Bloomsbury Press imprint: 136 books
Bozo Sapiens
Why to Err is Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The New York Times called Chances Are, the authors' look at the application of probability in everyday life, a "dizzying, exhilarating ride." In Bozo Sapiens, they take us on a another funhouse journey, exploring the surprising, or alarming, number of ways that humans can make bad judgments...
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small...
The Intimate Bond
How Animals Shaped Human History
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share...
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the...
The Spirit Level
Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.
"Get your hands on this book."-Bill Moyers
This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates...
Cro-Magnon
How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
New York Times best-selling author Brian Fagan explores the world of the Cro-Magnons--the mysterious, little-known race, famous for its cave paintings, that survived the Ice Age and became the ancestors of today's humans.
They survived by their wits in...
Volcker
The Triumph of Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents-three Democrats and two Republicans-have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did...
The New Frugality
How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
As the recession deepens, with a downturn in spending, rise in defaulting mortgages and throttling of credit, a Go-Go economy has transitioned to a Uh-Oh economy. How did we get here and what does it mean for individuals and families? The New Frugality lays out how Americans have overspent-and offers...
Nothin' but Blue Skies
The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy†?-the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots,...
Philanthrocapitalism
How Giving Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style...
Of Arms and Artists
The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.
The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual...
The Society for Useful Knowledge
How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was time the colonists set...
A Call to Arms
Mobilizing America for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war...
by John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
John Fitzgerald Kennedy led his nation for little more than a thousand days, yet his presidency is intensely remembered, not merely as a byproduct of his tragic fate. Kennedy steered the nation away from the brink of nuclear war, initiated the first nuclear test ban treaty, created the Peace Corps,...