Books with author David Aaron Baker

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Nuclear weapons have a destructive capacity so catastrophic that many historians argue their invention issued in a new era, the Atomic Age. Readers will learn about the scientific discoveries in the early twentieth century, such as the structure of the atom and the existence of isotopes, that led scientists to first conceive of nuclear weapons. They'll read how first the Americans, and later the Russians, British, French, and Chinese developed nuclear weapons. Attention is also paid to later nuclear powers and those currently aspiring to join the nuclear club. Visual learners will appreciate the many photographs, maps, diagrams, and graphs that this fascinating book contains.

Time and again, Ivan Doig has proven himself to be a treasure of American letters. Critical darlings and New York Times best sellers, his novels target the heart of the human experience and never miss the mark. The Bartender' s Tale stars Tom Harry and his 12-year-old son, Rusty, who live alone and run a bar in a small Montana town in the early 1960s. Their lives are upended when Proxy, a woman from Tom's past, and her beatnik daughter, Francine, breeze into town. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. As Rusty struggles to decipher the oddities of adult behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.

A few words of explanation are needed by way of preface to this little book. More than twenty years ago; being often appealed to by friends for my judgment on Anglo-Israelism; or to answer questions which were addressed to me on this subject; I finally; after making myself acquainted with the positions and arguments by which the theory is supported; drew up a statement in the form of "A Letter to an Inquirer." This "Letter;" somewhat amplified; was printed in the form of an appendix in my book; "The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew;" whence by special request it was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form under the title; "Anglo-Israelism; and the True History of the Ten Lost Tribes"—a separate edition of it having also been published in America. This pamphlet is now out of print; and; being appealed to by prominent Christian friends to bring out a new edition; I felt constrained before doing so to re-examine the whole question anew; and more thoroughly than before. To this end I have read through; with much inward pain I must confess; a number of the more recent Anglo-(or "British")-Israel publications; which for the most part are mere repetitions of one another. The result is the treatise now in the reader's hands; which will be found to consist of three Parts.

A few words of explanation are needed by way of preface to this little book. More than twenty years ago; being often appealed to by friends for my judgment on Anglo-Israelism; or to answer questions which were addressed to me on this subject; I finally; after making myself acquainted with the positions and arguments by which the theory is supported; drew up a statement in the form of "A Letter to an Inquirer." This "Letter;" somewhat amplified; was printed in the form of an appendix in my book; "The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew;" whence by special request it was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form under the title; "Anglo-Israelism; and the True History of the Ten Lost Tribes"—a separate edition of it having also been published in America. This pamphlet is now out of print; and; being appealed to by prominent Christian friends to bring out a new edition; I felt constrained before doing so to re-examine the whole question anew; and more thoroughly than before. To this end I have read through; with much inward pain I must confess; a number of the more recent Anglo-(or "British")-Israel publications; which for the most part are mere repetitions of one another. The result is the treatise now in the reader's hands; which will be found to consist of three Parts.

“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”So says Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his “feed,” a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone’s been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what’s happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. A girl who decides to fight the feed.Following in the footsteps of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut, M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world–and a smart, savage satire about the nature of consumerism and what it means to be a teenager in America.

From “one of the master storytellers of this or any age” (The Tampa Tribune) comes the stunning final adventure of “one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction”(The Virginian-Pilot)—as #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings the unforgettable odyssey of Odd Thomas to its dazzling conclusion.Odd Thomas is back where it all started…because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals and spirits alike, he has known kindness and cruelty, felt love and loss, saved lives and taken them—as he’s borne witness to humanity’s greatest good and darkest evil. Again and again, he has gone where he must and done what he had to do—for better or worse—with his courage and devotion sorely tested, and his soul forever changed. Every triumph has been hard won. Each sacrifice has taken its toll.Now, whatever destiny drives him has finally steered his steps home, where those he cares for most surround him, the memory of his tragically lost true love haunts him, and one last challenge—vast and dreadful—awaits him. For Odd Thomas, born to serve a purpose far greater than himself, the wandering is done. Only the reckoning remains.