See how the brain works while using it in the process of reading this book! Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - like that physical activity boosts your brain power.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to ...
In this classic guide, with a fresh new cover look, the authors help readers improve their memory, covering topics such as reading with greater speed and understanding, filing away important information in one's memory bank, learning foreign words and phrases, and remembering anniversaries and other important dates.
Packaged like the New York Times bestselling "Best at Everything" series, this informative guide is full of tips and tricks for remembering everything from math and spelling rules to tricky science, history, and geography facts. A lovely gift from parent to child and a perfect learning companion to help any student who has ever struggled to ...
After overhearing his parents say that his elderly friend, Miss Nancy, has lost her memory, a young boy named Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge tries to find out what a memory is so that he can get Miss Nancy's back for her. Will Wilfrid be able to discover the true meaning of what a memory is? Illustrated with watercolor paintings.
Millions have benefited from memory expert Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory system--an innovative program designed to stimulate the brain's photographic memory and increase one's powers of recall. Each home-study lesson takes no more than 30 minutes a day, and with this simple system, readers will instantly remember names, phone numbers, financial data ...
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she?
This "important and marvelous book" ("The New York Times") gives Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. It relates the story of how four distinct disciplines - behaviourist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology - converged into a powerful ...
After a car accident puts Shauna McAllister in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she returns to her childhood home to recover, but her arrival is fraught with confusion. Her estranged father, a senator making his bid for the White House, and her abusive stepmother, blame Shauna for the tragedy, which has left her beloved brother ...
This selection of neurobic exercises aims to help everyone whose memory is slipping with a regimen of mental cross-training that can be done anywhere, by anyone at any time. The premise is: exercising the brain releases natural growth factors, which enhance the brain's level of fitness.
Celebrated neurologist Dr. Perlmutter shows readers how easy it is to regain and maintain clarity by offering the best tools for improving memory and preventing the aging of the brain.
Using the latest research in neurology and psychology, Restak, an eminent neuropsychologist and bestselling author of "The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own, " explains how the brain works and tells how to make it work better. Included are 28 easy, practical exercises designed to improve cognitive abilities. 44 illustrations.
San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is ...
Small, a neuroscientist and director of the UCLA Memory Clinic and Center on Aging, offers readers simple exercises and advice, like getting enough sleep and minimizing stress, to increase memory.
An acclaimed journalist's lively investigation of what happens to memory and attention in middle age combines extraordinary reporting, memoir, and hard science.
Containing more than 100 original essays organized by quotations, James illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. 110 photographs.
For undergraduate, Topically Organized courses in Child Development offered in departments of Psychology, Human Ecology, Education, Early Childhood Education, Nursing and Social Work. Illustrating both the splendor of child development and the strides that researchers have made in understanding developmental psychology, this text presents the ...
The potential of the human mind is absolutely phenomenal, and Tony Buzan is one of the world's leading experts on how people can maximize their brainpower. Now, in his most comprehensive book yet on the topic, Buzan reveals exciting new ways to improve one's memory, concentration, creativity, ability to learn, and more.
From the bestselling author of "P.S. I Love You" comes a mesmerizing tale of love and fate that explores what happens when what if becomes what is for two strangers whose lives are at a crossroads.
This text explores the core principles of learning and memory in a clear, reader-friendly style, covering animal learning and human memory in a balanced fashion. A strong emphasis on practical applications to the college student's everyday life is evident in examples throughout, such as the correlation between caffeine consumption and grade point ...
Therapist Carol Bowman reveals how amazingly widespread--and profoundly affecting--past life memories are in children, while guiding parents toward understanding and loving support. Parents can read true-life stories, learn to distinguish between fantasies and memories, and help a child to heal, with this informative and powerfully convincing book.
A leading neuroscientist and "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot" distills the research on the brain and serves up practical, surprising, and illuminating recommendations for warding off neurological decline, cognitive function, and encouraging smarter thinking day to day. In "Think Smart," the renowned ...
From the little things (recalling statistics and facts) to the big (keeping track of anniversaries and important appointments), a good memory is essential to a happy life and a successful career. Improve yours, with these 52 proven techniques that helped win Dominic O'Brien accolades such as "Brain of the Year" and "Grandmaster of Memory." O'Brien ...
Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Using the latest research on the workings of the human brain, Buzan provides step-by-step exercises for discovering the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left side more effectively. By increasing our understanding of how the mind works, Buzan shows us how to use our brains to the best advantage.
Honored in the 1830s for his participation in the Boston Tea Party, George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker, exemplified the role of the common man in the Revolution. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights of how memory shapes our understanding of history.
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