Baker: 2306 books
Inventing the Truth
The Art and Craft of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1998
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more.
For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill...
by Mary Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Have you ever been at a loss for words? Tongue-tied in social situations? Do you freeze in terror in work meetings? You're not alone! This guide will give you all the tools to become an easy conversationalist who can talk to anyone.Mary Baker, once painfully shy herself, spent 20 years...
The Book of Absinthe
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink.
La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspirati8on due to the presence of wormwood,...
On the Burning of Books
How flames fail to destroy the written word
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In this revealingly illustrated book, the political sage Kenneth Baker records the many times throughout history when books have been burnt for political, religious, or personal reasons. Ranging politically from Ancient China to the Nazis, from Animal Farm to Chairman Mao; religiously, from the Spanish...
Human Smoke
The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave...
False Profits
Recovering from the Bubble Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before it grew to unprecedented levels, resulting in the loss of millions...
The Seamless City
A Conservative Mayor's Approach to Urban Revitalization that Can Work Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
HOW DO WE KEEP AMERICA GREAT?
Rick Baker, former mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, provides a compelling-and challenging-answer: by making American cities great. And great cities are built first of all through strong leadership.
During his two terms in office, Rick Baker worked toward...
Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup
A Spirited Black Woman in a White World
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn’t just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations—she has been singularly...
by Susan Oakey-Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the...
by Scott Baker, Tom Philbin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Nothing quite prepares you for what you will see on the street once you become a cop. It is one of the most dangerous jobs a person can do but also the most fun as well. --Scott BakerCops are the people who see and hear it all. They work at one of the world's most dangerous jobs, but it's also...
A Warmer Shade of Blue
Stories About Good Things Cops Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
When most people think of the police—cops—they think of scenarios seen on TV or read in the newspapers, with valiant law enforcement crime fighters battling drug dealers, organized crime,mobsters, gangs, and criminals of all kinds. But as Scott Baker, former NYPD officer, describes in A Warmer Shade...
A Blue Hand
The Tragicomic, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg, a Holy Fool, a Lost Mus e, a Dharma Bum, and His Prickly Bride in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary...
How to Understand Paul Gascoigne
Lives Less Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights...
Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore
A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family and friends up to the defeat of the British during...