems of thought understands humanity and
divinityand how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem. Publishers Weekly has called iek
One of the few living writers to combine theoretical rigor with compulsive readability. Terry Eagleton has described him as that
rare breed of writerone who is both lucid and esoteric.
Chapters (written) by iek: (1) Christianity Against Sacred, (2) Glance into the Archives of Islam, (3) Only a Suffering God
Can Save Us, (4) Animal Gaze, (5) For the Theologico-Political Suspension of the Ethical,; by Gunjevi: (1) Mystagogy of (the)
Revolution, (2) Virtues of (the) Empire, (3) Every Book Is Like a Fortress, (4) Radical Orthodoxy, (5) Prayer and Wake.
Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist siavoj zizr is among the most distinguished intellectuals of the twenty-first century.
He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Columbia and NYU and continues to teach worldwide. nonis ouxjrvi serves as
a lecturer in ethics at the Biblijski Institut in Zagreb, Croatia. He is the author of Crucified Subject: Without the Grail.
Published in Croatia by Ex Libris and in Bosnia by Synopsis. Eastern European translation rights
through Sandorf Literary Agency. All other rights through Seven Stories Press.
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THE AUTISM PUZZLE
Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Toxins and Rising Autism Rates
Brita Belli
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. Mov-
ing beyond the distractions of the vaccine debate, The Autism Puzzle addresses compelling evidence that it is the pairing of envi-
ronmental exposures with genetic susceptibilities that may be impacting the brain development of children.
Journalist Brita Belli brings us into the lives of three families with autistic children, each with different ideas about autism, as she
explores the possible causes. She interprets for readers compelling evidence that environmental toxinsincluding common exposures
from chemicals mounting in our everyday livesmay be sparking this disorder in vulnerable children.
The Autism Puzzle puts a human face on the families caught in between the debates and offers a refreshingly balanced perspective.
nnira nriii is the editor of E - The Environmental Magazinethe largest independent magazine dedicated to green issues. She is
the author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Renewable Energy for Your Home and editor of EarthTalk: Expert Answers to Everyday Ques-
tions About the Environment. Her articles have appeared in Plenty Magazine, MSN.com, Treehugger.com, Fairfield Magazine, Colorado
Springs Independent, Black & White City Paper, Illinois Times and Monterey County Weekly. She maintains a blog on sports and the en-
vironment at www.PlayItGreen.com.
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SCORCHED EARTH
Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Fred A. Wilcox
Vietnam has chosen August 10the day that the US began spraying Agent Orange on Vietnamas Agent Orange Day, to
commemorate all its citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. Scorched Earth will be released upon the third
anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered, and continue to suffer, from this tragedy.
I consider Scorched Earth to be the Silent Spring of chemical warfare in Vietnam, a powerful clarion call [that brings together]
scientific evidence, passionate argument, Vietnamese interviews and documentation, review of the class action suits . . . and
new and little known evidence gathered by Vietnamese scholars . . . to form one coherent argument.Dr. John Marciano,
Vietnam scholar, and Professor Emeritus, State University of New YorkCortland
A fascinating and compelling book on the effects on the Vietnamese people of the Agent Orange defoliation campaign during
the Vietnam War, a personal, impassioned account on the part of the victims, a fascinating and at times shocking tale of an im-
portant and unresolved episode in American history. Dr. Michael Viola, director, Medicine for Peace, and retired chair,
oncology department, State University of New YorkStonybrook
Scorched Earth chronicles the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than
3 million peopleincluding 500,000 childrenare sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced
to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar Fred A. Wilcox examines
long-term consequences for future generations, laying bare the ongoing monumental tragedy in Vietnam, and calls for the United States gov-
ernment to finally admit its role in chemical warfare in Vietnam. Wilcox also warns readers that unless we stop poisoning our air, food, and
water supplies, the cancer epidemic in the United States and other countries will only worsen, and he urgently demands the chemical man-
ufacturers of Agent Orange to compensate the victims of their greed and to stop using the Earths rivers, lakes, and oceans as toxic waste dumps.
FRED A.WILCOX has been a scholar on the Vietnam War for the past thirty years. He has published numerous articles and made
several media appearances as a trusted authority on the war and its aftereffects. He teaches at Ithaca College.
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WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIE
The Tragedy of Agent Orange
Fred A. Wilcox
Vietnam has chosen August 10the day that the US began spraying Agent Orange on Vietnamas Agent Orange Day, to
commemorate all its citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. The new second edition of Waiting for an Army to
Die will be released upon the third anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered, and continue
to suffer, from this tragedy.
My bible on the issue of Agent Orange.Tom Hayden
This is a sad and frightening book, and it should not be disregarded.
Tracy Kidder, author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains
It is impossible to read this book without feeling outrage and despair, for the story of Agent Orange is a tragedy that affects
not only Vietnam veterans, but all Americans and their offspring.The Saturday Review
I died in Vietnam, but I didnt even know it, said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across
the country. Waiting for an Army to Die tells this young vets story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen.
During the war, the US sprayed an estimated 12 million gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam, in order to defoliate close to 5 mil-
lion acres of its land. Had anyone predicted that millions of human beings exposed to Agent Orange/dioxin would get sick and die,
scholar Fred A. Wilcox writes in the new introduction to his influential book, their warnings would have been dismissed as sci-fi
fantasy or apocalyptic nonsense. Told in a gripping and compassionate narrative style that travels from the war in Vietnam to the
war at home, and through portraits of many of the affected survivors, their families, and the doctors and scientists whose clinical ex-
perience and research gave the lie to the government whitewash, Waiting for an Army to Die tells a story that, thirty years later, con-
tinues to create new twists and turns for all those still waiting for justice and an honest account of what happened to them.
FRED A.WILCOX has been a scholar on the Vietnam War for the past thirty years. He has published numerous articles and made
several media appearances as a trusted authority on the war and its aftereffects. He teaches at Ithaca College.
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MAONOMICS
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Loretta Napoleoni
From the discards of Western capitalism, the Chinese miracle was born. Maonomics centers on the prodigious ascent of a
country that, because of ideology or ignorance, the West continues to misunderstand. It describes the equally prodigious
collapse that awaits the West if we obstinately continue to follow a discredited economic and political model.
In Maonomics, Loretta Napoleoni looks at whether the West has misread the huge changes wrought by the two key symbolic events
of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square protests. In asking who really won the Cold Warand whyshe ex-
amines the rise of Chinas combination of capitalism and communism and how it may be better equipped to take advantage of the
downturns as well as the opportunities of the globalized economy.
ionrrra xavoiroxi is the author of Rogue Economics: Capitalisms New Reality, which has been translated into fifteen languages,
and Terror Inc.: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, which has been translated into twelve languages. One of the worlds lead-
ing experts on money laundering and terror financing, she has worked as a correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repub-
blica, El Pas, and Le Monde.
Published in Italy (Rizzoli). Rights sold in Brazil (forthcoming from Bertrand Brasil in Sept. 2011),
China (China Citic Press), Spain (Paids), and Sweden (forthcoming from Leopard in Aug. 2011).
Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Portuguese (Portugal) through Diana Finch Agency.
All other rights through Seven Stories Press.
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ARCTIC VOICES
Resistance at the Tipping Point
Subhankar Banerjee
Voices from the frontlines of the war against ecological devastation in the Arctic
Banerjee has a truly global take on the world. Bill McKibben
A pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The
location of vast quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs, in the last decade
the Arctic has quickly become the most contested land in recent US history.
World-renowned photographer, writer and activist Subhankar Banerjee brings together first-person narratives from nearly 20 of
the worlds most recognized activists, writers and researchers who address issues of climate change, resource war and human rights
with stunning urgency and groundbreaking research. From Gwichin activist Sarah Jamess impassioned appeal, We Are the Ones
Who Have Everything to Lose, during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 to an original piece by acclaimed his-
torian Dan ONeill about his recent trips to the Yukon Flats indigenous fish camps, Arctic Voices is a window into a remarkable re-
gion.
Other notable contributors include Nick Jans, Seth Kantner, Michael Klare and Peter Matthiessen.
Over the past decade sunnaxan naxrnjrr has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous
human rights, resource development and climate change. In 2003 he published Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a photo book of his
fourteen-month long journey in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Through a Lannan Foundation grant, 10,000 copies of the book
were donated to libraries and policy makers across the country and had an accompanying exhibition at the Smithsonian National Mu-
seum of Natural History. Senator Barbara Boxer successfully used the book on the Senate floor to defeat oil drilling legislation. In
2010 Banerjee founded www.climatestorytellers.org and in 2011 he was appointed Directors Visitor at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton.
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NIGHT WANDERERS
Wojciech Jagielski
Currently there is no better book about the latest history of Uganda. Sddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
Jagielskis book makes readers think of Conrads Heart of Darkness. Night Wanderers is a story about madness, crime and fear.
It is a story of a victim becoming a perpetrator, of the army of the living deadarmy of people deprived of feelings. But it is
also a story of the difficult but possible return to life. Jagielski describes a camp for children who served as guerrillas, where
they can regain their identity and forget the haunting nightmare. Rzeczpospolita (Poland)
A wise and important book. Not only does it force the reader to reflect and change his perspective of the modern world, but it
also gives a lesson of real humanitarianism. Outstanding journalism and very good literature. Salon Kulturalny (Poland)
Evoking contemporary Africa in the aftermath of the civil waras perhaps no other book since Phillip Gourevitchs We Wish to In-
form You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our FamiliesThe Night Wanderers describes how, on an average night in northern
Uganda, tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA).
Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski inserts himself into this hellish landscape and finds a way to speak of these children and their
wounded world. In The Night Wanderers, Jagielski portrays children who have been abducted from their homes and forced to kill their
own family members; children who, even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of their acts of murder on their young
shoulders. Jagielski portrays Uganda through their eyes as well as his own. Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuciski, Jagiel-
ski creates a compassionate, incisive, painful, magisterial account of a world that is just starting to pull itself out of the horrors of war.
The Polish edition of The Night Wanderers is short-listed for the Nike Prize, considered to be the most prestigious literary award in Poland.
woiciicu iaciiisxi has been a reporter at Gazeta Wyborcza, Polands first and biggest independent daily, where he specializes in Africa,
Central Asia, the Trans-Caucasus and the Caucasus. Jagielski is the recipient of the Dariusz Fikus Award and the Letterature dal Fronte
Award (Italy) for his book Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya, which Seven Stories published in English in 2009. In 2010,
Jagielski decided to devote himself full-time to writing books. He is arguably Polands best known contemporary nonfiction writer.
World English rights only.
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REBEL BOOKSELLER
Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight ForFrom Free
Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities
Andrew Laties
The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the amazing stories of our times
Bookseller Andrew Laties wrote the first edition of Rebel Bookseller six years ago, hoping it would spark a movement. Now, with this
completely revised and updated second edition, Laties's book is a rallying cry for everyone who wants to better understand how the rise
of the big bookstore chains led irrevocably to their decline, and how even in the face of electronic readers from three of Americas largest
and most successful companiesApple, Amazon, and Googlethe movement to support locally owned independent stores, especially
bookstores, is on the rise.
From the mid-1980s to the present, Andrew Laties has been an independent bookseller, starting out in Chicago, teaching along
the way at the American Booksellers Association, and finally running the bookshop at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massa-
chusetts. His innovations were adapted by Barnes & Noble, Zany Brainy, and scores of independent stores. In Rebel Bookseller, Laties
tells how he got started, how he kept going, and why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He alternates his nar-
rative with short anecdotes, interludes between the chapters that give his credo as a bookseller. Along the way, he explains the growth
of the chains, and throws in a treasure trove of tips for anyone who is considering opening up a bookstore.
Rebel Bookseller is a must-read for those in the book business, a testament to the ingeniousness of one mans story of making a
life out of his passionate commitment to books and bookselling.
axnnrw iarirs co-founded Childrens Bookstore, Childrens Bookfair Company, Childrens Museum Store, Povertyfighters.com,
and Eric Carle Museum Bookshop, and created the film, Art of Selling Childrens Books. He shared the 1987 Lucile Micheels Pannell
Award for bringing children and books together.
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RISE OF THE VIDEOGAME ZINESTERS
Anna Anthropy
Granted, there are many videogames about shooting demons in space that I enjoy and even consider important, writes independ-
ent game designer Anna Anthropy. But demon-shooting is a single theme, a tiny blip in the vast cosmos of what clever people could
do with a new and largely unrefined medium. And so, like Scott McCloud in Understanding Comics, pixel-provocateur Anthropy
in Rise of the Videogame Zinesters launches the first intergalactic offensive against the corporate systems of production, condescend-
ing media coverage and pervasive gamer culture of privilege and misogyny that has so far obscured the potential of what could be
the defining cultural medium of the new millennium: videogames.
Within these pages, readers will find the following:
A new history and definition of games, showing the central place gaming has had throughout human culture;
An explanation of how and why games corporations have hijacked an entire medium, eliminating all but the default white male
perspective, desensitizing an entire generation to depictions of rampant misogyny and violence, and stifling both artistic innovation
and social conscience;
A recommended playing list of games by independent voices that have begun to explore new perspectives, from the personal to
the political to the brilliantly technical;
A road map for anyone, especially non-programmers, to begin conceiving, designing, producing and distributing their own inde-
pendent digital games, bypassing the need for corporate resources and corporate control.
A medium is only as viable as the voices that speak through it. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters shows us why videogames have the
potential to impact our culture in new, surprising, and vital waysand in so doing, inspires us to take the leap from player to cre-
atorto join the coming revolution.
axxa axrnnovs is a freelance videogame creator and former editor of The Gamers Quarter, described by designer and critic
Greg Costikyans game review blog Playthisthing.com as the closest thing the game industry has to a journal of serious critique.
She lives in Oakland, CA.
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ON RACE, ON HISTORY, and ON WAR
Howard Zinn
Hes changed the conscience of America in a highly constructive way. I really cant think of anyone I can
compare him to in this respect. Noam Chomsky
What can I say that will in any way convey the love, respect, and admiration I feel for this unassuming hero who was my
teacher and mentor, this radical historian and people-loving trouble-maker, this man who stood with us and suffered with us?
Howard Zinn was the best teacher I ever had, and the funniest. Alice Walker
Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded
with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters, and fugitive slaves.Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review
Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writ-
ings 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.
nowann zixx, Americas most popular historian, has introduced four generations of Americans to his views on democracy, civil
disobedience, history, and war. Zinns books have sold over two million copies and, in 2009, The People Speak, a film based on his
books, A Peoples History of the United States and Voices of a Peoples History of the United States aired on national television, bringing
his vision to millions more. Zinn died at 87 in 2010, but his books, ideas, and activism live on.
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CENSORED 2012
Mickey Huff and Project Censored
For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtual road map for the coming years news schedule.
Village Voice
Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us. San Diego Review
A distant early warning system for societys problems. American Journalism Review
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nations oldest news-monitoring groupa university-wide project at Sonoma State Uni-
versity founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huffhas produced
a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored 2012, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the
nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since
1994, featuring the top stories listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of
judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories.
Beyond the Top-25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis
section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Dj Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news
media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists
take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire.
And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association
with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world. Project Censoreds DailyCensored.com
website currently receives 1.5 million hits and 90,000 unique visits per month.
xicrs nuvv is the director of Project Censored and an associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College.
vnojrcr crxsonrn, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen at Sonoma State University, has as its principal objective the advocacy for
and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. In 2008, Project Censored received
the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the publication of Censored 2009.
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WORLD REPORT 2012
Kenneth Roth and Human Rights Watch
The most sought-after report of human rights news
The 22nd annual Human Rights Watchs World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and ter-
ritories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close part-
nership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2012 gives particular focus on the rolespositive or negativeplayed in
each country by key domestic and international figures, and includes contributions from Joseph Saunders, Danielle Haas and Iain
Levine.
nuxax nionrs warcn is one of the worlds leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human
rights, and operates in more than 80 countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments
available anywhere. rxxrrn norn is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights
investigations and missions around the world.
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UNRULY WOMEN
Karlene Faith
Unruly Women is an important text for classroom teaching and research, because it places the ongoing crisis of women in
prison in historical context. It provides a point of comparison with more recent research on this topic. The title also encourages
readers to break out of the singular focus on incarcerated women to trace out the many different ways women have beenand
continue to bedefined as unruly and deviant, in need of intense social control.
Geraldine Casey, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about womens
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. Most women who are incarcerated do not pose a danger to society but transgress patriar-
chal, capitalist norms that seek to control their bodies and choices, as seen in the case of prostitution and prosecutions of pregnant
women for risky behaviors. Further, the majority of women who enter the criminal justice system have been victims of violence,
which raises questions about the continuum from victimization to criminalization.
Unruly Women explores patterns of female crimes and punishments, from the witch hunts to the present; institutionalized vio-
lence and sexual abuse against incarcerated women; women loving women in prison; motherhood inside prison; battered woman syn-
drome; Hollywoods formulaic women-in-prison films; political education in prisons; and acts of resistance, inside and out. Karlene
Faith challenges misconceptions of deviant women, and celebrates the unruly woman: the unmanageable woman who claims her
own body, and who cannot be silenced. Faiths incisive work causes us to question the usefulness of the forced confinement and sur-
veillance of mostly nonviolent people.
A human rights activist for five decades, anirxr vairn is Canadas leading feminist sociologist on prisons. Her seminal book,
Unruly Women, raised many crucial questions that define the prison reform movements of today. Co-founder of the revolutionary Santa
Cruz Womens Prison Project in 1972, and author of many books on criminology and womens studies, Faith is currently Professor
Emeritus at Simon Fraser Universitys School of Criminology.
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BODY POLITIC
Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge
In this epic collection of essays, famous feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gloria Steinem and many others explore everything
from midwifery to abortion to the pharmaceutical industrys disregard of women. Essays aim to foster a holistic, politicized un-
derstanding of what women have gone through to reclaim their bodies and an informed understanding of how they function.
The task these editors have set themselves is dauntinghow to honestly assimilate so complex a topic while doing service to its
history, future and interdisciplinary intricaciesand they accomplish it with aplomb. Publishers Weekly
In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doctorscalmly, rationally and scientifically. For many of us,
womens liberation began at that moment. Barbara Ehrenreich
Pioneering feminist author Barbara Seaman spent forty years on the front lines as a womens health advocate. Throughout her career,
she was not only a tireless muckraker and author, but also a relentless supporter of other womens voices.
In Body Politic she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews and commentary by leading activists, writers, doc-
tors and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood and birth control. The more
than two hundred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenre-
ich, Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith
Rossner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf and many others.
nannana sraxaxs first book, The Doctors Case Against the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings, exposed the biases of the
medical establishment regarding womens health issues and inspired women around the world to take control of their health. iauna
rinninor is a womens health writer and activist. Her latest book is In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices
for Women (Seven Stories Press, 2010).
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UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
Minky Worden
Womens rights are human rights became a rallying call for womens equality and freedom in a series of UN conferences in the 1990s,
when prospects for women leading lives of dignity and equality finally seemed within reach. Since then, how far have women in the
world progressed? In Africa, HIV/AIDS kills more women and girls than men and boys. In many countries, women are legally con-
sidered second-class citizens, and in others, religion, custom, and traditionsfrom honor killings to denial of property, labor and
economic rightsblock basic freedoms such as the right to work or study, and access to health care. Around the world, women and
girls are trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery; rape is used as a weapon of war in conflict zones from the Congo to Kyrgyzstan,
and women still face major obstacles to education and reproductive freedom.
Unfinished Revolution outlines the recent history of legal and political battles to secure basic rights for women and girls. Writers
from around the world tackle some of the toughest questions about improving the lives of women, and explain why we need fresh
approaches in analyzing what works for the most vexing issues. Top policymakers, human rights experts, writers and artists with
unique perspectives will address topics from violence against women to property rights to the role of international institutions. Per-
haps most important, readers will hear from women who have been victims of human rights abuses and others who have fought such
abuses, in their own voices.
xixs wonnrx is the Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch, a leading human rights organization that conducts
research in some 90 countries. She develops and implements international outreach and advocacy campaigns, and has served as
Human Rights Watchs Media Director. She is the editor of Chinas Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Chal-
lenges (Seven Stories Press, 2008) and the co-editor of Torture (The New Press, 2005).
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THE GRAPHIC CANON
Edited by Russ Kick
The classic canon of Western civilization meets todays most innovative artists and illustrators in Russ Kicks
magisterial, three-volume, full-color Graphic Canon.
Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the late 1700s. Along the way, were treated to eye-popping
renditions of the human races greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Odyssey (in water colors by Gareth Hinds), The Aeneid, Beowulf and
The Arabian Nights, ancient epics from India, Finland and the Mayans, and later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury
Tales (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), Paradise Lost, and Sir Gawain and the Green Night.
Two of ancient Greeces greatest plays are adapted for the first timethe supreme tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Tania
Schrags uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes (which is still censored in many textbooks).
Also included is Robert Crumbs rarely seen adaptation of James Boswells London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and
lowbrow debauchery.
Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artistsincluding Maxon Crumb and
Gris Grimlypresent their versions of Poes visions. We see two stunning but very different takes on the greatest American novel,
Moby-Dick, including one by Eisner Award-winning artist Bill Sienkiewicz. That other great American novel, Huckleberry Finn, is
adapted, uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of RomanticismShelley, Keats and Byron are visualized
here, and so are the Bront sisters. Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsches Thus Spake Zarathustra
and Darwins On the Origin of Species.
Volume 3 is a nonstop barrage of comics, full-page illustrations, photography, and cutting-edge design bringing to life the literature
of the twentieth century according to Russ Kick. The proceedings start with John Coultharts eye-popping The Picture of Dorian
Gray by Oscar Wilde. That leads to Peter Kupers illustrations for The Jungle Book and Gabrielle Bells adaptation of a short story by
Kate Chopin. Visualizations of The Invisible Man and Heart of Darkness form the bridge to the twentieth century, where anything
goesa stunning portrait of Lolita, a Sherlock Holmes mystery, the diaries of Anas Nin, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, Rilkes
soul-stirring Letters to a Young Poet, a WWI soldiers suppressed poem of wars savagery, the heroin classic The Man With the Golden
Arm (published four years before William Burroughs Junky), and the postmodernism of Gravitys Rainbow and David Foster Wal-
laces Infinite Jest.
RUSS KICKs best-selling anthologies, including You Are Being Lied To and Everything You Know Is Wrong, have sold over half a mil-
lion copies. The New York Times has dubbed Kick an information archaeologist, Details magazine described Kick as a Renaissance
man, and Utne Reader named him one of its 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. Russ Kick lives and works in Nashville,
Tennessee, and Tucson, Arizona.
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ANTI-CAPITALISM
Ezequiel Adamovsky
Any young person who enters the world of progressive politics has had this experience: You meet an arch-conservative and you de-
cide to convince him to join your side. You argue passionately against the powers that be, bringing up labor abuses, unnecessary
wars, political corruption, simple commonsense injustice at every level of society. Your conservative interlocutor agrees with you:
these are all problems. But, he asserts: exactly what do you intend to replace capitalism with? Capitalism is, after all, the best system
we have.
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky gives the lie to the assertion, telling the story of the long-standing ef-
fort 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 ris-
ing corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical newspapers, and in the jungles and the
streets.
From Marx through the Battle of Seattle and beyond, Adamovsky traces the beliefs and politics of the major figures in the anti-
capitalist tradition and explores modern experiments in building different ways of living, in the process providing an indispensable
primer for anyone interested in finding alternatives to the so-called best system we haveand anyone interested in joining the fight.
rzrouiri anaxovss is a writer and activist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has published articles for Z Magazine, Open-
Democracy.org, and many other activist and progressive outlets. He currently teaches Russian history at the University of Buenos Aires.
Published in Spanish by Era Naciente. German, Korean, and Japanese rights available through Era Naciente.
All other rights available through Seven Stories Press.
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BUZZ ALDRIN, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU IN ALL THE CONFUSION?
Johan Harstad
Over 35,000 copies sold in Norway and published in 11 languages!
A moonwalk of a novel.Dagbladet (Norway)
The language is precise, light, and so perfectly apposite that it almost swirls in the air as I turn the pages. Aftenposten ((Norway)
Exquisite artistry. Klassekampen (Norway)
Buzz Aldrin is an irresistible adventure with a fantastically good storyteller. Het Parool (The Netherlands)
Mattias is a gardener who craves anonymity and simplicity. He is terrified of being noticed, preferring to follow the example of his hero
Buzz Aldrin, content to be the second man on the moon, forever in the shadow of Neil Armstrong. One night Mattias finds himself in
the middle of an asphalt road in the Faroe Islands, with about $2,500 in his pocket, and with no clue as to how he or the money got there.
At that momentwhen a mysterious man called Havstein offers him a rideeverything begins to change. Mattias is forced to
face his life. This is the story of an ordinary manand the struggle for self-realization that each of us must undertake. Buzz Aldrin
is a grand-scale novel about life, death, love, and the sea. Its also a story about gardeners and therapists, war photographers and the
Cardigans, and about being loved and being invisible.
JOHAN HARSTAD is a thirty-one-year-old Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation.
He is the winner of the 2008 Brage Award, previously won by Per Petterson, and his books have been published in over eleven coun-
tries. In 2009, he was named the first-ever in-house playwright at the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin, What
Happened to You in All the Confusion?, originally published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was in 2009 made into a TV series star-
ring The Wires Chad Coleman. Harstad lives in Oslo and is working on his next novel.
World English rights only. All other rights through Gyldendal. ANZ rights sold to University of Western Australia.
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UNSTUCK IN TIME
Gregory Sumner
In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through fifteen of Kurt Vonneguts best known works, from
Player Piano (1952) to A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writers profound engagement
with the American Dream in its various forms.
In this engrossing collection of essays, Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the tra-
ditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and
winners over losers. Instead, we share Vonneguts outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of
survival-of-the-fittest in the frontier mentalitysomething he once memorably described as an impossibly tough-minded experi-
ment in loneliness.
Heroic and tragic at the same time, Vonneguts novels reflect the pain of his own lifes experiences, relieved by small acts of kind-
ness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an alternative American Dream, and
the reason we always return to his books.
onroons suxxrn, jn, vnn, is professor and chair of history at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taught since 1993.
He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (1980), and holds a doctorate in American history from Indiana Uni-
versity (1992). He is the author of Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of Cosmopolitan Democracy (Cornell Uni-
versity Press, 1996). Dr. Sumner has been awarded summer fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has twice
been William J. Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Universit di Roma Tre, most recently in spring 2010.
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