Robin Baker: 14 books

A man gives a lift to an unusual hitchhiker, a woman who has been thrown bound and naked from a car. On the journey he hears the bizarre but intriguing story of her predicament. It seems that there is nobody who could be the father of her child, least of all her rich powerful and vindictive husband.Mark...

Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, Sperm Wars is a revolutionary thesis about sex that turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolize women while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic...

Since the 1970s, behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by the biological implications of sperm from different males competing for fertilization of the egg in the female reproductive tract. But until Human Sperm Competition there had never been a discussion of the phenomenon...

Max is a young lecturer in anthropology who always saw himself living in the jungle studying never-before-contacted tribes, but at every step he has been thwarted. One day in a second-hand bookshop he discovers a couple of handwritten pages stuck in a book. They seem to have been written by a Victorian...

Provocative and often shocking, Sex in the Future examines how advances in reproductive technology will change human behavior. In-vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood could mean the end not only of infertility but also of the need for men and women to form relationships or for women to interrupt...

A thrilling black comedy about making the best of what little time we have left - with vampires! And genocide! A twisted tale about Feng Shui, vampires, drinking, pet psychiatry, genocide, belief and mortality. In this darkly comic, slow-burn fantasy thriller, nothing is as it seems. A nightclub opening...

A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death…. And a generation’s casual dissatisfaction with modern life. In this darkly comic, slow-burn thriller, reality is blurred… nothing can be taken for granted.  A gripping and poignant black comedy about love,...

First published in 1998, Baby Wars was the second title in a controversial trilogy of books which placed the past, present and future of human reproduction under the microscope of evolutionary biology. Baby Wars itself was focussed on parenthood and family strife, and attracted such international...

Human Navigation and Magnetoreception, first published in 1989, was written to draw a line under an academic feud that had enlivened much of the 1980s. Now, thirty years on, a new generation of researchers, students and journalists have voiced a need for the book's contents to be made generally available...

How does a young girl know what love is? How does she learn how a good man should treat her when she does not have it in her home? She goes through life in search for something she never really knew anything about. It's not until many tears have been cried, friendships have been lost, broken...

A collection of writings as spoken from the heart as it paves the path expressing joys and sorrows, its loves and pains. Awakening the spirit so it can sing the words of comfort in this up and down journey we call…….. life.As with everything I have written or that I currently write, I never...

Sometimes a friendly gesture can be taken the wrong way.Sometimes a smile can mean more than what you want it to say.Sometimes people can take your words and change what they mean.Sometimes what you feel is not the way others see.You must walk this world carefully with clear and opened eyes.You must...

Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...

  This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...