David P. Baker is Professor of Education and Sociology, and a research scientist at the Center for the Study of Higher Education and the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University. He is coauthor of
National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling (Stanford, 2005) and a frequent contributor to scholarly journals on education.
88 Ebooks oleh David Baker
David Baker: The Schooled Society
Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world’s population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the population …
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David Baker & Pauline Schnapper: Britain and the Crisis of the European Union
This book centres on the effects of the political and later economic crisis which seriously affected the European Union and its impact on the seemingly endless UK debate over Britain’s position …
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David Baker: Deaths After Police Contact
This book investigates death after police contact in England and Wales in the twenty-first century. It examines how regulatory bodies construct accountability in such cases. Cases of death after …
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€28.88
Alan P. Stanley: Did Jesus Teach Salvation by Works?
Jesus teaches that regardless of one’s profession, if one does not demonstrate a changed life produced by God, one will not enter into heaven. Such a judgment will be made when Jesus returns and …
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Worthy Evans: Green Revolver
Imaginative verses rending the radical from the drudgery of corporate cubicles and army bases and from the banality of modern existence.
Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual …
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David Baker: TOTC Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
These commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its …
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€11.99
David Baker & Stephanie Green: Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture
This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure …
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David Baker & Wendy Evans: End of Wisdom?
The End of Wisdom? The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age assembles opinion pieces, forecasts, strategy options, and case studies from leading worldwide politicians, academics, educators, authors, …
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David Baker & Wendy Evans: Digital Information Strategies
Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the …
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David Baker & Lakshman Karalliedde: Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection
Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course book for students and a handbook for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local environmental …
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€71.43
David Baker & Craig Benjamin: Routledge Companion to Big History
The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history.The volume is divided into five …
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€55.25
David Baker & Craig Benjamin: Routledge Companion to Big History
The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history.The volume is divided into five …
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€55.22
David Baker & Gill Chitty: Managing Historic Sites and Buildings
Managing Historic Sites and Buildings looks at the choices and the tensions that exist in conservation and interpretation of the heritage. Preservation and presentation are central activities, …
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David Baker & Gill Chitty: Managing Historic Sites and Buildings
Managing Historic Sites and Buildings looks at the choices and the tensions that exist in conservation and interpretation of the heritage. Preservation and presentation are central activities, …
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€47.25
David Baker & Lucy Green: Insights in Sound
Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or simply enjoy musical participation. Existing literature on visual …
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David Baker & Lucy Green: Insights in Sound
Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could gain financial independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or simply enjoy musical participation. Existing literature on visual …
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€49.74
David Baker & Dale Brueggemann: Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series provides students, pastors, and laypeople with up-to-date, accessible evangelical scholarship on the Old and New Testaments. Presenting the message for each …
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€36.42
David Baker: Vintage
A ‘;spellbinding debut’ and ‘;a feast for all readers’ (Library Journal, starred review) about a food journalist’s desperate attempt to save his careerand possibly, his marriagethrough an epic quest …
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€16.42
David Baker & Wendy Evans: Digital Library Economics
Digital Library Economics covers key aspects of the management and development of the digital library from an economic viewpoint. The work is a collection of essays by leading international …
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€69.18
David Baker: Strategic Management of Technology
Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the management of technology in a strategic context. The book is written against a backdrop of the complete …
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€52.99
David Baker: Strategic Change Management in Public Sector Organisations
This book covers all the major aspects of change management for those working in public sector and not-for-profit organisations. It summarises key theories and approaches to change management and …
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€53.40
David Baker & Bernadette Casey: Eve on Top
Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten ‘successful’ women and their background, upbringing, …
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€65.98
David Baker & Wendy Evans: Libraries and Society
This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international …
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€75.53
David Baker & Wendy Evans: Handbook of Digital Library Economics
This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the ‘how to’ of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial …
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€62.32
David Baker & Wendy Evans: Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age
Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key …
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David Baker & Wendy Evans: Innovation in Libraries and Information Services
This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization takes as its underpinning theme the whole subject of innovation in Library and Information Services. It considers the various types …
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€110.77
David Baker: Apollo Missions
Few events have matched the landing of the first man on the Moon for drama and excitement. Watched live on television by 600 million people, Neil Armstrong floated down from the final step of the …
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David Baker & Alexander W. Wiseman: Gender, Equality and Education from International and Comparative Perspectives
This volume of ‘International Perspectives on Education and Society’ investigates the often controversial relationship between gender, equality and education from international and comparative …
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David Baker: Thick Description and Fine Texture
The essays contained in this volume offer a unique and personal perspective on the archival research process in the history of psychology. Celebrating the achievements of John A. Popplestone and …
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€15.09
David Baker & Ludy Benjamin: From Seance to Science
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 …
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€17.58
Baker: CIA and FBI
Explains The CIA And The FBI, Threats Of Terrorism, And The Potential Solutions To Rid The World Of Terrorist …
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€25.07
Baker: Department of Defense and The State Department
Explains The Department Of Defense And State Department, Threats Of Terrorism, And Potential Solutions To Rid The World Of …
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€25.11
David Baker: Department of Homeland Security
Explains How The Department Of Homeland Security Works To Fight Threats Of Terrorism, And Develop Potential Solutions Needed To Rid The World Of …
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€24.79
Baker: Hideouts and Training Camps
Explores Places Where Terrorists Hide, Recruit Training Camps, Why They Lead Very Secret Lives, And Some Of The High-Tech Responses Since …
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€25.07
Baker: Infiltration and Spying
Examines The History Of Various Ways To Fight Terrorism, Including Spying And Infiltration And How To Use Advances In …
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€25.06
Baker: Suicide Bombers
Explains Suicide Bombers, How They Commit The Ultimate Sacrifice For Their Own Religious Beliefs, And What Could Be Done To Stop …
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Baker: Biological, Nuclear, and Chemical Weapons
Explains The Biological, Nuclear, And Chemical Weapons That Are Known For Mass Destruction And How They Have Been Used Throughout The History Of Human …
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Baker: Hijacking and Airline Security
Explains The Relationship Between Issues Of Hijacking And Security For The Fight Against Terrorism In Our Country And Our Allies And The Impact Of The Events Of …
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€25.07
David Baker: Thick Description and Fine Texture
The essays contained in this volume offer a unique and personal perspective on the archival research process in the history of psychology. Celebrating the achievements of John A. Popplestone and …
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€14.93
David Baker & Ludy Benjamin: From Seance to Science
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 …
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€17.42
David Baker: Journey to Mars
Mars is one of the most explored planets in the solar system. Machines called probes and rovers gather photographs and information from Mars to be sent to Earth. Learn more in Journey to Mars, one of …
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€32.99
David Baker: Rockets
A rocket is a powerful means of launching things over great distances. Most rockets are tube-shaped devices that carry a special type of fuel, as well as oxygen to burn the fuel. Learn more in …
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David Baker: The International Space Station
Mars is one of the most explored planets in the solar system. Machines called probes and rovers gather photographs and information from Mars to be sent to Earth. Learn more in Journey to Mars, one of …
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David Baker: Satellites
Most of the weather forecasts provided on television and in newspapers come from satellite information. The International Space Station is the largest artificial satellite in orbit around Earth. …
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Sarah Green: Welcome to the Neighborhood
How to live with difference—not necessarily in peace, but with resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol—is a defining worry in America at this moment. The poets, fiction writers, and essayists ( …
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David A. Purser & Robert L. Maynard: Toxicology, Survival and Health Hazards of Combustion Products
Fires are a common source of exposure to smoke and a range of toxicologically active chemicals. Providing a complete overview of the subject, this book provides comprehensive and detailed information …
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€239.99
Baker David Baker: Sweet Home, Saturday Night
"This music of Place, with all its varied and subtle emotional range, is what this book so marvelously captures. . . ." –Linda …
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David Baker & Lucy Ellis: Future Directions in Digital Information
The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to …
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David Baker: Scavenger Loop: Poems
“[The] language . . . feels almost ancient solely by the skill with which Baker uses it.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
In this masterful new work by “the most moving and expansive poet to come out o …
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David Baker: Swift: New and Selected Poems
“Rich in observation, imagination and memory.” —New York Times Book Review
Gathering poems from eight collections along with a stunning suite of new poems, David Baker showcases the evolution of hi …
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David Baker: The End of the Odyssey of the Idiots
The Odyssey of the Idiots is an autobiography of the author with satirical tones discussing the politics and history that have led America to where it is today.
Manuscript’s Strengths
• The author …
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David Baker: Degree in a Book: Electrical And Mechanical Engineering
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 …
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David Baker: Police-Related Deaths in the United States
Police Related Deaths in the United States examines how police related deaths in the US occur; how investigations are conducted into these deaths; and why such deaths and the investigatory processes …
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David J. Baker: On Demand
In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theater as wasteful and depraved and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theater in droves. On Demand draws …
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David Baker: A Month of Murder
1 May 1976. Thirteen-year- old ‘Minnie’ Hargreaves is murdered, and her body half buried on a building site at the edge of Holme Hill, a village in West Yorkshire where she lived with her parents. …
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Peptide Solvation and H-bonds
Volume 72, Peptide Solvation and H-bonds, addresses the role of peptide backbone solvation in the energetics of protein folding. Particular attention is focused on modeling and computation. This …
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David Baker: Death Is No Excuse
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 …
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David Baker & Lucy Ellis: Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID
COVID-19 is profoundly affecting the ways in which we live, learn, plan, and develop. What does COVID-19 mean for the future of digital information use and delivery, and for more traditional forms of …
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David Baker: Aerial War: 1939-45
The war is a war of machines; it will be won on the assembly line. – Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production Just as vital as the battle on land or the struggle at sea, the air war …
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David Baker: Whale Fall: Poems
“The craft of Whale Fall defies. It asserts, for me, a definition of poetry: an unbearable gulf of feeling made indelible by form.”—Diane Seuss, Paris Review A masterful and moving new volume from a …
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David Baker: The Adventures of Germanus the Gaul
It is 429 AD and the Roman Empire is falling apart. When Germanus of Gaul is summoned to Rome to have an audience with the Pontifex Maximus, the Pope pleads with him to travel to Britannia, become …
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David Baker: The Shortest History of the World
A fascinating journey through life, the universe and everything
How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that …
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David Baker: The Organ Loft Murders
The year is 1879. The prestigious post of Organist and Master of the Choristers at Hartley Parish Church, West Yorkshire, has become vacant because of the sudden death in suspicious circumstances of …
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David Baker: The Inhabitants of Cardington in 1782
The Inhabitants of Cardington in 1782
The author and purpose of the document entitled ‘The General Account of the number of persons in each house on January 1st, 1782′ in Cardington, Fenlake, Har …
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€27.99
Alan F. Cirket & Andrew Underwood: Bedfordshire Churches in the Nineteenth Century
Three volumes of detailed description of Bedfordshire parish churches, presented with text from five important nineteenth-century sources; Appendices and Index complete the set.
Three volumes of …
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David Baker: Geoffrey Tristram
For nearly thirty years, Geoffrey Oliver Tristram (GOT) was the celebrated Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christchurch Priory. He set a high standard for both organ performance and choral …
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David Baker: Brief History of the Last 13.8 Billion Years
How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we’re all made from stars?Combining knowledge from chemistry, …
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€18.65
David Baker: Patriot Acts
"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 …
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Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, part of a long running serial that began in 1945, provides critical and informative articles written by research specialists that integrate the …
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Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry has provided, since its inception in 1945, critical and informative articles written by research specialists that integrate the industrial, …
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€194.57
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 74, presents a definitive interpretation of the current status and future trends in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. Since its …
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€194.57
Sialic Acids, Part I: Historical Background and Development and Chemical Synthesis
Sialic Acids, Volume 75, a recent release in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series, is the first volume of a two-volume set devoted to the sialic acids. Vol. 75 includes a …
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David C. Baker: Sialic Acids, Part II: Biological and Biomedical Aspects
Sialic Acids, Volume 76, the most recent release in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series, is the second volume of a two-volume set devoted to the sialic acids. Vol. 76, …
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David C. Baker: Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 77, the latest release in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters …
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€193.39
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 78, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a range of topics, including Vinyl …
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€193.07
David C. Baker: Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 79 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a range of topics, including Vinyl …
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€194.93
David C. Baker: Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 80 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a range of topics, including Vinyl …
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Special Volume in Memory of Hidetoshi Yamada Part 1
Special Volume in Memory of Hidetoshi Yamada, Volume 81, Part One, the latest release in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with …
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David C. Baker: Special Volume in Memory of Hidetoshi Yamada Part 2
Special Volume in Memory of Hidetoshi Yamada, Part Two, Volume 82 in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume …
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David Baker & Lucy Ellis: Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services
Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of ongoing research in the development of collections and services. The …
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€95.44
David Baker: Sex
The big history of sex from early life to sexbots
How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? …
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€20.99
David Baker: The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation (Shortest History)
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 microbia …
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€18.99
Mat Irvine & David Baker: Lost American Projects: A Spacecraft Modellers Guide
Bring to life America’s most amazing space projects that never were, using highly illustrated step-by-step guides.
The major American space programmes that carried crews are well known. From …
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€22.49
David Baker: The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (Shortest History)
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 o …
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€18.99
David Baker: Murder in Five Movements
ABOUT THE BOOK
Templeton Towers, home to the Order of Saint Saviour’s school for gifted and talented students. William Clair, Head of the Order, is a troubled man. The place is nearly bankrupt; the …
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David Baker: The Shortest History of Sex
‘Humorous and accessible but never trivial… full of entertainment and insight’ SUSAN QUILLIAM, co-author of The Joy of Sex
How did sex begin?
How did it evolve to be so varied in humans? …
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€8.39
Paul Griffin: Liquefied Natural Gas
Since the first edition of this best-selling title in 2008, the international liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry has shown a rare capacity for innovation and change. Despite this, there was no …
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€349.99
David Baker & Patrick Lo: Marketing of Academic, National and Public Libraries Worldwide
The Marketing of Academic, National and Public Libraries Worldwide: Marketing, Branding, Community Engagement enables readers to learn about the most up-to-date trends, as well as hands-on practices …
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