Fun Scientific/Technical: PDF only – Nicholas Walker https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk Bestselling author, scientist, teacher, dance and karate instructor Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:49:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/nick-100x100.jpg Fun Scientific/Technical: PDF only – Nicholas Walker https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk 32 32 A Teen Guide To Sex https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/a-teen-guide-to-sex/ Fri, 23 May 2025 10:20:50 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=820 Sex education is mandatory in United Kingdom State Schools and the same for most states in the USA. The fact is that you will have more than likely been receiving some kind of sex education since the age of eleven and often from a lot younger.

Now I was brought up in the Sixties when we were all supposed to be having sex but we never had any Sex Ed at all…even in Biology all we did was the reproductive cycle of the rabbit and then the nice lady teacher read an embarrassed list of the sexual differences between human beings and rabbits. We were supposed to learn everything behind the bike sheds so you can imagine just how wrong most of us got it!

The most salient fact still comes from towards the end of the last century when sex education was banned from schools in Wales…the teenage pregnancy rate went through the roof, in fact it became the highest in Europe!

So, the chances are you will have been receiving Sex Ed before you had your first real bike so you should know all about it? Yes? I’m the Science teacher who usually ends up teaching Sex Ed and I can tell you they’ve all got it wrong, they are all just as mystified, just as frightened as we were back in the Swinging Sixties!

So, everybody knows that the man puts his penis inside the woman’s vagina and ejaculates and that will cause a baby to grow, yes, they do all know that. But how does he do that? What does she do? How do they prevent her becoming pregnant? Does doing it standing up prevent pregnancy? Does she have to have an orgasm to become pregnant?

Two friends of mine during the age of free love, the Sixties, on their honeymoon sat on the bed all night long crying they were so scared. They later on had two daughters so I guess it all worked out in the end.

This book is intended to take all that worry away, to explain everything from achieving your first real kiss to your first orgasm.

]]> Kicking the Crap Out of the Martial Arts https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/kicking-the-crap-out-of-the-martial-arts-3/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:37:55 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=533 This book is an analysis of the Martial Arts by a serious scientist and teacher. Nick Walker (Ph.D. MPhil. Dr.Ed. (AU) BA (Hons) (OU) BSc. (Hons) (OU) BSc.Ed (Hons) (Exon) NASM 6th Dan Karate AMA 1st Dan Jiu Jitsu) has been teaching Karate for over thirty years and is the founder and Chief Instructor of Kernow Karate the most successful independent martial arts organisation in the world. He is also a High School teacher and University Professor and is highly qualified in science. He has a degree from The National Academy of Sports Medicine in California and is a licensed fitness coach, a registered weight training instructor and a insured personal trainer. Nick makes his living by writing bestselling novels and now, despairing of all the pseudo nonsense that pervades the martial arts, all the old wives’ tales and nonsense science that damage the sport, Nick has finally responded by writing this non-fiction book so that other instructors who are genuinely interested in the science of the martial arts can bring themselves up to date…to become a Kernow Karate instructor you have to know all that is in this book! Nick takes all the basics and applies basic science to them: the stances, do they work? The Warm Up, is it necessary? What does it do? How to make your kicks and punches more powerful. How to break, how to do the Three Inch Punch, how to stretch. Does breathing matter? How does shouting effect the blow? He then goes on to explore how to improve martial arts moves: how to make your kicks and punches faster. How to make them harder. How to anticipate when an opponent is going to hit you and where. Proper scientific training techniques that the Olympic athletes all use. In the last third of the book Nick discusses the teaching of sport, the techniques and strategies that professional teachers have spent four years of university learning and he shows how most instructors are wasting the majority of their lesson time. He attempts to bring our most researched skill (education) into the martial arts: what is the attention span of an eight year old boy? What is the attention span of an eight year old girl? How best to teach a move…show it? Talk about it? Do it? Read about it? The answers will surprise and probably horrify those of you who are not professional teachers. He shows how to discipline, how to dominate a class without getting them to hate you, how mere body language can freeze an entire room. How to keep the members interested and the kids coming. And lastly, he shows you the dangers of teaching sport: how certain moves can injure a child but not an adult. Long term damage of the body. How to recognise certain illnesses and how to cope with them. How to protect yourself from inappropriate allegations. A serious book, written in a very light hearted, easy to read manner…an essential aid to anyone who wants to become a good instructor.

]]> Dieting is for Idiots https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/dieting-is-for-idiots-2/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:41:15 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=515 In the last twenty years weight loss has become one of the largest industries in the Western World. In America it is calculated that by the end of 2014 the weight loss industry will be worth $61 billion (Market Data), that is over £40 billion. It is a little more difficult to calculate the amount for Britain because so many companies are based in Europe but overall it is estimated (Metro) that the global market will reach $220 billion by the year 2017. That is over £130 billion! Or: £130,000,000,000! Someone’s getting rich! But it’s not us, we’re just getting fat. When you think about it, it’s a bit odd isn’t it? We get overweight because we buy too much food, everybody knows that, then big companies come along and want to charge us so we don’t buy so much. They couldn’t do that could they? You bet they could! These are a list of the top five companies in the field, see how many you recognize: Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Slim-Fast, and Beachbody. Now they might well be run by good, kind hearted people who are genuinely concerned with our health and the way we feel about ourselves, but if they are then they sure as hell seem to be getting paid well for it. A more cynical person than me might put forward the theory that it is in these companies’ best interests to encourage us to diet, then to keep on failing so we have to go on buying their products. and services…but, I’ve always been one of life’s innocents.

]]> 120 Lesson Plans From Kernow Karate https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/120-lesson-plans-from-kernow-karate/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:31:28 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=512 Kernow Karate was created by Dr Nicholas Walker over thirty years ago and has become the most successful Martial Arts club in Britain. Creating a style based on fitness and self-defence with a strong scientific pedigree Nicholas has started up clubs all over the country which are continuing to flourish to this day.

Constantly striving to create interesting lessons with innovative training methods has added to the success of Kernow Karate.

These are 120 of the best of Nick’s lesson plans which promise to be: the latest in scientific knowledge, very beneficial for fitness, and most of all fun!

 

 

]]> Kicking the Crap Out of the Martial Arts! https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/kicking-the-crap-out-of-the-martial-arts-2/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:21:19 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=509 This book is an analysis of the Martial Arts by a serious scientist and teacher. Nick Walker (Ph.D. MPhil. Dr.Ed. (AU) BA (Hons) (OU) BSc. (Hons) (OU) BSc.Ed (Hons) (Exon) NASM 6th Dan Karate AMA 1st Dan Jiu Jitsu) has been teaching Karate for over thirty years and is the founder and Chief Instructor of Kernow Karate the most successful independent martial arts organisation in the world. He is also a High School teacher and University Professor and is highly qualified in science. He has a degree from The National Academy of Sports Medicine in California and is a licensed fitness coach, a registered weight training instructor and a insured personal trainer. Nick makes his living by writing bestselling novels and now, despairing of all the pseudo nonsense that pervades the martial arts, all the old wives’ tales and nonsense science that damage the sport, Nick has finally responded by writing this non-fiction book so that other instructors who are genuinely interested in the science of the martial arts can bring themselves up to date…to become a Kernow Karate instructor you have to know all that is in this book! Nick takes all the basics and applies basic science to them: the stances, do they work? The Warm Up, is it necessary? What does it do? How to make your kicks and punches more powerful. How to break, how to do the Three Inch Punch, how to stretch. Does breathing matter? How does shouting effect the blow? He then goes on to explore how to improve martial arts moves: how to make your kicks and punches faster. How to make them harder. How to anticipate when an opponent is going to hit you and where. Proper scientific training techniques that the Olympic athletes all use. In the last third of the book Nick discusses the teaching of sport, the techniques and strategies that professional teachers have spent four years of university learning and he shows how most instructors are wasting the majority of their lesson time. He attempts to bring our most researched skill (education) into the martial arts: what is the attention span of an eight year old boy? What is the attention span of an eight year old girl? How best to teach a move…show it? Talk about it? Do it? Read about it? The answers will surprise and probably horrify those of you who are not professional teachers. He shows how to discipline, how to dominate a class without getting them to hate you, how mere body language can freeze an entire room. How to keep the members interested and the kids coming. And lastly, he shows you the dangers of teaching sport: how certain moves can injure a child but not an adult. Long term damage of the body. How to recognise certain illnesses and how to cope with them. How to protect yourself from inappropriate allegations. A serious book, written in a very light hearted, easy to read manner…an essential aid to anyone who wants to become a good instructor.

]]> Getting to Grips With Grammar Two https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/getting-to-grips-with-grammar-two-2/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:44:59 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=505 All those niggling little grammar problems that always worried you explained in an easy fun way.

]]> Dieting is for Idiots https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/dieting-is-for-idiots/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:43:38 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=333 When Nicholas Walker was 18 he weighed over 18 stone (250 lbs) and was a wrestler and rugby player. He changed his life and took over 6 stone (85 +lbs) off and now over 40 years later he still weighs in at 12 stone (160 lbs). This book tells you how he did it. Written by a best-selling author who is also a serious research scientist, Dr Nick rips the top of the dieting world and shows how the major dieting companies are conning you, how their intention is to ensure you fail and fail again so that you keep on purchasing their products. He then goes on to analyse the science behind your body shape and the various foods and all the nonsense that bedevils the media, the stupid theories and beliefs that confound what should be the basic science of weight control.

Dr Nick (Ph.D. MPhil. Dr.Ed. (AU) BA (Hons) (OU) BSc. (Hons) (OU) BSc.Ed (Hons) (Exon) NASM) shows you how to make a number of alterations to your diet that will result in a weight loss that will stay with you for life. He shows you what foods to avoid and how to choose the correct alternatives. How to use your freezer, your fridge, your cooking pans, even your kitchen utensils in ways that will result in major weight loss. He analyses the popular diets and shows you which ones work and why and more outrageously shows you the ones that don’t! Written in an amusing, easy to understand way, this is the book that led to three court cases, all of them dismissed!

]]> How to Pass Any Exam With One Night’s Review https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/how-to-pass-any-exam-with-one-nights-review/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 01:44:36 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=319 The book that was banned by a major publishing house! This fascinating and hilarious book is based on the author’s years of experience teaching at all school levels from infants to university students. It is funny, and packed with anecdotes but underlining it all is the very serious theme of exam technique. A very high percentage of students, though knowing their subject in depth, fail to score high marks in exams, this is nearly always because of bad exam technique and this, the book attempts to put right. The author gained his Ph.D. by submitting a 100,000 word thesis researching into this problem and is an acknowledged expert at getting difficult students through exams.
The book can be read just for entertainment, but its appeal must surely be to anyone and everyone who has ever taken an exam. The book is split up into chapters, which cover the different exam techniques: Question paper analysis, prediction, specialisation etc., before going on to discuss specific problem subjects such as Mathematics and Science. It finishes in a very light-hearted way by telling the reader of different ways of leaving an exam room.
The book in no way aims to subvert the examiners, nor does it condone cheating in any form, what it does do is to equip students with the most effective tools for exam success.

]]> Kernow Karate Training Manual: 120 Lesson Plans https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/kernow-karate-training-manual-120-lesson-plans/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 01:33:26 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=316 The best of the lesson plans from the most successful Martial Arts club in Britain

]]> Getting to Grips With Grammar Two https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/getting-to-grips-with-grammar-two/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 01:07:11 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=312 An easy fun way to learn all the basics of good English: how to use punctuation, capital letters, apostrophes, who and whom and all the things we trip up over. Written by a highly qualified teacher and author in a light-hearted way. Brilliantly illustrated.

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