Ball: 664 books
by Michelle Borquez, Sharon Kay Ball, Paige Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
When divorce has left you feeling like an open−heart surgery patient without the anesthetic, where can you go for divorce care? Divorce to Wholeness has stories from women just like you−those who have been through a tragedy they did not want, and found recovery. Authors Michelle Borquez and Sharon...
Working in the Killing Fields
Forensic Science in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the “disappeared.” The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, is no exception. In Working in the Killing Fields, Howard Ball focuses on recent...
Michael Ball
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Michael Ball is more than a Laurence Olivier Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist; he holds the unique status of being Britain's foremost musical theater actor. Testimony to his success is the huge cult following he has built. . . not least among theater audiences. From his debut in London's...
Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
As the Mexican American student population in U.S. public schools climbs to over 8 million, the establishment of policies that promote equity and respect have never been more crucial. In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides an overview of the relationship between Mexican...
WHEN YOUR DOG HAS CANCER
MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS FOR YOU AND YOUR DOG
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Facing your dog’s cancer together with open eyesWhile some dogs diagnosed with cancer can be treated successfully and survive for years, a diagnosis of cancer for your dog often means the time you have left together is limited. In this important new book, author Lola Ball provides answers to the question...
by David George Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The son of a missionary and a Baptist minister, seventeen-year-old immigrant David George Ball was following his destiny to become a pastor. He had always dreamed of making a difference in peoples lives. But when he met the then relatively unknown Martin Luther King Jr., the course of Balls life changed...
by Larry D. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging...
East Hill Farm
Seasons with Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A memoir of the upstate New York getaway where the icons of the Beat Generation gathered.
During the late 1960s, when peace, drugs, and free love were direct challenges to conventional society, Allen Ginsberg, treasurer of the Committee on Poetry, Inc., funded what he hoped was “a haven for...
Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes
A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Get ready to step into the back alleys of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens’s London, and explore the alternative worlds of steampunk in this new guide book by fantasy author Krista D. Ball.
Ball takes readers on a fascinating journey into the world of the Have-Nots, and explores the bustling,...
A Defiant Life
Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball, author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary,...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
For the Love of the Game: The Vernon Ball Story
For the Love of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The autobiography of Vernon Ball, an only child from a poor South Wales family who went from working down the Rhondda Valley mines to becoming a well known boxer.
The Water Kingdom
A Secret History of China
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China’s culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The...
by Jesse Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
With his debut novel, Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball emerged as one of our most extraordinary new writers. Now, Ball returns with this haunting tale of love and storytelling, hope and identity.
When Selah Morse sees a young woman get hit by a speeding taxicab, he rushes her to the hospital....