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Outstanding sales track: Remembering Slavery has sold over 50,000 copies in all editions.Timely: The history of slavery is back in the news and public consciousness with the stunning success of the 1619 project.Unique first-person history: This is the only history of slavery told through the voices of people who lived through slavery and emancipation.New Press shortlist: One of our top backlist titles and an early success, we are giving this title a major relaunch for a new generation of readers.New package: We are developing new jacket art and are soliciting a full slate of blurbs from author Ira Berlin's many close friends and admirers including: Eric Foner, David Blight, Smithsonian President Lonnie Bunch, Edward Baptist, and others.Top credentials: Ira Berlin was the leading historian of slavery before his death in 2018; Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize for her history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winner2018 John Hope Franklin Prize Finalist2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Winner2018 American Book Award Winner2018 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalist2018 Merle Curti Social History Award Winner2018 James A. Rawley Prize Co-WinnerA New York Times Editor's Choice selection If many Americans imagine slavery essentially as a system in which black men toiled on cotton plantations, Miles upends that stereotype several times over.New York Times Book Review The prizewinning, nationally celebrated account of the slave origins of a major northern cityA brilliant paradigm-shifting book that ';transports the reader back to the eighteenth century and brings to life a multiracial community that began in slavery' (The New York Times), The Dawn of Detroit reveals for the first time that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city. Hailed by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as ';a necessary work of powerful, probing scholarship,' The Dawn of Detroit meticulously uncovers the experience of the unfreeboth native and African Americanin a place wildly remote yet at the center of national and international conflict.Tiya Miles has skillfully assembled fragments of a distant historical record, introducing new historical figures and unearthing struggles that remained hidden from view until now. ';In her eloquent account,' the Washington Post declared, ';Miles conjures up a city of stark disparity and lives quashed.'A message from the past for our troubled present, The Dawn of Detroit is ';an outstanding contribution that seeks to integrate the entirety of U.S. history, admirable and ugly, to offer a more holistic understanding of the country' (Booklist, starred review).

Imagine if you felt out of step with every other member of the parent association at your kid's school, your quilting circle, or even your workout group. What if casual conversations revolved around Fox News and the decline of American values? How would you feel if you were afraid to put a political bumper sticker on your car or had to think twice about what liberal posts you liked on Facebook? These are just some of the experiences shared by liberals across twenty states and five time zones who tell their stories with honesty, warmth, and humor.Most of us have to "e;talk across the aisle"e; once or twice a year-when we're seated next to our conservative out-of-town uncle at Thanksgiving, say. But millions of self- identified liberals live in cities and towns-particularly away from the East and West Coasts-where they are regularly outnumbered and outvoted by conservatives.In this uplifting and completely original book, Justin Krebs, the founder of the national Living Liberally network, speaks with and tells the stories of atheists, vegetarians, environmentalists, pacifists, and old-fashioned liberals-a term he is intent on rehabilitating-from Texas to Idaho, South Carolina to Alaska. Krebs weaves these stories together to create a provocative and rollicking taxonomy of strategies for living in a diverse society, with lessons for every participant in our great democratic experiment.

Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You're living in it. If the consequences weren't so serious, it would be funny.A concise handbook designed as a fact-filled companion to the forthcoming PBS documentary starring political satirist and commentator Mo Rocca, Electoral Dysfunction illuminates a broad array of issues, including: the Founding Fathers' decision to omit the right to vote from the Constitutionand the legal system's patchwork response to this omission; the battle over voter ID, voter impersonation, and voter fraud; the foul-ups that plague Election Day, from ballot design to contested recounts; the role of partisan officials in running elections; and the antidemocratic origins and impact of the Electoral College. The book concludes with a prescription for a healthy voting system crafted by leading voting-reform experts, whose agenda for change includes a call for universal voter registration and unform national standards.Published in the run-up to the 2012 election, Electoral Dysfunction is for readers across the political spectrum who want their vote to count.

The shocking true story of corrupt judges who made millions by sending children to a private juvenile detention facility: ';A harrowing tale, lucidly told' (The New York Times Book Review). In this sensational work of true crime that reads like a thriller, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter William Ecenbarger exposes a long-running scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan were doing big business in juvenile court. From 2003 to 2008, they received millions of dollars in kickbacks from a private detention facility that needed a steady stream of inmates. Many of the children caught in this scheme were first-time offenders. Many received only cursory hearings without legal counsel. Some were as young as eleven years old. When it was first released, Kids for Cash brought the story to national attention, where it has stayed ever since. As the Philadelphia Inquirerpointed out, this is the ';worst stain on Pennsylvania, a state with more than its share of stains... Bill Ecenbarger offers a detail-packed, sickening account of the scandal and its impact. Anyone caring about courts, justice or children should read it.' ';Heartbreakingly shows justice gone bad.' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ';Shocking.' Library Journal

Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time,Lightning is a captivating tale of one man's curious fascination with the marvels of science.Hailed by the Washington Post as "e;the most distinctive voice of his generation,"e; Echenoz traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic at the age of twenty-eight to work alongside Thomas Edison, with whom he later holds a long-lasting rivalry. After his discovery of alternating current, Gregor quickly begins to astound the world with his other brilliant inventions, including everything from radio, radar, and wireless communication to cellular technology, remote control, and the electron microscope.Echenoz gradually reveals the eccentric inner world of a solitary man who holdsa rare gift for imagining devices well before they come into existence. Gregor is a recluse-an odd and enigmatic intellect who avoids women and instead prefers spending hours a day courting pigeons in Central Park.Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Echenoz once again demonstrateshis astonishing abilities as a prose stylist as he vividly captures the life of an isolated genius. A beautifully crafted portrait of a man who prefers the company of lightning in the Colorado desert to that of other human beings, Lightning is a dazzling new work from one of the world's leading contemporary authors.

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. For months afterward, protestors took to the streets demanding justice, testifying to the racist and exploitative police department and court system, and connecting the shooting of Brown with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and other young black men at the hands of police across the country.In the wake of these protests, the Department of Justice launched a six-month investigation, resulting in a report that Colorlines characterizes as "e;so caustic it reads like an Onion article"e; and laying bare what the Huffington Post calls "e;a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka's ghastliest nightmares."e; Among the report's findings are that the Ferguson Police Department "e;Engages in a Pattern of Unconstitutional Stops and Arrests in Violation of the Fourth Amendment,"e; "e;Detain[s] People Without Reasonable Suspicion and Arrest[s] People Without Probable Cause,"e; "e;Engages in a Pattern of First Amendment Violations,"e; "e;Engages in a Pattern of Excessive Force,"e; and "e;Erode[s] Community Trust, Especially Among Ferguson's African-American Residents."e;Contextualized here in a substantial introduction by renowned legal scholar and former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Theodore M. Shaw, The Ferguson Report is a sad, sobering, and important document, providing a snapshot of American law enforcement at the start of the twenty-first century, with resonance far beyond one small town in Missouri.

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.For four years Monique W. Morris, author of Black Stats, chronicled the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judgedby teachers, administrators, and the justice systemand degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.

An all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to end the mass incarceration

Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half.In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan.Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. She looks at topics including Islamophobia in the Bible Belt; the Bermuda Triangle of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria; and the energy of new reform movements, including those of undocumented and unafraid youth and Black Lives Matter.In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America.

From the MacArthur genius grant winner, a beautifully written and revelatory look at the slave origins of a major northern American city

"Rolf shows that raising the minimum wage to $15 is both just and necessary, lest the American dream of middle class prosperity turn into a nightmare" (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist).   Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for $15 makes a deeply informed case for a national fifteen-dollars-an-hour minimum wage as the only practical solution to reversing America's decades-long slide toward becoming a low-wage nation.   Drawing both on new scholarship and on his extensive practical experiences organizing workers and grappling with inequality across the United States, David Rolf, president of SEIU 775-which waged the successful Seattle campaign for a fifteen dollar minimum wage-offers an accessible explanation of "middle out" economics, an emerging popular economic theory that suggests that the origins of prosperity in capitalist economies lie with workers and consumers, not investors and employers.   A blueprint for a different and hopeful American future, The Fight for $15 offers concrete tools, ideas, and inspiration for anyone interested in real change in our lifetimes.   "The author's plainspoken approach and stellar scholarship illuminate in-depth discussions about the deliberate policy decisions that began to decimate the middle class at the start of the 1980s as well as the insidious new ways in which big business continues to attack American workers today via stagnant wages, rampant subcontracting, unpredictable scheduling, and other detrimental practices associated with the so-called 'share economy.'" -Kirkus Reviews   "David Rolf has become the most successful advocate for raising wages in the twenty-first century." -Andy Stern, senior fellow at Columbia University's Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy

"The first essential text of a new and remarkably dynamic era of social activism that has already brought profound change to the world." -Bob Herbert   Something was in the air in 2011, as protest movements swept through the world-from the Arab Spring, to Spain's Indignados, to the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan across the United States in the wake of the global financial collapse.   This volume collects firsthand accounts and essays about this extraordinary period-providing not only an overview of recent historical events and personal insights about what motivates people to take a stand, but also food for thought on how these events marked a turning point that shaped our current world.

A collection of essays that offers unique strategies for dealing with the economic, political, and cultural issues that are shaping the global community at the start of the twenty-first century.

The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where are we better offAmerica or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue that plays on public policy, Geoghegan asks what our lives would be like if we lived them as Europeans. Sneaking out of his workaholic American life, he takes five trips where he tries to understand so-called European socialism firsthand. Though he first tries France (which has become a rhetorical stand-in for the continent as a whole in many Americans' minds), he eventually ventures into Germany to see what some call the "e;boring"e; Europe. There he finds the true "e;other"e;an economic model with more bottom-up worker control than that of any other country in the worldand argues that, while we have to take Germanys problems seriously, we also have to look seriously at how much it has achieved. Social democracy may let us live nicer lives; it also may be the only way to be globally competitive. This wry, timely book helps us understand why the European model, contrary to popular neoliberal wisdom, may thrive well into the twenty-first century without compromising its citizens' ease of livingand be the best example for the United States to follow.Germany is more generous than the U.S.:The average number of paid vacation days in the U.S. is 13, versus Germanys 35New mothers in the U.S. get three months of unpaid job-protected leave and only if they work for a company of 50 or more employees, while Germany mandates four months paid leave and will pay parents 67% of their salary to stay home for up to 14 months to care for a newborn.U.S. life expectancy is 50th in the world, compared to Germanys 32nd.

When we talk about uninsured kids, dozens to a classroom, being taught by teachers with no expertise in their field; about mass incarceration with no rehabilitation; about real estate brokers or employment firms that continue to discriminate into the twenty-first century; about housing programs that reinforce segregation and fail to connect willing workers with the employers who need them, we are mainly talking about failures of opportunity.Contrary to popular belief, opportunity in America is in crisis. Class mobility is at an all-time low, the wage gap is through the roof, and Horatio Algers are few and far between. This and other critical ideas about the state of opportunity are documented in All Things Being Equal, a smart new book from a smart new outfit whose mission is to increase opportunity for all Americans.Half critique, half all-important road map for the future, All Things Being Equal includes eight original essays by top-notch thinkers pointing to areas in American life where opportunity is missing and showing us how to instigate it.Featuring: Jared Bernstein, "You Can Take It with You: Income and Wealth Across Generations" Linda Darling-Hammond, "Educational Quality and Equality: What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind" Marc Mauer, "Reducing Incarceration to Expand Opportunity" Brian D. Smedley, "Why Health-Care Equity Is Essential to Opportunity-and How to Get There" Philip Tegeler, "Connecting Families to Opportunity: The Next Generation of Housing Mobility Policy" Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz, "Finding America: Creating Educational Opportunity for our Newest Citizens" Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig, "Measuring the Extent and Forms of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Lessons from Paired-Testing Research"

"The End of the Line" deals with nature/environment.

An examination of how innovative judges and attorneys are impacting the modern American court system identifies the alternatives and improvements offered by problem-solving courts, explaining how they are better equipped to focus on underlying problems and offer real- world solutions.