Bøker av Alan Baker

This book is the result of a collaboration between the artist, Rebecca Forster and poet, Alan Baker. The art is evocative of Milan, where Forster has lived for thirty years, and European art from the Greeks onwards. Baker has reflected in his prose-poems what Forster has done in her artwork, attempting to mirror its craft, skill and imaginative reach. The poems have been translated into Italian and the Italian text follows the English version.

History is replete with unanswered questions regarding rumoured past events, objects, and cultures that often turn into the stuff of legends. Each chapter in this engaging study examines a particular mystery; they come from locations across the globe and throughout the annals of human history. The topics addressed include the lost city of Atlantis; the Ark of the Covenant; the legend of the crystal skulls; and the enigma of the indecipherable Voynich manuscript. Entertaining and informative, The Enigmas of History is an unbiased review of historical puzzles and bewildering discoveries that is perfect for the historian and curious sceptic alike. Praise for The Enigmas of History: 'The Enigmas of History is an enjoyable romp through familiar material (bible mysteries, witchcraft, conspiracy theories) with some surprising new takes (an interesting comparison between belief in fairies back then and aliens more recently). It's a good starting place for anyone who hasn't read such a book before' - Books from Scotland Alan K. Baker was born in Birmingham. Having left university, he embarked on a series of unpleasant jobs, including a stint in a sausage factory which he credits with stimulating his interest in the bizarre and macabre. Since 1997 he has written several non-fiction books about the paranormal and popular history.

As in Dante's Commedia, many different types of language - the political, the spiritual, the scientific, the commercial, the playful, the poetic - jostle up against each other in the way that language so often does in life. Like Dante, Baker refuses to isolate the poetic from the living. Yet, however fragmented, the poems work together as a compelling whole, thanks to Baker's measured and masterful use of the prose poem. The letters from the underworld represent the neo-modernist lyric at its best.Ian Seed

For Alexandra Drummond, senior year of high school was supposed to be about boys, parties, and spending time with friends. Living in a small suburban town, in a small suburban home, with her parents and baby sister she lived the quintessential small suburban life. That was, of course, until she lost everything in the blink of an eye.Traveling down a road they should never have been on; Alexandra and her family get into a brutal car accident. Barely surviving the crash, she finds herself face to face with the angel of death himself as he pulls the souls of her dead family from their mangled bodies. In the coming weeks he would haunt her almost daily. Alexandra desperately looks for a way to stop his pursuit and rid herself of the terrifying demon. Eventually she learns that in order to defeat him she would have to gamble with her own life. If successful, she would change everything. If she fails, she risks giving death what he'd been after all along; her own soul.

Young children will enjoy following Alan Baker's inquisitive little rabbits as they make new discoveries. Simple and playful artwork group first words by subject, and matching and observation games offer a fresh approach to learning early concepts.

Young children will enjoy following Alan Baker's inquisitive little rabbits as they make new discoveries. Simple scenes involving sorting, counting, and matching activity combined with playful artwork offer a fresh approach to learning early concepts.

First published in 1975, this classic book gives a systematic account of transcendental number theory, that is those numbers which cannot be expressed as the roots of algebraic equations having rational coefficients. Their study has developed into a fertile and extensive theory enriching many branches of pure mathematics. Expositions are presented of theories relating to linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers, of Schmidt's generalisation of the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, of Shidlovsky's work on Siegel's |E|-functions and of Sprindzuk's solution to the Mahler conjecture. The volume was revised in 1979: however Professor Baker has taken this further opportunity to update the book including new advances in the theory and many new references.

These poems are written in the Tyneside dialect of North-Eastern England. As the author says "All of these pieces are based - some very closely - on real conversations". The speaker's include a coal miner who took part in the 1926 General Strike, the young daughter of a worker in the glass industry in the 1930s and Charlie Carr, a welder at Swan Hunter's shipyard. The poems combine dialect with modernist techniques as a way of recovering the lost speech of the region.

Take "a lively, voyeuristic glimpse into the ancient world" of the gladiator (Publishers Weekly)

**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of its kind by a serving lifer.

Alan Baker weaves an extraordinary, vivid picture of Roman life as his compelling and evocative history tells the story of Rome's most notable gladiators. They were condemned and feared by emperors, slaughtered and adored by the masses and worshipped by their female fans, yet their lives were invariably violently short. Whether their enemy was a starved tiger or a battle-hardened criminal, their numbered days were dark and bloody. Yet men gave up their wealth and freedom to become gladiators and noble-women gave up their positions to be with them. The Gladiator illuminates the extraordinary lives of Spartacus, Commodus, Eppia and others - bringing the same energy and passion to the page that Ridley Scott's cinematic triumph bough to the screen.

In this book, Professor Baker describes the rudiments of number theory in a concise, simple and direct manner. Though most of the text is classical in content, he includes many guides to further study which will stimulate the reader to delve into the great wealth of literature devoted to the subject.