Steve Baker: 16 books

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...

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...

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...

Once a forbidding area of swamps and forests, Berkley was uninhabited until the early 19th century. In 1924, the Detroit News disparaged the "frontier community" and wrote that it "resembles a settlement in the oil waste of Wyoming." Still, forward-thinking residents thought Berkley had a bright future....

Au fil des conflits mondiaux, les humains ont délégué l’art de la guerre aux machines. La Terre n’est alors plus qu’un immense champ de bataille peuplé uniquement de robots qui connaissent leur boulot sur le bout des circuits. Tout juste sorti des chaînes de montage, le robot mécanicien...

Au milieu d’un monde devenu champ de bataille, War-hol et Rip-R mènent une quête pleine de rebondissements, d’humour, de suspense et d’aventures !Nos deux héros se retrouvent dans un pénitencier à haute surveillance et doivent assurer leur survie et celle de l’enfant, mais surtout s’échapper afin de poursuivre leur quête, à savoir : retrouver les humains survivants!

“An excellent collection” of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly).** Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire,...

“Chiese fortificate e monasteri affrescati punteggiano colline e montagne incontaminate, in Transilvania cittadine medievali riportano indietro nel tempo, mentre Bucarest è dinamica e piena di energia” (Mark Baker, autore Lonely Planet). Esperienze straordinarie. Foto suggestive, i consigli degli...

"Montagne imponenti, spiagge dorate, ma anche città ricche d'arte e con una vita notturna esuberante: la Bulgaria è una miscela di natura e storia che vi regalerà momenti indimenticabili" (Mark Baker autore Lonely Planet). Esperienze straordinarie: foto suggestive; i consigli degli autori...

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...

Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Romania & Bulgaria is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Absorb the vibrant landscape by hiking the Carpathians, relax on...

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data   Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...