Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope...
Instrumental
A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
"A mesmeric combination of vivid, keen, obsessive precision and raw, urgent energy.†? --Zoe Williams, Guardian
"Thrilling and harrowing . . . Unsurpassed and unsurpassable.†? --Sunday Times
James Rhodes's passion for music has been his lifeline--the thread that has held...
The Story of Charlotte's Web
E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White obeyed that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours as...
Arthur and Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association
From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern...
The Best of Us
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List
Indie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne...
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.
Working from nineteenth-century...
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was...
Everybody Matters
My Life Giving Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Displaying a gift for storytelling and remembrance, Robinson reveals, in Everybody Matters, what lies behind the vision,...
An American Voter
My Love Affair with Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
When Joan Sullivan was sixteen, her sister got married on their sprawling farm in New Jersey. Bill Bradley, the senator and former NBA player, was among the guests. Suddenly, magically, Joan found herself on the basketball court with him. An athlete herself, awed by his dedication to both sports and...
Starman
The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured...
Send in the Idiots
Stories from the Other Side of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a special school alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these kids received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Now a policy adviser in England, Kamran decides...
Pope Francis
The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
For the past two years Pope Francis has enchanted and bewildered the world in equal measure with his compassion and his contradictions. Expanding greatly on his acclaimed earlier book Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely reexamines the complex past of Jorge Mario Bertoglio and adds nine new...
King, Kaiser, Tsar
Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart.
Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first time by Queen Elizabeth II, Catrine...
Queen Emma and the Vikings
A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the Dark Ages, a period often neglected by conventional history. At the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all jostling for control of England, Emma was a political...