Showing posts with label Brain / IQ / Mind improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brain / IQ / Mind improvement. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Test Your IQ: 400 Questions to Boost Your Brainpower

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192 pages | Kogan Page | English | ISBN-10: 0749456779 | PDF
Test Your IQ contains IQ test questions written and compiled by IQ-test experts, complete with a guide to assessing individual performance. Working through the questions can help anyone develop powers of calculation and logical reasoning.

By studying the different types of test, and recognizing the different types of question, readers can improve their test scores and increase their IQ rating. Test Your IQ is helpful those who have to take an IQ test, and it's also great fun for anyone who likes to stretch their mind for their own entertainment.

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Great Critical Thinking Puzzles

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96 pages | Sterling Publishing | English | ISBN 0-8069-9725-7 | PDF
."..enough variety to interest almost everyone....a nice assortment of new puzzles....entertaining...brain-stretching...Adults, as well as middle school students, will enjoy...the eighty-three puzzles...The author's advice to the reader to 'hang on to your brains' is well founded....contains an array of puzzles that require the use of a variety of higher-level-thinking skills....the author has added a new twist or two to make them even more challenging. The book...fosters critical thinking....clearly written...valuable for the classroom teacher...excellent for students who like to be challenged or who wish to improve their critical-thinking skills....one of the necessary items that I would choose for my classroom."-- "The Mathematics Teacher


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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine

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7 hour(s) and 6 min, Audio MP3 | Publisher: Random House Audio (August 7, 2007) | English | 149 Mb
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can't remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.

Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love.

While doing research as a medical student at Yale, and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain function.

In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all of her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.

The result: women will come away from this audiobook knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted

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384 pages | Publisher: Three Rivers Press; (2010) | English | ISBN-10: 0307463583 | PDF | 12,9 MB
THE KEY TO A BETTER BODY—in shape, energized, and youthful—is a healthy brain. Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amen’s two decades of clinical practice at the re­nowned Amen Clinics, where Dr. Amen and his as­sociates pioneered the use of the most advanced brain imaging technology, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body shows you how to take the very best care of your brain.

With fifteen practical, easy-to-implement solutions involving nutritious foods, natural supplements and vitamins, positive-thinking habits, and, when neces­sary, highly targeted medications, Dr. Amen shows you how to:

* Reach and maintain your ideal weight
* Soothe and smooth your skin at any age
* Reduce the stress that can impair your immune system
* Sharpen your memory
* Increase willpower and eliminate the crav­ings that keep you from achieving your exercise and diet goals
* Enhance sexual desire and performance
* Lower your blood pressure without medication
* Avoid depression and elevate the enjoyment you take in life’s pleasures.

Whether you’re just coming to realize that it’s time to get your body into shape, or are already fit and want to take it to the next level, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body is all you need to start putting the power of the brain-body connection to work for you today.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Ancient Puzzles: Classic Brainteasers and Other Timeless Mathematical Games of the Last Ten Centuries

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288 pages | Publisher: Bantam | English | ISBN-10: 0553372971 | PDF | 12,2 MB
Comprising the entire brainteasing spectrum from the silly and quirky to the clever and profound and drawing on classic wisdom from around the world and from as far back as 7,000 B.C., this collection features puzzles via Hebrew mystics, medieval Muslims, Benjamin Franklin, Sun Tsu, and more.

From Booklist
Olivastro's combination of history and puzzles-to-solve may intimidate or simply put off some readers who are strictly of the "let's play" school. Others will be enthralled to learn of the antiquity of some of today's still-popular numeric puzzles. Along the way, the author delivers some fascinating information, such as the origin of the word stockholder and of a magic square devised by Benjamin Franklin. Here are some great ideas for enlivening a math classroom or blending math with history or social studies.

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Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain

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Publisher: Harper Perennial | ISBN: 0060594721 | English | 224 pages | PDF
When journalist Dennis Cass was nineteen years old his stepfather, Bill, suffered from a psychotic break. Cass tried to commit him to a mental institution only to watch Bill escape from a cab en route to a Harlem hospital and run raving down the streets of Manhattan. Some fifteen years later, a bout of writer's block turned Cass's thoughts toward the brain.

A complete stranger to science, Cass immersed himself in the world of neuroscience, subjecting himself to brain scans, psychological tests, and scientific conferences, as he attempted to gain a better understanding of ADHD, anxiety, stress, motivation and reward, and consciousness. Then things got a little weird. What began as a more clinical effort to understand himself soon became a personal and emotional journey into the fragile, mysterious workings of the mind and the self.

Head Case is a charming, hilarious, and at times harrowing memoir of scientific experimentation. It's a story of science and society, of fathers and sons, and of how the past lives on in the present. Along the way the book asks timeless questions: What do we know about ourselves? What can we know about ourselves? And how much self-knowledge can a single person handle?

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

IQ Testing 101 (The Psych 101 Series)

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360 pages | Publisher: Springer Publishing Company (July 20, 2009) | English | ISBN-10: 0826106293 | PDF
While the use of intelligence tests is widespread, they are not without controversy. IQ supporters see IQ measures as valid predictors of academic success, capable of proving real differences in intellectual abilities and influencing educational policy. IQ critics such as Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner believe that IQ is a limited measure of intelligence and that a truer picture should incorporate more cultural and contextual factors.

Alan Kaufman, a fellow of four divisions of the American Psychological Association, is a centrist in this debate. As a protégé of David Wechsler, Kaufman is a firmer believer in the goal of IQ tests, but believes that the system of IQ testing needs serious improvements. This provocative and controversial book tracks both sides of this ongoing debate. Kaufman provides a historical overview of IQ testing, and approaches both sides of the debate with critical questions, including:

* How do heredity and our cultural environment influence our intelligence?
* How does aging affect intelligence?
* Are IQ tests irrelevant for Learning Disability Assessment?
* What Will IQ Tests Be Like in 2030?

The Psych 101 Series

Short, reader-friendly introductions to cutting-edge topics in psychology. With key concepts, controversial topics, and fascinating accounts of up-to-the-minute research, The Psych 101 Series is a valuable resource for all students of psychology and anyone interested in the field.

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What's Your MBA IQ: A Manager's Career Development Tool

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Publisher: Wiley (September 22, 2009) | ISBN: 0470439572 | English | PDF | 380 pages | 14,6 MB
What’s your MBA IQ? A combination of what you know and how much you’ve applied this knowledge on the job, your MBA IQ is what defines your management knowledge in today’s business climate. It’s what keeps you at the top of your profession, an expert in your specialized field with an understanding, as well, of cross-functional disciplines.

Arming you with a solid foundation across the entire MBA curriculum to interact with colleagues, clients, senior management, and professors at a higher, more advanced level, international business expert Devi Vallabhaneni helps you get the most from MBA-level topics—and ultimately, develop your career. This authoritative road map facilitates advanced management education and reveals a structured approach for career development in the management profession, equipping you with nuts and bolts coverage of:

* General management, leadership, and strategy
* Operations management • Marketing management
* Quality and process management • Human resources management
* Accounting • Finance
* Information technology
* Corporate control, law, ethics, and governance
* International business
* Project management
* Decision sciences and managerial economics

The related self-assessment exercises available at www.mbaiq.com allow you to compute your MBA IQ. You can find out where your weaknesses are and then begin to develop your knowledge base to gain proficiency in all management areas and become a true business generalist.

Since the MBA degree has become a de facto standard in management education, the goal of What’s Your MBA IQ? is to make the knowledge contained in an MBA accessible to all business practitioners. As a result, this book is equally relevant to business practitioners, whether or not they pursue an MBA. Also, your organization can use What’s Your MBA IQ? to assess its business practitioners’ readiness for corporate rotation programs, high potential programs, the CABM, the CBM, or an MBA degree.

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Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems

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178 pages | Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve | English | ISBN-10: 0871205696 | PNG | 14,3 MB
Although the brain is the most complex entity in the universe, it can be studied broadly as well as in great detail by focusing on five of its major systems: emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective. In Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems, Barbara K. Given has cautiously investigated brain structures and functions of these five systems and applied findings from neurobiology to education without making leaps of judgment or unfounded claims. Thus, this is the first book that translates neuroscience into an educational framework for lesson planning and teaching.

The framework can serve as a mental model for an ongoing assessment of youngsters' basic human needs to be themselves, to belong, to know, to do, and to experiment and explore. It can also help teachers assess the roles they play (mentor/model, collaborator, facilitator, coach, and talent scout) and the personal/professional qualities they bring to the classroom (passion, vision, intention, action, and reflection). This is a practical book for educators based on current neurobiological insights into learning.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Heart of the Mind: Engaging Your Inner Power to Change With Neuro-Linguistic Programming

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Real Pe-ple Press | English | ISBN: 0911226311 | 263 pages | PDF
An engaging introduction to NLP, through 21 chapters, each focusing on a special topic: negotiation, resolving grief, parenting positively, motivation that works, fulfilling decision-making, and many more. (See Table of Contents.) This book gives you a "front-row seat" in following the accounts of people whose lives have been changed and whose dreams became reality by using their own inner power to change with NLP. Every reader is certain to find many topics of personal relevance. The authors include a step-by-step understanding of how each change occurred, that you can use for those areas in your life that you want to be different.

Even though this book is written as an introduction, it takes you quickly into a great deal of depth. You'll find material here that isn't included in other books on NLP. The chapter on "Personal Timelines" for example, reveals how to easily uncover our individual ways of coding time, and how this sometimes forms the basis for our life struggles, and strengths. You'll learn how gently shifting this inner coding can melt away difficulties and open up talents and gifts. Written by two of the earliest and most respected trainers in the field, the book carries an underlying attitude of heartfulness coloring the skillful guidance available here.

From the Publisher
There is a new powerful and gentle approach to overcoming life's problems. Experience the accounts of people whose lives have been changed and whose dreams became realities by tapping their own inner power to change with NLP. Short for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP is a new science that has studied how the mind works, with verifiable and sometimes astonishing results. NLP offers effective techniques for a wide range of problems including: unwanted habits, guilt, grief, weight loss, abuse, criticism, shame, stage fright, phobias.

NLP also offers ways to enhance self-esteem, improve relationships, become more independent, create positive motivation, eliminate allergic responses, and promote self-healing, and more.

Take a moment and look through the contents of a chapter that interests you. Every case describes what happened with a client or workshop participant. If you are tired of settling for the way things are and want more in your life, want more for your family and those important to you, read this book.

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Training Your Brain For Dummies - 2011

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276 pages | Publisher: For Dummies (February 8, 2011) | English | ISBN-10: 0470974494 | PDF
Mastering the latest fitness craze-keeping your brain healthy at any age

Judging from the worldwide popularity of the brain game, Nintendo DS, and such mind-bending puzzles as SuDoku and KenKen®, keeping one's mind as limber as an Olympic athlete is an international obsession. With forecasters predicting over a million people with dementia by 2025, today's young and senior population have a vested interest in keeping their grey matter in the pink for as long as possible. Training Your Brain For Dummies is an indispensable guide to every aspect of brain fitness-and keeping your mind as sharp, agile, and creative for as long as you can. Whether you want to hone your memory, manage stress and anxiety, or simply eat brain healthy food, this guide will help you build brain health into your everyday life.

* Includes verbal, numerical and memory games, brain games to play on the move, tips on the best day-to-day habits, and long-term mental fitness techniques
* Offers ten key brain training basics, tips on brain training through one's lifetime, and improving long- and short-term memory
* Includes advice on improving creativity, developing a positive mindset, and reaping the rewards of peace and quiet

With tips on mind/body fitness, Training Your Brain For Dummies is a must-have guide for anyone, at any age, for keeping one's mind-and quality of life-in peak condition.

The brain is your body's most important muscle and, with regular exercise, you can improve its performance and strengthen it against age-related deterioration. This guide offers everything you need to know to keep your brain and memory in tip-top shape, whether it's by choosing the right foods or playing the piano. From puzzles and exercises to the best day-to-day habits and long-term mental fitness techniques, this book enables you to boost your mental agility and reduce memory loss. So shake off those cobwebs and get your brain fighting-fit in no time!

* Start as you mean to go on – get to grips with the basics of brain training and discover how to make it work for you
* Keep your mind razor sharp – improve your memory and banish that pesky 'tip-of-the- tongue' phenomenon
* Have happy thoughts – follow expert advice on how to keep your mind happy and healthy
* Start afresh – adapt to new brain-friendly diet and lifestyle choices
* Let the games begin – get stuck into a compendium of brain games, exercises and puzzles

Open the book and find:
* The facts behind the fiction
* Mental fitness exercises for children and the over-50s
* Ways to memorise your shopping list, put names to faces, and remember directions
* How to visualise your success
* Why socialising is important
* Techniques for managing stress and anxiety
* Advice on nutrition and 'brain food'
* Word searches, sudoku puzzles, and more

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Amazing Brain Training Hyptalk (2010)

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Hyptalk | July 2010 | English | ASIN: B00337FU02 | MP3 128kbps | 105 MB

Features:
* 5 Powerful Full Length Sessions
* Improve Memory
* Self-Discipline
* Hypnosis is a valuable tool for self-empowerment and continuous personal growth
* Put the power of your mind to work in managing your life

Supercharge your brain and the incredible thinking power that you have! Stimulate your mind to benefit you in your life. Be able to remember names, takes tests with ease, get more accomplished in a day, think clearly, stay calm under pressure, and direct the power of your subconscious mind to bring you all the things that you want with these 5 brain strengthening hypnosis sessions.You will love the deep relaxation you will experience from each of these techniques and they will be useful most every situation in your life.Hypnosis will help you feel confident in all aspects of your life by helping you to realize goals and create a deeper sense of self-worth and confidence as a result of spending time with your self in the guided relaxation.

Direct the power of your subconscious to bring you all the things that you want with these 5 brain strengthening hypnosis sessions.

You will love the deep relaxation you will experience from each of these techniques and they will be useful in most every situation in your life.

The Five Sessions include:
* Calm and Focus your Mind
* Improve Memory
* Instant Recall
* Self-Discipline
* Visualization

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Amazing Brain Training by Victoria Wizell

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Publisher: Multimedia Meditations | English | Audio  MP3/128Kbps | 110 MB
Five Amazing Mind Enhancing Sessions! Supercharge your brain and the incredible thinking power that you have. Stimulate your mind to benefit you in your life. Be able to remember names, take tests with ease. Get more accomplished in a day. Think Clearly. Stay Calm under pressure. Direct the power of your subconscious to bring you all the things that you want with these 5 brain strengthening hypnosis sessions. You will love the deep relaxation you will experience from each of these techniques and they will be useful in most every situaiton in your life.

The Five Sessions include:
* Calm and Focus your Mind
* Improve Memory
* Instant Recall
* Self-Discipline
* Visualization This is truly one amazing program! The entire five-session program is only $59.00, which is half the cost of a one-on-one hypnosis session. That's $12.00 per session… A considerably small investment to help you to improve one of the most crucial aspects of your life. Your Mind!

From the Publisher
Victoria Wizell is a Certified Master Hypnotherapist, a Certified HypnoBirthing Facilitator, a Certified Weight Management Specialist, and a Level One Neuro Linguistic Programming Practioner.

- She Founded Hypnotherapy of Nevada and Multimedia Mediations in July of 1999.
- Operates legally with a Clark County business license and a professional office in the state of Nevada.
- Graduate of The American Academy of Hypnosis, in Las Vegas, Nevada
- A Graduate of PSI Seminars, since 1998, Victoria Wizell has coached the Women's Leadership training and Life Success trainings in Northern California. She has also successfully coached their 90-day Pacesetter Leadership Dynamics three times.
- Studying metaphysical and personal growth concepts since 1986, Victoria has utilized the power of hypnosis on herself to attain a myriad of successes in her life from overcoming the fear of needles, being able to be calm and relaxed during any doctor or dentist visit, quitting her own smoking addiction, and attaining financial success and liberty in a business she truly loves.
- Any goal that she strives for, she attains and attributes her success to clearly visualizing the desired outcome in hypnosis. And now you have an opportunity to utilize the very same technique in achieving your goals.
- Having been successful in the advice-giving business as a former Financial Consultant, Victoria worked for one of the largest stock brokerage firms on Wall Street for many years.
- Victoria has an intuitive nature and a gift for being able to establish a great rapport, quickly and easily with people she meets.

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

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301 pages | Publisher: Pear Press; (March 10, 2009) | English | ISBN-10: 0979777747 | PDF

Review
A molecular biologist shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way people teach their children and the way they work. "Brain Rules" is one of the most . . . useful books of our time

Great info on how our brains work and how we can improve our ability to work, learn and teach. Considering it was written by a developmental molecular biologist it is very easy to read and funny too

This book taught me a lot about how the human brain works, many of the ideas totally new to me. I liked the way that each chapter dealt with one particular facet of brain operation, included stories

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Use Your Memory : Understand Your Mind to Improve Your Memory and Mental Power

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BBC Active | English | ISBN: 0563487038 | 196 pages | PDF
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

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Brains: How They Seem to Work

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FT Press (April 19, 2010) | ISBN: 0137055099 | English | 294 pages | PDF
For 50 years, the world’s most brilliant neuroscientists have struggled to understand how human brains really work. Today, says Dale Purves, the dominant research agenda may have taken us as far as it can--and neuroscientists may be approaching a paradigm shift. In this highly personal book, Purves reveals how we got to this point and offers his notion of where neuroscience may be headed next. Purves guides you through a half-century of the most influential ideas in neuroscience and introduces the extraordinary scientists and physicians who created and tested them.

Purves offers a critical assessment of the paths that neuroscience research has taken, their successes and their limitations, and then introduces an alternative approach for thinking about brains. Building on new research on visual perception, he shows why common ideas about brain networks can’t be right and uncovers the factors that determine our subjective experience. The resulting insights offer a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.

* Why we need a better conception of what brains are trying to do and how they do it
Approaches to understanding the brain over the past several decades may be at an impasse
* The surprising lessons that can be learned from what we see
How complex neural processes owe more to trial-and-error experience than to logical principles
* Brains--and the people who think about them
Meet some of the extraordinary individuals who’ve shaped neuroscience
* The “ghost in the machine” problem
The ideas presented further undermine the concept of free will

“Dale Purves’ Brains is my favorite sort of reading--an engaging and intelligent scientific autobiography full of vivid personal and historical accounts; the story not only of a life but of an intellectual pursuit. Purves has a unique voice, lively, outspoken, and very human--and his love of science comes through on every page.” --Oliver Sacks

“Brains is an engaging tour of human neuroscience from one of its most distinguished and opinionated practitioners. Dale Purves is a lively and informative guide to the field, having been at the scene of some of its great discoveries and having made many important discoveries himself.” --Steven Pinker, Harvard University, author of The Stuff of Thought

“A rare account of both the modern history of key discoveries in brain research by someone who was there and responsible for many of them and also a heartfelt account of the joy of it all. Dale Purves has given us an inside view of a life in science and explains with clarity what it all means.” --Michael S. Gazzaniga, University of California, Santa Barbara


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The Complete Guide To Genius

Acheive An IQ Of 180 With A Simple 3 Step System

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English | PDF | 5,4 MB | 83 Pages
The Complete Guide To Genius is a world famous program created by GeniusIntelligence.com. Its aim is to help you increase your IQ to 180 using a step by step genius building program. The guide was created by a group of experts who decided it was time to help others increase their IQ, and to modify the existing range of techniques (as used by Socrates and Einstein) to increase intelligence.

This article will talk about The Complete Guide To Genius and what you can expect to receive with it:

1. The guide is jam packed with information with no fluff talk whatsoever. It goes straight to the point. The techniques come first, and the explanations come last so you can get to the goods straight away

2. There are approximately 12-15 techniques included to increase your intelligence. These vary in their difficulty, effect and duration. Some techniques will raise your IQ by a measly 5-10 points, whilst others will lead to IQ increases of 20+ points. All of the techniques can more or less be used on a daily basis to increase your IQ.

3. IQ gains are to be seen within 7 days of using the program. There will be an increase in concentration ability and attention span, ability to sustain complex arguments, improvements in memory, idea formation and generation, increased inspiration as well as many other effects.

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Friday, March 18, 2011

Memory,Thinking and Language Topics in Cognitive Psychology

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250 pages | Publisher: Garland Science | English | ISBN-10: 0416338003 | PDF
Judith Greene places traditional topics of cognitive psychology in a new approach. She provides a clear introduction to complex ideas, and emphasises their practical application for teaching and learning as well as everyday life.


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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Virus Of The Mind

The New Science of the Meme and How It Can Help You

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289 pages | Hay House (2009) | English | ISBN 978-1848501270 | PDF
We are surrounded by information in the 21st Century: we are bombarded by advertising, attitudes, celebrities, news, wars, fashion, the latest fads... the sheer amount of information we have access to appears untameable, unworkable, and too much to gain sense from unless we pick and choose very carefully.However, our choices are very often made for us as the result of advertising, media companies, the government and popular culture. The results of these choices are called memes, and their impact is shaping not just society but us individually, and on a core level, beyond psychology, personal free will, and even genetics.The very first book on the subject of memes, and how they behave just like viruses, this is an incredible study into the power of communication and going along with everyone else. Virus of the Mind explains just how we are infected by the deliberate shaping of society's attitudes and behaviours and how we can cure ourselves.

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States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are

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W,,ey | English | ISBN: 0471399736 | 224 pages | PDF
"Most neuroscientists now argue that the biological organ inside our skulls is both the source and repository of our elusive identity, and of all aspects of cognition and emotion. The balance of chemicals in our individual brains may predispose us to react to life's ups and downs with a characteristic tranquility or agitation. Disturbances of that chemical balance can trigger mood disorders and mental illness. And burgeoning research into the connection between the brain and the body is reinforcing the idea that the influence flows in both directions—that is, our attitudes and emotions, once regarded as purely a function of 'mind,' can affect the health of the body, and vice versa. . . . As all of this research reaffirms, the fundamental characteristic of human consciousness and identity is that they are shaped and reshaped by a brain that is continually adapting to the world around us. Whether we're reading or walking, dreaming or talking, the particular impulses and pathways of the brain's billions of neurons are storing experience, learning and unlearning, and creating us anew in the process."—from the Introduction.

States of Mind is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by the workings of our brains. Eight pioneering researchers present remarkable new insights about how our inner lives—both of the mind and of the body—are generated and regulated by the marvelous biology going on inside our heads.

These preeminent scientists offer a new way of understanding ourselves—of peering into the workings of our brains in order to appreciate how our emotions and moods, our memories and dreams come about. They also reveal a new understanding of health and illness and how important the interconnections between our minds and bodies are. Are we born to be shy? Why do we remember some events so clearly and others not at all? Do our dreams really have deeper meanings? Are creativity and depression somehow linked? How does stress affect our vulnerability to illness? Whether discussing the brain-body connection, the sources of emotion, or the ethereal world of dreams, these top experts offer lively and stimulating introductions to the most exciting findings, and a new way of understanding our lives.

States of Mind enables you to share in the thrill and wonder of the very latest explorations into the nature and function of the human mind.

ROBERTA CONLAN is a regular contributor to the publications of the National Academy of Sciences.


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