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  • The On-Going Story

    by Bruce Baker ...
    This is a collection of short stories, poems, musings and jokes.Discover the man who liked to sit in dark rooms with strangers and stare at the wall.The Infinite Library has up-to-the-second books of everyone.Learn to fly in a Lesson from an Angel.Go to the Federal Supermax Prison and meet Blanket Bob, Jimmy the Grinder and the Crunch Monster.Travel to Time, Arizona that has day on one side of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking the Law into their Own Hands

    Lawless Law Enforcers in Africa

    by Bruce Baker ...
    Series series The Making of Modern Africa
    Over much of Africa, crime and insurgency are a serious problem and one in which the distinction between the two is being eroded. Left without state protection people have sought to preserve their lives and property through vigilante groups and militias that pay scant attention to the law or human rights. Likewise, the state security forces, under pressure to cut crime and rebel activity, ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Security in Post-Conflict Africa

    The Role of Nonstate Policing

    by Bruce Baker ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    Policing is undergoing rapid change in Africa as a result of democratization, the commercialization of security, conflicts that disrupt policing services, and peace negotiations among former adversaries. These factors combined with the inability of Africa‘s state police to provide adequate protection have resulted in the continuing popularity of va ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • School Finance and Education Equity

    Lessons from Kansas

    by Bruce D. Baker ...
    This inspiring account of bipartisan political success delivers an expert breakdown of how and why Kansas—a politically conservative state—was able to craft a stable, balanced, and equitable system of funding for its public schools. Beyond a chronicle of one state’s achievements, School Finance and Education Equity provides invaluable policy guidance and lays out a blueprint that other states can ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Educational Inequality and School Finance

    Why Money Matters for America's Students

    by Bruce D. Baker ...
    In Educational Inequality and School Finance, Bruce D. Baker offers a comprehensive examination of how US public schools receive and spend money. Drawing on extensive longitudinal data and numerous studies of states and districts, he provides a vivid and dismaying portrait of the stagnation of state investment in public education and the continuing challenges of achieving equity and adequacy in ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Freedoms Gained and Lost

    Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later

    by Adam H. Domby, Simon Lewis, Bruce E. Baker, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Ethan Kytle, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler0, Shannon Smith1, Felicity Turner2, Samuel Watts3, Hilary N. Green4 ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cotton Kings

    Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans

    by Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn ...
    The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption, a small group of brokers sought to control the price of cotton on unregulated exchanges in New ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • For Thou Art With Me

    Biblical Help for the Terminally Ill and Those Who Love Them

    by Bruce A Baker ...
    Receiving a diagnosis of a terminal illness causes many people to go into a tailspin of despair and depression. This is rarely considered a gift, but that is exactly what Baker conveys using his own experience and the truths of the Bible. With gentleness and candor, he explores the universal questions of why me, why now, and why this.Baker explains that it’s a gift for two very important reasons: ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • How to Land a Top-Paying Publicists Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Baker Bruce ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Publicists job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sign & Breath

    by Christal Brown, Dante DiStefano, Michael Waters, Bruce Bond, Shara McCallum, Tim Seibles, Claire Bateman, Dominique Christina, Rita Banerjee, Bianca Stone, Nell-Lynn Perera, D. M. Aderibigbe, William Heyen, Diana Whitney, Kristina Marie Darling, Cynthia Hogue, Arthur Sza, Christine Gelineau, H.L. Hix, Colum McCann, Haleh Liza Gafori, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Shin Yu Pai, Ru Freeman, Felice Belle, Alycia D. Jenkins, Jerome Rothenberg, Fred D'Aguiar, Diane Raptosh, Sheryl St. Germain, Bruce Smith, Jeff Talarigo, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Lynn Kozak, Carolyn Finney, Remica Bingham-Risher, Carol Moldaw, Steven Reese, Nin Andrews, Jeff Diteman, Angelique Palmer, Philip Metres, Damon Honeycutt, Tanure Ojaide, Morowa Yejide, Kazim Ali, Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Baker ...
    Sign & Breath is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines voice? Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diverse traditions. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Modern Rugby

    Edited by Bruce Davies, Julien Baker ...
    The modern game of rugby football has become gladiatorial, whereby muscular athletic players are involved in a form of collision chess with sophisticated defences smothering the offensive skills that were at one time a more dominant feature of the game.The contributors to this book consider the physical, mental and nutritional demands of the game in its present form and how best to acquire these ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Remembering Reconstruction

    Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era

    Edited by Carole Emberton, Bruce E. Baker ...
    Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD