Review:If you've been reading memory palace techniques but stop short of trying it out, this is the book to get you started.

It got me building my own palace and I'm using it right now. With all skills, it takes practice and it does feel clumsy at first to map things into the palace. I'm still getting the hang of it.

A couple of possible Improvements will make it 5 stars for me
1) Some of the examples are too americanized and hard to imagine. Localizing it or using more global/famous e... Read more

Review:My 10-year old daughter first borrowed this CD set from the public library. She listened to it over and over (each night at bedtime). She liked it so much she didn't want to give it back, but there is always a waiting list for it. We decided to buy it for her, and she still listens to it almost every night as she falls asleep. Great story and great reading by Beth MacDonald! I definitely recommend it. Read more

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Review:The Woman Warrior can be a difficult to follow work. It is classified as a autobiography, but is actually something of a collection of experiences from Maxine Hong Kingston’s life synthesized with five “talk-stories,” spoken Chinese folk tales of ancient history, myths, and beliefs as told by Kingston and Kingston’s mother, into sections. As readers progress, they are lead through Kingston’s own coming-of-age experiences, vague in their placement in time while meticulously precise in their captu... Read more

Review:Its a good begining for the rookies in tracing. Takes them step by step. Only gripe is the letters used for tracing are huge. I am wondering whether it is because it would be much easier for them to write smaller when they get to do it..dunno. Read more

Review:The book gives quantitative and qualitative research to completely debunk testing and the corporate takeover of education. Every teacher and parent in America should read it. There would then be a groundswell of protest against the current trends in education"reform."

It is very readible and flows well, very enjoyable as well as informative. Read more

Review:'Fascists are inferior people who believe it when somebody tells them they're superior.'

We read the memoirs of the last president of the USA, now 100 years old and living on the Island of Death, Manhattan. A plague has decimated the island population. He isn't senile, but he has these hiccups.
The essence of this light novelette is not politics or the apocalypse, it is the relationship of the hero with his twin sister. Together they are genius, separated they are just average. Apart f... Read more

Review:Sir Kenneth Robinson (aka "Sir Ken") is a well known English Speaker, professor, and International advisor on Education. He is currently professor emeritus of education at the University of Warwick. His is also known for speaking at the global set of conferences known as TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - his talk "How schools kill creativity " was fascinating.

However, he has moved to the USA and has now put out this fascinating and far reaching book on how to transform this... Read more

Review:Oakley explains the best and worst study techniques as if she were explaining it to a 5 year old. It's a fast, simple read. Tons and tons of useful information and techniques to employ. Every high school student should read it. They should read it again in college. Every year. Read more

Review:careful where you read it, an emotional trip on each diary entry. Inspirational if the worlds teachers were all half as good. If we were all half as good as we could be toward each other... a must read for all schools, but how many will be brave enough to highlight their short comings.. and ours.. Read more