Author: Brian Faga
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pre
Keywords: civilizations, rise, change, climate, warming
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 159691601X
ISBN-13: 9781596916012

A breakout bestseller on how the earth’s previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara—a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth century the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide—a preview of today’s global warming. In some areas, including western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded

Authors:Bethlehem Shoals, Dr. Lawyer IndianChief, Silverbi
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: styles, stats, stars, game, almanac, basketball, presents, macrophenomenal, pro, freedarko
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1596915617
ISBN-13: 9781596915619

Amazon Best of the Month, December 2008: From its mouthful of a name, you might expect The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac to be one of the new breed of fantasy-friendly stathead sports guides in the vein of the Baseball Prospectus. Or, from its blogger pedigree (via the popular FreeDarko.com), you might assume it’s one of those quickie blog-into-book projects that repurposes new-media content into an old-media package. But it’s neither--not even close. Bucking the data-crunching trend, the Almanac’s pseudonymous authors instead embrace the mythical side of pro sports,

Author: Mark Buchana
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: neighbor, usually, looks, caught, cheaters, atom, rich, richer, social
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1596910135
ISBN-13: 9781596910133

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 truth is, none of them really are. Mark Buchanan makes the fascinating argument that the science of physics is beginning to provide a new picture of the human or “social atom,” and help us understand the surprising, and often predictable, patterns that emerge when they get together. Look at pat

Authors:Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kapla,
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pre
Keywords: human, err, sapiens, bozo
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1596914009
ISBN-13: 9781596914001

A dazzling new work of popular science and psychology for readers who enjoyed Blink, Stumbling on Happiness, or The Black Swan. The New York Times called the Kaplans’ look at probability in everyday life, Chances Are..., “a dizzying, exhilarating ride.” Now they take readers on a new fun-house tour—exploring the burgeoning science of why humans make mistakes. Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in myriad different ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher rate of interest when a pretty woman’s face was printed on the flyer? Why did one poll on imm

Author: Anna Beer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pre
Keywords: patriot, pamphleteer, poet, milton
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1596916788
ISBN-13: 9781596916784

John Milton was one of the world’s greatest poets, the renowned author of Paradise Lost. But he was also deeply involved in political and religious controversies of his time, and authored a series of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and civil rights that proposed a rethinking of the nature and practice of government. In countless biographies, Milton has been crudely sketched either as a blind, saintly artist or as a domestic tyrant. Yet as Anna Beer shows, he was neither ogre nor paragon. By closely examining all aspects of Milton’s life and its social historical context, Beer su

Author: Elizabeth Royte
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: america, drinking, water, over, battle, business, local, springs, bottlemania
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 159691372X
ISBN-13: 9781596913721

?An engaging investigation of an unexpectedly murky substance?After you read it you will sip warily from your water bottle.??New York Times Book Review Bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. But what?s the cost of all this water?for us and for the environment? In this eye-opening book, Elizabeth Royte does for water what Michael Pollan did for food: She examines the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that surround it on its journey from distant aquifers to our supermarkets and homes. She looks at the various sources of drinking water (

Author: Mark Edmundso
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: read
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-09-05
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1582346089
ISBN-13: 9781582346083

In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance and power to change the way we teach and read.