Bruce L Baker

Ethical Conflicts in Information and Computer Science, Technology, and Business

Ethical Conflicts in Information and Computer Science, Technology, and Business

The Ecology of Educational Systems: Data, Models, and Tools for Improvisational Leading and Learning

Taking the Law into Their Own Hands : Lawless Law Enforcers in Africa

Escape from Domination in Africa: Political Disengagement & Its Consequences

Escape from Domination in Africa: Political Disengagement & Its Consequences

Behavior Problems: Behavior Problems

Annual Review of Genetics: 1988

The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans

The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption...

The Ecology of Educational Systems: Data, Models, and Tools for Improvisational Leading and Learning

This informative, interesting book addresses those who need to understand educational data and its place in school leadership and decision-making. It provides a set of practical tools for data analysis and decision-making using spreadsheet software and system dynamic models. Examples of the use o...

Obadiah, Jonah and Micah (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries)

Obadiah's oracle against Edom.Jonah's mission to the city of Nineveh.Micah's message to Samaria and Jerusalem. The texts of these minor but important prophets receive a fresh and penetrating analysis in this introduction and commentary. The authors consider each book's historical setting, compositi...

Financing Education Systems

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of school finance, while establishing a firm understanding of the relationship between school finance systems to their broader economic, political and sociological context.  Organization: This book is organized around (a) c...

Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs, Fourth Edition

Parents are their children's first and most influential teachers. That's an important job—and this popular, highly respected guidebook makes it much easier. A trusted resource for thousands of families, this lively book gives parents of children from age 3 through young adulthood proven strategies f...

Steps to Independence: A Skills Training Guide for Parents and Teachers of Children With Special Needs

A guide for parents and teachers of special needs children to help them achieve independence.

What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (The American South Series)

A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging new book Bruce Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in passing:...

This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947

This book traces the history of mob violence in North and South Carolina, probing the origins of a phenomenon that has left an open wound in the American psyche.   Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil righ...