Stephen Walker

“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 Road 09.07 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.

The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

Beyond

A 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 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.

Countdown to Hiroshima

Shockwave

Die faszinierende Geschichte vom ersten Flug in den Weltraum

Ins All

Danny Yates Must Die

On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, the first atomic bomb detonated as expected, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. But if the bombing of Hiroshima represents one of the signal events of the twentieth centu

Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation is a practical, how to book. It is aimed at those who attend mediations as representatives, clients, experts or mediators and is based on actual experience as a mediator, lawyer, representative and client. It shows people how to get the best of the mediation process by explaining the process, step by step from the initial consideration of mediation to settlement. It also includes chapters on risk analysis and negotiating strategies. Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation deals with civil and commercial mediation and also with family, work place and community and highlights the similarities between these, which are often underestimated as well the the key differences. It contains checklists, charts, bullet pints summaries and FAQs.

Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation

The use of digital mediation has increased over recent years, but is it becoming the new norm? How do mediators, advisers and clients get the same results out of digital mediations as they do from face to face mediations? Do new skills and mindsets need to be learnt? 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? Answering these questions and many more FAQs this is the only book to focus on mediation as opposed to other means of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) such as arbitration. Covering topics including smart systems, smart settle, use of AI, and mixed media mediations, it teaches mediators, advisers and clients the different skills and mindsets they need to be successful in the new world of digital mediation. Experience-based and full of checklists and flowcharts this book is written by a mediator who has conducted over 200 digital mediations. Highlighting the differences between how mediations are held now and pre-pandemic, the book provides a clear message - digital mediation is here to stay and everyone involved must adapt to it making this book essential reading for all mediators. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Digital Mediation

Are you getting the best out of mediation? Written by an active practising mediator, Mediation Advocacy: Representing and Advising Clients in Mediation takes you inside the mediation process, from the initial consideration of mediation to settlement and beyond. Drawing on current practical experience and the latest behaviour research in clear readable language it deals with the legal, financial, psychological and practical dimensions of mediation. A 'how to do it' guide for anyone attending mediations as representatives, clients, experts or mediators, the fully revised, restructured and updated Second Edition includes: - New chapters on: -- Cross cultural issues – what to say and do and what not to say and do. With examples that you can use -- Online Mediation – explains the differences when mediating by phone or via a video link. Tips and tricks to help you get started -- Developing your practice as a mediation advocate: people are making money as specialists. Learn how to do it - Increased emphasis on how to conduct a negotiation in mediations - Expanded chapters on mind traps and the effect of cognitive biases on decision-making - New material on how to speak and present at mediations. Includes exercises to put you in the right mental and physical state on the day - Improved visuals and flow charts - Worked examples of risk analysis - Updated scripts for advocates and clients to use in joint sessions - Dedicated sections on self-advocacy – for those who are going to mediation without their lawyer

Representing and Advising Clients in Mediation

Mediation Advocacy

FAQs for Mediators provides the answers to 50 common ethical, practical and technical problems faced by mediators. It presents the key mediation practice points in an easy to use Questions and Answers format. All the questions have arisen out of actual mediations and cover a wide range of topics including:Impartiality - When you arrive at the mediation you suddenly realise that you know one of the parties/their lawyers. What do you do?Joint Opening Sessions - One side wants a Joint Opening Session the other doesn't. What do you do?Bad behavior - One party is secretly recording what is going on in 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? Covering all mediation stages, 'Pre-mediation', 'At the mediation' and 'The End of the Mediation and After', each entry includes: � The core issues pertinent to each of the questions that need to be considered.� Case studies illustrating the question and putting it into a real life setting. All the cases studies are authentic, anonymised, true life examples of problems you can face at any time as a mediator.� The ethical, legal, procedural and commercial issues highlighted and explained in straightforward language. � Advice on options that are available to you. Proven tips that you can use immediately in your mediation practice. Supported by checklists and sample emails, scripts and templates. Helpful cross-references to cases, protocols, codes of conduct and precedents are also included. Written in a user friendly style for both non-lawyer and lawyer mediators FAQs for Mediators will increase your confidence in handling the dilemmas and problems all mediators face. If there is one thing that all mediators need it is confidence!

FAQs for Mediators

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 words Whether 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 sources

Mediation: An A-Z Guide

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 rejection Packed 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?

Setting Up in Business as a Mediator

The story of the bombing of Hiroshima presented in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, both in the air and on the ground British feature and documentary director Stephen Walker tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a way only a filmmaker can—not as a dry history of the sad, regrettable, mission, but as an immediate and perilous drama. Walker has extensively interviewed American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors that were involved in the bombing, and thus is able to tell the story through truly alive-on-the-page characters. The result is a narrative that—without either trivializing the tragedy of the bombing or ignoring its importance in WWII’s end—tells the real story of why and how one of the most important events of the 20th century took place. Shockwave might not change anyone’s opinion about the justification of the Hiroshima bombing, but it will provide readers with an unprecedented viewpoint that is sure to educate and enthrall its audience.

Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad. From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, Forgotten Soldiers traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by their own side. For decades the full story of how the Irishmen died has largely remained a secret, but now one of the most controversial chapters in British military history can at last be told. In 2006 the British government finally pardoned those soldiers who were shot at dawn. Forgotten Soldiers is the first book to chronicle how relatives and campaigners fought to clear the men's names.

The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War

Forgotten Soldiers

Known for, & even overshadowed by, his brutal & spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. In this book, Walker considers the broad range of Matta-Clark's ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions & from performance art & installation to drawing, film & video.

Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism

Gordon Matta-Clark

Known 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 for the artist's ambivalent relationship with the architectural heritage he is often claimed to disavow, thus making this the first book to extrapolate Matta-Clark's thinking beyond its immediate context.Walker considers the broad range of Matta-Clark's ephemeral practice, from montage to actual interventions and from performance art and installation to drawing, film and video. Bringing to the fore the consistent themes and issues explored through this broad range of media, and in particular the complex notion of the 'discreet violation', he reveals the continued relevance of Matta-Clark's artistic and theoretical oeuvre to the reception of artistic and architectural work today.

A revolutionary new alternative-investment approach that protects investors from another meltdown High-net-worth investors are allocating about 20% of assets into alternative investment strategies—up from 3% in 2000 Walker was named one of Barron's 2009 Top 1,000 Advisers and one of the Top 25 Wealth Advisers by the Philadelphia Business Journal He worked for Alex.Brown, which took Starbucks and Microsoft public

Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital

Tatjana Schneider

Doina Petrescu

Renata Tyszczuk

Florian Kossak

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of architectural research as an agency of transformation, this book explores how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs.

Working With Uncertain Architectures

Agency

In January 1998, 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. Over six months, he met literally hundreds of film-makers from all over the world. King of Cannes is his riotously funny account of those six months, a rollercoaster ride through the nether regions of the movie business which culminates at Cannes, the most important - and the most glamorous - film festival in the world.

A Journey Into the Underbelly of the Movies

King of Cannes

AusAID Staff Remember the Kuningan Bombing

Theblast Flowed Like Water

Len Barton

"Presentations made at the fifth Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982" -- introd.

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