Most Popular Books by Richard Walker

This eye-catching book takes readers on a fantastic voyage through humanbiology using digital illustration and cutting-edge scans and imagery. Anintroductory chapter details the evolution of Homo sapiens and reveals the body''s building blocks--its chemical elements, molecules, and cells. A section on the body in action examines the skeleton and the muscles. The final chapter explains how cells join together to form the organs and body systems that keep us fueled, aware of our surroundings, and free of disease.

Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services. But have these reforms actually led to improvements in services? Evaluating Public Management Reforms develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and then uses this framework to assess the impact of new arrangements for public service delivery in the UK. This book: * identifies the conceptual and practical problems of finding clear criteria for evaluating reforms * focuses on the shifts in public management towards markets and competition, towards the publication of performance indicators, and from larger to smaller organizations * considers what impact these reforms have had on the efficiency, responsiveness and equity of services * comprehensively reviews the evidence on the effects of reform on health care, housing and education * discusses the implications for public sector management.

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.

Historical study of agricultural policy in China from 1956 to 1962. Rural development, agrarian reform, rural cooperatives and finally communal farms were stressed. Failure brought decentralization, a wage policy to link wages to production, and freedom of the private sector for agricultural products and animal production (pigs). Statistical tables. 1 map. Bibliography pp. 102-105.

Examines the geography, history, government, economy, culture, and people of the island nation of Japan.

Microphotography, clear illustrations, and informative text combine to show the organs, process, and progress of human reproduction.

A fully illustrated, authoritative, and completely up-to-date guide to every aspect of the adolescent mind and body.

The authors argue that it is crucial to develop reading programmes that are effective with the full range of children, including those from homes where there is little or no literate activity and/or where the first language or dialect is different from the language of instruction. They introduce the concentrated language encounter (CLE) approach as a well-tried way of doing that, providing the theoretical framework, a detailed description of a CLE programme, and accounts of its success in various contexts. They give guidelines on how to develop a CLE programme for primary schools, an account of large-scale implementation of such a programme in a developing country, and they discuss practical implications for classroom managemnt and for assessing children''s progress.

Maps, illustrations, photographs and text portray and explore the human body.

Part of the Kingfisher Knowledge, this work takes a look at epidemics and plagues, finding out about the big killer diseases and what happens when they spread rapidly and affect large numbers of people. It conveys the histories of the Black Death of 13th-century Europe, the Great Plague of London, and more.

This book offers a new and insightful analysis of the effectiveness of the public sector reforms that have been put in place in the UK over the last twenty years. It represents a different type of approach, in that it looks at the effects of reform by examining the actual social organization of the groups the various policy measures have impacted. It moves away from the emphasis of general writing on the New Public Managerialism which, in terms of overall assessment, either assumes that the reforms will work, or that they are entirely inappropriate and will produce changes that are uniformly poor. This book seeks a more careful appraisal in which important effects are distinguished and examined.

Shares information on the makeup of the human body, including cells, skeleton, organs, and muscles; also features a model of a human skeleton readers can put together.

Kenneth Walker, the doyen of modern Chinese economic studies from the 1960s until his death in 1989, was the world''s most authoritative commentator on China''s agricultural development in the first four decades of the People''s Republic. With an unparalleled authority derived from the use of primary Chinese sources, his collected papers provide a unique account of this era. In addition to their historical importance, the papers offer valuable insight into contemporary China''s agricultural sector, which arguably poses the most serious economic and social problems for the Bejing government today. Including the posthumously-published study of `Food and Mortality During the Great Leap Forward,'' Walker''s comprehensive analysis of forty years of China''s agricultural development will be a valuable resource for scholars and researchers of China, as well as undergraduates and postgraduates.

Good factual content regarding Australian animals, mining, and local customs.

The reader becomes the good doctor''s trusty lab assistant as he reconstructs a human body from the skeleton out, in a title that uses bold imagery and the most recent scientific information to bring the human body to life.

Sous la houlette de Christian Spitz, le doc de Lonvin''Fun, un livre qui parle franchement de la sexualité des ados. Contient des encadrés, questions-réponses, témoignages de jeunes, glossaire, carnet d''adresses et illustrations.