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Improve Your Memory
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.14
EAN: 9781401889142
Edition: 5
ISBN: 140188914X
Label: Delmar Cengage Learning
Manufacturer: Delmar Cengage Learning
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: July 29, 2004
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Studio: Delmar Cengage Learning
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Editorial Review:
Provides the reader with the essential principles of memory to help them increase their ability to retain what they read, perform better on tests, or just remember where you they last put their car keys. For high school students, college students, and anyone seeking to improve his or her memory power. This revised and updated edition helps the reader understand the different kinds of memory and presents the latest techniques and the proven formulas that can boost their memory power.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good, but disappointing
Let me make this clear: Improve Your Memory will help you if you don't know anything about the subject (i.e. about memory), however there are better books with more techniques. It also disappointed me when compared to the others in the series.
It has the advantage of being clearly written (though keeps repeating things that are written in the other books by Fry, which is a fault of all books in the series) and I believe it is a perfect book for high school. But if you already know about ... Read More
Rating: - Good for students I guess
I wanted to be able to remember to take the trash out in the morning... this book teaches you how to remember that Lolita was written in 1958. Basically it uses word associations -- things like coming up with a little song ("In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue") or mnemonics (to remember that the elemental symbol for Tin is Sn, picture a tin snake so whenever you think of tin you think of a Snake). Then it teaches how to use this stuff to remember strings of numbers, dates, etc. Probably pretty ... Read More
Rating:  - great author
I am 37 year old non traditional student going back to finish a masters degree and continue with law school. Fry's books have been helpful. I have especially appreciated his remarks about adult ADD, as I have had ADDsince 4th grade, but have been untreated until recently. I am glad that distinguished authors like Mr Fry state their positions about the condition and the use in as objective terms as possible, even if they are in disagreement with this "controversial" phenomenon. This is ... Read More
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