Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
Lost Cat
A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A Finalist for the 26th Lambda Literary Award
Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their...
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016
A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future.
America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is...
Bottlemania
Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry...
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.†? -The Wall Street Journal
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking,...
West of Jesus
Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered,...
Left for Dead
Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the six-hundred-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within forty-eight hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea, throwing one of the world's most prestigious races into bedlam and taking...
It's All About the Bike
The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his
late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides
to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to
travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his
kids. He's no Sunday...
This Love Is Not for Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...
Swinging from My Heels
Confessions of an LPGA Star
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Christina Kim is the brashest, bawdiest, funniest player on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. Golf fans know her for her colorful wardrobe, even more colorful on-course antics, and an explosive game. But in this rollicking account of the 2009 season, Kim invites readers deep into her...
The Nasty Bits
Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
New York Times Bestseller
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style.
Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve the mysteries inherent in life in France....
by Todd Pruzan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house-but that didn't stop her from writing several successful travel books. With volumes on Europe, Asia, and Africa and America, Mrs. Mortimer had something nasty to say about...
Equilateral
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Equilateral is an intellectual comedy set just before the turn of the century in Egypt. A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of the age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a...