Baker: 2306 books
Justinian
The Last Roman Emporer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
Justinian (482-565 A.D.), who ruled the Roman Empire from his capital in Constantinople, was, along with his wife Empress Theodora, one of the most scandalous monarchs in history. During his reign, Justinian oversaw the construction of the Hagia Sophia, one of the wonders of the ancient world, and...
Vice
One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California's most-decorated police officer
Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm...
The Convert
A Tale of Exile and Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist*
A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker
What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and...
Others Had It Worse
Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert...
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades,...
Crossroads (2nd Edn)
A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this fully updated, second edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds two new chapters that bring Malaysia and Singapore into the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. The original text (which traces the complex currents of history and politics of Malaysia and Singapore—neighbours with a...
From Savage to Negro
Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine...
by James Baker, Alexandra Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
From its inception in the early 1960’s, Pajaro Valley Unified School District has experienced a plethora of tribulations and triumphs. As an educator and administrator for thirty years at Pajaro Valley, James S. Bake reflects on the different ventures and incidents that shaped the District and made...
Imposing Harmony
Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated...
Always Enough
God's Miraculous Provision among the Poorest Children on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Even the most desperate poverty, the most devastating illness, the most heart-wrenching grief is not beyond God's help. His love and power have no limits-and that's a message readers from all walks of life need to hear. The modern miracles that Rolland and Heidi Baker experience every day in their...
by John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in YourChurch Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and many more!There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their...
by John Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in YourChurch Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and many more!There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their...
Reckless Devotion
365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Are you ready for a revolutionary year with Heidi & Rolland?
Whether stopping for the one in a dusty village in Mozambique or reaching out to the world, Heidi and Rolland model--and invite everyone into--the radical love that thrills God's heart.
Energized by their work on the frontlines...
by Mary Baker Eddy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital...