Most Popular Books by Richard Walker

Get set to explore your own body from the inside out! This fascinating guide covers everything from the top of your nose to the tips of your toes. Travel through the amazing human body to learn about the brain center, muscle power, bony frame, pumping heart, and senses hard at work interpreting and understanding our world. Processes you take for granted, including breathing and eating, are shown using detailed illustrations and photography and explained alongside incredible facts and figures. As you look through the body, you''ll also learn about the history of our fascination with how the human body works. This is a fun and interactive guide with lots of infographics, statistics, facts, and timelines. Whether you''re looking for a body book for homework help, school projects, or just for fun, with Eyewitness: Human Body you''ll never look at yourself in the same way again!

An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes. This in-depth manual to the human body''s physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is a must-have reference to help further your studies or knowledge of how our bodies work. Each page of The Human Body Book, updated to reflect the latest medical information, is illustrated with colourful and comprehensive diagrams, which are thoroughly annotated to take you right into the cells and fibres that are responsible for keeping the human body ticking. The opening chapter, Integrated Body, explains how the parts of the body work together at various levels of size and hierarchy to produce the living whole. It also contains an overview of the major body systems, enlivened by real-life 3D medical scans of the entire body. The chapters that follow provide coverage of the body function by function, system by system. Eleven main body systems are covered in turn, with each section ending on common injuries, diseases, and disorders afflicting that system. The book concludes with a chapter on Growth and Development which looks in detail at how the body changes over the course of a human lifespan.

Explains how colors and rainbows are made, why some sounds are quiet and some are loud, and how ears work.

Beginning with the question "What is sex?" The Family Guide to Sex and Relationships covers the entire spectrum of human sexuality and relationships between the sexes. Here are clear explanations of every sexual topic, from gender identification to adolescent hormonal changes, from the mechanics of sex to sexual dysfunction and STDs, from menstruation to menopause - female and male. Ideal for parents wanting to talk to their children about sex or for anyone with any sex-related questions, this comprehensive reference takes the reader through the entire life cycle - from birth to old age. Many topics have special resonance for today, including single parenting; divorce; the risks posed by HIV and AIDS; contraception; teenage pregnancy; gay and lesbian parenting; and sexual offenses, such as harassment, rape, and child abuse. More than 300 color photographs, illustrations, and diagrams complement the text throughout.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

Get fast facts at your fingertips with DK Pocket Eyewitness Human Body, packed with bite-sized chunks of information that will make learning even more fun for your child. It''s full of information on the skeleton, blood system, the lungs and how we breathe, the nerves and how we digest our food. The human body is a wonderful and unique subject - find out what makes us human, read all about cells and check out the organs that make us go. Packed with amazing encyclopedic stats and genius gem facts, DK Pocket Eyewitness Human Body will take you on an adventure through the human body, from the tip of your nose to the top of your toes. DK Pocket Eyewitness Human Body is perfect homework help and ideal for school projects.

Get under your own skin and become a biology expert with this exciting and original encyclopedia. Packed with awesome illustrations, photographs and diagrams to help you make sense of even the most complicated systems in the human body. Easy-to-use and great for projects

Plagues have been an ongoing feature of human history, and this addition to the award-winning KFK series places today"s heightened interest in global health issues in a larger historical context. Using a mix of science and history, Epidemics & Plagues reveals how certain diseases become worldwide killers, and provides comprehensive answers to readers" most pressing questions. From the Black Death of thirteenth-century Europe, to AIDS, SARS, and avian influenza, Epidemics & Plagues peers through the microscope at the agents that cause the diseases andalso uncovers the superstitions and drama surrounding them.

In the spirit of Orwell''s ANIMAL FARM, THE RUNNING DOGS OF LOYALTY is a penetrating, critical-minded satirical analysis of the motives, frauds, & lies of supervisors, managers, & CEOs in modern bureaucracies. This little book is destined for the personal bookshelf of every frustrated office worker. Set in a cage in Zooland, two old, wise Foxes describe how the zoo really works to a young Pup. This allegory is intended for those free-thinking adults over 30 who are tired of being bossed by incompetent, deceitful, self-serving managers who loot the work of others by surrounding themselves with Barking Seals, Baboons, &-worst of all- Running Dogs of Loyalty. "Whose interests do you think get served by these endless reorganizations?" said Sly Fox with agitation, "Remember: The most important thing to Top Baboon is that HE be Top Baboon. The other ranking Baboons, in turn, seek to keep their rank as well. When Top Baboon speaks of loyalty to Zooland he means loyalty to him. Order means his orders. So you see, a reorganization is not a reorganization at all. Just the opposite. It is a savage purge designed to ensure that the structure of Zooland remains exactly the way it is. Power loves power. Power serves power. Nothing else. Ever. To that end nobody is important, everybody is dispensable." After a pause, he added wryly, "As the Huskie says: If you are not the lead Dog, the scenery never changes." Paperback Price: $9.95, plus $4.50 postage & handling. Discounts for volume orders. Call BookCrafters, Inc. 1-800-879-4214. ISBN: 0-9647972-0-8.

Why do cities, regions and nations experience periods of pronounced growth and decline? Why have the world''s centres of economic activity been continually reshuffled as the industrial revolution has spread to new parts of the globe? This book demonstrates that under capitalism, the process central to growth is geographical industrialization, and that the creation and use of territory is fundamental to economic development. In doing so, they make new contributions to the study of growth theory, industrial economics, technological change, industrial organization, labour market, urban and regional development, and theoretical human geography. Beginning with the economics of disequilibrium growth, the authors reveal the technological, organizational and political foundations of industrialization, and conclude by showing that the territorial forms that industry takes are central to the shape and survival of capitalism itself.

RICHARD WALKER, who grew up in a Northern English town "where the sheep outnumbered the people," can tell you a story or two about how he became the CEO of a thriving American tech consulting company. In his new book, he takes us on that journey - and reveals how to build a better business and a better life through the power of Relationship Equity. At York Solutions, Richard applies the principle to deliver the brightest and best talent to his corporate clients. He helps seasoned professionals develop their networking skills. He finds brilliant IT newcomers and launches them into life-changing careers. Richard''s prospects seemed limited when he was a youth, but the people he met introduced him to a broader world. Today, his mission is to pay forward the kindnesses that have come his way - and to spread the word about a way of life that will broaden your horizons and help you achieve things you may have thought to be impossible.

As capitalism develops and state socialism disintegrates, divisions of labor are being reorganized, with major implications for the distribution of power in society. Yet the concept of division of labor has been one of the most neglected in contemporary political economy and social theory. Compared to class, gender or markets, it has typically been treated as a rather indifferent concept, part of the backdrop rather than one of the key forces of the economy and society. Dealing with the reworking of the division of labor in both practice and theory, and transcending the narrow boundaries of academic disciplines, the authors provide a new perspective on some of the most hotly debated issues in social science.

Young readers are invited to Dr. Frankenstein''s freaky lab to help him reconstruct a human body from the skeleton out. This innovative, chunky format offers bold imagery and includes an incredible special effect on the cover. Illustrations.

Describes the physical structure and functions of the brain, includes many facts and illustrations.

Explains the various systems of the body with the help of imaginary characters known as the Brainwaves, with separate sections and gatefolds covering the muscular, digestive, and respiratory systems, and explanations on how the body fights disease.