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  • The Shortest History of Sex

    Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

    by David Baker, PhD ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    A wild—and satisfying!—ride through two billion years of sexual evolution. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • A Degree in a Book: Electrical And Mechanical Engineering

    Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject - in One Book!

    by Dr David Baker ...
    Series series Degree in a Book
    Written by former NASA engineer Dr David Baker, A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is presented in an attractive landscape format in full-color. With timelines, feature spreads and information boxes, readers will quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering and their practical applications.The separate ages of engineering are divided ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Death Is No Excuse

    Planning for Death, Disability, Divorce and Other Disasters

    by David Baker ...
    What do Abraham Lincoln, Pablo Picasso, Aretha Franklin and Howard Hughes all have in common? They died without wills, left messy estates and tormented their surviving families who had to lawyer up and fight through the resulting nightmares for years. Whether the reasons for this are death denial, penny-pinching or just too busy to be bothered, the majority of Americans will die in exactly the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aerial War: 1939–45

    The Role of Aviation in World War II

    by Dr David Baker ...
    The war is a war of machines; it will be won on the assembly line.- Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft ProductionJust as vital as the battle on land or the struggle at sea, the air war ultimately tipped the balance of power in World War II. Many campaigns rode on the capabilities of their airforce, as British Spitfires were pitted against Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Japanese Zeros.Aerospace ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of Our Universe

    The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us

    by David Baker, PhD ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    **A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events“Baker introduces us not only to the history of our species and our planet, but the history of our vast universe.”—from the foreword by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars**In this thrilling history, David ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • US Air Power 1945-1990

    Volume 1 - US Fighters and Fighter-Bombers, 1945-1949

    by David Baker ...
    Series Book 2 - Technology@War
    In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the air forces of the United States faced unprecedented challenges. Demobilization had stripped the armed forces of millions of personnel, while the rapid transition from a wartime economy strained the aviation industry at the same time as the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) was re-established as the independent US Air Force (USAF). US Air Power 1945 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transit

    Poems

    by David Baker ...
    A beloved nature poet reflects on environmental change, political transformation, and the ineluctable fact of aging.We are all human and nonhuman on the move. The poems in Transit emerge from just such a walk through the world. In keenly observed verse, David Baker carries us across physical and emotional geographies, moving seamlessly from deep woods, city streets, and creek beds to the contours ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Everybody Gets A Chance

    by David Baker ...
    "Everybody Gets A Chance", a collection of short fiction and a novella, gives us: A swindled, hoodwinked young cabinet maker, choosing between his first serious relationship or a college education; An on-the-lam campus protester, forming her own band of half-baked, eco-terrorists; A burned-out lawyer, trying to save a community from an attach by a deranged anti-vaxxer. What these and the other ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palmetto Cay

    In Paradise Nothing Is as It Seems. Absolutely Nothing

    by David Baker Gibson ...
    To escape a loveless marriage to a senior government official, Faith flies to a home she owns on a secluded private island in the Caribbean. Desperately seeking to be alone, she quickly learns 'alone' proves in short supply, as at her door unexpectedly arrive old friends and dangerous strangers staying just a mile away up the cay. Over the next week Faith discovers she is the pivotal player in a ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patriot Acts

    by David Baker ...
    "Patriot Acts" is a darkly comedic political satire, wrapped inside a legal thriller. The story, which takes place in the not-too-distant future, centers on the plight of an immigrant teenager, snatched from her mother at a border crossing as part of a cruel family separation program. She's shipped off across the U.S. and threatened with deportation, even though she's receiving critical medical ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chronicles of Cancatia: Risen

    by David Baker ...
    The citizens of Cancatia believed the war to be over.But evil never rests.A broken heart and a solitary throne are all that remain for Haldor. As if his plight could not worsen, he discovers Auden is not who he once seemed. A prophecy of doom shatters Haldor’s visions of peace. Can the inhabitants withstand what lies ahead?Monsters besiege Arkèzia as Phade struggles to redeem her fractured kingdom ... Read more

    $2.00 USD

  • From Séance to Science

    A History of the Profession of Psychology in America

    by David Baker, Ludy Benjamin ...
    This book is intended to round out the picture of American psychology’s past, adding the history of psychological practice to the story of psychological science. Written by two well-recognized authorities in the field, this book covers the profession and practice of psychology in America from the late 19th century to the present. From Séance to Science tells the story of psychologists who sought ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus