Theo Baker – författare

A searing critique of the crony-capitalist, talent-scraping culture of the Stanford elites, by a brilliant young journalistWhen seventeen-year old Theo Baker arrived at Stanford University one brisk September morning, its manicured lawns, palm trees and sparkling fountains, all under azure Californian skies, provoked in him both wonderment and a sense of anticipation. After all, this legendary campus, where Rodin sculptures rub shoulders with nuclear laboratories, is where Silicon Valley was birthed. Its research park housed the headquarters of Facebook and Hewlett Packard, with venture capitalists a stone's throw away, ready to fund the next promising teenager's startup. With an annual budget eclipsing the budgets of 116 countries, yet a reputation for being laid-back and innovative, Stanford seemed like tech heaven. Instead, Baker discovered a cultural rot.In this astonishing debut Baker recounts his freshman year mission to uncover the secrets behind Silicon Valley's training ground. He describes the Stanford inside Stanford, a strange, money-soaked subculture of infinite excess and access, afforded only to those special few students plucked from the crowd and expected to create billion dollar companies. And he documents a culture of getting ahead at any cost, of cut corners enabled and embraced. A culture that went to the very top. Baker's investigations for the student newspaper would soon place him in the impossibly difficult position of investigating his own university's president, a famous neuroscientist with a squeaky-clean reputation. By the end of his freshman year, after Baker's reporting revealed two decades of unreported research misconduct allegations, including in a study that claimed to have found the cause of degeneration in Alzheimer's patients, Stanford's president was forced to resign.Both coming-of-age story and clear-eyed exposé, Baker takes us inside this elite American world like no other, revealing the ambitious, amoral, and at-times laughably absurd truth behind the institution training kids to rule the world.

A hilarious book based on the top-rated CBBC TV show Hank Zipzer about the adventures of a cheeky loveable hero.Love the CBBC series of Hank Zipzer? Love this book! It is based on characters from the TV episodes and the bestselling series by Henry "the Fonz" Winkler and Lin Oliver. A dyslexia-friendly typeface makes reading easier. It’s school-photo time, which is the worst time of year for Hank Zipzer. No matter what he does, he always ends up looking like he’s just seen Miss Adolf dancing. Bleurg! This year, he’s determined to get it right. Unfortunately school bully Nick McKelty has other ideas…

In this third book in the Hank Zipzer TV tie-in fiction series, the disasters pile up as Hank's impromptu history project goes on the run.In this third book of the series based on the hit CBBC TV show, Hank hatches plans for the world's greatest parent-free pizza party ever ... at the expense of getting his World War I history project done. Will a last-minute solution involving his sister's lizard save the day? Or make his problems even worse? Perfect for readers aged 8 + and also reluctant readers. The TV series is based on the New York Times bestselling series by Henry "the Fonz" Winkler and Lin Oliver.

Fans of the TV show will love to read about Hank facing off against nemesis McKelty and younger sister Emily in the school council election.In this fourth book in the series of books based on the hit CBBC TV show, a school council seat is up for grabs at Westbrook Academy, and Hank's nemesis, Nick McKelty, and Hank's diabolical little sister, Emily, are launching campaigns to get it. Hank's plan to stop both of them from getting power is to run for the seat himself, and the election gets ugly fast. What won’t the three do for votes? Perfect for readers aged 8 + and also reluctant readers. The TV series is based on the New York Times bestselling series by Henry "the Fonz" Winkler and Lin Oliver.