Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
The Devil's Picnic
Travels Through the Underworld of Food and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
An investigation into what thrills us, what terrifies us, and what would make us travel ten thousand miles and evade the local authorities, The Devil's Picnic is a delicious and compelling expedition into the heart of vice and desire.
Taras Grescoe is the author of two books, one of which, Sacre Blues:...
by James Sallis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In his acclaimed career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them memorable observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the existential black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive....
The Hedgehog's Dilemma
A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2010
In this wonderfully entertaining, adorable book, Hugh Warwick, an environmental writer and photographer, examines the relationship between the hedgehog and man, and how the hedgehog became so beloved. Traveling the globe in search of his quarry, Warwick eventually discovers a new breed called Hugh's Hedgehog.
Good in a Crisis
A Memoir of Divorce, Dating, and Other Near-Death Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of...
There is No Me Without You
One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human
face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman
working to save her country's children.
After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some...
Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
How America Kept Its Feet
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us.
The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces...
Genius At Play
The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.
“A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast.” --James Gleick, author of The Information
John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with a lovely loopy brain. He is Archimedes,...
Mirror Earth
The Search for Our Planet's Twin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than eight hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them is anything like Earth and none could support life.
Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters...
The Many Not The Few
The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Immortalized in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before "was so much owed by so few," the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend: Britain was saved from German invasion by the gallant band of Fighter Command Pilots in their...
In the Kingdom of the Sick
A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live...
The Underminer
The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend. Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service...
The Street-Law Handbook
Surviving Sex, Drugs, and Petty Crime
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Can you be arrested for wearing a thong if you're ugly? Unknowingly renting a house to drug dealers? Becoming too familiar with your Halloween pumpkin?
The Street Law Handbook answers these questions and more, as lawyer Neeraja Viswanathan cracks the tough nut of small-time law enforcement and lays...
The Etiquette of Illness
What to Say When You Can't Find the Words
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
What should I say when I hear that my friend has cancer? How can I help but not get in the way? How do I let my loved ones know what I need?
The Etiquette of Illness is a wise, encouraging, and essential guide to navigating the complex terrain of illness. This collection of anecdotes and insights...
The Half-Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of volatile fur trappers trekking through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, joins up with the refugee Henry Brown, the two begin a wild ride that takes them from the virgin territory of the West all the way to China and back again. One hundred and sixty...