Ball: 664 books
by Hugo Ball
Language: German
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Hugo Ball (* 22. Februar 1886 in Pirmasens; † 14. September 1927 in Sant’Abbondio-Gentilino, Schweiz) war ein deutscher Autor und Biograf. Außerdem war er einer der Mitgründer der Dada-Bewegung und ein Pionier des Lautgedichts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
by Hugo Ball
Language: German
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Hugo Ball (* 22. Februar 1886 in Pirmasens; † 14. September 1927 in Sant’Abbondio-Gentilino, Schweiz) war ein deutscher Autor und Biograf. Außerdem war er einer der Mitgründer der Dada-Bewegung und ein Pionier des Lautgedichts. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
Alamein
Great Battles
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology. Yet Alamein has always had a patchy reputation - with many commentators willing to knock its importance. This book explains just why El Alamein is such a controversial...
by Marilyn Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
As newcomers flocked to Asheville over the last fifty years, they joined with locals to breathe new energy into the city. Sometimes called the Asheville One Thousand, these folks didn't necessarily intend to be entrepreneurs, community organizers and business leaders, but when they saw a challenge, they...
by Eustace Alfred Reynolds Ball
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Cairo has for centuries been the home of Oriental magnificence and despotism, and still, though fallen from its high estate, it ranks as one of the most typical and picturesque-as well as the wickedest - of Mohammedan cities, while its mingling of Oriental luxury and laissez faire with Occidental...
The Right to Be Parents
LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In 1975, California courts stripped a lesbian mother of her custody rights because she was living openly with another woman. Twenty years later, the Virginia Supreme Court did the same thing to another lesbian mother. In ordering that children be separated from their mothers, these courts ruled that...
Criminology and Queer Theory
Dangerous Bedfellows?
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book offers critical reflections on the intersections between criminology and queer scholarship, and charts future directions for this field. Since their development over twenty-five years ago, queer scholarship and politics have been hotly contested fields, equally embraced and dismissed. Amid...
by Robert Stawell Ball
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This is the chapter on 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe from Sir Robert S. Ball's Great Astronomers, second edition, which begins: "The most picturesque figure in the history of astronomy ... Tycho Brahe was alike notable for his astronomical genius and for the extraordinary vehemence...
The English Connection
The Puritan Roots of Seventh-Day Adventist Belief (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"Seventeenth-century England was a confused world of conflicting religious thought, made more complex by the tumultuous events of the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum under Oliver Cromwell. Puritanism, a thoroughly Protestant off shoot of the Reformation in England, was to take centre stage...
Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, The Queer Little Baker Man, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, A Turkey for the Stuffing...
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...
by Magdalena Ball
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
‘Compassionate, poignant, otherworldly and profound: this thought-provoking, sometimes raw, collection is accessible contemporary poetry at its zenith of achievement.’ – Mark Logie, author of the poetry collection On the Road to Infinity and the young adult thriller Deadfall ‘Magdalena...
by Nancy Ball-Blake
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Author Nancy Ball Blake earned her self- proclaimed PhD in Life Change and has redefined the word, “Resilience”. As a business professional and single mom, Nancy has faced many of life’s most challenging moments. In “Resilience” she shares a few of those unexpected changes and how she designed...
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate-or not-and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right...
by Robert Stawell Ball
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
John Flamsteed (1646-1719) was an English astronomer, a contemporary of Isaac Newton, and the first Astronomer Royal in charge of the newly built observatory at Greenwich, England (1676). Although he made no great discoveries nor new astronomical theories, Flamsteed distinguished himself by his meticulous...