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Countdown to Hiroshima

by Stephen Walker ...

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
David Trimble: Peacemaker

by Stephen Walker ...

Nobel laureate, party leader, peacemaker, first minister and statesman – David Trimble had many roles. But what is the real story behind the man who made headlines and changed lives?In this definitive biography of Trimble's life and death, award-winning journalist Stephen Walker vividly details how a shy Belfast academic changed the political landscape of Northern Ireland.Written with the ... Read more

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Nobel laureate, party leader, peacemaker, first minister and statesman – David Trimble had many roles. But what is the real story behind the man who made headlines and changed lives?In this definitive biography of Trimble's life and death, award-winning journalist Stephen Walker vividly details how a shy Belfast academic changed the political landscape of Northern Ireland.Written with the
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Talkback: The Seventies

The Unofficial and Unauthorised Doctor Who Interview Book

by Stephen James Walker ...

Series Book 2 - Talkback
An incredible collection of interviews with the people behind the early years of the BBC’s classic science fiction adventure series Doctor Who. From directors to designers, producers, story editors, writers and cast, all are featured in this latest addition to Telos’s acclaimed range of factual books about Doctor Who.This volume includes interviews with actors Jon Pertwee (the Doctor), Katy ... Read more

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An incredible collection of interviews with the people behind the early years of the BBC’s classic science fiction adventure series Doctor Who. From directors to designers, producers, story editors, writers and cast, all are featured in this latest addition to Telos’s acclaimed range of factual books about Doctor Who.This volume includes interviews with actors Jon Pertwee (the Doctor), Katy
... Read more
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Ruger

by Lane Hart, D.B. West ...

Narrated by Stephen Borne, Walker Williams ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Savage Kings MC - Virginia
Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

Ruger James Fulton is used to being confused. After barely graduating from high school, RJ took his one marketable skill and opened up an auto shop in town. Cars have always made sense to him, while the rest of the world makes him feel like an idiot.The one thing he never had to think twice about was his sexuality until one night during a chance encounter with a biker from a rival MC. All it takes ... Read more

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Ruger James Fulton is used to being confused. After barely graduating from high school, RJ took his one marketable skill and opened up an auto shop in town. Cars have always made sense to him, while the rest of the world makes him feel like an idiot.The one thing he never had to think twice about was his sexuality until one night during a chance encounter with a biker from a rival MC. All it takes
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Beyond

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

by Stephen Walker ...

A history of the 1961 space race between the US & USSR and Yuri Gagarin's flight into space—"High definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched" ( Sunday Times (London))." 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 sometime... ... Read more

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A history of the 1961 space race between the US & USSR and Yuri Gagarin's flight into space—"High definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched" ( Sunday Times (London))." 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 sometime...
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Repo Virtual

by Corey J. White ...

Narrated by Stephen Walker ...

Series series
Unabridged

11 hours 28 min

Corey J. White's debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are ... Read more

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Corey J. White's debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are
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Making a Monster

by Stephen Walker ...

Peter Pouley is a very ordinary man who is tricked into becoming the main suspect of a drug related double murder. He escapes arrest, witnesses another murder and avoids being killed by the birth of the monster inside himself. This alternate ego develops its own strengths and behaviours, and grows stronger when there is any form of stress.After the murders of his ex-wife and his son, Peter cannot ... Read more

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Peter Pouley is a very ordinary man who is tricked into becoming the main suspect of a drug related double murder. He escapes arrest, witnesses another murder and avoids being killed by the birth of the monster inside himself. This alternate ego develops its own strengths and behaviours, and grows stronger when there is any form of stress.After the murders of his ex-wife and his son, Peter cannot
... Read more
The Television Companion Vol 1: The Unofficial and Unauthorised guide to Doctor Who

by Stephen James Walker, David J Howe ...

Series Book 1 - The Television Companion
Everything you ever wanted to know about the classic era of the cult BBC television series Doctor Who (1963-1996) is contained in the two-volume set The Television Companion. Volume 1 covers the stories of the first three Doctors, portrayed by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee.The essential companion for every trip you will ever take into the TV universe of classic Doctor Who. ... Read more

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the classic era of the cult BBC television series Doctor Who (1963-1996) is contained in the two-volume set The Television Companion. Volume 1 covers the stories of the first three Doctors, portrayed by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee.The essential companion for every trip you will ever take into the TV universe of classic Doctor Who.
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Among Cannibals (Unabridged)

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by Carl Lumholtz ...

Narrated by Michelle Zimmer, Stephen Walker, Marian Kinneman, Steven Woods ...

Unabridged

12 hours 48 min

From 1880-1883, the author undertook an academic expedition to Australia, with the purpose of recording zoological phenomena. While there, he developed an interest in the indigenous people and, unlike contemporary studies, did not restrict himself to appearance and outward behavior, but rather looked at the social, economic and anthropological. ... Read more

$4.99 USD

From 1880-1883, the author undertook an academic expedition to Australia, with the purpose of recording zoological phenomena. While there, he developed an interest in the indigenous people and, unlike contemporary studies, did not restrict himself to appearance and outward behavior, but rather looked at the social, economic and anthropological.
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No way to behave at a funeral - a tale of personal loss through suicide

by Noel Braun ...

Narrated by Stephen Walker ...

Unabridged

7 hours 7 min

This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression.The abrupt ending of a life by suicide can be the most catastrophic of events for those left behind. Survivors experience intense pain and massive guilt. Grief banishes survivors to a place so removed from the normal hurly-burly of everyday life that they feel close to ... Read more

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This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression.The abrupt ending of a life by suicide can be the most catastrophic of events for those left behind. Survivors experience intense pain and massive guilt. Grief banishes survivors to a place so removed from the normal hurly-burly of everyday life that they feel close to
... Read more
Education and Social Change

Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
This book, first published in 1985, argues that changes in the education system are closely bound up with wider social and political changes. It considers items within education such as developments in teacher assessment policy and changes in the control of education policy; and external items such as new directions in the management of the economy, of class relations and of the political system. ... Read more

$54.99 USD

This book, first published in 1985, argues that changes in the education system are closely bound up with wider social and political changes. It considers items within education such as developments in teacher assessment policy and changes in the control of education policy; and external items such as new directions in the management of the economy, of class relations and of the political system.
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Forgotten Soldiers

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

by Stephen Walker ...

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, ... Read more

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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,
... Read more

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