List 88 of books by Baker

Anthropology of Los Angeles

Place and Agency in an Urban Setting

by Maryann Aguirre, Beth F. Baker, Jenny Banh
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...

Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing

Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, Impress a Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion

by Maggie Koerth-Baker, Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

Be amazing Who says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level. Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniuses What good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't muddy their shoulder pads and use their accomplishments as a step stool?...

Money Creation Through Social Networking

he Best Guide To Earn Big Money Online With All Things You Need To Learn About The Basics Of Social Networking, Social Network For Business, Advertising On Social Networks And Business Networking Tips For People Who Want To Get Rich

by Carmen R. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012

This book is your ultimate guide to making big money online through social networking. This book will absolutely teach you everything about how to use social networking sites as an effective marketing tool for your business. This would be a great help for people who are beginners in the business...

The Unknown Prophet

by Delbert W. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

More than 25 years ago society was introduced to William Ellis Foy. Foy was an African-American minister of the nineteenth century whom historical records had generally overlooked. The popular book The Unknown Prophet demonstrated that Foy received powerful revelations from God about coming tribulation,...

Reading and Politics in Early Modern England

The Mental World of a Seventeenth-century Catholic Gentleman

by Geoff Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. He...

Santa PLC

by Iain Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010

When the stress of running Christmas single handedly gets too much, Santa Claus decides it's time to franchise himself. This short story follows Santa through a monumental Christmas. With the help of his wife Barbara and Head Elf, Franklin, Santa makes a big decision. Christmas will never be the same again... or at least it won't in the North Pole.

Poems

by Mary Baker Eddy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013

PREFACE The poems garnered up in this little volume were written at different periods in the life of the author, dating from her early girlhood up to recent years. They were not written with a view of making a book, each poem being the spontaneous outpouring of a deeply poetic nature and called forth...

Our Supreme Court

A History with 14 Activities

by Richard Panchyk, James Baker III
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

This lively and comprehensive activity book teaches young readers everything they need to know about the nation's highest court. Organized around keystones of the Constitution-including free speech, freedom of religion, civil rights, criminal justice, and property rights-the book juxtaposes...

The Iraq Study Group Report

by The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker, III
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006

On March 15, 2006, members from both parties in Congress supported the creation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to review the situation on the ground and propose strategies for the way forward. For more than eight months, the Study Group met with military officers, regional experts, academics,...

Getting Back to Full Employment

A Better Bargain for Working People

by Dean Baker, Jared Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

While most people intuitively know that low unemployment is important to job seekers, they may not realize that high levels of employment actually would make an enormous difference in the lives of large segments of the workforce who already have jobs. Particularly in an era of historically high wage...

Murdered Judges

by Susan P. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016

True tales of judges who were murdered in the 20th Century in the United States. Some were assassinated. Some murdered by family members. Some killed in courtrooms. Some on their own property. Additionally, a few stories of judges who died by mysterious means, and some curious situations involving judges.

The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe

by Bernard Granville Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014

INTRODUCTION TOWARDS the end of a dismal summer, when everybody who is anybody in the United Kingdom was departing for their annual holidays, dark clouds began to gather on the political horizon overshadowing that European storm-centre, the Balkan Peninsula. Angry clouds had gathered over...

The Man Who Saved Athens

by Lyndall Baker Landauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002

Themistokles (born in what we now call 528 BC) is eighteen years old when the story begins and anxiously awaiting the vote in the Athenian assembly that will make his dreams come true. Son of an Athenian citizen of ancient, respected family, he always wanted to be a political leader of Athens because...

Runaway Bride

by Mary Jayne Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018