Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but rather as beings who actively share the world with humanity.The concerns of the artis...

Brain-talk Meets God-talk is a story that begins in Egypt's Eastern Desert.In Part 1, it's the year AD 356, and a wise old Christian fights his last spiritual battle in the darkness of the desert. Then time-leap forward to this decade in the United States and observe a Christian in Iowa fighting clinical depression.Discover the connection between the men. Get ready for the hope found in a gift that links them, though they are 1,600 years apart in t...

A hilarious novel about surviving a chaotic school inspection with a side of pig-related pandemonium!In a struggling semi-rural school, a downtrodden head teacher faces the dreaded school inspection. To make matters worse, a reality TV crew arrives to film the chaos, just as a war erupts between the local ice cream factory and a pig farmer. Can anyone survive this perfect storm of madness?Steve Baker, an award-winning education author, brings his insider kn...

Knowing How Long the Game Will Last Can Radically Change How You Play.Few people feel they control their own lives. They operate on autopilot, enslaved by anxiety, debt, and desperation. They tolerate unrewarding jobs and unfulfilling relationships. They don't do what they want to do, but rather what they feel they have to do. Stop sacrificing your best just to make a living - and start designing the life you deserve!Quality Time Remaining™ is the most approachable framewor...

What do you get if you blend a downtrodden head teacher, a hostile school inspector, an incompetent reality TV film crew, an ice cream factory and a load of unruly pigs? A hilarious novel from the pen of Steve Baker, a brilliant writer and school behaviour specialist.Outstanding tells the story of a school inspection set against the backdrop of a struggling school in a semi-rural setting. Educating Norfolk have been invited in to film the cash strapped school and just happ...

In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois,...

Slabscape: Reset is the first novel in the Slabscape series by S.Spencer Baker.Take the most sophisticated A.I. designed mind that has ever existed, encase it in over fifty million cubic kilometres of diamond nano-rods and send it off on a twenty-thousand-year odyssey towards the centre of the galaxy. Then screw it all up by allowing thirty-two million humans to go along for the ride.“Slabscape soon began to feel like a curious fusion of Douglas Adams and Iain M Banks, Hitchi...

Slab is three hundred and fifty years into its voyage home when the lights—and everything else—go out. With zero chance of rescue and no possibility that an alternative power source can be invented and deployed in time, most of the thirty-two million SlabCitizens choose to enter cryo suspension in the fragile hope that if and when they are defrosted, there will still be a slab worth living in. To make matters worse, Council have no option but to elevate self-proclaimed business gurulla Lou...

Slabscape: Dammit is the second novel in the Slabscape series by S.Spencer Baker.Somebody’s slung a stop sign over a solar system and Slab is heading straight for it.Stopping is not an option. Slab is over a thousand kilometres long, travelling at near-lightspeed and the thirty-two million humans, NAHs and avatars who inhabit the Slabscape are on a mission; they’re going Home and wouldn’t stop even if they could."The 'Slabscape' saga is a compulsive read for all those ...

Lucien and Olivia by André Narbonne, author of Twelve Miles to Midnight, is a comic statement on the beautiful waywardness of life. Built on scenes of discovery and error, the novel satirizes the transactional view of human relations that has elbowed its way into our lives by way of contemporary political discourse. The novel is set in the 1980s before cell phones, personal computers, and Facebook “likes.” Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-mon...

Though technology has evolved at hyper speed over the past hundred years, management styles have mostly stayed the same. The higher-ups make the decisions, and the employees grind it out, often without knowing the endgame. In 1983, Jack Stack created a new game: The Great Game of Business.Get In The Game further explains the rules of this Game: to win, you must get everyone at all levels of the business as informed, involved, and engaged as the owner. This book offers a step-by-step...

Annoying people beware: there's a new sheriff in town, and her name is Billie Bang Bang! Life isn't always easy when you're 8 years old. But Billie has a new best friend, named Bonkers. (Who isn't even imaginary, by the way!) And a partner in crime means double the trouble... Watch out, world! Billie Bang Bang is a series about our precocious, smart, immature, hilarious, and sometimes tyrannical children. Children who are constantly defying adults' authority, even though all they really wa...