Bloomsbury Usa

In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Toronto Globe and Mail's Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face on the crisis created by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Through riveting anecdotal stories, Nolen brings to life...

A Geography Of Oysters: The Connoisseur'S Guide To Oyster Eating In North AmericaAuthor: Rowan JacobsenPublisher: Bloomsbury UsaPublication Date: Sep 16, 2008Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage:...

Looks at the orbital patterns of the planets and the mathematical patterns surrounding them.Author: John MartineauPublisher: Bloomsbury USAPublication Date: April 01, 2002Number of Pages: 64...

In this groundbreaking book, journalist and innovation expert Warren Berger shows that one of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple,...

For readers of Waiting for Tom Hanks and Well Met, a "gloriously satisfying" (Glamour) romantic comedy set at a Jane Austen fantasy resort from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale. Now a...

The acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob. When...

Describes how a fifteenth-century goldsmith and clockmaker, Filippo Brunelleschi, came up with a unique design for the dome to crown Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, in a...

Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling award-winning graphic memoir by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast about her parents? final years.Author: Roz ChastPublisher: Bloomsbury...

This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life,...

A NEW 2019 EDITION BRINGING IT UP TO DATE The New York Times Bestseller The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by...

During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern...

Field Notes Froaatastrophe:an,atureand Clate angeAuthor: Elizabeth KolbertPublisher: Bloomsbury UsaPublication Date: Feb 03, 2015Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An eloquent odyssey through Spain's dark history journeys into the heart of the Spanish Civil War to examine the causes and consequences of a painful recent past, as well as its repercussions in...

A hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the...

A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky...

Author: Jessica B. HarrisPublisher: Bloomsbury UsaPublication Date: Jan 24, 2012Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1608194507ISBN-13: 9781608194506

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little...

A Harvard-educated Palestinian physician who was raised in a Gaza Strip refugee camp recounts the 2009 bombing attack that killed his daughters, describing how he has cared for patients on both sides...

From the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix."Worsley is a...

Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.Author: Dava SobelPublisher: Bloomsbury...

Rachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, and childless. Looking back over years of failed relationships, she identifies a lifelong addiction to love-an addiction to the unfulfilled...

In this utterly original look at our modern "culture of performance," de Zengotita shows how media are creating self-reflective environments, custom made for each of us. From Princess Diana's funeral...

A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the south by the prize-winning author of "Salvage the Bones."Author: Jesmyn WardPublisher: Bloomsbury USAPublication Date:...

"Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior . . . A major writer of our time, to read [her] is to begin to understand not simply the misinformation we have received for decades about what has...

Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations, had lost most of her leg,...

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,...

The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon...

Sacred Geometry (Wooden Books)Author: Miranda LundyPublisher: Bloomsbury UsaPublication Date: Apr 01, 2001Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0802713823ISBN-13:...