An astonishingly candid and funny memoir that will make you laugh and cry while it steals your heart, from a renowned stand-up comedian and veteran SNL writer who is “an expert in making light of life’s most devastating moments” (Rolling Stone).Rosebud Baker grew up as a loudmouth who preferred to be honest than polite, which is another way of saying she was unemployable. She spent her twenties trying to make it as an actor in New York like every ...

In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner.Along the way this time we encounter, among others, David Bowie, Kanye West (I think), John Cleese, Peter O'Toole, and have several adventures in the Fourth Dimension. Oh, and I can reveal the Man With The Foulest Mou...

Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker is a comprehensive examination of the rise and impact of monopolies in the United States during the late 19th century. The book delves into the economic, social, and political consequences of concentrated corporate power, focusing on how large trusts and combinations came to dominate key industries such as railroads, oil, steel, and sugar. Baker meticulously traces the historical development of monopolies, analyzing the legal and legislati...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author and former World Poetry Slam Champion, Harry Baker's third collection is his most ambitious yet. Following on from the success of Unashamed (Burning Eye, 2022), Harry Baker combines the insight of a mathematician and the vulnerability of the poet to find wonder in the little things that make life so precious. From a poem about wellies becoming an exploration of masculinity, a poem planning his own funeral inspiring thousands around the world to do t...

History of the Harvard College Observatory During the Period 1840-1890 is a comprehensive chronicle detailing the formative years and remarkable achievements of one of America’s most influential astronomical institutions. Drawing from official records, personal correspondence, and contemporary accounts, this book offers an in-depth exploration of the Observatory’s founding, its early struggles, and its evolution into a world-renowned center for astronomical research. Readers are taken on a...

A Dictionary of Men’s Wear is a comprehensive reference work that delves into the terminology, history, and evolution of men’s clothing and accessories. Compiled by Sidney V. Barrett and first published in 1951, this book serves as an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the world of men’s fashion, from students and historians to tailors and style enthusiasts. The dictionary is meticulously organized in alphabetical order, offering clear and concise definitions for a wide array of ...

In Baker's latest intriguing spiritual book "Spiritual Inspiration" : Spirituality Made Easy, is by far one of the greatest inspirational books written in spirituality. In this book Baker shares the spiritual way of life for the everyday person, in an easy to read way. This is the book that will become your everyday guidebook towards living a life of true deep spirituality. For anyone seeking to enhance their spirituality and improve their life, this book is a must have.This spirit...

Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’ s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. Like Whitney Otto’s How to Make an American Quilt in its intimate portrayal of women’ s lives, and reminiscent of novels by Elizabeth Berg and Anne Tyler, Keeping the House is a rich tapestry of a novel that introduces a wonde...

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 work with Mozambique's throwaway children, movingly chronicled in Always Enough, will inspire anyone looking for hope in the midst of suffering.The Bakers, formerly missionaries in Indones...

"Anyone can commit a murder, but it takes an artist to commit a suicide." – Old KGB saying The high-profile death of government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly twenty-one years ago, amid the tumult of Britain's controversial invasion of Iraq, plunged the New Labour government into crisis and led to the resignation of the BBC's director general. An informal inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death cleared the government of wrongdoing but was widely di...

When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years.Thrown together in St. Augustine in 1836 during the Second Seminole War, the couple was barely married before being separated by orders that sent Lucien first to south Florida, where he established a post on the site of present-day Miami, and th...

Reveals how the divorce of divine perfection from human perfection undergirds the divorce of theology and philosophy. This work shows how these discourses were originally joined by the Church Fathers, to how they were separated in the Middle Ages and modern Anglicanism, to how they can be rejoined.