Bloomsbury

If baseball is America’s national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and...

This book gives clear guidance to good pronunciation and is written in an easily-accessible form. Many people can identify and solve their speech problems and significantly improve their voice by using tried and tested exercises. The systematic arrangement of the material with clear illustrations makes it easy for the layman to understand and work...

In Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics, Michael Schumacher delves beneath Eisner’s public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner’s career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from his scrappy survival at the dawn of comics’ Golden Age in the late 1930s to the beginning of the twenty-first century,...

This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.Christopher Booker...

"A haunting account of one man’s determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country."-BooklistWhen William Powers went to Liberia as a fresh-faced aid worker in 1999, he was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It wasn’t long before Powers saw how many obstacles lay in the way,...

Sidney Chambers,the Vicar of Grantchester and Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-twoyear old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the colour of hazelnuts anda reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can gowhere the police cannot.In TheGrantchester Mysteries, Sidney, together with his roguish friend...