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The Huey P. Newton Reader
Written by Huey P Newton
Edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise
Foreword by Fredrika Newton
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI... Read more >
Written by Huey P Newton
Edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise
Foreword by Fredrika Newton
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI... Read more >
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I Refuse to Die
My Journey For Freedom
Written by Koigi Wa Wamwere
Foreword by Kerry Kennedy and Nan Richardson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the... Read more >
My Journey For Freedom
Written by Koigi Wa Wamwere
Foreword by Kerry Kennedy and Nan Richardson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
An extraordinary account of how a laborer's son rose to challenge the power of despots, I Refuse to Die is both the autobiography of one gifted man who rose above the horrors of colonization, and an uncensored history of modern Kenya. The book is infused with the freedom songs of the... Read more >
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Life of an Anarchist
The Alexander Berkman Reader
Edited by Alexander Berkman
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons... Read more >
The Alexander Berkman Reader
Edited by Alexander Berkman
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons... Read more >
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Manifesto for Another World
Voices from Beyond the Dark
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright... Read more >
Voices from Beyond the Dark
Written by Ariel Dorfman
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright... Read more >
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Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra
Escritos Selectos
Written by Subcomandante Marcos and Juana Ponce De Leon
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.00
En este libro fundamental, Seven Stories Press presenta una poderosa colección de escritos literarios, filosóficos y políticos del enigmático vocero de los zapatistas, SubComandante Marcos. Con la Introducción del ganador del Premio Nobel, José Saramago, e ilustrado con bellas fotos en blanco y negro, Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra cristaliza, la... Read more >
Escritos Selectos
Written by Subcomandante Marcos and Juana Ponce De Leon
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.00
En este libro fundamental, Seven Stories Press presenta una poderosa colección de escritos literarios, filosóficos y políticos del enigmático vocero de los zapatistas, SubComandante Marcos. Con la Introducción del ganador del Premio Nobel, José Saramago, e ilustrado con bellas fotos en blanco y negro, Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra cristaliza, la... Read more >
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Our Word is Our Weapon
Selected Writings
Written by Subcomandante Marcos
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Edited by Juana Ponce De Leon
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel... Read more >
Selected Writings
Written by Subcomandante Marcos
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Edited by Juana Ponce De Leon
Foreword by Jose Saramago
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel... Read more >
A Political Odyssey
The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It
Written by Mike Gravel
Contribution by Joe Lauria
Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
In this candid portrait, former two-term senator from Alaska and 2008 presidential candidate Gravel expounds on his views of the military-industrial complex, the imperial presidency, postwar US foreign policy, and corporate America; critically assesses figures he worked with, such as Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy; and reveals the private life behind... Read more >
The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It
Written by Mike Gravel
Contribution by Joe Lauria
Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
In this candid portrait, former two-term senator from Alaska and 2008 presidential candidate Gravel expounds on his views of the military-industrial complex, the imperial presidency, postwar US foreign policy, and corporate America; critically assesses figures he worked with, such as Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy; and reveals the private life behind... Read more >
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Towers of Stone
The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
Written by Wojciech Jagielski
Translated by Soren A. Gauger
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men: Shamil Basaev, a... Read more >
The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
Written by Wojciech Jagielski
Translated by Soren A. Gauger
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men: Shamil Basaev, a... Read more >
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When Harlem Nearly Killed King
The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Written by Hugh Pearson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.
Pearson... Read more >
The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Written by Hugh Pearson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.
Pearson... Read more >
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Jesse James
Last Rebel of the Civil War
Written by T.J. Stiles
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $13.99
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal... Read more >
Last Rebel of the Civil War
Written by T.J. Stiles
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $13.99
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal... Read more >
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Staying True
Written by Jenny Sanford
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.00
In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.
She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American... Read more >
Written by Jenny Sanford
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.00
In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.
She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American... Read more >
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $11.99
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $11.99
Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman...
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
Written by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $16.00
Beacon Press is proud to publish a new edition of the classic memoir by one of our most lively, influential, and engaged teachers and activists. Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at... Read more >
A Personal History of Our Times
Written by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $16.00
Beacon Press is proud to publish a new edition of the classic memoir by one of our most lively, influential, and engaged teachers and activists. Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at... Read more >
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The View from Alger's Window
A Son's Memoir
Written by Tony Hiss
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $9.99
The View from Alger's Window is Tony Hiss's remarkable memoir of the trial and imprisonment of one of the most famous victims of the Cold War witch-hunts: his father. Tony Hiss was seven years old when Whittaker Chambers first accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets to the Russians. For the rest... Read more >
A Son's Memoir
Written by Tony Hiss
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $9.99
The View from Alger's Window is Tony Hiss's remarkable memoir of the trial and imprisonment of one of the most famous victims of the Cold War witch-hunts: his father. Tony Hiss was seven years old when Whittaker Chambers first accused Alger Hiss of passing secrets to the Russians. For the rest... Read more >
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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $18.00
Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of... Read more >
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $18.00
Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of... Read more >
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Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $21.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $21.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
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Young Trudeau: 1919-1944
Son of Quebec, Father of Canada
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Translated by William Johnson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 3, 2010
Price: $15.99
This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good Catholic dictators like Mussolini, Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, and... Read more >
Son of Quebec, Father of Canada
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Translated by William Johnson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 3, 2010
Price: $15.99
This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good Catholic dictators like Mussolini, Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain, and... Read more >
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More Davids Than Goliaths
A Political Education
Written by Harold Ford Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $14.99
Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his father’s Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at the 2000 Democratic National Convention... Read more >
A Political Education
Written by Harold Ford Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $14.99
Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his father’s Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at the 2000 Democratic National Convention... Read more >
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Signing Their Lives Away
Written by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2010
Price: $19.95
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence—yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic... Read more >
Written by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2010
Price: $19.95
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence—yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic... Read more >
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Navigating a New World
Canada's Global Future
Written by Lloyd Axworthy
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 30, 2010
Price: $12.99
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims... Read more >
Canada's Global Future
Written by Lloyd Axworthy
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 30, 2010
Price: $12.99
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims... Read more >
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Reagan's Secret War
The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
Written by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $18.00
On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the... Read more >
The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
Written by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $18.00
On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the... Read more >
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Resilience
Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities
Written by Elizabeth Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $15.00
The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.
She’s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship... Read more >
Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities
Written by Elizabeth Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $15.00
The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.
She’s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship... Read more >
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Resilience: The New Afterword
Written by Elizabeth Edwards
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $1.99
In the year since the publication of her second memoir, Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards has once again found herself living in the glare of the media spotlight. Now, in an eloquent, intimate, and emotionally powerful new afterword to her #1 national bestselling book, she offers readers a window into her world at... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Edwards
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $1.99
In the year since the publication of her second memoir, Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards has once again found herself living in the glare of the media spotlight. Now, in an eloquent, intimate, and emotionally powerful new afterword to her #1 national bestselling book, she offers readers a window into her world at... Read more >
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Charles W. Colson
A Life Redeemed
Written by Jonathan Aitken
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2010
Price: $13.99
He was Nixon’s hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.
Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled to 40,000 volunteers working in 100 countries... Read more >
A Life Redeemed
Written by Jonathan Aitken
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2010
Price: $13.99
He was Nixon’s hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.
Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled to 40,000 volunteers working in 100 countries... Read more >
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The Will of the People
Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy
Written by Martin Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 18, 2010
Price: $9.99
The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life – of his working days and nights – was spent... Read more >
Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy
Written by Martin Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 18, 2010
Price: $9.99
The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life – of his working days and nights – was spent... Read more >
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