Baker: 2306 books

Effective communication is key to maintaining healthy relationships. You cannot effectively communicate with the people in your life if you are not hearing them. In this book, Ray Baker illustrates the numerous ways we all undermine relationships, and he teaches us how to systemically...

A unique collection of poetry and prose poems with a lyrical bent so intense you will find the book almost reading you, in your reflections and re-reading. Subtle nuances and direct metaphors that elicit insights to such an extent that the poet seems to be speaking to each reader personally. From...

Are You Afraid of What Your Retirement Will Look Like? Learn How to Rent Luxuriously in Mexico Part-Time/Live in Both Countries on Less than $25,000 a year Many of the huge wave of Americans over age 50 (76.4 million Baby Boomers alone) are scared silly today. Outrageous healthcare...

A collection of 12 great acoustic blues guitar solos by Duck Baker in notation and tablature. The solos are intermediate to advanced in difficulty and successfully capture the earthy myriad of influences comprising classic American blues guitar stylings. Chords, scales, keys and turnarounds for the...

People of stature do not emerge in a vacuum but are influenced by cultural, environmental, psychosocial, economic, and other factors. Father J. D. K. Baker was one of these people of stature. Priest of the Episcopal Church in Liberia, he was a great religious and spiritual leader, a role model in...

How do you get new Christians who do not know one another to work at building and growing relationships in a new Church? This is essential in a new Church because the teaching and training of the core group of believers becomes the nucleus of the Body of Christ. This is the obstacle Pastor Baker faced...

It could be the drugs he was getting from that sociopathic psychiatrist of his. Or perhaps he’s just plain nuts. Whatever it is, Simon Matthews is poised at the deep edge and about to go off. He's having strange visions and violent thoughts. Simon is world famous for his computer genius and a billionaire...

Le regard d'un fils adopté sur sa mère, le récit poignant de la vie d'une des grandes figures qui a marqué le XXème siècle par son talent, son dévouement et son engagement. Sous les paillettes et les costumes extravagants de cette star de la chanson et de la danse, se cache une femme...

Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus into a world religion. Classical scholar Baker tells of the changing Roman world in which Constantine rose to power—an empire where feudalism was replacing...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: “So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny” (The New York Times).   One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years”   Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter...

A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even...

Our leadership models are stuck in an Industrial Age, top-down mentality. But in our complex, data-drenched, 24/7 world, there is simply too much information coming from too many different directions too quickly for any one leader or group to stay on top of it. Hierarchy is breaking down everywhere—why...

Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nicholson Baker’s widely acclaimed novel The Anthologist, is turning fifty-five and missing his ex-girlfriend, Roz, rather desperately. As he approaches the dreaded birthday, Paul is uninspired by his usual artistic outlet (although he’s pleased that...

In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, “one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades” (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel...