Most Popular Books by Richard Walker

Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Health Title It''s no secret that African-Americans top the list of groups afflicted by hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, renal failure, and cancer. What the statistics do not show is the pain, misery, and despair that these conditions create, not only for the individual, but also for family and friends. As an African-American doctor, Dr. Richard Walker has studied these conditions among his patients for many years. Now, for the first time, Dr. Walker believes that research has found a commonsense way to prevent, reduce, and possibly eliminate these killers, turning the tide of African-American health. Dr. Walker begins by looking at the black community''s lifestyle, which has radically changed over the centuries, shifting people from hours spent under a blazing sun to a life of minimum sunlight exposure. From there, it is clear that the missing puzzle piece of African-American health is a chronic lack of Vitamin D3. Most important, Dr. Walker explains how this crucial factor can be added to a daily routine along with components such as nutritional supplements, diet, and exercise. He then focuses on each major illness affecting the black community and explores what it is, what its symptoms are, and how the reader can avoid or treat the problem. A concise yet critical guide, African-American Healthy offers an important first step towards achieving a healthier, longer life for millions of people.

Make changes that stick! Do you want to change yourself but don''t know how? Using the four-step method in this book you will change faster and with less effort. Learn how your beliefs form your reality and how to change them to become your best version of yourself. Discover how to stop being a victim, modify or eliminate habits with ease, unlock your beliefs and design your reality.

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!

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.

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

Working with Roche Harbor archivists as well as owners of private photo collections, Walker has selected more than 200 images and written text to illustrate the visual history of Roche Harbor and the people who have lived there.

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.

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.

With only his dog Scribble for companionship, a twelve-year-old boy mourns the death of his best friend and tries to understand the meaning of strange, otherworldly visitations from the likes of Sam Walton and Nat King Cole.

This accessible guide presents the astrophysical concepts behind astronomical spectroscopy, covering both the theory and the practical elements of recording, processing, analysing and interpreting your spectra. It covers astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, nebulae, novae, supernovae, and events such as eclipses and comet passages. Suitable for anyone with only a little background knowledge and access to amateur-level equipment, the guide''s many illustrations, sketches and figures will help you understand and practise this scientifically important and growing field of amateur astronomy, up to the level of Pro-Am collaborations. Accessible to non-academics, it benefits many groups from novices and learners in astronomy clubs, to advanced students and teachers of astrophysics. This volume is the perfect companion to the Spectral Atlas for Amateur Astronomers, which provides detailed commented spectral profiles of more than 100 astronomical objects.

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?

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.

Interaction energy and dipole moment in collisions of two hydrogen molecules.

An illustrated handbook of human anatomy and physiology includes an alphabetical glossary defining more than six hundred medical terms.

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.

Reproduces the text of an article by Albert Fowler, first published in the Presbyterian outlook, Mar. 5, 1956.

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!

Rapidly growing cognitive technologies (such as word processors, web browsers, cell phones, and personal data assistants) aid learning, memory, and problem solving, and contribute to every part of modern life from interviewing crime witnesses to learning a foreign language to calling one''s mother. This collection of essays on cognitive technology examines the interaction between the human mind and the tools people create to enhance it, studying which technologies assist cognition the most and what features are most effective. It also considers the point at which the technological enhancement of human ability begins to restrict that very ability, such as the risk of some cognitive technologies impairing cognition or creating disadvantages for individuals or groups. This collection of 11 essays discusses the most recent psychological research in cognitive technology, showcasing the paradigms and theories that have driven the development of new cognitive technologies. It explores the impact of technology on cognitive psychology, the classroom, and social interaction and group problem solving. Topics covered include the distracting characteristics of new technologies (such as the effects of cell phone use on driving ability and of distracting advertisements on problem solving), the study of mass media through assessing memories for media experiences, the media''s role in advancing gender and racial prejudices, and the misuse of cognitive technology through identity theft and cyberterrorism. Each essay concludes with a bibliography.

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