books by Bloomsbury Press     books:     Bloomsbury Press      The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution Daniel P. Erikson Bloomsbury Press, 2008 Uniquely Insightful and Compelling This great book is refreshing and rare in a number of ways. Unlike so many commentators on the subject of Cuba and Cuba-U.S relations, Erikson not only avoids the traps many others have fallen prey to--blindly supporting the obviously and absurdly unsuccessful U.S. ...             Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World Matthew Bishop, Michael Green Bloomsbury Press, 2008 I don't know about saving the world, but they can help a lot Throughout most of human history the rich have used their money to make more money and, quite frankly, they have often done so at the expense of those without much. This has always been considered the way things are: the rich get richer and the poor get...well, you ...             Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Timothy Brook Bloomsbury Press, 2007 Really surprised me with its excellence Every once in a while, a book comes along that really surprises me with its excellence - Vermeer's Hat is one of those books. What this book is is a look into the seventeenth century, but as a hook, the book uses eight seventeenth century works of art, that each tells ...             Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their ... Russ Baker Bloomsbury Press, 2008 An Essential Book Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre said that "words are loaded pistols." In the hands of Russ Baker, they are hydrogen bombs. On ...             Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang Bloomsbury Press, 2007 Informative, readable, clever book Ha-Joon Chang's book is probably the best book on economics I have ever read. Although it goes against the free trade consensus, Chang's ideas are notable for not falling into typical anti-globalization rhetoric. He is not anti-trade; in fact Chang thinks development ...             The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America Maury Klein Bloomsbury Press, 2008 A good history with shaky technology writing A historian of business and society, Professor Klein's has written well on these two topics, an inspiration for techies like me, bringing back the pride I felt in the 1950s in reading biographies of inventors and scientists, and building electromechanical gadgets. A ...             The Irish Americans: A History Jay P. Dolan Bloomsbury Press, 2008 An especially welcome addition to public and college library shelves Jay P. Dolan (Professor Emeritus of History, University of Notre Dame) presents The Irish Americans: A History, a narrative examination of Irish-Americans. "The Irish Americans" covers the saga of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants from the American ...             Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury Alison Light Bloomsbury Press, 2008 Well Researched, but also Interesting Alison Light clearly does her homework. "Mrs. Woolf and the Servants" is absolutely loaded with the products of her very thorough research. Not only does she tell us as much as humanly possible about the various servants who worked for Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, ...             The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana Peter Clarke Bloomsbury Press, 2008 First-Rate Treatment of "Last Days" I have read several histories of this period, all purporting to be the definitive account of the events which conspired to occasion the dissolution of the British Empire. This is the best, both in terms of the relatively short, but entirely adequate, time period the ...             The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations Brian Fagan Bloomsbury Press, 2008 When the Earth Warms, Civilizations Fall, Books Get Written Renowned author and anthropology professor, Brian Fagan, presents a fascinating book on the Great Warming, a period during the High Middles Ages approximately from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries when temperatures were a few degrees higher; this led to a period ...             Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot Anna Beer Bloomsbury Press, 2008 The Blind Man With Sight A remarkably good and clear biography of the political and literary figure John Milton. Professor Beer has a command of her subject and his time that makes this book a must purchase for both admirers of Milton's written words and those interested in the turbulent ...             A Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization Alex Perry Bloomsbury Press, 2008 Well worth the discomfort Fascinating. Perry spends the whole book depressing you with stories showing how globalization is playing havoc with the poor, powerless unhealthy and uneducated people of the world and then in the last chapter makes a case for how we need war, violence and chaos in ...             After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 John Darwin Bloomsbury Press, 2008 There was no western way of war In 1400 Europe was a backward part of the world. The Ottoman, Murghal and Chinese Empires were all infinitely richer and stronger. Yet by the 19th Century European Empires dominated the world. European historians explained this by suggesting that Europe had a superior ...             The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution Denis Dutton Bloomsbury Press, 2008 a flexible art imagination codes for survival By Art in the title, Dutton means not just traditional paintings, as might be suggested by the book's cover, but the gamut of aesthetics indulged by humans. These include a sense of beauty and pleasure. Surely these are the higher functions of the human mind and of ...             The Painter's Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art Hugh Howard Bloomsbury Press, 2009 An eloquent new look at the beginnings of the American republic?through the portraits of its first icon, George Washington, and the painters who defined him. ?I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck?no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair.??George ...          products you might be interested in search for books civilizations, electricity, globalization, pamphleteer, philanthrocapitalism, seventeenth      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: We the People: An Introduction to American Politics, Sixth Shorter Edition