For the most up-to-date Edelweiss catalog information, visit http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com Please refer to the index for page numbers CONTENTS BLOOMSBURY PRESS Finding the Space to Lead Janice Marturano Hope Against Hope (pb) Sarah Carr The Wars of Reconstruction Douglas P. Egerton The Double V (pb) Rawn James, Jr. Money Mania Bob Swarup Gospel of Freedom (pb) Jonathan Rieder A New History of Life Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink Poison Spring E. G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins The Crusades of Cesar Chavez Miriam Pawel BLOOMSBURY Once You Break a Knucle D. W. Wilson A More Beautiful Question Warren Berger Good in a Crisis (pb) Margaret Overton A Feathered River Across the Sky Joel Greenberg WWW.BLOOMSBURY.COM More Powerful Than Dynamite (pb) Thai Jones Pig’s Foot Carlos Acosta A History of the Present Illness (pb) Louise Aronson Before We Met Lucy Whitehouse This Magnificent Desolation (pb) Thomas O’Malley Constance (pb) Patrick McGrath The Walking (pb) Laleh Khadivi Inside a Pearl Edmund White Dogstar Rising (pb) Parker Bilal The Ghost Runner Parker Bilal The Wives of Los Alamos TaraShea Nesbit Vow (pb) Wendy Plump A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain, adapted by Seymour Chwast Little Known Facts (pb) Christine Sneed International Night Mark Kurlansky and Talia Kurlansky Spectrums (pb) David Blatner The Adventures of Henry Thoreau Michael Sims Last Ape Standing (pb) Chip Walter The Last Gift Abdulrazak Gurnah The Searchers (pb) Glenn Frankel Everybody Matters (pb) Mary Robinson The Victorian Internet (pb) Tom Standage The International Bank of Bob (pb) Bob Harris Forecast (pb) Mark Buchanan The Ghost Apple Aaron Thier Ballistics (pb) D. W. Wilson How Paris Became Paris Joan DeJean Beasts Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson The God Argument (pb) A. C. Grayling The Man Who Walked Away Maud Casey The Cooked Seed (pb) Anchee Min Flora (pb) Gail Godwin Nothing Holds Back the Night Delphine de Vigan Lion Heart Justin Cartwright Equilateral (pb) Ken Kalfus Coup de Foudre Ken Kalfus Maggie & Me Damian Barr The Giraffe’s Neck Judith Schalansky The Ten Commandments David Bodanis The Real Food Cookbook Nina Planck One Good Egg (pb) Suzi Becker The Poets’ Wives David Park The Monopolists Mary Pilon Saul Bellow’s Heart (pb) Gregory Bellow BLOOMSBURY DISTRIBUTION AND SPECIALIST TITLES The Strangers Who Came Home John Lazenby Mushrooms John Wright Veg Patch Mark Diacono Sea Fishing Nick Fisher Hedgerow John Wright Fruit Mark Diacono Herbs Nikki Duffy Shaken Not Stirred Graham Tarrant Family Life Elisabeth Luard WWW.BLOOMSBURY.COM My Life as a Wife Elisabeth Luard Still Life Elisabeth Luard BLOOMSBURY PRESS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BLOOMSBURY BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS MACMILLAN GIFT REPRESENTATIVES SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS QUERIES ORDER INFORMATION BLOOMSBURY PRESS JANUARY 2014 Finding the Space to Lead A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership Janice Marturano Executives and leaders from all over the world have sought out Janice Marturano’s mindful leadership training. Finding the Space to Lead brings it to readers everywhere. Are you facing another “crazy busy” day? Sometimes “leader” seems to mean “person who deals with problems nonstop.” What if you could hit the Pause button on your day and meet your challenges with a sense of space and clear focus? And what if you had a way not just of “getting things done,” but also ensuring that what gets done connects with your deepest values? BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / In this plainspoken, accessible guide, Janice Marturano, an executive with LEADERSHIP Bloomsbury Press | 1/7/2014 decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, shows us how to integrate the 9781620402474 | $26.00 / $27.50 Can. practice of mindfulness—meditation and self-awareness—with effective Hardback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: techniques of management and mentorship. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Scientific research has shown that mindfulness practices enhance mental health MARKETING and improve performance in every field of endeavor. Leaders who have National print and online consumer undergone Marturano’s training report that it provides a “transformative advertising campaign at publication experience” that made them better, more focused managers. Cross-promote with Institute for Mindful Leadership This is not a “new age” book nor a new “flavor of the month” training program. Author events in NYC It brings the principles of mindfulness into the everyday life of anyone in a National print and online review leadership role. It offers specific exercises that address real-world issues, campaign including managing your calendar, meetings, to-do lists, strategic planning, and the National radio and TV features interpersonal challenges of the workplace. Whether you lead all or part of a company, nonprofit, class, or family, Finding the Space to Lead can help you do Social media campaign at publication just that. Janice Marturano is the founder and director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership. Formerly a vice president and deputy general counsel at General Mills, she initiated that company’s mindful leadership training. In 2013, Marturano led the first workshop on mindful leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She writes regularly for the Huffington Post, and has been profiled in Forbes, the Financial Times, and the New York Times, among others. She lives in New Jersey. 4 BLOOMSBURY PRESS FEBRUARY 2014 Hope Against Hope Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children Sarah Carr “A tremendous achievement.” —Bookforum Geraldlynn is a lively, astute fourteen-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynn’s parents hope their daughter’s new school will prepare her for college—but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter EDUCATION / GENERAL school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use Bloomsbury Press | 2/4/2014 9781608195138 | $18.00 / $19.00 Can. science, data, and hard work to build a model school. Paperback / softback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H B&W Mary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must Other Available Formats: fight each day not only to educate the city's teenagers, but to keep their school Hardcover ISBN: 9781608194902 community safe and whole. MARKETING In this powerful narrative nonfiction debut, the lives of these three characters Coverage in paperback columns nationwide provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-first- century America. Hope Against Hope works in the same tradition as Random Outreach to education, local-interest and social justice blogs and websites Family and There Are No Children Here to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world. Academic marketing campaign Social media campaign at publication PRAISE “It’s work like this that makes journalism truly matter, that makes clear that reportage is not merely about fact and argument and theory, but about human lives in the balance.” —David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme “Hope Against Hope is storytelling at its absolute finest.” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of The Other Side of the River and There Are No Children Here “This is an important book about education writ large.” —Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of The Dreamkeepers Sarah Carr has written about education for the last twelve years, reporting on the growth in online learning in higher education, the battle over vouchers and charter schools in urban districts, and the struggle to educate China’s massive population of migrant children. Her work has been honored with numerous national awards and fellowships, most recently a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. She lives in New Orleans. 5 BLOOMSBURY PRESS JANUARY 2014 The Wars of Reconstruction The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era Douglas R. Egerton A masterful new history, telling the stories of African-American activists and officeholders who, in the face of murderous violence, risked their lives for equality after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, HISTORY / UNITED STATES took a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic Bloomsbury Press | 1/21/2014 9781608195664 | $30.00 / $31.50 Can. abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The years of Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: Reconstruction marked the United States’ most progressive moment prior to the 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H civil rights movement. B&W t/o Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: First and Previous histories of Reconstruction have focused on Washington politics. But in Second Serial, Audio this sweeping, prodigiously researched narrative, Douglas Egerton brings a bigger, Film/TV: POM Inc. even more dramatic story into view, exploring state and local politics and tracing the struggles of some fifteen hundred African-American officeholders, in both the MARKETING North and South, who fought entrenched white resistance. Tragically, their National print and online review movement was met by ruthless violence—not just riotous mobs, but also targeted campaign assassination. With stark evidence, Egerton shows that Reconstruction, often cast Author events in NY State as a “failure” or a doomed experiment, was rolled back by murderous force.