The Physics of BaseballBlending scientific fact and sports trivia, Robert Adair examines what a baseball or player in motion does and why. How fast can a batted ball go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does a curve ball break? Who reaches first base faster after a bunt, a right or left handed batter? The answers are often surprising and always illuminating. This newly revised third edition considers recent developments in the science of sport

Beyond memoir

we see the conscious progression of a poet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth

Though he works in the tradition of George Saunders and Patrick deWitt—writing subversive

old family photographs

Celebrating James Tate’s work as it transcends convention

And as her star rose

the great revolutionist of Maharashtra who gave us the gift of 'education for all'

This omnibus edition of the three volumes of Judith Kerr’s Hitler trilogy

but feels like she’s disappearing

and then a nation mourns and finds the strength to move on

demanding her presence as chief bridesmaid for her sister Belle

Claire Griffith has it all