Unleash the power inside your own body to transform your lifeSemen Retention is a centuries-old practice that allows you to harness your body's vital energy and redirect it to any area of your life.From achieving the perfect body to outstanding results in business and creative endeavours, semen retention can turbocharge your success.Now modern science is backing up this ancient practice and showing how it can:Increase productivity & mo...

What kind of teacher are you? What values, beliefs and principles do successful teachers have and how do they sustain these in the face of challenging pupil behaviour?In this timely book, Stephen Baker contends that rigid punishment systems weaponize young people's defiance against them and that punishment doesn't work. He believes that teachers need to take responsibility for behaviour and to lead it, not just 'manage' it, that we need to love the kids (even if we don't like them)...

What kind of teacher are you? What values, beliefs and principles do successful teachers have and how do they sustain these in the face of challenging pupil behaviour? In this timely book, Stephen Baker contends that rigid punishment systems weaponize young people's defiance against them and that punishment doesn't work. He believes that teachers need to take responsibility for behaviour and to lead it, not just 'manage' it, that we need to love the kids (even if we don't like them), that ...

An Odyssey for the twenty-first century, an unforgettable literary fiction novel about fathers and sons, homecoming and the power of nature_________________________'Glittering prose' GUARDIAN'Genuine tenderness' FINANCIAL TIMES'A real page-turner' ***** READER REVIEW_________________________Yan is a compulsive gambler whose wanderlust leads him on a chain of adventures across th...

Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world's cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives.Human mobility, dominated for a century by cars and trucks, is facing a dramatic transformation. Over the next decade, new networked devices, from electric bikes to fleets of autonomous cars, will change the way we move. They w...

'Mainstream diet advice is making you fat, sick and depressed. Achieve glowing health and a sculpted body with the foods your body was designed to eat' - Stephen BakerIn this well-researched and professionally presented book, veteran health writer Stephen Baker shows you how everything you've been told about fat is wrong; why carbs and sugar are slowly killing you; how you can regain your health NOW through a natural meat-based diet. You will learn...

In Ireland, it is said that people with notions are acting above their station and with a misplaced sense of their own importance. Certainly, working-class academics often feel out of place at work, caught somewhere between where they come from and where they are now. To be at once working class and an academic is seemingly paradoxical, since the career assumes a moving away from one’s origins. That transition, if it is made at all, is seldom straightforward.A series of autoethnogr...

"The Canine population of the United States is about 25 million. Out of this, about 25 million can be classified as neurotic—a conservative estimate."For the millions of dog-owners seeking a solution to this distressing problem—"Faced with the complications and contradictions of modern society, today's dog becomes a neurotic. At every turn, his prime life forces—the need to eat and sleep—are thwarted. Instinct pushes him towards satisfying this hunger; sleep is necessary to i...

Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this "utterly fascinating" look at the growth of data mining and analysis ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer).Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the "global math elite": computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don't need to be online to create a digital trail; we do it simply by driving through a...

On Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972, British paratroopers killed thirteen innocent men in Derry. It was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated. The horror was recorded in newspapers and photographs, on TV news and current affairs and in film and TV drama. In a cross media analysis that spans a period of almost forty years up to the publication of the Saville Report in 2010, The British Media and Bloody Sunda...

When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007, a chapter was closed on Northern Ireland’s troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemies together – and the media played a significant role in persuading the public to accept this startling change. The Propaganda of Peace places their role in a wider cultural context and ex...

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry.Where else but the doctor’s office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in other industries drives prices down, but in health care it’s the reverse? And why, in health care, is the customer so often treated as a mere bystander—and an ignorant one at that?...