Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
Scribe
My Life in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the "quintessential American sportswriter.†? For the past twenty-five years, he has also been a regular on various...
The Queen of Whale Cay
The Eccentric Story of "Joe" Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
A fascinating biography of the woman champion motorboat racer of the 1920s who in the '30s bought and became 'ruler' of an island in the British West Indies. 'Joe' Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. Educated in Connecticut, she returned...
The Hustle
One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What
would happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle
private school - famous for alums such as Microsoft's Bill Gates - and black
kids from the inner city on a basketball team? Wouldn't exposure to privilege
give...
Bill Veeck
Baseball's Greatest Maverick
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
William Louis "Bill" Veeck, Jr. (1914-1986) is legendary in many ways-baseball impresario and innovator, independent spirit, champion of civil rights in a time of great change. Paul Dickson has written the first full biography of this towering figure, in the process rewriting many aspects...
Wilpon's Folly
The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for "fictitious profits"...
The Road Taken
The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is...
Audition
Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream role!
Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; create mystery;...
Our Lot
How Real Estate Came to Own Us
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story--the collapse of the subprime empire and the global impact it had on the economy--as part of a project of social engineering beginning in the 1930s by the U.S. government to make homeownership available...
A More Beautiful Question
The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science.
It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow...
Stud
Adventures in Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky...
Girl in Glass
Dispatches from the Edge of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Winner of 2016 Books for a Better Life Award
A Washington Post Book Club Selection
A Public Books Favorite Book of 2015
When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or lost one? Over months in the hospital, as...
The Social Atom
Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people's choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any economic, social, or political theory be valid? The...
by Anthony Bourdain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.
Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain...
Writing on the Wall
Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond.
Social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Cicero and other Roman statesmen used to exchange news, to the hand-printed...