The potential of the human memory is phenomenal. But do you know how to make the most of yours? In this edition if the BBC classic Use Your Memory, the secrets of how to improve your memory are fascinatingly revealed by Tony Buzan. He teaches you how to improve your memory
for names, numbers, dates and lists and also for speeches, articles,
poetry and whole books. There are sections for card players, for people
learning new languages and for those studying for exams, as well as an
intriguing chapter on how to recall your dreams. Use You Memory will- Be particularly useful for school and university students throughout their studies, and especially during review and exam times Be useful for business people and for those wishing to improve their brainpower as they advance in years. Allow anyone to join the rapidly growing number of mental athletes who are preparing themselves for memory competitions and championships. All the classic memory systems are explained, plus, of course, Tony Buzan’s own world-famous Mind Mapping technique
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. About "Letter to a Christian Nation": “Sam Harris’s elegant little book is most refreshing and a wonderful source of ammunition for those who, like me, hold to no religious doctrine. Yet I have some sympathy also with those who might be worried by his uncompromising stance. Read it and form your own view, but do not ignore its message.” –Sir Roger Penrose, emeritus professor of mathematics, Oxford University, author of The Road to Reality
“Reading Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation was like sitting ring side, cheering the champion, yelling ‘Yes!’ at every jab. For those of us who feel depressed by this country’s ever increasing unification of church and state, and the ever decreasing support for the sciences that deliver knowledge and reduce ignorance, this little book is a welcome hit of adrenalin.” –Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor, author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Sense of Right and Wrong
“I can’t sign my name to this blurb. As a New York Times best selling author of books about business, my career will evaporate if I endorse a book that challenges the deeply held superstitions and bigotry of the masses. That’s exactly why you should (no, you must) read this angry and honest book right away. As long as science and rational thought are under attack by the misguided yet pious majority, our nation is in jeopardy. I’m scared. You should be too. Please buy two, one for you and one for a friend you care about.” –Unsigned, New York Times best selling author
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Added by: jaybeere | Karma: 320.01 | Fiction literature | 20 October 2007
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Fairy Tales From All Nations selected and edited by Anthony R. Montalba
with twenty-four illustrations by Richard Doyle (Rare Book Collection)
The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those days it was not held that: Beauty is its own excuse for being - on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned supreme in literature, and fancy and imagination were told to fold their wings, and travel only in the dusty paths of every-day life. Fairy tales, and all such flights into the region of the supernatural, were then condemned as merely idle things, or as pernicious occupations for faculties that should be always directed to serious and profitable concerns.
But now we have cast off that pedantic folly, let us hope for ever. We now acknowledge that innocent amusement is good for its own sake, and we do not affect to prove our advance in civilisation by our incapacity to relish those sportive creations of unrestricted fancy that have been the delight of every generation in every land from times beyond the reach of history. The materials of the following Collection have been carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations.
Among others the Collection includes: Snow-White And Rosy-Red (Danish), Persevere And Prosper (Arabic), Prince Of The Glow-Worms (German), The Two Misers (Hebrew), Prince Chaffinch (French), The Wolf And The Nightingale (Swedish) and The Enchanted Crow (Polish).
The object of this book is to attempt to tell the story of England's history for young children. Important events have been given in fuller detail than is usual, so as to awaken an interest in them, though no story has been told simply because it is interesting. The second part is intended for children a little older than those for whom the first part was written. Political changes, some of them of a complicated kind, occurred from time to time. (Rare Book Collection)
Building Confidence for Dummies by Kate Burton and Brinley Platts
Confidence is one of those odd things in life that turn out to be surprisingly difficult to tie down beauty and quality belong to this strange group too). You may think you know what it is, and you may feel certain that you can recognise it when you see it, but you may struggle to define exactly what ‘it’ is. Confidence is an everyday experience, something you have quite often, except on those all important occasions when it seems to leave you and you could really use more of it – whatever ‘it’ is.
In this book, you can clear up the confusion around confidence, and particularly what you may refer to as self-confidence. You dispel a lot of the mystique around how you can develop and build your self-confidence; perhaps to an extent you feared would never be possible for you.
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