Best Selling Books by Paul Kennedy

An updated edition that explores how global issues at the heart of sociological discussion The second edition of this pioneering text, Global Sociology, offers an innovative approach to sociology that takes the global dimensions of the contemporary world as its overarching framework. Fully revised and updated with a new Introduction and three new chapters, Global Sociology is written in a fresh and relevant style for undergraduate readers whether they have studied sociology before or are approaching the subject for the first time. Carefully balancing contemporary sociological theory and concepts with arguments and concrete examples drawn from around the globe, Global Sociology highlights the scope and the importance of sociology for understanding the complex and ever-changing world around us. This new edition reflects current world events and debates in the discipline, importantly covering the aftermath of September 11, the new terrorist threat, and the impact of globalization.

Forty-six full-page black-and-white drawings of popular American wildflowers, with scientific and common names. Color illustrations of each flower included on the covers.

Tinny Tim sets out on an adventure to return a lost button. Along the way he goes exploring, has a miraculous escape, and makes new friends.

Paul Kennedy Mueller is the author of The Pandemonium Bar & Grill (and Other Stories), Pretty Bad Stories (An Unfortunate Collection of Troublesome Tales), Mostly True Tales (and Otherwise Preposterous Accounts), The Satisfaction of Revenge and Other Poems, and other works of fiction, journalism, and poetry. An Army brat and Vietnam veteran, he now works as a senior public information officer for the University of California at San Diego.

The poems in this collection travel from Thessaloniki to the orchards of the moon, and discover landscapes that surprise, enchant, challenge and amuse the literate reader.

The true story of a legendary SAS soldier who participated in the battle of Mirbat and assaulted the Iranian Embassy to free the hostages held within. No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background. If you have the stamina, the willpower and the guts, we''ll welcome you with open arms and make you one of us. And if you haven''t, then it''s been very nice knowing you. Eighteen years in the SAS saw Pete Winner, codenamed Soldier ''I'', survive the savage battle of Mirbat, parachute into the icy depths of the South Atlantic at the height of the Falklands War, and storm the Iranian Embassy during the most famous hostage crisis in the modern world. For the first time Pete also details his close-protection work around the world, from the lawless streets of Moscow to escorting aid convoys into war-torn Bosnia. He also unveils the problems of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder faced by many Special Forces veterans, and how he battled his own demons to continue his roller-coaster career. This is his story, written with a breathtaking take-no-prisoners attitude that brings each death-defying episode vividly to life.

He’s quite good at climbing. He knows how to swing. But sleeping’s his favourite, favourite thing!

Chrissie and Anthony Foster were like any other young family, raising their three daughters in suburban Melbourne with what they hoped were the right values. Chrissie could not have known that the stranger-danger she feared actually lurked in the presbytery attached to the girls'' Catholic primary school. Father Kevin O''Donnell, a long-term paedophile, lived and worked there. Two of their young daughters became victims of O''Donnell. And once the truth was revealed, the Fosters began a battle to find out how this could have happened. The Church offered silence, lies, denials and threats. Meanwhile, their daughters tried to piece together their fractured lives. This is the chilling true story that made national and international headlines. Chrissie Foster''s heartbreaking account of her family''s suffering, and their determination to stand up for themselves against the might of the Catholic Church, is testament to the strength of a mother''s love, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Soldier I, so named to preserve his anonymity at the coroner''s inquiry into the Iranian Embassy siege, spent a remarkable 18 years in the SAS, becoming a legend within that legendary force. This book tells the full story of those years, including accounts of operations with which he was involved.

A fundamental look at the basic reasons why most individual fitness programs fail or lose their effectiveness over time. Dr Paul Kennedy reveals the basic reasons for lack of success in typical, well-intentioned programs and the simple adjustments that can correct those problems. In many cases, these adjustments, while uncomplicated and easily implemented, are often overlooked or not perceived as the ''critical little things'' that are the difference between long-term fitness goal achievement and the nagging frustration of a programme doomed to failure. With dozens of photographs, charts, illustrations, several easy-to-use personal training logs and diaries, plus a questionnaire to assist in establishing individual fitness readiness, this easy-to-read and entertaining book has everything you need to make your fitness program REALLY work in the REAL world.

''This history of the Waterhouse dynasty is a cut above the field of racing books that burst from the barriers this time of year'' - Sydney Morning Herald Drama, glamour, scandal, success - and very high stakes. The story of Australia''s best known horse racing family has it all. When it comes to racing, the name most Australians associate with the racetrack is Waterhouse. This is their compelling story. High Stakes takes us from Bill Waterhouse''s introduction to the world as a sixteen-year-old, working as a bookmaker for his father in the late thirties - going on to make money both on and off the track - to the headlines caused by his involvement in the notorious Fine Cotton affair in the eighties. It examines his son Robbie''s rise as a respected bookie and a knowledgeable judge of horses, to his spectacular fall, as a result of that same Fine Cotton affair, which led to a life ban from involvement in the racing industry. While the ban was lifted in 2001, he keeps a low profile these days. As Kennedy reveals, the same cannot be said of Robbie''s wife, Gai, daughter of the legendary horse trainer TJ Smith. In a male-dominated world, she has gone on to rival her father as one of Australia''s best trainers, training horses for a star-studded clientele that has ranged from John Singleton to the Queen of England. Yet as High Stakes shows, the scandal aside, the marriage between Gai and Robbie was always going to be problematic. As the Sydney Morning Herald put it: ''It''s not that the Smiths and the Waterhouses were necessarily the Capulets and the Montagues but the country''s leading trainer and the world''s biggest bookmaker were hardly natural kinsfolk either.'' Despite an already colourful history, when their son, Tom, stepped into the family business and became one of the best-known and most controversial bookies the country had ever seen, Kennedy describes how the dramas for the Waterhouse dynasty were only just beginning... This is the book for anyone who wants to know the inside story of contemporary Australian horse racing, a world where premiers and millionaires rub shoulders with gangsters and girls with fancy hats. It''s a world of passion, action - and very high stakes.

Here is the astonishing true story of an 18-year-old veteran of one of the world''s fiercest counterterrorist forces, the SAS. Crawl inside the mind of this legendary British rogue warrior, and live the kind of adventures most can only dream about. 8-page insert.

Melbourne Storm was created in 1998 and situated in the heartland of a rival football code, it won three NRL premierships from five Grand Finals in its first twelve seasons and produced the best players in the game. It was the envy of clubs everywhere. But in 2010 Storm''s famed winning culture was exposed as a fraud. The club had cheated. The club had consistently rorted the NRL''s salary cap. Justice seemed hard and fast. They were fined and stripped of their trophies. A few in club management were fired, some club directors left and player managers were given suspensions. That was it. No-one was charged. Storm played out that season with admirable resolve, despite playing for no reward. In the following two seasons Melbourne Storm fought back and in 2012 won the Grand Final. The rise, fall and rise of Melbourne Storm happened in a heartbeat, yet what actually took place? Stormcloud answers the question as it reveals the hidden story, with much untold to be revealed.

Kennedy''s groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.

Soldier I, so named to preserve his anonymity at the coroner''s inquiry into the Iranian Embassy siege, spent a remarkable 18 years in the SAS, becoming a legend within that legendary force. This book tells the full story of those years, including accounts of operations with which he was involved.

Presents a new and unified, view of carbocationic polymers, demonstrating the prodigious promise and unexploited possibilities in the field. Clarifies the tremendous advances made in the past decade in the elucidation of cationic polymerization, and the exploitation of new mechanistic information in terms of new products and processes in the laboratory.