Growing Up Absurd
Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
Written by Paul Goodman
Afterword by Susan Sontag
Foreword by Casey Nelson Blake

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-581-1 (1-59017-581-6)

Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist... Read more >

The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45577-2 (0-307-45577-7)

As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum. Drawing on his twenty five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, he shows how moral... Read more >

Ethical Chic
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0094-6 (0-8070-0094-9)

“Hawthorne gives readers an impartial picture of the difficulties of running a profitable company while trying to maintain a positive corporate belief system…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review

Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel t-shirt, leggings, jeans, gold bra, or other item, they look hot. Not only do... Read more >

The Path to Hope

Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
ISBN: 978-1-59051-560-0 (1-59051-560-9)

A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >

The Roads to Modernity
The British, French, and American Enlightenments
Written by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7722-9 (1-4000-7722-2)

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment—an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religionfrom historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given... Read more >

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Written by Richard Hofstadter

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1966
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-70317-6 (0-394-70317-0)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Hofstadter's classic work sheds light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
  "It illuminates the... Read more >

Social Darwinism in American Thought

Written by Richard Hofstadter

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5503-8 (0-8070-5503-4)

Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence... Read more >

Censored 2012
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011
Edited by Mickey Huff and Project Censored

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-347-6 (1-60980-347-7)

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group–a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff–has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the... Read more >

Deep Green Resistance
Strategy to Save the Planet
Written by Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay and Lierre Keith

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-929-3 (1-58322-929-9)

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.

Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can’t fix it, and... Read more >

Endgame, Volume 1
The Problem of Civilization
Written by Derrick Jensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $20.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-730-5 (1-58322-730-X)

The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen’s immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe.

Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and... Read more >

Endgame, Volume 2
Resistance
Written by Derrick Jensen

Format: Trade Paperback, 433 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $20.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-724-4 (1-58322-724-5)

Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement’s deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological... Read more >

"All Labor Has Dignity"

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Michael K. Honey

Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8602-5 (0-8070-8602-9)

An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice

Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King’s dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority... Read more >

"In a Single Garment of Destiny"
A Global Vision of Justice
Written by Martin Luther Jr. King
Edited by Lewis V. Baldwin
Foreword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8605-6 (0-8070-8605-3)

An unprecedented and timely collection that captures the global vision of Dr. King–in his own words.

Too many people continue to think of Dr. King only as “a southern civil rights leader” or “an American Gandhi,” thus ignoring his impact on poor and oppressed people around the world. In a Single... Read more >

Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 978-1-60980-432-9 (1-60980-432-5)

From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy 101 is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model... Read more >

Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Edited by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-473-2 (1-60980-473-2)

From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy 101 is an articulation of what could be the next steps in rethinking and remaking our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model... Read more >

Bakunin
The Creative Passion#A Biography
Written by Mark Leier

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-894-4 (1-58322-894-2)

The spellbinding story of both the man and the theory, Bakunin chronicles one of the most notorious radicals in history: Mikhail Bakunin, the founder of anarchism, here revealed as a practical moral philosophy rooted in a critique of wealth and power.

Mark Leier corrects many of the popular misconceptions about Bakunin and... Read more >

Embracing Israel/Palestine
A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
Written by Michael Lerner

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-307-6 (1-58394-307-2)

A major modern conundrum is how the Arab/Israel conflict remains unresolved and, seemingly, irresolvable. In this inspirational book, Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that a change in consciousness is crucial. With clarity and honesty, he examines how the mutual demonization and discounting of each sides’ legitimate needs drive the debate, and he... Read more >

Ethical Realism

Written by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27738-1 (0-307-27738-0)

America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of... Read more >

Captivity
118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
Written by James Loney

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39928-1 (0-307-39928-1)

The powerful account of the remarkable peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation and held for ransom by Iraqi insurgents until his paradoxical release by a crack unit of Special Forces commandos.

In November 2005, James Loney and three other men – Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, British citizen Norman Kember and... Read more >

The Media Ecosystem
What Ecology Can Teach Us about Responsible Media Practice
Written by Antonio Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: EVOLVER EDITIONS
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-459-2 (1-58394-459-1)

In The Media Ecosystem, Antonio Lopez draws together the seemingly disparate realms of ecology and media studies to present a fresh and provocative interpretation of the current state of the mass media–and its potential future. Lopez explores the connections between media and the environment, arguing that just as the world’s powers... Read more >

The Essential Writings of Machiavelli

Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7423-2 (0-8129-7423-9)

Finalist for the 2008 Pen Translation Award

“Essential is right. This compact and brilliantly edited volume enfolds not just The Prince, but also a splendidly translated assortment of political works, essays, and treatises, as well as a fine selection of literary gems and letters. Of particular value is the careful footnoting and... Read more >

The Approaching Great Transformation
Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-480-0 (1-60980-480-5)

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 on the people and communities already at work on the transition: energy descent pioneers in the UK and the US educating... Read more >

Why Are We at War?

Written by Norman Mailer

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7111-8 (0-8129-7111-6)

“Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered. Nobility, indeed, is always in danger. Democracy is perishable. I think the natural government for most people, given the uglier depths of human nature, is fascism. Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy... Read more >

Meditations

Written by Marcus Aurelius

Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-41271-7 (0-679-41271-9)

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121—180) embodied in his person that deeply cherished, ideal figure of antiquity, the philosopher-king. His Meditations are not only one of the most important expressions of the Stoic philosophy of his time but also an enduringly inspiring guide to living a good and just... Read more >

The Aesthetic Dimension
Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
Written by Herbert Marcuse

Format: Trade Paperback, 108 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 15, 1979
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1519-3 (0-8070-1519-9)

Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of a Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form of expression that can take up where religion and philosophy... Read more >