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  • Life of a Klansman

    A Family History in White Supremacy

    by Edward Ball ...
    "A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance." —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book ReviewA 2020 NPR staff pick | One of The New York Times' thirteen books to watch ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slaves in the Family

    by Edward Ball ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Inventor and the Tycoon

    A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

    by Edward Ball ...
    From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Peninsula of Lies

    A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love

    by Edward Ball ...
    Peninsula of Lies is a nonfiction mystery, set in haunting locales and peopled with fascinating characters, that unwraps the enigma of a woman named Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the focus of one of the most unusual sexual scandals of the last century.Born in England sometime before World War II, Dawn Langley Simmons ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Slaves in the Family

    by Edward Ball ...
    Narrated by Edward Ball ...
    Series series FSG Classics

    Unabridged

    20 hours 16 min

    **This program is read by the author.Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family makes its audio debut, with a new preface by the author.**The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Genetic Strand

    Exploring a Family History Through DNA

    by Edward Ball ...
    The Genetic Strand is the story of a writer's investigation, using DNA science, into the tale of his family's origins. National Book Award winner Edward Ball has turned his probing gaze on the microcosm of the human genome, and not just any human genome -- that of his slave-holding ancestors. What is the legacy of such a family history, and can DNA say something about it?In 2000, after a decade in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Life of a Klansman

    A Family History in White Supremacy

    by Edward Ball ...
    Narrated by Edward Ball ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 26 min

    Named a best book of the summer by Literary HubThe life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward BallLife of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Inventor and the Tycoon

    A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

    by Edward Ball ...
    Narrated by John H. Mayer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 19 min

    From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Ptolemy, Copernicus, and the Ancient Astronomers

    by Robert S. Ball, Edward Singleton Holden ...
    The study of astronomy, in the sense in which we understand the word, may be said to have commenced under the reign of the Ptolemies at Alexandria...Ptolemy is, without doubt, the greatest figure in ancient astronomy. He gathered up the wisdom of the philosophers who had preceded him. He incorporated this with the results of his own observations, and illumined it with his theories...It is somewhat ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Treatment of Drinking Problems

    A Guide to the Helping Professions

    by E. Jane Marshall, Keith Humphreys, David M. Ball, Griffith Edwards ...
    The Treatment of Drinking Problems has become the definitive text in the field of alcohol problems. It addresses the frontline realities of clinical practice in an informed and empathetic way, whilst grounding this approach in critical scientific review. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated with new sections covering interventions for hazardous and harmful ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • The Conservative Governments and Social Policy

    by Nick Ellison, Ian Greener, Peter Squires, Anne Daguerre, David Etherington, Catherine Bochel, Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards, Stephen J. Ball, Harriet Churchill, Andrew Defty, Steven Corbett, Jon Glasby, Ann Marie Gray, Stephen D. McKay, Karen Rowlingson, Kirstein Rummery, Peter Somerville ...
    Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and more.Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010–15). They ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ride the Moon

    An Anthology

    by Krista D. Ball, Edward Willett, Claude Lalumière ...
    Werewolves and Vampires aren’t the only frightening creatures birthed by the Moon…For thousands of years, the Moon has inspired stories and legends about heroic animals, violent deities, and criminal humans. In modern times, those tales have been overshadowed by vampires and werewolves. It’s time for the Moon and her denizens to take back the night.Follow us down a twisting path of fantasy and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus