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Shockwave
HarperCollins US 2005; US$ 11.99At 31,000 feet above Japan, Tom Ferebee sits hunched over his bombsight. Below him lies the primary target of an operation called "Special Mission Number 13" by the few military personnel aware of its existence -- Hiroshima, a city of over 300,000. He waits until the aiming point is directly below the crosshairs and releases his cargo -- a five-ton... more...
Shockwave
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb?dubbed Little Boy by its creators?was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis... more...
Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 50.00A revolutionary new strategy that protects you from another meltdown In this groundbreaking book, Todd Walker presents his compelling Wave Theory. Asserting that all securities move in ?waves??patterns, cycles, or trends?Walker explains how and when to use primary alternatives properly for diversification purposes. With Wave Theory for... more...
Gordon Matta-Clark
I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 31.00Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the boarders between art and architecture and his diverse practice is often understood as an outright rejection of the tenets of high modernism. Stephen Walker argues instead... more...
Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableIrish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest more...
A-HA! Performance
Wiley 2007; US$ 24.95Praise for A-HA! Performance "Since I wrote Choice Theory many years ago, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one major human problem: we have yet to figure out how to get along well with each other. In this book, Walker supports this conclusion with humor, creativity, and great insight. Managers who both follow his suggestions and teach... more...
Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal mechanisms which steer decisions, shape leaders and perceptions of reality, and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block and recast incoming information from the environment. more...
The Building of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press 1990; US$ 38.00Hong Kong is one of the most spectacular cities in the world. It has been built in a very short time. Its builders have achieved remarkable results but their contribution had not been documented. the Hong Kong Construction Association decided to correct his omission and commissioned this book to mark its 70th Anniversary.Consequently, the book concentrates... more...
U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 29.95Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign policy —... more...
Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 140.00This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers? might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers? work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical, institutional and interactional contexts in which... more...









