New Releases by Richard Walker

“Humanity is the core of our business.” — Richard Walker As the CEO of a prominent IT consulting firm, York Solutions, Richard Walker has applied the principle of Relationship Equity to achieve tremendous business success as he builds the tech talent pool and helps professionals develop their careers. Walker describes Relationship Equity as the good faith you can build by investing in relationships faithfully and steadily, with no expectation of reaping a return. In his new book, Relationship Equity: Your Cornerstone Investment to Great Gains in Business and Life, Walker takes his readers on a journey of discovery, examining a principle with the power to revolutionize both business and personal lives. He explains that the relationships we forge with others are of supreme importance—and when you get those right, the rest will follow. “If you are a friend who is genuine,” he writes, “you will have genuine friends—and lo and behold— they will want to help you just as you have helped them.” Sounds simple? It’s not. Relationship Equity has many nuances, and Walker explores them all in Relationship Equity. To share the story of how he developed the philosophy, he escorts his readers back to the small-town world of his youth in northern England, then onward to his corporate life at the helm of a thriving American tech company. “In our families, our businesses, our communities, our world—we need one another,” Walker writes. “We are not islands unto ourselves.” In his new book, Walker teaches us what he and his company are doing today to pay forward the many acts of kindness that have come his way through the years. Richard Walker has made it his business to change lives for the better, and his business reflects that.

Hannah Snell was an 18th-century woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier. This extremely popular biography centers around a recurrent 18th century trope of cross-dressing that subversively challenged social expectations and gender norms.

Featuring detailed commented spectral profiles of more than one hundred astronomical objects, in colour, this spectral guide documents most of the important and spectroscopically observable objects accessible using typical amateur equipment. It allows you to read and interpret the recorded spectra of the main stellar classes, as well as most of the steps from protostars through to the final stages of stellar evolution as planetary nebulae, white dwarfs or the different types of supernovae. It also presents integrated spectra of stellar clusters, galaxies and quasars, and the reference spectra of some terrestrial light sources, for calibration purposes. Whether used as the principal reference for comparing with your recorded spectra or for inspiring independent observing projects, this atlas provides a breathtaking view into our Universe's past. The atlas is accompanied and supplemented by Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers, which explains in detail the methods for recording, processing, analysing and interpreting your spectra.

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!

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.

Reveals the inner workings of the human body and all of its systems and mechanisms.

Philip's Guide to the Human Body is a fully illustrated guide to the structure and function of the human body. The guide has been revised for 2008 and includes completely updated sections on the Brain, Male and Female Reproductive Systems, and Genes and Inheritance.

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.

From blistering bee stings to pus-filled pimples, this eye-popping book takes readers on a virtual tour of all of the grossest, gooiest, and most fascinating events that bodies have to endure. Ouch! is a whole new take on the human body reference. Ouch! combines kid-friendly gross-out value with cutting-edge anatomical and biological expertise.

"Explores the killer diseases that have terrified populations throughout history and around the world"--P. [4] of cover.

Did you know that in one drop of blood there are 250 million red cells and 16 million platelets? Learn more about your body and the systems that keep in running in Human Body! Marvel at the wonders of the human body, from the tiniest cells to the awesome power of the brain. DK's Human Body is a vivid, cutting-edge look at how our bodies work and will change the way you look at yourself forever.

Something stinks about fishing. And as far as Cade Carlsen is concerned, it isn’t just his family’s best-selling catfish bait, either. While there is no denying that the secret recipe concocted by his grandfather does indeed produce one of the foulest odors ever known, it is not the bait’s smell but its effectiveness that bothers Cade. Fish feel pain, Cade is sure of it, so he and his family are complicit in the suffering and death of countless catfish. Cade is determined to make amends, but the question is, how?

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.

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

Assistant Principal Jacob Farley had disappeared, but as Mt. Mole’s least-liked citizen, no one in town seemed to be in any hurry to find him or his captor. So thirteen-year-old Andrew J. Forrest takes on the investigation himself, discovering along the way many buried secrets about his hometown, its population, and most explosively, about the town’s namesake hill, Mt. Mole itself.

KFK Genes & DNA explores the ever-unfolding secrets of this exciting science. From the basics of genes and their function as the code for life, through variation in families and inheritance, to the wide-ranging applications of DNA technology, find out how genes and DNA work. Investigate forensics, gene therapy, cloning and genetic engineering, and enjoy a fascinating insight into the biology of the world around us. Stunning photographs and thought-provoking digital artwork capture the essence of the topic, while compelling text guides the reader through a wealth of information. Each chapter encourages the reader to discover more through links to websites, books and places to visit, and also suggests possible career opportunities.

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

With over 100 colour illustrations, this book showcases the finest examples from the gallery's precious but often overlooked collection of miniatures. The selection covers the period from the accession of Elizabeth I to the 18th century.

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.

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.

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.

Includes references to Aboriginal guides involved in coast surveillance of the N.T. during Japanese invasion of 1942.