Bøger af Aaron Baker

Posthumous Noon was selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Of the collection, Hirshfield said: "Posthumous Noon is a book of grief and its bearing. It is also a book of language's largess and leaping--as all true poem-volumes must be--and a book of the treasure house of the living: of largemouth bass; of the eros of moths and of humans; of cities and fields, stories and waters. It is a book holding as well many kinds of migration: the migration of the body in illness, of love's witness, of souls, of creatures, of aftermath. In word, music, and image, Aaron Baker confirms his book title's promise: even amid loss's darkness, the full dimensions of light cannot be kept from this world."

Ascend To Your Throne Owning and managing a thousand-plus-employee company definitely comes with its perks: private jets, multiple vacation homes, and flexibility with your time. But it takes an exceptional leader to climb to those heights. Reaching such a level of leadership is no small feat. In his book Heir to the Throne: The New Leader's Path to Greatness, Aaron Baker, CEO of Cannon Safe, details the lessons he learned working his way from bending metal on the factory floor to the very top of a $100-million multinational corporation. Those lessons forged Aaron into a great leader-and now he wants to teach them to you. By sharing his anecdotes from the front lines of manufacturing, Aaron let's you live the experiences and learn his life-changing lessons, which are based on Lean manufacturing, a proven system implemented by many successful companies, including Toyota. In ten engaging chapters, Aaron breaks down the elements needed to be a dynamic leader and offers insight that will take you from sweeping floors to a suite on the top floor. If you feel like you're starting at the bottom but know you would thrive at the top, this book is your guide to establishing yourself as the heir to that throne.

In this prize-winning collection, a debut poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea.Mission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker's experiences as a child of missionaries living among the Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Rich with Christian and Kuman myths and stories, the poems explore Western and tribal ways of looking at the world -- an interface of vastly different cultures and notions of spirituality, illuminated by the poet's own struggles as he comes of age in this unique environment.The images conjured in Mission Work are viscerally stirring: native people slaughter pigs for a Chimbu wedding ceremony; a papery flight of cicadas cuts through a cloud forest; hands sting as they beat a drum made of dried snakeskin. Quieter moments are shot through with the unfamiliar as well. In ?Bird of Paradise,? a father angles his son's head toward the canopy of the jungle so the boy can catch sight of an elusive bird. Stanley Plumly, this year's guest judge, writes, ?How rare to find precision and immersion so alive in the same poetry. Aaron Baker's pressure on his language not only intensifies and elevates his memories of Papuan 'mission work,' it transforms it back into something very like his original childhood experience. Throughout this remarkably written and felt first book, the reader, like the author himself, 'can't tell if this is white or black magic,' Christian, tribal, or both at once.?

Offers an extensive look at nearly one hundred years of baseball-themed movies, documentaries, and TV shows. The Baseball Film charts the variety of ways that Hollywood presents the game as integral to American life, whether showing little league as a site of parent-child bonding or depicting fans' lifelong love affairs with their teams.

A Hollywood director who blends substance with the mainstream

Shows that sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, this book looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.