Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
High on the Hog
A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Winner of the IACP Award for Culinary History
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone...
1916
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's magisterial...
Mornings in Jenin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that does for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.
Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the...
Children of the Stone
The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires others to work with him to make that...
Rats
Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
New York Public Library Book for the Teenager
New York Public Library Book to Remember
PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year
"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Behold the rat, dirty...
Operation Bite Back
Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Dean Kuipers takes us behind the scenes of the Animal Liberation Front and its punk-anarchist sibling the Earth Liberation Front, two of the most notorious and violent environmental groups and one of the FBI's biggest domestic terrorist priorities--even in the wake of 9/11. Kuipers tells us the story...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's
adventures as an expat in Paris. Based on his own experiences and with
names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action-and to
prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint
Laurent suit", the book...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In the acclaimed third installment of the popular Merde series, Paul West winds up stuck in American, chin-deep in financial trouble. He and his French girlfriend set off to America, with hopes of veering off the path to fiscal ruin. But as the not-so-dynamic duo stumble toward Los Angeles, via Boston,...
Don't Shoot
One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement...
Washington's Monument
And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The colorful story behind one of America's greatest monuments and of the ancient obelisks of Egypt, now scattered around the world.
Conceived soon after the American Revolution ended, the great monument to George Washington was not finally completed until almost a century later; the great obelisk...
The Man of Numbers
Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant...
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
On February 12, 1884--when Roosevelt was building a career as New
York State's most promising young politician--his wife gave birth to
their first child, Alice. Two days later, both his wife and his mother
died in the same house on Valentine's Day. Grief stricken--and driven by
doubts about his career...
Don't Even Think About It
Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change?
“Please read this book, and think about it.” --Bill Nye
Most of us recognize...
Why Teach?
In Defense of a Real Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.
A renowned professor of English at the University of...