Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
Are We Screwed?
How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.
The Millennial generation could be first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change. It's also the last generation able to do something about them. With...
Dirty Dishes
A Restaurateur's Story of Passion, Pain, and Pasta
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Everyone has an opinion about Pino Luongo. To Tony Bourdain, he was the notorious Pino Noir, the shadowy kingpin of a restaurant empire. To Manhattanites, he was either the savior or the scourge of the city's dining scene. To the many fans of his cookbooks, he was the herald of Tuscan cuisine.
In...
Fruitless Fall
The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched thirty billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear....
Darjeeling
The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Greatest Tea
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows...
Shadows on the Gulf
A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In the spring of 2010, we watched oil gushing unstoppably into the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But as bad as the spill was, it is
only the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction.
At
the height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each day
merely equaled the amount of dispersant...
Faustian Bargains
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace crossed paths only briefly; but Wallace's life, especially one violent episode and its intricate aftermath, illuminates the dark side of our 36th president.
Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ. A brilliant tactician, he maneuvered colleagues...
A Twitter Year
365 Days in 140 Characters
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
From the Arab Spring to the Royal Wedding, the rescue of the Chilean miners to the fall of the News of the World and the London Riots, compelling tweet-by-tweet accounts freeze-frame the breaking of the biggest news stories of the past twelve months, alongside profiles of top tweeters, striking visual...
The Living Shore
Rediscovering a Lost World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the 1990s, a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canada's western coast. He saw amazing sights, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Along the western side of Vancouver Island, Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where...
The Flavor Thesaurus
A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
A complete guide to the 160 most essential flavors, and their numerous combinations, offering new inspiration for the cook who has everything.
In this lively and exceptionally enjoyable book, career flavor scientist Niki Segnit uncovers the essential flavors of food, and organizes them into...
A Feathered River Across the Sky
The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The epic story of why passenger pigeons became extinct and what that says about our current relationship with the natural world.
When Europeans arrived in North America, 25 to 40 percent of the continent's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun...
Caligula for President
Better American Living Through Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
In this inventive and biting satire, acclaimed novelist and cultural critic Cintra Wilson reimagines America's Manifest Destiny as helmed by Caligula, the only leader in world history capable of turning our floundering democracy into a fully functioning-and totally fun-tyranny, both here and abroad....
The Enlightened Bracketologist
The Final Four of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation...
by Libby Frost
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Meet Snowbelle, princess of the icy, glittering realm of Frostovia!
Snowbelle spends her days practicing her singing in the grand halls of the Opaline Palace alongside her cat, Sparks, and pony, Icetail. But ever since her parents, the king and queen, asked her to sing at the Snow Ball, she's...
by David LaRochelle
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
When Cow gets her hooves on the farmer's car, she takes it for a wild ride through the country. Moooo! But a bump in the road brings this joy ride to a troublesome end. Moo-moo. . . Has Cow learned her lesson about living life in the fast lane? Moo?
Pairing two talented creators who managed...