Author : Robert Burns Arnot
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780316051613
Presents an innovative program--incorporating nutrition, fitness routines, breathing exercises, music therapy, and other techniques--designed to enhance one's mental energy and develop a positive attitude
Author : Bob Arnot
Publisher : NewLeaf
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2000-02-29
Category :
ISBN : 9780717130436
Life's biggest winners all exhibit tremendous, persistent, positive mental energy. Winners have an energy that allows them to rise about the mundane, to cut through the red tape and experience the flashes of brilliance necessary to win in the modern competetive world.
Author : Mark Kalk
Publisher : Learning Express (NY)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781576854839
Learning biology has just gotten a whole lot easier with Biology Success in 20 Minutes a Day! Packed with hands-on activities, real-life examples, step-by-step lessons, targeted practice exercises, and effective test-taking strategies, Biology Success will provide you with all the tools you need to master essential biology skills in no time at all! Whether it's preparing for Advanced Placement exams or tackling challenging homework problems for class, this book is your key to success. Book jacket.
Author : Bob Arnot
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780316051293
This step-by-step program designed by Dr. Arnot enables readers to change undesirable habits and behavior and to create optimal conditions for succeeding, and, ultimately, to achieve their personal best. Includes information on diet, exercise, how to make simple changes to improve mood, and more.
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0691178437
How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Author : Peter C. Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674729013
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners. Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.
Author : Letina Banks
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2016-12-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781516511174
Those entering a university often find themselves unprepared and lacking in the skills necessary to do well in this new environment. This book helps students to bridge the gap between their past learning experiences and the new expectations they face as college students. Professional Development in Biology: Strategies for Success gives students the tools they need to succeed in college and beyond when preparing for health care industry careers. The first chapter of the book addresses the transition from high school to college. The next five chapters that follow cover areas such as being responsible for your actions, self-knowledge and awareness, setting goals, the importance of passion, and time management. The last two chapters of the book provide valuable information for students who are preparing for further study. Post-college goals, management of personal finances, and communication style are addressed, with special focus on what is needed to become a competitive applicant to professional schools. The student wisdom section offers advice and motivational tips from peers, and information is provided about applying to professional schools and ways to track professional development. The material in Professional Development in Biology is a useful, effective tool for new students. The book is geared to freshmen and transfer students, but can also be used by those preparing for advanced study in medical, dental, or pharmacological programs. Letina Banks has a master's degree in science education from Nova Southeastern University. She is a professor and pre-health professional advisor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida A&M University, where she teaches courses in biology and professional development. She has worked in education for more than twenty-five years, and has specialized in pre-health professional advising for the last ten. She is a member of both the Southern Association of Advisors and the National Association of Advisors and has served as the advisor to the Biology Student Organization and the Undergraduate Student National Dental Association. In 2009, Professor Banks received the Advisor of the Year Award.
Author : Robert Burns Arnot
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Mental health
ISBN : 9780733607998
First published in the US. This guide to becoming successful at work and in other areas provides advice on creating positive thought patterns and increasing your natural energy. Discusses topics such as the role of appearance, sleep patterns, exercise, attitude and diet in improving the ability to function effectively. ncludes a bibliography and an index.The author's other publications include 'The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet'.
Author : Stuart Firestein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 019939010X
In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure.
Author : Ellen D. Wu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0691168024
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
