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Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest

â??Thrilling â?¦ High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researchedâ?? SUNDAY TIMES â??This book is a triumphâ?? DAN SNOW

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’ At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees. Sixty-thousand buildings were obliterated. A third of the city’s population died, by heat, by the blast, and by a terrible new weapon in the history of warfare: radiation. In this riveting account, Stephen Walker follows the stories of real people in the extraordinary weeks leading up to the explosion and in its aftermath. From the atomic engineer who armed the bomb in mid-air to the Japanese doctors treating thousands of burnt bodies on the ground. From the flight crews and scientists to world leaders and civilian victims. With intimate testimony and remarkable stories, this is the startling narrative behind the dawn of the atomic age.

A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world foreverOn 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 of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb--from the first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its aftermath--presenting the story through the eyes of pilots, scientists, civilian victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama. It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an extraordinary event--a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very day.

"This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched."--The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review"Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life."--Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile--originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead--and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour--ten times faster than a rifle bullet--Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet.Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first, the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanity's greatest adventures - to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.

A Strategy That Helps You Weather Any Economic Storm"Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is not just a guide; it is the holy grail for understanding alternative investments." -- Matt Emmens, Chairman, President, CEO of Vertex and Chairman of the Board of Shire"Walker's book provides investors and managers with an intriguing walk through the history of venture capital as an alternative asset class, while demonstrating the important contribution VCs have made and continue to make to innovation, economic growth, and job creation." -- Bryan Pearce, Americas Director, Ernst & Young Venture Capital Advisory Group"If you want to learn about alternative investments, there is one book which must be on the very top of your reading list, Wave Theory for Alternative Investments. The author delves behind mere analytics and algorithms with a behaviorably based, verifiable tool." -- Stephen M. Goodman, Senior Partner and Cofounder of the Emerging Growth Practice, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP"If you want to understand the history of venture capital in the context of its current manifestation, there is only one book: Wave Theory for Alternative Investments." -- Bo Peabody, Managing General Partner, Village Ventures"Venture capital helps fuel the growth of America's finest companies, the leaders of tomorrow. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is a must-read for [entrepreneurs and] those who wish to invest in the technologies of the future through the venturecapital process." -- Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital AssociationThe 2008 crash taught quite a few intelligent, high-net-worth, and institutional investors the hard lesson thatequities and bonds can carry a fair degree of risk. Many of these investors mistakenly cashed out of their plummeting investments at precisely the wrong time--and completely missed the recent wave of recovery. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments helps avoid poor decision making and costly mistakes. Consistently ranked among the nation's top wealth managers, Stephen Todd Walker explains how to catch the waves of potentially lucrative yet volatile alternative markets--and ride them to unprecedented profits.Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is an insider's guidebook to some of the fastest-growing segments of the investment world, including hedge funds, commodities, and venture capital. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is your first lesson in usingalternatives to keep surfing--and avoid wiping out in the next financial meltdown. This excellent resource includes:A brief history of alternative investmentsNumerous risk/return profilesCritical tools, including fundamental and technical analysisWalker shares his extensive knowledge, top-tier experience, and proven strategies to help you maximize return-on-investment on a consistent basis.The complex process of alternative investing can take years of practice to master. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments helps you adjust your approach right now, so that you'll be in prime position to catch the best waves in the next financial storm.

Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the former history teacher to reach beyond political lines? What sustained him during the bloody years of violence and how did he convince the IRA to end its long-running campaign? How did he persuade presidents and prime ministers to take risks and back his vision for Northern Ireland? How should John Hume be remembered? Stephen Walker combines over 100 interviews with many of Hume’s colleagues, critics and family members, with never-before-published interviews with Hume himself to present a comprehensive portrait of one of the most significant political figures in Northern Ireland and around the world.

This title recounts what happened during the six months that documentary film-maker Stephen Walker began a search for four young, untried, untested, obsessive and possibly unhinged film-makers in their quest for fame and glory at the Cannes Film Festival.

Written for the traveler who needs information beyond what is provided in a general guidebook, Travel Resources: An Annotated Guide introduces the reader to comprehensive and specialized travel literature and resources. In this book, author Stephen Walker offers practical and accessible direction for anyone seeking detailed and valuable information on travel, while also instructing readers in ways to find information that may not be included in this guide. Organized by topic, each topic begins with information that is useful to new travelers so that anyone can begin with any topic without any previous knowledge of it. However, the book also goes further so as to provide information useful to the seasoned traveler. The wide variety of topics related to travel provide many new and possibly overlooked opportunities, even for veteran travelers, and the works included have been selected because of the depth with which each treats its subject matter, in order to ensure that each resource is of the quality that today's traveler demands.

The ability to learn is of crucial importance in human life, but understanding this ability has proved to be difficult. There have been many attempts to formulate scientific theories based on both animal experiments and human experience; and these have been applied to education and the treatment of psychological disturbance, with a certain amount of success. Originally published in 1984, this incisive guide to the research and its outcomes provides the background to one of the most debated topics in psychology today. Learning Theory and Behaviour Modification introduces the work of major figures, such as Pavlov and Skinner, which has strongly influenced theories in educational and clinical psychology, and formed the basis of the techniques known as ‘behaviour modification’. As well as giving examples of these techniques the author relates new ideas about the scope and limits of behaviour modification to recent changes in the views of learning theorists. How much can experiments on animals tell us about human psychology?

The ability to learn is of crucial importance in human life, but understanding this ability has proved to be difficult. There have been many attempts to formulate scientific theories based on both animal experiments and human experience; and these have been applied to education and the treatment of psychological disturbance, with a certain amount of success. Originally published in 1984, this incisive guide to the research and its outcomes provides the background to one of the most debated topics in psychology today. Learning Theory and Behaviour Modification introduces the work of major figures, such as Pavlov and Skinner, which has strongly influenced theories in educational and clinical psychology, and formed the basis of the techniques known as ‘behaviour modification’. As well as giving examples of these techniques the author relates new ideas about the scope and limits of behaviour modification to recent changes in the views of learning theorists. How much can experiments on animals tell us about human psychology?

Fairground Theory goes behind the scenes of the travelling fair – exploring its design, its atmosphere, and the people and processes that make it happen – in order to develop the first architectural theory of the fair. Even well-known places can be made strange when the fair arrives in town. As visitors to the fair, we are willingly overtaken by the all-round intensity of the environment: loud, fast, bright, busy, and disorientating. Yet the design of the fairground site and its rides – seemingly so anarchic and chaotic – involves extensive considerations which are usually invisible to visitors. This book reveals these considerations, uncovering the relational architecture of events, bodies, networks, and machines which has long constituted the hidden life of the fairground. Combining extensive fieldwork and archival study of travelling fairs in the UK, the study also connects to other examples from around the world – temporary, ephemeral, and permanent architectures from World Expos and pleasure gardens to amusement parks and parades. Deploying event theory, process philosophy, and the work of thinkers including Whitehead, Simondon, and Stengers, Fairground Theory situates fairs – both historic and contemporary – within a sustained theoretical exchange with architectural, urban, social and cultural theory.

Even champions were beginners once. Nobody really knows their potential as a sportsman or woman at the outset. But many people have absolutely no idea how to exercise or train for their chosen sport. Sometimes their coaches are inadeqately trained. Many are well meaning and enthusiastic amateurs, perhaps parents, with no knowledge of exercise physiology, sports psychology or biomechanics. What is biomechanics anyway? As a student Stephen Walker was the victim of such poor standards of sports coaching but this left him with a thirst for knowledge about the building blocks of success. Now, as a successful and still practising athlete and a coach with some 40+ years of experience, Walker has put down on paper what he has learned so you can benefit. This is no academic work with small print and even smaller references. This is your coach speaking to you from the page. "How to Win" spells out for you what you need to know to be successful in your sport - to WIN. And in the final analysis it is all very straight forward and boils down to just one word. But you would be surprised how many people do not realise this and are pursuing fitness training programmes that are actually going to hinder them instead of help them. Do you understand why training with heavy weights would make you slow, for example? If you are engaged in sport in any way, shape or form then you need to know everything that is in "How to Win". Invest now in your future success with this excellent handbook subtitled "The Sports Competitor's Guide to Success".

What do I do now? Every mediator asks themselves this.Answering 50 common ethical, practical and technical problems that arise at mediations, with key practice points highlighted in Q&A format.Topics include:Impartiality: You arrive at the mediation and suddenly realise that you know one of parties. What do you do?Joint Opening Sessions: One side wants one the other doesn't. What do you do?Bad behaviour: One party is secretly recording the mediation. What do you do?Offers: Neither side will make an offer. They both say they want to hear from the other side first. What do you do? Stages covered: Pre-mediationAt the mediationThe End of the Mediation and After Each entry includes:The core issues behind the question Case studies of authentic, anonymized, true-life examples The ethical, legal, procedural and commercial issues highlighted and explained in straightforward languageAdvice on your options: proven tips for immediate useChecklists, sample emails, scripts and templates.Cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

You want to be a mediator, but how do you get started? How do you build your business? How do you make money from being a full-time mediator?Setting Up in Business as a Mediator provides you with the answers to these questions. Whether new to mediation and wanting to start a business as a full-time mediator, or an experienced mediator wanting to develop and grow an existing business, Setting Up in Business as a Mediator has hands-on advice for every stage of a mediator’s career and is full of essential information on how mediators can get started in business and grow their existing practice. Restructured, revised and fully updated the new 2nd edition shows:- How to become accredited- How to find a market- The secrets of a good profile- Hints for great blogging- How to set up a website- The best times to tweet- What not to post on LinkedIn and Facebook- How to overcome objections and rejectionPacked with helpful tips and guidance, checklists, self-audits, templates, scripts and real life examples, this book aims to get mediators thinking, prompting answers to the following questions, and more:- Why are they doing mediation?- How many mediations a year do they want to be doing in three years’ time?- How much money, time and effort do they need to invest to get there?- What do they need to charge?- Why would they choose themselves as a mediator?This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Logical or psycho-logical? Which are we when making decisions and negotiating at mediation?We go to mediation to make peace yet prepare for war. Why? What makes us self-sabotage?Learn which behaviours are obstacles to settlement and how to overcome them. Find out how to apply the latest research in neuroscience, behavioural economics and psychology to achieve better outcomes. Our heads, heartsand guts – which should we use and when?More than an update and discussion of the latest research findings, Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do is experience-based and using that shows how to resolve disputes successfully and cost-effectively.Written from the point of the view of mediators, disputing parties, their advisers and representatives, this new title: Investigates the role of emotions, cognitive biases and intuitions in our mediation behaviour Identifies the behaviours that are barriers to settlement and the ones that are bridges to settlement Shows how they affect the six mediation fundamentals: self, money, power, fairness, truth and trust Explains how to be better at negotiation, risk analysis and persuasion Looks in detail at the psychology of offers - how to make them and how to reject them Explores how mediating online changes the way we do thingsThis book is an indispensable resource for mediators, advocates, representatives - both lawyers and non-lawyers – clients, experts, and anyone involved in conflict and conflict management.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Digital mediation is here to stay, but how do mediators, advisers and clients achieve the same results from digital mediations as they do from face to face mediations? Do new skills and mindsets need to be learnt? Can you build rapport online? Can you read emotions? How do you market online? How do you decide whether it’s the right choice for your dispute? How does digital mediation fit into the world of the Digital Justice System and mandatory mediation? Answering these questions and many more, this is the only book to focus on mediation as opposed to other means of Online Dispute Resolution such as arbitration. This title: - Includes checklists and templates written by a mediator who has conducted over 280 digital mediations- Covers topics including smart systems, ‘smart settle’, the use of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT and mixed media mediations- Teaches mediators, advisers and clients the different skills and mindsets essential to success in the world of digital mediation- Shows how to market mediation online with practical guidance on websites, videos, blogs and podcasts- This book is essential reading for all mediators wishing to adapt to the new norm of digital mediation. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Don't know your BATNA from your WATNA from your ZOPA? Think PATNA is a type of rice? Not sure what Cellar Blindness is? Or what FDRs/DI Ps/ LIPs are? Mediation: An A-Z Guide tells you, distilling practical information, informed comment and useful advice and tips. Over 500 entries provide curated information on practical mediation topics guiding you through the thicket of mediation jargon.Mediation: An A-Z Guide ensures you have no need to feel nervous about mediation because you: will understand what is being said will have the knowledge and confidence to use the buzz wordsWhether you are a mediator, a representative, a client, a lawyer or a nonlawyer you will find what you are looking for.Portable and practical and with an easy-to-read, punchy style and user-friendly format this is more than just a dictionary. Entries follow the same pattern: Topic Heading Definition Comment In practice – bullet points nail the everyday application of the topic See also – for internal cross references Follow up – for further sourcesThis title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.