Books by Richard Walker

Pirate Stories

by Richard Walker

A collection of folktales and legends about pirates includes the story of Robin Hood's encounter with pirates while on vacation at the seashore, the saga of a band of Scottish pirates who attack a monastery, and the spooky tale of a merchant and his servant who discover an abandoned pirate ship.

The Barefoot Book of Pirates (Barefoot Paperback)

by Richard Walker

A collection of folk tales and legends about pirates includes the story of Robin Hood's encounter with pirates while on vacation at the seashore, the saga of a band of Scottish pirates who attack a monastery, and the spooky tale of a merchant and his servant who discover an abandoned pirate ship. Read by Richard Hope. Reprint.

The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body

by Richard Walker

We share our planet with an incredible range of life-millions of species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Although we are the most intelligent of all life-forms, we are, like other creatures, biological machines that walk, feed, drink, and behave. And, in our case, talk, create, think, and remember.
The Human Machine is a splendid and unique guide to the human body and the way it works, a user's manual covering all aspects of the body's activities, including troubleshooting and repairs. On each and every page of this book you can discover everything you need to know and understand about the body's huge range of operations. Like any manual, The Human Machine is highly organized. Check out any aspect of the body machine's workings and you will be presented with clear explanations of what the body does and exactly how it does it. Every page is filled with helpful color illustrations, engaging text, and sidebar boxes that offer a wealth of information: True or False questions to test your knowledge, Top Tips highlighting key information, Rival Products comparing humans to other organisms, as well as Design Features, Additional Data, Web Links, and more.
For all those who want to "look under the hood," The Human Machine offers an innovative and accessible way to explore an incredibly complex and sophisticated piece of engineering-the human body. Young readers will have fun finding out about the body's operating and maintenance systems, and all the key components that make this miraculous machine work so well.

The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

by Richard Walker

Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award

Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008).

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place.

The Bay Area's civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments―Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast―have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations.

This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day.

Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life.

Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.

Kingfisher Knowledge: Human Body

by Richard Walker

This eye-catching book takes readers on a fantastic voyage through human biology using digital illustration and cutting-edge scans and imagery. An introductory chapter details the evolution of Homo sapiens and reveals the body's building blocks―its chemical elements, molecules, and cells. A section on the body in action examines the skeleton and the muscles. The final chapter explains how cells join together to form the organs and body systems that keep us fueled, aware of our surroundings, and free of disease.

Kingfisher Knowledge: Genes and DNA

by Richard Walker, Steve Jones

Genes & DNA explores modern genetics, from an investigation of genes and their function, to forensics, therapy, and cloning.

Human Body (DK/Google E.guides)

by Richard Walker

The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
Completely revised and updated with state-of-the-art imagery, Human Body provides an in-depth look at our incredible bodies and what makes them tick.

Human Body (DK Eyewitness Books)

by Steve Parker, Richard Walker

Text and illustrations present information on the parts of the body and how they work.

Human Body (DK Eyewitness Books)

by Steve Parker, Richard Walker

The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
Completely revised and updated with state-of-the-art imagery, Human Body provides an in-depth look at our incredible bodies and what makes them tick.

One Million Things: Animal Life

by Richard Walker

One Million Things awed young readers with stunning photography of one million things. One MILLION things, right between the covers of a book! Rather than stringing together multiple photos of objects, One Million Things features sweeping single-shots that encompass a multitude of objects, making for a seamless and striking presentation Now, One Million Things: Animal Life uses the One Million Things format to chronicles the lives of animals around the globe.

Human Body (Dk Guide)

by Richard Walker

Illustrates the functions of internal and external parts of the body, including muscles, eyes, the brain, and the heart; and details the processes involved in breathing, moving, fighting disease, and digesting food. Reprint.

Dk Guide to the Human Body (Dk Online)

by Richard Walker

Looks at core topics from many angles, using facts, 3-D models, data boxes, charts, and more, bringing together the best of the Web with DK's outstanding reference books.

Ouch!

by Richard Walker

Follows a tiny camera as it explores the body during a bad day, giving readers information about how the human body reacts to stimuli and performs such basic activities as sneezing, urinating, sweating, and fighting infection.

One Million Things: Human Body

by Richard Walker

Stunning imagery of the many facets of the human body utilizes the latest medical findings to present human anatomy to young readers in the newest addition to the One Million Things series.

Ouch! How Your Body Makes It Through a Very Bad Day

by Richard Walker

Now in paperback! From blistering bee stings to pus-filled pimples, this eye-popping book takes readers on a virtual tour of all of the grossest, gooiest, and most fascinating events that bodies have to endure. Featuring incredible 3-D graphics that reveal the action and body's response in microscopic detail, Ouch! combines kid-friendly gross-out value with cutting-edge anatomical and biological expertise.

How the Incredible Human Body Works . . . By the Brainwaves

by Richard Walker

The Brainwaves, stars of How Nearly Everything Was Invented...by the Brainwaves, take readers on a rollicking, rip-roaring romp around the human body, revealing both its physiological processes and its anatomical makeup.

Secret Worlds: Brain Inner Workings of the Gray Matter

by Richard Walker

Offers an overview of the brain and nervous system, explaining how the brain functions, what can go wrong, and how to keep the brain healthy.

The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders (DK Human Body Guides)

by Steve Parker, Richard Walker

An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes.

This in-depth manual to the human body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is a must-have reference to help further your studies or knowledge of how our bodies work.

Each page of The Human Body Book, updated to reflect the latest medical information, is illustrated with colorful and comprehensive diagrams, which are thoroughly annotated to take you right into the cells and fibers that are responsible for keeping the human body ticking.

The opening chapter, Integrated Body, explains how the parts of the body work together at various levels of size and hierarchy to produce the living whole. It also contains an overview of the major body systems, enlivened by real-life 3-D medical scans of the entire body. The chapters that follow provide coverage of the body function by function, system by system. Eleven main body systems are covered in turn, with each section ending on common injuries, diseases, and disorders afflicting that system. The book concludes with a chapter on Growth and Development which looks in detail at how the body changes over the course of a human lifespan.

The Barefoot Book of Pirates

by Richard Walker

A collection of folktales and legends about pirates includes the story of Robin Hood's encounter with pirates while on vacation at the seashore, the saga of a band of Scottish pirates who attack a monastery, and the spooky tale of a merchant and his servant who discover an abandoned pirate ship. Reprint.

Austria in the European Union Volume 10 (Contemporary Austrian Studies)

by Richard Walker

The cupboards are bare, so Jack's mom sends him to market to sell Daisy the cow. On the way, Jack bumps into a funny little man who offers him six bewitched beans - but the man has lost the instructions for them. Jack loves nothing better than magic and adventure, so he swaps Daisy for the beans and sets off home. And this is just the beginning of his story.

Jack and the Beanstalk PB w CD

by Richard Walker

A boy climbs to the top of a beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to destroy an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune.

Eyewitness Human Body Explore How the Human Body Works

by Richard Walker

Get set to explore your own body from the inside out! This fascinating guide covers everything from the top of your nose to the tips of your toes.

Travel through the amazing human body to learn about the brain center, muscle power, bony frame, pumping heart, and senses hard at work interpreting and understanding our world. 

Processes you take for granted, including breathing and eating, are shown using detailed illustrations and photography and explained alongside incredible facts and figures. As you look through the body, you’ll also learn about the history of our fascination with how the human body works.

This is a fun and interactive guide with lots of infographics, statistics, facts, and timelines. 

Whether you're looking for a body book for homework help, school projects, or just for fun, with Eyewitness: Human Body you'll never look at yourself in the same way again!

Human Body A Visual Encyclopedia

by Ben Morgan, Richard Walker, John Woodward, Shaila Brown

Understand the human body from head to toe with this educational encyclopedia for children.

Get to know how each part of the body works through amazing facts and colorful diagrams in this fully updated edition of the bestselling Human Body A Visual Encyclopedia.

Did you know that you are made up of 100 trillion cells? Learn about blood vessels (capillaries, veins, and arteries) which, if they were laid out end to end, would wrap around the Earth twice! Find out what makes a balanced diet - after all, you will eat about 20 tons of food in your entire life!

This human body book for kids offers:

• How the body works, looking at body parts and functions like bones and muscles, heart and blood, disease defenses, the life cycle, and much more.
• A human body encyclopedia that is suitable and informative for children aged 9+.
• A refreshed and updated edition, including a new design and the latest facts and stats on the human body.