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A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule

Gaffield Julia: I Have Avenged America

I Have Avenged America

Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom

New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village Voice&nbsp;A bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric rise to fame coincided with the outrageous excess of the heady ’80s art boom. A fixture of the downtown scene, with its explosive mix of music, fashion, art, and drugs, he soon became involved with some of its most celebrated personalities, including Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Madonna.&nbsp;Basquiat fulfilled that cynical aphorism: Die young and leave a beautiful corpse. But Basquiat did more than that: he left a beautiful corpus. With each passing year, the remarkable energy, perspicacity and originality of his work increases in power.&nbsp;In a world where Black Lives Matter and the imperative need for diversity are among the driving forces of our time, Basquiat’s success in the 1980s white art world, and his ongoing universal celebrity, have made him a significant role model for generation of artists to come.&nbsp;From the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, to the East Village art scene, to the art dealers and out-of-control auction houses, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, the definitive biography of the young painter, is a vivid portrait of both the artist and his time.&nbsp;Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art includes 12-14 photographs.

New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village Voice&nbsp;A bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric rise to fame coincided with the outrageous excess of the heady ’80s art boom. A fixture of the downtown scene, with its explosive mix of music, fashion, art, and drugs, he soon became involved with some of its most celebrated personalities, including Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Madonna.&nbsp;Basquiat fulfilled that cynical aphorism: Die young and leave a beautiful corpse. But Basquiat did more than that: he left a beautiful corpus. With each passing year, the remarkable energy, perspicacity and originality of his work increases in power.&nbsp;In a world where Black Lives Matter and the imperative need for diversity are among the driving forces of our time, Basquiat’s success in the 1980s white art world, and his ongoing universal celebrity, have made him a significant role model for generation of artists to come.&nbsp;From the rise and fall of the graffiti movement, to the East Village art scene, to the art dealers and out-of-control auction houses, Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, the definitive biography of the young painter, is a vivid portrait of both the artist and his time.&nbsp;Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art includes 12-14 photographs.

A Quick Killing in Art

Basquiat

Lenos Babel

Kaum ein Berufsstand Ägyptens ist näher am Puls der Gesellschaft als die 250000 Kairoer Taxifahrer. Wer wissen will, was die Menschen umtreibt, liest keine Zeitung, sondern nimmt das Taxi und hört auf das, was ihm der Fahrer erzählt: "Wir leben in einer einzigen Lüge und glauben daran. Die Regierung ist nur dazu da zu prüfen, ob wir die Lüge wirklich schlucken, finden Sie nicht auch?" 
Im Taxi plaudert, diskutiert, feilscht und streitet Chalid al-Chamissi mit Fahrern, die im kleinen öffentlichen und doch abhörfreien Raum ihrer Wagen ihren Frust über das korrupte Regime und die allgegenwärtigen Missstände in Ägypten loswerden - mit immerhin einem Zuhörer: ihrem Fahrgast. 
Aus achtundfünfzig kurzen, pointenreichen Episoden entsteht ein großes Mosaik der ägyptischen Gesellschaft, eine Hommage an die oft verschmähte Kultur der Straße.

Kaum ein Berufsstand Ägyptens ist näher am Puls der Gesellschaft als die 250000 Kairoer Taxifahrer. Wer wissen will, was die Menschen umtreibt, liest keine Zeitung, sondern nimmt das Taxi und hört auf das, was ihm der Fahrer erzählt: "Wir leben in einer einzigen Lüge und glauben daran. Die Regierung ist nur dazu da zu prüfen, ob wir die Lüge wirklich schlucken, finden Sie nicht auch?" 
Im Taxi plaudert, diskutiert, feilscht und streitet Chalid al-Chamissi mit Fahrern, die im kleinen öffentlichen und doch abhörfreien Raum ihrer Wagen ihren Frust über das korrupte Regime und die allgegenwärtigen Missstände in Ägypten loswerden - mit immerhin einem Zuhörer: ihrem Fahrgast. 
Aus achtundfünfzig kurzen, pointenreichen Episoden entsteht ein großes Mosaik der ägyptischen Gesellschaft, eine Hommage an die oft verschmähte Kultur der Straße.

Unterwegs in Kairo

Im Taxi

Autism, Family and End-of-Life Care

Looking After

What can a Roman coin, a Chumash shell necklace, and a Bitcoin tell us about world history? This book traces the surprising life of money across centuries and civilizations. The Daily Life of Money in History offers an eye-opening look at how humans have exchanged value across time and cultures. Each of the 150 entries explores a single object-beautifully illustrated and deeply contextualized-to uncover how people bought, sold, traded, saved, and survived through the ages. Designed with researchers, educators, students, and curious readers in mind, this richly visual volume brings together cultural history, economic life, and global exchange in a highly accessible format. Each object includes origin details, historical purchasing power, and its legacy today-making it an ideal reference for classrooms, libraries, and history lovers alike.

The Daily Life of Money in History

The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas

The Crown's Silence

An on-the-ground study of junior police academies--contentious school-police partnerships that provide educational resources, career opportunities, and hope for social mobility. Some might see police officers as benevolent sources of protection, but in many communities, they are often perceived as a threat due to a legacy of violent interactions and arrests for arbitrary offenses. How, then, do police sustain their presence in places where people might distrust them? In Kid Cops, sociologist Mai Thai offers one answer: junior police academies, high school programs in which police officers provide courses, mentorship, and job training to students in communities with high rates of juvenile delinquency and poverty. These school-police partnerships have expanded rapidly in the United States over the last few decades, largely in response to political unrest and police violence in the 1990s. Programs vary in their offerings, but they generally aim to ease tensions between communities and law enforcement, while also providing needed resources in neighborhoods where education and job opportunities are scarce. Kid Cops draws on years of observations and interviews with educators, police officers, and, of course, kids. The junior police programs at each high school may have different emphases, but their common goal is for students to graduate from high school and enter college or the workforce. A second goal of the program is to cultivate a positive image of the police. Ultimately, however, Thai finds that these programs tighten the relationship between marginalized youth, schools, and the criminal justice system and strain the students' relationships with their peers, families, and each other. These programs also distract residents from systemic issues of policing and suppress opportunities for meaningful change. Written in an accessible tone that balances the seriousness of inequality with the playfulness of the study's youth, Kid Cops moves beyond the narrative of detentions, suspensions, and arrests to tell a less conventional story about police in schools. It asks, does good, friendly policing exist--especially if it continues to tether low-income communities of color to the criminal justice system?

What Communities Gain and Lose from Junior Police in Schools

Kid Cops

'Utterly captivating. An engrossing, propulsive novel' Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites 'A gorgeously written, at times fantastical and deeply immersive novel' Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns. Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary power - through her tarot cards, she can commune with the dead, revolutionaries and the aristocracy alike seeking her out to divine their fortunes. Lenormand is loyal to Marie Antoinette and the dauphin of France, but she has seen the queen's fate in the cards and must take care that it doesn't become her own. Then, one fateful day, she comes across Cait, a scullery maid from Ireland who has travelled to Paris for love. Cait has powers too - she can read people's pasts as Lenormand reads their futures. The two young women share an electrifying connection, drawn to each other's abilities. But Cait is hiding something. What will she do - and who will she betray - to bring revolution to the shores of her beloved Ireland too? Inspired by the astonishing true story of Marie-Anne Adelaide Lenormand, The Tarot Reader of Versailles is a sweeping, powerful novel where allegiances, betrayals and even fate itself can be forged or broken by the turn of a card . . . *Selected as a Bookseller pick of the month* 'Readers who like their historical fiction laced with fantastical elements will enjoy this spirited tale' The Times '[A] propulsive epic in the company of two extraordinary women' Daily Mail 'A complex, epic and engrossing tale' Caroline Lea, author of Love, Sex &amp; Frankenstein 'I was totally swept up in this epic story of fate and betrayal, love and intrigue. Every twist left me reeling' Danielle Giles, author of Mere 'Thrilling, compelling and beautifully woven' Aoife Fitzpatrick, author of The Red Bird Sings 'Feminist, fantastical and flawlessly imagined' Natasha Solomons 'Lush, lyrical and utterly captivating' Kim Curran, author of The Morrigan

The spellbinding new novel from the international bestselling author of THE WITCHES OF VARDO

The Tarot Reader of Versailles

A rich history of the development of American minimum wage policy with lessons for today. Despite broad popular support for robust minimum wage policy, the federal minimum wage is now worth less--in real, inflation-adjusted terms--than at any time since 1949. While some state and local governments have stepped in to fill this void, others have declined to set any minimum wage standard at all. Traversing more than 100 years of history, Raising the Floor examines how interest groups have navigated the highly decentralized American political system to shape the development of federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. In her analysis, Shanna Rose highlights the importance of American federalism. She argues that because federalism creates multiple arenas for policy change, interest groups have sought out the sites most conducive to their goals, shifting their lobbying efforts as new obstacles and opportunities emerge. Federalism has facilitated minimum wage policymaking by fostering policy experimentation, learning, and diffusion across states and by allowing state and local governments to overcome gridlock and status-quo biases at the national level. Yet, federalism has also been an instrument for containment, enabling those opposed to minimum wage increases to litigate and preempt local-level laws. With rich historical chapters that illuminate different phases in the development of today's patchwork of wage standards, Raising the Floor is a deep examination of the past, present, and future of American minimum wage law.

Federalism and the Politics of Us Minimum Wage Policy

Raising the Floor

Verso's Southern Questions

In 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth year, 22-year-old Djamila Boupacha was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb in a university cafeteria. While in custody, she was tortured and raped by French soldiers. Her case would have been buried like countless others had it not been for the efforts of her lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, and the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir to transform it into an international cause célèbre. Djamila Boupacha is the culmination of this campaign to expose the systemic violence of colonial rule. "To protest in the name of morality against ‘excesses’ or ‘abuses,’" Beauvoir writes, "is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no ‘abuses’ or ‘excesses’ here, simply an all-pervasive system." More than a historical document, the book is a profound exploration of morality, complicity and resistance. A classic text of anticolonialism, this is a story that demands to be read—and remembered.

Djamila Boupacha

A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory that now pervades global politics - from the prize-winning author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist 'An essential framework for parsing current events . . . meticulously researched . . . worthwhile and accessible . . . also offers a modicum of hope' Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian Throughout the world, authoritarian movements are radically reshaping our politics and our lives. At the heart of them all lies 'great replacement theory', which insists that peoples of colour, migrants and minorities are being deliberately empowered to displace white majorities. In Chain of Ideas, Ibram X. Kendi shows how this conspiracy theory has mutated from the extremist fringe into a global ideology, embraced by leaders as varied as Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Nigel Farage, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. He traces its historic roots in slavery, segregation, colonialism and Nazism, and shows how these age-old prejudices have been dressed in new language for a digital age. But this is not a book about extremists on the margins. From Anders Breivik's massacre to the chants of the Charlottesville marchers, from Brexit slogans to the Christchurch shooting, Kendi shows how these ideas have crossed borders, inspired terror and are now re-shaping parties of government. Chain of Ideas is a penetrating history of how reactionary ideas have been repackaged as common sense, and how they shape the globe today. PRAISE FOR IBRAM X. KENDI: 'The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind' The New York Times on How To Be an Antiracist 'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race' Guardian 'A kind, dignified, preternaturally wise teacher' GQ 'One of today's most visible and sought-after public intellectuals' Wall Street Journal 'One of the US's most respected scholars of race and history' Afua Hirsch '[Kendi] is not a historian fearful of upsetting orthodoxies or questioning fixed reputations' David Olusoga

Great Replacement Theory and the Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

Chain of Ideas

Friedenauer Presse Winterbuch

Von Juli bis September 1920 begleitete der fünfundzwanzigjährige Isaak Babel die legendäre 1. Kavalleriedivision der Roten Armee als Korrespondent an die Südwestfront des Russisch-Polnischen Krieges. Babel begab sich freiwillig auf den Kriegerpfad, nachdem sein Mentor Maxim Gorki ihm geraten hatte, 'unter die Leute zu gehen', um mehr Lebenserfahrung zu sammeln. Selbst ein Anhänger der Revolution, ritt er mit den Kosaken nach Galizien und lieferte für die Zeitung 
 Roter Kavallerist
 Propagandaberichte über die Kriegserfolge. Gleichzeitig führte er ein Tagebuch, in dem er sein zunehmendes Entsetzen über das wahre Gesicht des Krieges festhielt. In intimen Momentaufnahmen zeigt Babel schmutzige, misshandelte wolhynische Bauern und ausgeplünderte, verfolgte Juden; syphilitische russische Soldaten und entwürdigte Gefangene; wilde, singende Kosaken und geschundene Mädchen; abgestochene Kühe, erschossene Pferde, ausgeräucherte Bienenstöcke. Schonungslos notiert Babel, was für ihn ein doppeltes Grauen gewesen sein muss, war der Ritt in das größte jüdische Siedlungsgebiet des Ostens für ihn doch zugleich eine Heimkehr zu den Vätern - und er kam nicht mit Rettern, sondern mit Zerstörern: 'Wie wir die Freiheit bringen - schrecklich.'
 
 Isaak Babels 
 Tagebuch 1920
 ist Zeugnis eines Krieges, der, obwohl sein Ausgang das Schicksal Europas entscheidend prägen sollte, in westlichen Geschichtsbüchern nur mehr als Fußnote behandelt wird. Heute hallt sein Echo lauter wider denn je.

Von Juli bis September 1920 begleitete der fünfundzwanzigjährige Isaak Babel die legendäre 1. Kavalleriedivision der Roten Armee als Korrespondent an die Südwestfront des Russisch-Polnischen Krieges. Babel begab sich freiwillig auf den Kriegerpfad, nachdem sein Mentor Maxim Gorki ihm geraten hatte, »unter die Leute zu gehen«, um mehr Lebenserfahrung zu sammeln. Selbst ein Anhänger der Revolution, ritt er mit den Kosaken nach Galizien und lieferte für die Zeitung 
 Roter Kavallerist
 Propagandaberichte über die Kriegserfolge. Gleichzeitig führte er ein Tagebuch, in dem er sein zunehmendes Entsetzen über das wahre Gesicht des Krieges festhielt. In intimen Momentaufnahmen zeigt Babel schmutzige, misshandelte wolhynische Bauern und ausgeplünderte, verfolgte Juden; syphilitische russische Soldaten und entwürdigte Gefangene; wilde, singende Kosaken und geschundene Mädchen; abgestochene Kühe, erschossene Pferde, ausgeräucherte Bienenstöcke. Schonungslos notiert Babel, was für ihn ein doppeltes Grauen gewesen sein muss, war der Ritt in das größte jüdische Siedlungsgebiet des Ostens für ihn doch zugleich eine Heimkehr zu den Vätern – und er kam nicht mit Rettern, sondern mit Zerstörern: »Wie wir die Freiheit bringen – schrecklich.«
 
 Isaak Babels 
 Tagebuch 1920
 ist Zeugnis eines Krieges, der, obwohl sein Ausgang das Schicksal Europas entscheidend prägen sollte, in westlichen Geschichtsbüchern nur mehr als Fußnote behandelt wird. Heute hallt sein Echo lauter wider denn je.

Tagebuch 1920

How The Solar System Shaped Human History - And May Help Save Our Planet 'A stunning history of how we've come to understand environmental change on Earth...A rich, eye-opening tapestry, and beautifully told!' LEWIS DARTNELL 'Masterfully shows that our understanding of some of the world's greatest threats has come from watching the stars' LUKE KEMP Our solar system is an extraordinary place where asteroids careen off course and solar winds hurl charged particles across billions of miles of space. Yet we seldom consider how these events, so immense in scale, influence our own fragile blue planet. In Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot traces the surprising threads linking humanity to the rest of the solar system. He reveals how the shifting sands of other planets have shaped geopolitics, spurred scientific and cultural innovation, and encouraged new ideas about the emergence and fate of life. Martian dust storms altered the trajectory of the Cold War and inspired fantastical stories about alien civilisations. Comet impacts on Jupiter led to the first planetary defence strategy. And volcanic eruptions spewed sulfuric acid into Venus's atmosphere, exposing the existential risks of global warming. But just as we expand the boundaries of space exploration, cosmic environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable to human activity. Yet, they may also hold the key to slowing down the climate crisis back on Earth. Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean urges us to develop an interplanetary environmentalism across a vast mosaic of entangled worlds and to consider the profound connections that bind us to the cosmos and each other. 'This dazzling book is an enormous contribution, challenging us to re-envision the universe and our place in it' SARAH STEWART JOHNSON 'Boldly taken environmental history where no historian has gone before...The book brims over with both interesting anecdotes and arresting perspectives on our place within the cosmos' J.R. McNEILL

How The Solar System Shaped Human History – And May Help Save Our Planet

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean

I Have Avenged America

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