Optimizing Brain Fitness

Insightful, and undeniably fun, instructive, Optimizing Brain Fitness is an invaluable part of your personal tool kit for lasting health and wellness. Brain plasticity is one of the most revolutionary discoveries in modern neuroscience. You focus mainly on three of the most vital functions: attention, general memory, and working memory.

. Each lesson is packed with vital information and research-based exercises, practice problems, challenges, and tests that will enhance and improve your brain's essential functions. Discover the secrets to enhancing your quality of your life with this engaging 12-lesson course that shows you how to build the brain you want to live with for the rest of your life.

Scientists used to believe that our brains stopped growing when we reached adulthood, but the truth is that our life experiences continually shape and mold our brains in fascinating ways. You can improve your memory, sensory acuity, and fine motor skills, learning ability, attention, creativity, focus, no matter your age.

This course is the perfect way to maintain or improve the health of the most important organ in your body.

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Secrets of Mental Math

Assuming no detailed knowledge of mathematics, Professor Benjamin has designed this course to be accessible to anyone looking to tap into or strengthen his or her mental calculating skills. The secrets of mental math, tips, guides you through all the essential skills, his exciting 12-lecture course, and tricks for improving and enhancing your ability to solve a range of mathematical problems right in your head.

So prepare yourself for an unforgettable adventure in mental mathematics. Mental math, according to Professor Benjamin, is not as daunting as it may seem. And perhaps the best part? learning how to do mental math can be fun - especially when you're learning in the company of Professor Arthur T. Performing calculations in your head is all just a process of breaking down a large problem into simpler and simpler problems until it's finally reduced to a single answer.

Benjamin of harvey mudd college, one of the most engaging and entertaining members of The Great Courses faculty. One key to expanding your math potential - whether you're a corporate executive or a high school student - lies in the power to perform mental math calculations. Enjoyable, and immensely rewarding, eye-opening, The Secrets of Mental Math makes basic math quicker and easier than ever before.

Mental mathematics also is valuable in your everyday life, such as when shopping for groceries or figuring out how much to tip at a restaurant. Solving basic math problems in your head offers lifelong benefits, including a competitive edge at work, a sharper and more active mind, and improved performance on standardized tests.




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How to Become a SuperStar Student, 2nd Edition

It covers research-based strategies for helping your child with homework, effectively communicating with teachers, preparing your child for college, and raising your child to be someone who eagerly engages with challenging learning material. In the rush to memorize facts and figures, dates and names, students aren't developing the skills necessary to thrive in the world when there's no longer an answer sheet lined with bubbles to fill in.

They will learn to identify their learning style and tap into its strengths, projects, to harness the power of critical and creative thinking to solve problems, studying, to take notes effectively and efficiently, and to manage their time so they can balance homework, and their hobbies. This highly engaging course gives your student the building blocks to academic success using research-proven strategies.

It's packed with advice, tricks, tips, and resources that will transform your student's education and motivate them to succeed. The final six lessons of this course are for parents of middle- and high-school students. This commonsense guide to learning is taught by 2008 National Teacher of the Year Michael Geisen, who has taught thousands of students the vital skills that will carry them through high school, college, and the challenges of adult life.

Our education system focuses squarely on standardized test scores, leaving many teachers with little time to teach the most valuable lesson of all: how to learn.


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Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

With its passionate approach to writing and reading and its indulgence in the sheer joy of language, this journey gives you unique insights into the nature of great writing-and also teaches you how you can achieve some of this greatness yourself. You'll explore sentence constructions that make writing more complex and add exciting levels of suspense, and see tactics that create balance and rhythm.

Recognizing and appreciating these and other eye-opening aspects of sentences helps you understand the work that goes into creating an effective, which can make you more aware of why particular lines, pleasurable sentence, or phrases in the poems, novels, passages, or articles you read so enchant you.

Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Professor landon draws abundantly on examples from the work of brilliant writers, Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, including Don DeLillo, and more. You'll look at the kernels from which sentences grow - minimal base clauses - and how adding words or phrases creates larger, cumulative sentences that lead toward great writing.

Why do some lengthy sentences flow effortlessly while others stumble along? Why are you captivated by the writing of particular authors? How can you craft sentences that reflect your unique outlook on the world? This lively, 24-lecture course introduces you to the myriad ways in which we think about, talk about, and write sentences.

Reviving the sentence-oriented approach to studying writing, Professor Landon provides a greater context for what makes sentences great - and how you can apply these methods to your own writing.


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Scientific Secrets for a Powerful Memory Great Courses, No. 1965

He earned his Ph. D. 2 encoding Information with Images. Dr. Peter M. In psychology and Cognitive Science from Cornell University. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Vishton is associate Professor of Psychology at The College of William & Mary. 3 maximizing Short- and Long-Term Memory.

5 keeping your Whole Brain in Peak Condition. His studies-funded by prestigious institutions, perceptual, including the National Institute of Child Health and Development and the National Science Foundation-focus on cognitive, and motor development; visually guided action; visual perception; computational vision and motor control; and human-computer interface.

He is also the creator of the dvd What Babies Can Do: An Activity-Based Guide to Infant Development. In addition to teaching, professor Vishton devotes much of his career to researching the perception and action control of both infants and adults. Before joining the faculty of william & Mary, he taught at Northwestern University and served as the program director for developmental and learning sciences at the National Science Foundation.

A consulting editor for the journal Child Development, Professor Vishton has published articles in many of the top journals in the field of psychology. 4 why and When We Forget. Professor vishton has presented his findings at numerous conferences and invited talks throughout the United States and Europe.


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Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning, 2nd Edition

1 your amazing Prehistoric Memory. Attack and Defense II 11. Attack and Defense I 10 Your guide to these issues is Professor David Zarefsky, the Owen L. Reasoning, tested by doubt, is argumentation. Public argument and Democratic Life 24. Coon professor of argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication at Northwestern University.

Formal and Informal Argumentation 4. And it teaches how to judge and answer the arguments of others-and how they will judge yours. Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric 2. 2 encoding Information with Images. History of Argumentation Studies 5. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses.

It teaches how to persuade others that what you think is right. Underlying Assumptions of Argumentation 3. Case construction-Requirements and Options 8. Complex Structures of Argument 7. Reasoning with Comparisons 15. Validity and Fallacies I 20 Hybrid patterns of Inference 19.


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What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear

2 encoding Information with Images. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Here are some that you will explore in your investigation of probability as a reasoning tool: When did the most recent common ancestor of all humans live? How much should you pay for a stock option? What do you do on third down with long yardage? After an introduction to the key concepts of probability, you will delve into the wealth of applications, from biology to physics to finance to war.

Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. 3 maximizing Short- and Long-Term Memory. 4 why and When We Forget. Every time you buy a stock, or make plans based on a weather forecast, play poker, you are consigning your fate to probability.

5 keeping your Whole Brain in Peak Condition. Take hold of this powerful tool and you can dispel uncertainty and understand the true odds in the game of life. Professor michael starbird of the university of Texas at Austin knows the secret of making numbers come alive to non-mathematicians: he picks intriguing, useful, and entertaining examples.

1 your amazing Prehistoric Memory. Probability comes to the rescue to describe what we should expect from the randomness of life.


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The Joy of Mathematics

You'll investigate the powerful techniques for manipulating numbers using algebra, trigonometry, calculus, geometry, and probability in lectures that may hark back to subjects you studied in high school and college. Throughout these lectures, award-winning professor Arthur T. 5 keeping your Whole Brain in Peak Condition.

These lectures are especially well suited for: anyone attracted by the promise of a joyful attitude to an often-imposing subject; anyone for whom high school and college math courses are a distant memory; anyone now taking math who would like a big-picture perspective on the major areas of the field; and budding math mavens who love numbers and the magic that can be done with them.

Combining entertaining number tricks with the deeper properties of mathematics, Fibonacci numbers, Professor Benjamin introduces you to prime numbers, and infinite series. But also prepare to sharpen your wits in ways you never thought possible. Lifetime manufacturer warranty. Be prepared to encounter strange equations, novel ways of thinking, and symbols and computational methods that may be new to you.

And you'll find these lectures both a useful refresher and a bird's-eye view of the most important areas of mathematics. Ready to exercise those brain cells? These 24 lectures celebrate the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses.

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The Art of Critical Decision Making The Great Courses, Great Courses

1 your amazing Prehistoric Memory. 5 keeping your Whole Brain in Peak Condition. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. 2 encoding Information with Images. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. 4 why and When We Forget. Learn to understand the underlying psychological, social, and emotional components that influence decision making in order to approach the critical decisions in your life with a more educated eye.

. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. 24 lectures. The course examines decision making on three levels: the individual level, the group level, and the organizational level. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. 3 maximizing Short- and Long-Term Memory.

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Understanding Investments

No matter where on your financial timeline you may be-whether you're just starting out, approaching retirement, or somewhere in between-there is no question that improving and enhancing your investment skills can have a positive impact on your financial life and in turn, your life goals.5 keeping your Whole Brain in Peak Condition.

Used book in Good Condition. 3 maximizing Short- and Long-Term Memory. And few things are as important in determining just what those financial resources are as your understanding of where and how to invest. What are your most important financial goals? sending your kids to college? Buying a new home? Retiring early? Having the freedom to not worry about whether you can afford to buy a new car or go on vacation? It's your financial resources that are the determining factor in how you're able to answer these and a host of other questions.

2 encoding Information with Images. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. In 24 lectures, it introduces the fundamentals of investing to those new to the subject while broadening and deepening the knowledge of more experienced investors. Even more important: the course shows you how to evaluate each of these in terms of your own financial situation.

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Museum Masterpieces: The Louvre

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3 maximizing Short- and Long-Term Memory. 12 lectures 30 min. 5 keeping your Whole Brain in Peak Condition. Dvd. Manufacturer's warranty only when purchased from The Great Courses. Each on 2 dvd's on the Fine Arts and Music from Dr. Richard brettell from University of Texas at Dallas. Used book in Good Condition. 1 your amazing Prehistoric Memory.

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