Bøger af Stephen Walker

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to go into space. This book, published on the sixtieth anniversary of that epic flight, tells the astonishing story of how it happened, why it happened - and what happened next. "Whoever controls space controls the world." Lyndon B. Johnson 1958

This book is a travel story, a journey through British history, an odyssey by road and foot, beginning in Edinburgh and finishing in Gloucester, 13 days later. The journey includes walking Hadrian's Wall, visiting significant historical sites in Northern England and Wales, and hiking in remote parts of Wales. The book is a narrative journey, accompanied by photographs that explore two millennia of British history. It begins with the Roman occupation of the island, the original British Kingdoms that emerged from the departure of Rome 400 years later, and their eventual demise at the hands of the Angles and Saxons. It explores the events that led to the birth of England, and the emergence of the Welsh and then British nations. It travels through historic sites including Iron Age hillforts, Roman forts, neolithic standing stones, significant battlefields, and historic churches. It tells stories of the history of each of these places, and the epic poems of the people who built them, lived in them and fought over them. Much of Britain's remaining history resides in its churches, abbeys and cathedrals, and for that reason, this book focuses on the history, architecture and stories that can be found in these ancient buildings. The author hopes that this story will inspire others to make journeys through the history of their nations.

Even champions were beginners once. Nobody really knows their potential as a sportsman or woman at the outset. But many people have absolutely no idea how to exercise or train for their chosen sport. Sometimes their coaches are inadeqately trained. Many are well meaning and enthusiastic amateurs, perhaps parents, with no knowledge of exercise physiology, sports psychology or biomechanics. What is biomechanics anyway? As a student Stephen Walker was the victim of such poor standards of sports coaching but this left him with a thirst for knowledge about the building blocks of success. Now, as a successful and still practising athlete and a coach with some 40+ years of experience, Walker has put down on paper what he has learned so you can benefit. This is no academic work with small print and even smaller references. This is your coach speaking to you from the page. "How to Win" spells out for you what you need to know to be successful in your sport - to WIN. And in the final analysis it is all very straight forward and boils down to just one word. But you would be surprised how many people do not realise this and are pursuing fitness training programmes that are actually going to hinder them instead of help them. Do you understand why training with heavy weights would make you slow, for example? If you are engaged in sport in any way, shape or form then you need to know everything that is in "How to Win". Invest now in your future success with this excellent handbook subtitled "The Sports Competitor's Guide to Success".

?This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched.??The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review?Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life.??Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile?originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead?and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour?ten times faster than a rifle bullet?Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity ? the first human to leave the planet.Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first, the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanity's greatest adventures ? to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.

This book is a travel story, a journey through British history, a two-week odyssey by road and foot, beginning in Edinburgh and finishing in Gloucester, 13 days later. The journey includes walking Hadrian's Wall, visiting a series of significant historical sites in Northern England and Wales, and hiking in remote parts of Wales. The book is a narrative journey, accompanied by photographs that explore two millennia of British history. It begins with the Roman occupation of the island, the original British Kingdoms that emerged from the departure of Rome 400 years later, and their eventual demise at the hands of the Angles and Saxons. It explores the events that led to the birth of England, and the emergence of the Welsh and then British nations. It travels through historic sites including Iron Age hillforts, Roman forts, neolithic standing stones, significant battlefields, and historic churches. It tells stories of the history of each of these places, and the epic poems of the people who built them, lived in them and fought over them. Much of Britain's remaining history resides in its churches, abbeys and cathedrals, and for that reason, this book focuses on the history, architecture and stories that can be found in these ancient buildings. The author hopes that this story will inspire others to make journeys through the history of their nations.

The definitive biography of a titan of Irish political history

The use of digital mediation has increased over recent years, but is it becoming the new norm? How do mediators, advisers and clients get the same results out of digital mediations as they do from face to face mediations? Do new skills and mindsets need to be learnt? How do you decide whether it's the right choice for your dispute? How does digital mediation fit into the world of the Digital Justice System? Answering these questions and many more FAQs this is the only book to focus on mediation as opposed to other means of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) such as arbitration.Covering topics including smart systems, smart settle, use of AI, and mixed media mediations, it teaches mediators, advisers and clients the different skills and mindsets they need to be successful in the new world of digital mediation. Experience-based and full of checklists and flowcharts this book is written by a mediator who has conducted over 200 digital mediations. Highlighting the differences between how mediations are held now and pre-pandemic, the book provides a clear message - digital mediation is here to stay and everyone involved must adapt to it making this book essential reading for all mediators.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

People have experiences. The way mine happened was so clear and answered a lot of questions for me. It has to work in all areas of everyday life, right? I found out it worked in ALL areas of everyday life, and I know it can do the same for you. It's real! There are many stories of things that happened to me as well as others around me in various jobs and careers, marriage, friendships, safety and protection, life challenges, crossing cultural barriers, etc. They all demonstrate how so many surprises and unexpected rewards can come by seeing and responding through a new lens. There are many jewels not found elsewhere, to give you the keys to unlock your own stories and hidden treasures. They may provide some smiles and wows, but more importantly, help you discover how to make them work for you. It is a personalized journey, and things may unfold that you could not have planned or imagined. You are a unique individual with special gifts and talents that were given to benefit you and impact others. That means no matter what position you are in, or whether you think you are good or worthy enough, your life can change dramatically, and it can count! And if things are going well, there is always room to expand. If you read this book, you will know those aren't just nice words, but rather, very real!Carefree-Deep Despair-New LifeI thought country-club living at home in Long Island during college, with no job or accountability, was the perfect life. Then came a trip to Africa during the Congo revolutions in a small search and rescue plane with my pilot uncle. I faced imminent death four times, and a girl I arranged to go on the other plane died. That started a 9-year downhill spiral.Back in the States, it was one illness and surgery after another, and two more knocks on death's door. Things got so bad, I had a brick wall built in front of my New York City brownstone bedroom window, without permission. My psychological report said: "Stephen is in urgent need of help. He could self-destruct at any moment." My brother Michael had left home totally stressed out. When he returned for a visit a completely different person, I was torn between jealousy and curiosity. I accepted an invite to visit him in Los Angeles. There, the most shocking awakening happened. Instantly, I felt amazing, and knew: ALL IS WELL. And my illnesses were gone!Now what? When I begrudgingly accepted a restaurant server job, I never expected it would lead to a successful career in hospitality and sales. I had opportunities to connect with top-of-the-world people. Life expanded in all areas, as I learned to expect the unexpected, along with swallowing my pride. A job associate once asked me, "How come things happen to you that don't happen to us?" The answers are what this book is all about.All that and a happy marriage. Okay, Becky proposed, so who's perfect? During our 35th anniversary vow renewal, I surprised her by proposing on one knee with a diamond ring, as our family and friends cheered. She said YES!There are jewels in this book that can transform your life!

The story of the bombing of Hiroshima presented in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, both in the air and on the ground British feature and documentary director Stephen Walker tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a way only a filmmaker can--not as a dry history of the sad, regrettable, mission, but as an immediate and perilous drama. Walker has extensively interviewed American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors that were involved in the bombing, and thus is able to tell the story through truly alive-on-the-page characters. The result is a narrative that--without either trivializing the tragedy of the bombing or ignoring its importance in WWII's end--tells the real story of why and how one of the most important events of the 20th century took place. Shockwave might not change anyone's opinion about the justification of the Hiroshima bombing, but it will provide readers with an unprecedented viewpoint that is sure to educate and enthrall its audience.

This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront. It combines archival material, contemporary examples of fairs, and a sustained theoretical engagement with influential philosophies of surface, including recent work by Avrum Stroll and Andrew Benjamin, as well as the nineteenth century author Gottfried Semper.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees. Sixty-thousand buildings were obliterated. A third of the city's population died, by heat, by the blast, and by a terrible new weapon in the history of warfare: radiation.In this riveting account, Stephen Walker follows the stories of real people in the extraordinary weeks leading up to the explosion and in its aftermath. From the atomic engineer who armed the bomb in mid-air to the Japanese doctors treating thousands of burnt bodies on the ground. From the flight crews and scientists to world leaders and civilian victims. With intimate testimony and remarkable stories, this is the startling narrative behind the dawn of the atomic age.

Irish Sunday Times BestsellerA true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priestThe story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic proportions. Hide and Seek chronicles the intimate and intensely personal war between them. A fiercely fought rivalry that would culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap and then murder his Irish opponent.In July 1943 Rome was bombed for the first time during the war. As the swastika flew above the city, it was a time of fear, and a moment of choice: collaborate and compromise, or resist and revolt. O'Flaherty decided to quietly resist and fight the new rulers.Dubbed 'Ireland's Oscar Schindler', he masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican, to help Jews and escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a series of safe houses and church buildings and sheltered around 500 Jews in the Holy See, and it is believed that sanctuary was found for some 4000 Jews across Rome, and 4000 Allied escapees.After the Resistance killed 32 German soldiers in a bombing, Hitler was enraged, and declared that he wanted a revenge attack to "e;make the world tremble"e;. He instructed Kappler to draw up plans. Eventually, 335 people would be executed in the Ardeatine Caves, a labyrinth of tunnels outside the city. The massacre would become the worst atrocity committed on Italian soil during WWII.Kappler's handiwork would remain secret until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June 1944. The Nazi Colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating to the caves massacre. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole. Amazingly, O'Flaherty would continue his relationship with Kappler, going to see his former rival in prison. The discussions of the two men would become intense and searching, and a friendship grew between them. In later life, after much soul-searching Kappler became a Catholic, and was baptised by the Irish Monsignor.

An invaluable guide for lawyers, surveyors and other professionals covering every stage of the process, from persuading the other party to mediate, to preparing for and taking part in the mediation itself, and advising clients on what to expect and how to conduct themselves at a mediation. Includes extensive checklists and precedents.

Written for the traveler who needs information beyond what is provided in a general guidebook, Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide introduces the reader to comprehensive and specialized travel literature and resources. In this book, author Stephen Walker offers practical and accessible direction for anyone seeking detailed and valuable information on travel, while also instructing readers in ways to find information that may not be included in this guide.Organized by topic, each topic begins with information that is useful to new travelers so that anyone can begin with any topic without any previous knowledge of it. However, the book also goes further so as to provide information useful to the seasoned traveler. The wide variety of topics related to travel provide many new and possibly overlooked opportunities, even for veteran travelers, and the works included have been selected because of the depth with which each treats its subject matter, in order to ensure that each resource is of the quality that todays traveler demands.

What do I do now? Every mediator asks themselves this.Answering 50 common ethical, practical and technical problems that arise at mediations, with key practice points highlighted in Q&A format.Topics include:Impartiality: You arrive at the mediation and suddenly realise that you know one of parties. What do you do?Joint Opening Sessions: One side wants one the other doesn't. What do you do?Bad behaviour: One party is secretly recording the mediation. What do you do?Offers: Neither side will make an offer. They both say they want to hear from the other side first. What do you do? Stages covered: Pre-mediationAt the mediationThe End of the Mediation and After Each entry includes:The core issues behind the question Case studies of authentic, anonymized, true-life examples The ethical, legal, procedural and commercial issues highlighted and explained in straightforward languageAdvice on your options: proven tips for immediate useChecklists, sample emails, scripts and templates.Cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct.

This title recounts what happened during the six months that documentary film-maker Stephen Walker began a search for four young, untried, untested, obsessive and possibly unhinged film-makers in their quest for fame and glory at the Cannes Film Festival.

Known for his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. This book considers the broad range of Matta-Clark's ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video.

Presents a commentary on democracy in education, and the macro- and micro-political discourses which permit and prohibit this. This book explores key themes such as the struggle for democracy in schools and society, and the relationships between the processes of schooling and the preparation of the workforce in advanced capitalist societies.