Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition
The Voyage of the Nimrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were...
How Not to Get Rich
Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Some people are just naturally good at not getting rich. They didn't buy Microsoft when a friend mentioned that he was helping start up a new software company. They sold their apartment in Manhattan for a song in the seventies, instinctively believing the real estate market would never, ever come...
30 Days in Sydney
A Wildly Distorted Account
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores....
Redeemable
A Memoir of Darkness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His...
by David Kynaston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany's aggression in World War II, and was ravaged in many ways at the war's end. Celebrated historian David Kynaston has written an utterly original, and compellingly readable, account of the following six years, during which the country rebuilt...
by David Kynaston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance;...
Pinstripe Empire
The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An exciting history of the world's greatest baseball team from a former Yankees Public Relations Officer.
"A riveting and comprehensive history of the Yankees" – New York Times
Is there a sports team more synonymous with winning than the New York Yankees? The team of Ruth,...
by Justin Racz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
They're kooky, they're crazy-50 Relatives Worse Than Yours is a nightmarish family reunion that will have you appreciating your own weird clan. There's the Family Newsletter Publisher who keeps you updated on how Uncle Carl's hip is doing; there's Holistic New Age Aunt, who knows Madonna from Kabbalah...
by Wendy Shanker
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life...
Robertson's Book of Firsts
Who Did What for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Completely unlike any encyclopedia before it, The Book of Firsts is the product of decades of archiving and research from the incredible Patrick Robertson. For many years the proprietor of a stock photo archive and collector of all forms of ephemera, Robertson boasts a library that includes ads, clippings,...
Illegal Procedure
A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation...
How to Cook Like a Man
A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Daniel Duane was a good guy, but he wasn't what you might call domestic. Yet when he became a father, this avid outdoorsman was increasingly stuck at home, trying to do his part in the growing household. Inept at so many tasks associated with an infant daughter, he decided to take on dinner duty....
by Jennifer Crwys-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black
domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society
in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal
opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.
But if needs be, it is...
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month...