Bloomsbury: 14715 books
Milton
Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar Anna Beer traces his literary roots to a youthful passion for ancient verse, especially Ovid. She also...
Solon the Thinker
Political Thought in Archaic Athens
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual...
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,...
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"This is an insightful book that will please anyone interested in midcentury American history and politics. Anyone serious about political philosophy will learn from it. Highly recommended.†? -Library Journal (starred review)
William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative...
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the California Book Award
A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an extraordinary biography of Winston Churchill, a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts.
Few have matched...
Mr. Churchill's Profession
The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the "Special Relationship"
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize-for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work...
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...
by Roy Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
First published in 1964, Asquith was one of the most crucial and controversial of modern Prime Ministers. He was opposed with a bitterness and a violence that English politicians have not subsequently known, yet he enjoyed eight and a half years of unbroken power, and for at least the first six years...
Elderhood
Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A New York Times bestseller
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.
For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning...
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...
by Mohammed Mahfoodh Alardhi
Language: Arabic
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: Arabic
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Arabs Unseen explores the enlightening journeys of 10 exemplary figures from the modern Arab world. It embraces the theme of drawing inspiration from these individuals who overcame various challenges to build a body of work in their respective fields. Their experiences are significant for all generations within the Arab world and beyond.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, she participated in some of the greatest upheavals of...
Jefferson and Hamilton
The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.
From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible...