books by Bloomsbury USA     books:       Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India8 reviews Anita Jain Bloomsbury USA, 2008 More than a "chick book" As a guy, the title isn't something that drew me in; however, I have a keen interest in all things India, so decided to give the book a try. Amid the amusing and often hilarious anecdotes about Anita and her escapades is a fascinating look at India in transition that goes well beyond the supposedly heavyweight but hopelessly behind-the-curve tomes such as Freidman's "The World is Flat". Jain, ...             The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East61 reviews Sandy Tolan Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Moving, Tragic, Real This is a sublime work of art, made all the more so by its complete factual accuracy. Sure, Sandy picks and chooses the facts he'll present, as any historian does, but every thought, every moment, comes only from historical records and interviews. And perhaps it's this plain "just the facts, ma'am" approach that makes the story so much more filled with pathos and tragedy. I know of no other ...             Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday ...22 reviews Sandra Aamodt, Sam Wang Bloomsbury USA, 2008 A wonderful introduction to Neuroscience for the average Joe/Jane Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life This book explained so much in a way that is easily understood, interesting and relatable to every day life experiences. A fun read about a very current topic. This book provided answers to many questions that I have always wondered about. Highly recommended for those ...             Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change46 reviews Elizabeth Kolbert Bloomsbury USA, 2006 I was not an environmentalist. Now I am. This book will change the way you look at your impact on the world. Whether you consider the environment to be an important issue or not, it is well worth your time to read this short yet powerful book. The world is changing, fast, and it is becoming impossible to reasonably deny that fact. News reports are consistent: the world is warming faster than expected, and the results are found ...             Real Food: What to Eat and Why68 reviews Nina Planck Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Very eye opening This book gripped me. I have been reading everything I could get my hands on about food and nutrition. This book makes sense and really has changed the way I feed my family. It seems like a no brainer. I would recommend this to anyone who is concerned about their health and/or who is concerned about what has happened to the food industry in our country             My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands226 reviews Chelsea Handler Bloomsbury USA, 2005 FUNNY.........VERY VERY FUNNY!!!! Anyone who likes Chelsea Handler MUST read this book!! It's an EASY read, VERY funny. I can just picture these things happening to her...LMAO!!             The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit5 reviews Amy Goldman Bloomsbury USA, 2008 It's A Masterpiece Amy Goldman so captures the magic of heirloom tomatoes the reader almost inhales that distinct summer fragrance with every turn of the page. Each tomato has a carefully researched history and sometimes even a romance shared with the reader. I especially value the detailed notes on each variety for sweetness, flavor, texture and general growing information. Victor Schrager's tomato photographs ...             I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage4 reviews Susan Squire Bloomsbury USA, 2008 I Don't: A Contrarian View of Marriage A research product that is fascinating and memorable. The author does a sardonic job on the Old and New Testaments in examining the routes of males on top as a biblical command! Especially interesting is her cross-examination of the Genesis story with Adam, Eve, the Serpent and Him as putative witnesses on the "stand". Her chapter on the virgin birth is uniquely well-documented. The story flows ...             The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones72 reviews Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Love it! This book was great. I love reading everything Anthony writes because you can hear him speak as you read it.             Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators6 reviews William Stolzenburg Bloomsbury USA, 2008 An Important Book With Broad Implications Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, is a new and important contribution to conservation and ecology by William Stolzenburg (Bloomsbury, 2008) The author looks at cases, both experimental and real-life, where the top predators have been wiped out, and looks at what happens next. It turns out that a lot of things happen, none of them ...             Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell723 reviews Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2004 The Indescribable Double Life of Lady Pole Picture an England during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century, very much like the historical England, recognizable in many ways to readers familiar with the period, except that this England has a magical past, a distant connection to medieval English magic which has dissipated and diminished for hundreds of years but is now starting to come alive again. This is the setting of Susanna ...             I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You24 reviews Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, ... Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Great Book The only thing missing was the fact the The Dude claimed to be a roadie for Metallica on the Speed of Sound Tour and the band actually didn't do an album tour for the album. Enjoy a few caucasians, put on your favorite robe, jelly shoes and your favorite bowling album after watching the movie a couple dozen times and any true fan will enjoy the book as much as the movie. Duder Out             Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It14 reviews Elizabeth Royte Bloomsbury USA, 2008 Excellent research and writing on this priority subject Bottlemania: how water went on sale and why we bought it By Elizabeth Royte (Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York - First edition 2008) What is our future if water, life's most vital necessity, becomes a commodity - to be sold for profit - rather than a shared commons? In this fast-moving, well-researched book, Elizabeth Royte describes the astonishing increase in sales of bottled water ...             Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism8 reviews Richard C. Longworth Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Global View This is a comprehensive global perspective on the midwest's economic and social problems. Realistic pessimism documents in illuminating detail the changes in agriculture and manufacturing that have brought us to the present circumstances. Further, there is documentation of the pathology of attitudes, acquired in about a century of having it too good, that resist education, innovation, vital ...             Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer23 reviews Shannon Brownlee Bloomsbury USA, 2008 Thoughtful and Thorough Study of the Health Care Crisis Ever since my husband decided to go back to school to get a degree in the medical field (he hasn't quite decided in what yet), I have gotten more interested in reading about topics in that particular field. This book is one of the more fascinating reading and perhaps one of the most disturbing reading. However, I will have to admit a lot of the material in this book is already familiar. There are ...             Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story3 reviews Christina Thompson Bloomsbury USA, 2008 A FASCINATING READ As an American transplant to New Zealand, I have to say that I found Christina Thompson's book an absolutely fascinating read. And as the author of two books on New Zealand myself (the second one a work-in-progress), I have to say that her volume has add immeasurably to my effort to understand, not only the historic Maori, but Maori today. I can also appreciate her cross cultural experience via ...             There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children39 reviews Melissa Fay Greene Bloomsbury USA, 2007 Best Glimpse into Ethiopian Adoption Culture I'm writing this as the mother of an adopted Ethiopian child- I bought this book after a random search and it has been the most valuable book of our whole adoption journey. It's loaded with helpful background info on the AIDS & Orphan crises in Ethiopia, history of Ethiopia, insight into the cultural perceptions of adoption (especially by affluent, white Westerners!) and the very moving ...              search for books beautiful, bottlemania, catastrophe, children, climate, collected, collection, contrarian, ecological, everyday, globalism, heartland, heirloom, history, horizontal, jonathan, lebowski, marriage, marrying, medicine, norrell, one-night, overtreated, portraits, predators, recipes, strange, vanishing, varietal, wreckage books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen toys & games: Shuraki Trinity Box - Akatsuki Mishiro 1/8 Scale PVC Figure home  impressum - about us