The catalog
One author. One editorial line. Honest writing about the systems we live inside — and the ones we might design next.
Established 2026 · Author-owned · Mexico City
Stones Don't Lie Press is the editorial identity for Yves Laurent's published work. The point: so the books can say what they need to say. No sponsors. No investors waiting on quarterly growth. No advertisers deciding what gets diagnosed and what gets papered over.
The catalog covers every title from the author — beginning with Las Piedras No Mienten in Spanish, extending through the UBI titles (The Generosity in the Doorway, The Universal Check), the free Stone Papers series of standalone archaeological dives, and books to come. One author. One editorial line. One standard.
A note on imprint visibility. Some titles publish under the author's full legal name (Ives Francois Laurent Noriega) rather than the imprint wordmark. That's an interim choice tied to Mexico's INDAUTOR editor classification rules — not a change in editorial line. The catalog is one catalog regardless of which publisher field a given title carries.
Title 01 · In editorial
From the History of Control to the Ludist Manifesto
12,000 years of social systems that promised freedom and delivered collapse — and the Ludist Manifesto as an alternative the book itself spends three chapters tearing apart. Spanish first via Kickstarter; an English adaptation (not a literal translation) will follow.
More about the book →Spanish
USCO 1-15176775821
INDAUTOR 03-2026-012117175509-01
~648 pages · 27 ch
Title 02 · On Amazon Kindle
On Universal Basic Income and the Coming Architecture of Work
A 14-essay diagnostic on UBI, AI displacement, and what work looks like after labor stops being scarce. The author's first English-language book. Published independently under his full legal name.
Buy on Amazon →English
ISBN 978-607-29-9197-2
USCO 1-15178453281
~30,000 words · 14 essays
$4.99 USD · Kindle
Title 03 · Free series · launching shortly
Deep archaeological dives — drawn from the case studies in Las Piedras No Mienten
A standalone academic-grade paper every 6-8 weeks, in chronological order: Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük, Çayönü, Jericho, Uruk, and onward. 10,000-25,000 words per paper. Free, email-gated. Not summaries of the book — distinct editorial work.
See the series →English + Spanish
Free · PDF
Email-gated
27 papers planned
Title 04 · In writing
A narrative companion to The Generosity in the Doorway
Same terrain — UBI, AI displacement, what comes after work — written as continuous narrative, not discrete essays. Designed for fluid reading rather than diagnostic anatomy. Coming to Amazon KDP.
English
In progress
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Future books from the author live in this catalog too. One author, one editorial line.
Structure: Author-owned catalog. No third-party publisher claims editorial control or rights beyond contracted distribution.
Registrations: Each title is independently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO); Spanish-origin titles are also registered with INDAUTOR (Mexico). ISBN issuance through Bowker (English titles) and Agencia ISBN México (Spanish titles).
AI disclosure: When AI-assisted tools are used in research or drafting, each book's copyright page discloses how and where, per current KDP and academic standards.
No DRM: Catalog policy. PDFs and EPUBs ship without rights-management locks. Each title carries a "Sobre este libro / About this book" colophon explaining why.
Editorial adaptation, not translation: Bilingual titles ship as adaptations between Spanish and English, not literal word-for-word translations. The thesis and structure are identical; idioms, contemporary references, and rhetorical voice follow each language's academic tradition.
Submissions: The catalog does not accept outside submissions. It exists to publish the author's own work — not as a general-purpose press.
Stones don't lie.
Neither, with enough care, do books.
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