Politician, peacemaker, persuader: John Hume was a titan of Irish history – a tireless architect of the Good Friday Agreement who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending decades of conflict in Northern Ireland. But who was the real John Hume? What motivated the former history teacher to reach beyond political lines? What sustained him during the bloodiest years of violence? How did he impel the IRA to end its long-running campaign? How did he convince presidents and prime min...

You have never read anything like this in your life. A truly remarkable comic debut.If you put Mel Brooks, Eddie Izzard, Spike Milligan, and Salvador Dali around a table in an enclosed room with no lights and a few cylinders of Nitrous Oxide fizzing away in the corner and asked them to write a book, they might have come up with Danny Yates Must Die. But why bother when Stephen Walker can do it unaided?It follows the adventures of sad Danny Yates on the run from the Great Os...

In Ireland's Call BBC journalist Stephen Walker charts the fascinating stories of 40 Irishmen who swapped the sports field for the battlefield - household names who gave up their blossoming careers to volunteer for the Great War.Using rare archive letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, this compelling book features the stories of sportsmen whose lives were tragically cut short in the mud of the Somme, the despair of Ypres and the heat of Gallipoli. It chronicles the remarkable ach...

If you are new to interviewing or simply want a fresh perspective on how to go through the process of assessing candidates, this is a perfect guide for you.

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 ma...

Man needs HIS God to justify HIS actions. He creates HIS God in HIS own imperfect image. Everyone MUST give praise be to the God of Abraham

A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the World War II bombing of Hiroshima, from early testing to the cataclysmic event and its aftermath.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, i...

From Carefree To Deep Despair To New LifeI thought country-club living at home in Long Island during college, with no job or accountability, was the perfect life. Then came a trip to Africa during the Congo revolutions in a small search and rescue plane with my pilot uncle. I faced imminent death four times, and a girl I arranged to go on the other plane died. That started a 9-year downhill spiral.Back in the States, it was one illness and surgery after another, and two mor...

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 f...

Some Parts Can't Be ReplacedWhen Gavin's past catches up with him, Merry and her team infiltrate an Enhancement hub to try to get them to back off. The operation unravels fast, leading them deep into the secret heart of the Corporation. What they find is worse than anything they imagined: laboratories where human beings are harvested for profit and discarded the moment their usefulness ends.Nothing is wasted. Not even the dead.With the facility on a...

Merry Whistler has survived the corporations, the gangs, and the endless violence of Cowbridge.She should have known that wasn't enough.Drugged and dumped in the frozen Brecon Beacons alongside her closest allies, Merry finds herself hunted by professionals who know exactly how she thinks, how she moves, and how she survives. Every shelter is a trap. Every escape route is a funnel. Every step forward is one they've already predicted.At the center of it all is Keane—...

End of Ten is the comprehensive guide to the Doctor Who specials transmitted at the end of 2008 and through 2009, culminating in the dramatic regeneration of the tenth Doctor (David Tennant) into the eleventh (Matt Smith) on 1 January 2010.All five specials are covered, along with the associated major news stories, press releases, casting announcements and critical response to the episodes. The return of the Cybermen and their CyberKing; a desolate sandy planet that hides a deadly ...