This is not your typical brain book And that's a good thing.

How To Be Brilliant - Brainpower For Kids makes helping your child develop intelligence simple, easy, fun, practical, and doable. That means you've got this, and so has your child.

Other books, and experts with letters after their names, would have you believe helping your child develop and use intelligence is best left to them. It's the brain your kid was born with for crying out loud. Using it shouldn't be complicated. And, it's not

Be warned, though. If you're looking for groundbreaking research, secret methods, and the scientific ramblings of academic types, this is not the book for you.

If you're looking for ways that are practical, doable, that work, and have stood the test of time, clear some space on your bathroom bookshelf (or in your little reader thingy) and get ready to make it happen

You can teach your child to be smarter, much smarter.
Really, it's not complicated. You can do this.
Your child already has a brilliant mind.
Yup, your child's brain is as capable as any other brain.
You don't need groundbreaking new methods.
Most of that stuff is too complex to use or it's worthless bunk.
Child memory development is easy.
It's a natural part of becoming more intelligent.
Focus and attention span are easy to improve.
We will throw a bunch of common sense on this subject.
The right way to do quiet time.
No It's not about isolation and silence.
The quick truth about IQ.
What you need to know about IQ and IQ tests.
Learn about the enemies of intelligence and how to avoid them.
Hint: School will never make your child intelligent. Yes, you read that right.
Learn how your child can perform well in school and be intelligent too.
That left-brain, right-brain stuff is irrelevant.
Really, it's mostly useless bunk.
The truth about delaying gratification.
Yeah, it is important, but it's much different than you've been led to believe.
The power of teaching your child simple stuff.
The easiest way to be brilliant.
Why you should teach your young child the high-level stuff.
Give your kid a head start and a strong dose of brilliance.

How To Be Brilliant - Brainpower For Kids is a plain-spoken, ever so slightly entertaining primer on how to help children develop and maintain their brilliance. These are the basics that apply mostly to the early years but are essential for any age. Much of the content flies right in the face of some of the bunk that you've been led to believe. That might be a little tough on your digestion, but it's what you need to hear.

Everything in this book is based on how your child's brain is designed to work. The brain in your child's head has everything needed for brilliance. All we need to do is show you how to naturally light it up.

This is brainpower made easy to understand and easy to put to work in your life and your child's life. It's even fun, and it's never an interruption to your day (or your kid's day).

Oh, and if you're looking for one of those boring textbook-like books that doubles as a sleep aid, this one isn't for you either. It's not going to win any humor awards, but it isn't going to bore you to tears either.

A thought experiment is an instrument of the imagination, employed for many purposes-to entertain, educate, explore, or hypothesize. In response to a pandemic and social unrest, David Howell decided to begin such an experiment. He wanted to see what would happen if he became as serene as possible. He set out regularly on his bicycle to parks near his home just to sit still, eventually ritualizing the activity until it became a habit. The result is The Serenity Experiment, a book of reflections on the impact serenity can have on the self as it relates to surroundings and community.

As British headlines daily question Britain's role in the new world order, Lord Howell of Guildford presents a timely retrospective of collected essay sthat present an overarching view of the role of the Commonwealth in modern global history.

These farsighted essays, many featured in the mainstream media over the years, are edited here with fresh insights that present a well-informed proposal for a reinvigorated Commonwealth and a new paradigm in the way Britain sees its global position for the future.

David Howell has been at the center of British government and international affairs for nearly half a century, and his new book is a true insider's account of his storied career within the British political sphere. Look Where We're Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics looks afresh at the ideas, hopes, lessons, and largely unintended consequences of successive generations of political leaders to show us how to exhibit genuine political foresight--in other words, how to look where we're going.

Based on his vast personal experiences--Howell is the only person to have served on the administrations of British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, and David Cameron--the author gives us a novel picture of the dramas deep inside government and how yesterday's clashes of ideology and personality have led to today's unanticipated turmoil. Old assumptions are torn apart and accepted versions of what occurred are quickly unraveled. Furthermore, Howell shows us how technology has made much of our conventional political vocabulary obsolete, and how we now need quite different types of leadership serving new priorities to remedy such outmoded methodologies. Howell concludes that while we wrestle with the important issues before our eyes, even bigger forces are at work reshaping our lives and our future.

Look Where We're Going is a book of revelation and revolution, as told by someone uniquely positioned within the complex and often tangled realm of British politics. Also included is a foreword by the Lord Speaker, Norman Fowler.

Former British Police Sergeant, David Howell, shares his experiences of serving the public and describes the struggles he faced when trying to question leaders on their decisions. In this book, he shows that embracing cognitive diversity is the way for workplaces to create a thriving workforce, foster more psychological safe environments, combat bullying and help promote better leadership.

When a cat burglar steals a thermo-nuclear weapon from a terrorist burlesque show, all hell breaks loose in Freedom City, U.S.A. and its up to Captain Capone and his Freedom Security Squad to retrieve the bomb, even if they have to arrest everybody. Meanwhile, as the whole town goes on lock down, the missing weapon of mass destruction ends up in the hands of nuclear physicist (and German Expressionist) Doctor Rotten who intends to dismantle the deadly prop. However, before his ambitious plan to save the world is realized, the bomb is pinched once again. This time, the doomsday devise becomes an altarpiece for a cult of sentient rodents who wish to destroy the human race, thus promoting the common vermin to the top of the food chain. Will the forces of freedom and good intentions find the bomb before its too late? Keep on reading!

Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class. They built their trade unions in the face of employer hostility and their organisations played a crucial role in the construction of effective labour politics. Local political organisations owed much to the patience and creativity of railway workers, not least in small towns and country districts. Respectable Radicals uses rich archival sources to analyse this history through a series of case studies. It focuses, among other topics, on disasters, strikes, the modernisation policies of companies, inter-union rivalries and the promises and frustrations of labour politics. A dominant theme is the complex relationship between changing experiences of work, shifting trade union strategies and political identities. The result is a new perspective on a significant sector of trade unionism and on the character of labour politics from the 1890s to the 1950s.

The Labour Party became a major political force during the 1920s. For many the party's enhanced status was associated closely with its leader, Ramsay MacDonald. This study offers a uniquely detailed analysis of Labour in the 1920s based on a wide variety of unpublished sources. Thorough scholarship and distinctive interpretation combine to provide an important examination of a major episode in twentieth- century history.

In an international landscape, where emerging newly empowered states are projecting economic and political challenges from Asia, Africa and Latin America, countries like Britain have to redefine roles for themselves in a new order that has reshaped the world. These new roles, as envisaged by David Howell, will rely far more on connectivities and fluid networks than on geographically defined blocs. How will Britain fare in this entirely new international landscape? With power and influence shifting to the developing world, and with a growing network of hyper-connections and communications between nations, Britain is already fundamentally repositioned. In this context, Howell presents a unique solution: engage with and re-energise the existing Commonwealth network of nations which is bound together by history and cultural connections. Emphasising the importance of soft power in the digital age, the author argues against the restrictions posed by traditional blocs and for the dynamism which Commonwealth linkages offer.
Challenging traditionally accepted economic and political theories, Howell presents a unique new perspective on international and diplomatic relations in the twenty-first century.

Former British Prime Minister best known for the creation of the National Health Service.

Conservation research in libraries is a rapidly growing field. This book places analysis within its context in conservation and provides examples of how this expensive resource can be used. Through a series of case studies, it describes major analytical procedures, including visualization, molecular, elemental and separation techniques as well as chemical tests. It is thus a suitable reference work for library conservators and curators.

Please note: Despite careful production of our books, sometimes mistakes happen. Unfortunately, the authorship for some chapters wasn't correct in the original publication. Chapter 5 was written by Andrew Beeby and David Howell as co-author, chapter 6 by Kelly Domoney and David Howell as co-author, and chapter 9 is authored by Anita Quye. This will be corrected. We apologize for the mistake.

This book can be described as a travelogue of my life. It is a collection of recollections and stories of my life from my third birthday until my seventieth year. Most of the stories are amusing, often irreverent. They span the globe and I believe the reader will find it entertaining.