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"Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is...

When a curious kitten encounters its young owner's string ball craft project, an amazing adventure ensues! The kitten squeezes inside the ball and begins to roll . . . right out the open front door...

In this substantially revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive...

On October 21, 1861, Confederate troops scored what was probably the most complete victory by either side in the Civil War at Ball's Bluff, 35 miles from Washington.

The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg—and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and...

"I ended What to Do About the Solomons absolutely swimming with affection, not just for the characters but for the multiple worlds that created them. Despite their collective penchant for...

When Anna is kissed by a mysterious stranger at a NYE masquerade ball, a dance of seduction begins. 'So original and refreshing.' Hilary Mantel 'Brilliantly seductive ... A witty, sexy, sophisticated...

CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This charming, wordless picture book vibrantly explores the joy and sadness that having a special toy can bring.A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST PICTURE BOOK...

Cambridge Balls is the sensational new book by bestselling society photographer Dafydd Jones, capturing over 40 years of the infamous Cambridge University May Balls.Cambridge Balls is the sensational...

The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western world We’re a little more...

"Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November 18th repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November...

“A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making, and a speculative masterwork” (New York Magazine), Balle’s epic On the Calculation of Volume in Book III introduces new thrills to the...

A New Scientist Best Book of 2023Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares.This illustrated...

The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day. Did you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or...

What can possibly account for the strange state of affairs in professional sports today? There are billionaire owners and millionaire players, but both groups are constantly squabbling over money...

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly...

“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not...

Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified...

"Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works -- the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building...