The Nonpareil Reading and Writing


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Every electronic product is created with a unique User Manual; to every newborn there’s no (human brain) User Manual. The newborn brain is left to nature (self-use and self-learn). Multitudes today rely heavily on “search engines” as opposed to their innate brain power companion for knowledge registration, retention and recall habit established at the outset. Yet the current educational system still requires the student to remember lessons taught through graded examinations, eventually graduating with or without honors or is a drop-out. Nonetheless, drop-out or graduate shall excel with brain power companionship. Reading and writing (at least in a major language) is essential. A superb means to learning, unlearning and relearning, not intended to over emphasize its benefits; realizing that knowledge may be gained through other practical means. To be classified as “functionally literate” by the UN, you will need to read at least 400 words per minute with 70%-80% comprehension. Being able to read is insufficient unless qualifying as functionally literate and this may be achieved through training in “speed reading”. This is Series 5 with the first entitled Nonpareil Learning Techniques. May you be blessed and be a blessing through these series of e-books produced and presented by The Nonpareil Program. Every electronic product is created with a unique User Manual; to every newborn there’s no (human brain) User Manual. The newborn brain is left to nature (self-use and self-learn). Multitudes today rely heavily on “search engines” as opposed to their innate brain power companion for knowledge registration, retention and recall habit established at the outset. Yet the current educational system still requires the student to remember lessons taught through graded examinations, eventually graduating with or without honors or is a drop-out. Nonetheless, drop-out or graduate shall excel with brain power companionship. Reading and writing (at least in a major language) is essential. A superb means to learning, unlearning and relearning, not intended to over emphasize its benefits; realizing that knowledge may be gained through other practical means. To be classified as “functionally literate” by the UN, you will need to read at least 400 words per minute with 70%-80% comprehension. Being able to read is insufficient unless qualifying as functionally literate and this may be achieved through training in “speed reading”. This is Series 5 with the first entitled Nonpareil Learning Techniques. May you be blessed and be a blessing through these series of e-books produced and presented by The Nonpareil Program.




Images and Shadows


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An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.




A Distant Trumpet


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Tells of a company of U.S. cavalry in Arizona in the 1880s, and their part in the wars against the Chiricahua Apaches.




The Nonpareil Process cum Learning


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Every electronic product is created with a unique User Manual; to every newborn there’s no (human brain) User Manual. The newborn brain is left to nature (self-use and self-learn). Multitudes today rely heavily on “search engines” as opposed to their innate brain power companion for knowledge registration, retention and recall habit established at the outset. Yet the current educational system still requires the student to remember lessons taught through graded examinations, eventually graduating with or without honors or is a drop-out. Nonetheless, drop-out or graduate shall excel with brain power companionship. We endeavor to assist and encourage each individual to attain the complete comprehension and incremental know-how of the process cum learning curve commencing with awareness through to advancement, the 5As. What’s rules or relationships? The synergistic effect of the 5As with Mind Play Ball, Conscious Engagement and the Tripods in collaboration is briefed. Ultimately, have belief in: Phil. 2:13 AMPC [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight. This is Series 6 with the first entitled Nonpareil Learning Techniques. May you be blessed and be a blessing through these series of e-books produced and presented by The Nonpareil Program.




How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes


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A survey of life on earth, in all its variety and pagentry, by a very annoyed humorist. From early man, the Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, to irascible observations on mankind and the animal kingdom today (including "Birds I Could Do Without"), Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit, is your guide in these are very funny essays. For eight years, from 1921 to 1929, Will Cuppy lived alone on Jones Island, off Long Island's South Shore. From that outpost, he gained a reputation for his factual but funny magazine articles and wrote the book, How to be a Hermit, his first bestseller. His last, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, was left unfinished after Cuppy's death in 1949 and has become a classic of American humor. In between (among other titles) was this very funny collection. First published in 1931, the subjects include "What I Hate About Spring," "Awful Mammals," and "Why Be a Rhinoceros?" Great for anyone who loves classic American humor.




How to Attract the Wombat


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A survey of the animal kingdom in which the nocturnal and tunneling wombat is awarded the greatest praise. Will Cuppy was something like the Larry David of the mid-20th century. From his perch as a staff writer at The New Yorker, Cuppy observed the world and found a great deal that annoyed him. This collection of essays on animals includes "Birds Who Can't Even Fly," "Optional Insects," "Octopuses and Those Things", and "How to Swat a Fly," which codifies the essentials in ten hilarious principles. And three essays on wombats. Perfect reading for the perplexed, befuddled, and perpetually irritated.




The Nonpareil Memory Aids and Memory Tools


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Every electronic product is created with a unique User Manual; to every newborn there’s no (human brain) User Manual. The newborn brain is left to nature (self-use and self-learn). Multitudes today rely heavily on “search engines” as opposed to their innate brain power companion for knowledge registration, retention and recall habit established at the outset. Yet the current educational system still requires the student to remember lessons taught through graded examinations eventually graduating with or without honors or is a drop-out. Nonetheless, drop-out or graduate shall excel with brain power companionship. Memory aids are naturally within everyone (born with) as is with conscious observation, association, etc. And of course so is mind collaboration as in making the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa... It’s the question of whether we use rightly these innate aids that’s within us or unknowingly used wrongly. With memory tools, these are created either by our-self or by others and applied to help us in memory enhancement. It is wise to cause synergy in and through both memory aids and tools as often as possible that will ease data into reliable remembering for registration, retention and recall; but not neglecting “FoR”. (Hosea 4:6, KJV reads, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge,...”). This is Series 4 with the first entitled Nonpareil Learning Techniques. May you be blessed and be a blessing through these series of e-books produced and presented by The Nonpareil Program.




The Nonpareil Awesome Brain


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Every electronic product is created with a unique User Manual; to every newborn there’s no (human brain) User Manual. The newborn brain is left to nature (self-use and self-learn). Multitudes today rely heavily on “search engines” as opposed to their innate brain power companion for knowledge registration, retention and recall habit established at the outset. Yet the current educational system still requires the student to remember lessons taught through graded examinations eventually graduating with or without honors or is a drop-out. Nonetheless, drop-out or graduate shall excel with brain power companionship. With the realization and appreciation of the awesome human brain working functioning capacities, its neuro-plasticity, neuro-genesis, etc. you can certainly enlarge the arena of your human brain efficient and effective use to your broader advantage and achievements. This is your very personal organ operated by and in your sole charge. Your habit patterns are formed from infancy till supposedly your heart stops beating. Your innate mental activities as well will continue till such time. Your body and awesome brain will work in synergy, complementing one another through mind collaboration and bodily wellness both consciously and subconsciously. Left to nature or “... direct thy paths.”? This is Series 3 with the first entitled Nonpareil Learning Techniques. May you be blessed and be a blessing through these series of e-books produced and presented by The Nonpareil Program.




As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning


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"I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far." Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change.




Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead


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Philosopher, mathematician, and general man of science, Alfred North Whitehead was a polymath whose interests and generous sympathies encompassed entire worlds. Here, clearly modelled on Eckermann's conversations with Goethe and recorded in Whitehead's own home, are some of the landmarks, signposts, milestones, and noble scenery of that extraordinary mind. Whitehead's approach to life and science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought - in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art, and conduct of life - are gathered and edited by the writer Lucien Price, a sophisticated journalist whose own interests were as eclectic as Whitehead's and whose memory for verbatim conversation was nothing short of miraculous. The scene, the Cambridge of Harvard from 1932-1947 (with flashbacks to London; Cambridge, England; and his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, men and women, often eminent, who join him for these penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries.--Back cover.