Author: Dominic O'Brien
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811836340
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
World Memory Champion an unprecedented eight times, Dominic OBrien shows how anyone can improve their memory with this fun and colorful palm-sized book. For just under $5-and just in time for those holiday parties-this essential helpmate reveals the secrets to remembering names and faces. OBrien, author of the best-selling Learn to Remember, packs this quick-reference book with fun and easy tips for recall know-how geared toward real-life situations. Simple visualization tools, brainpower boosters, and advice on focusing the mind will help turn forgetfulness into a thing of the past. This tiny volume is perfect as a stocking stuffers or not-so-subtle gift for forgetful friends. For anyone whos ever introduced Susan as Stephanie (or worse), Never Forget gives those memory muscles a much-needed workout.
Never Forget a Name Or Face
Author: Dominic O'Brien
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811836340
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
World Memory Champion an unprecedented eight times, Dominic OBrien shows how anyone can improve their memory with this fun and colorful palm-sized book. For just under $5-and just in time for those holiday parties-this essential helpmate reveals the secrets to remembering names and faces. OBrien, author of the best-selling Learn to Remember, packs this quick-reference book with fun and easy tips for recall know-how geared toward real-life situations. Simple visualization tools, brainpower boosters, and advice on focusing the mind will help turn forgetfulness into a thing of the past. This tiny volume is perfect as a stocking stuffers or not-so-subtle gift for forgetful friends. For anyone whos ever introduced Susan as Stephanie (or worse), Never Forget gives those memory muscles a much-needed workout.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811836340
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
World Memory Champion an unprecedented eight times, Dominic OBrien shows how anyone can improve their memory with this fun and colorful palm-sized book. For just under $5-and just in time for those holiday parties-this essential helpmate reveals the secrets to remembering names and faces. OBrien, author of the best-selling Learn to Remember, packs this quick-reference book with fun and easy tips for recall know-how geared toward real-life situations. Simple visualization tools, brainpower boosters, and advice on focusing the mind will help turn forgetfulness into a thing of the past. This tiny volume is perfect as a stocking stuffers or not-so-subtle gift for forgetful friends. For anyone whos ever introduced Susan as Stephanie (or worse), Never Forget gives those memory muscles a much-needed workout.
Names You Never Remember, with Faces You Never Forget
Author: Justin Humphreys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Interviews with the great character actors of yesterday's fantastic films.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Interviews with the great character actors of yesterday's fantastic films.
Never Forget Names and Faces
Author: Dominic O'Brien
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781903296813
Category : Face perception
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Learn quick and easy tips to remember names and faces based on Dominic's world beating methods Remember the names of people you've met only once or many years ago, never stumble over a name again and match the name to the face every time. This fun pocket sized gem will change the way you use your brain - and give you endless entertainment. Make your life easier with effortless recollection.
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN: 9781903296813
Category : Face perception
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Learn quick and easy tips to remember names and faces based on Dominic's world beating methods Remember the names of people you've met only once or many years ago, never stumble over a name again and match the name to the face every time. This fun pocket sized gem will change the way you use your brain - and give you endless entertainment. Make your life easier with effortless recollection.
The Memory Book
Author: Harry Lorayne
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307814068
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Unleash the hidden power of your mind It’s there in all of us. A mental resource we don’t think much about. Memory. And now there’s a way to master its power. . . . Through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas’s simple, fail-safe memory system, you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful at work, at school, in sports, and at play. • Read with speed and greater understanding. • File phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head. • Send those birthday and anniversary cards on time. • Learn foreign words and phrases with ease. • Shine in the classroom and shorten study hours. • Dominate social situations: Remember and use important personal details. Begin today. The change in your life will be unforgettable
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307814068
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Unleash the hidden power of your mind It’s there in all of us. A mental resource we don’t think much about. Memory. And now there’s a way to master its power. . . . Through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas’s simple, fail-safe memory system, you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful at work, at school, in sports, and at play. • Read with speed and greater understanding. • File phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head. • Send those birthday and anniversary cards on time. • Learn foreign words and phrases with ease. • Shine in the classroom and shorten study hours. • Dominate social situations: Remember and use important personal details. Begin today. The change in your life will be unforgettable
How to Remember Names and Faces the Easy Way
Author: Ron White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522864349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This is THE book on how to memorize names and faces. It's the only name memory book written by a 2 time USA Memory Champion. Using these techniques Ron White has memorized 128 names in 15 minutes at the 2011 USA Memory Championship. What if you could just learn 128 new names this year? You can. What would it do for your friendships and business if you developed a great memory for names and faces? This is the ONLY memory book that has images for 1600 world wide names! No other book offers that.This will save you MONTHS off your learning curve. In this book you will learn:The 5 step simple process to remember names and facesThis is stopping your memory from working and how to fix it in secondsHow to focus your brain instantlyHow I memorized a room full of names on National Geographic show Brain GamesMeet 30 people in 30 minutes and recall all their namesI promise you this book will eliminate you being from embarrassed by not remembering names!This is the only book on how to remember names written by a 2 time USA Memory Champion! What is the hardest part of remembering names? It's turning the names into pictures. This is the only book on name memory with 1600 names turned into pictures for YOU!! This book will save you months or work in developing pictures for names. Get better at remembering names faster with these 1600 images than any other book This is the only book you will ever need for remembering names and faces. Q & A with Ron White Q: Can anyone improve their memory?A: Yes, I have taught these techniques to a 6 year old and watched her memorize the names of the 44 presidents of the USA literally in just 90 minutes. I have also taught a World War II veteran and he was the star of the class. Some people will learn the techniques and become memory champions. Others will just get better at remembering anes Q: How long does it take to get good at remembering names?A: It depends but what takes the longest is turning names into pictures and getting pictures in your head for common names. It could take a year to turn 500 names into a picture. But this book does that work for you turning 1600 names into pictures Q: What is it like to compete in the USA Memory Championship and World Memory Championship?A: It is a TON of fun. I wish more people would start doing these tournaments. They are such incredible fun and the people you meet who are pushing their memories are just incredible. Q: When did you realize you had this special ability?A: I don't have a special ability. Anyone can learn this system. I'm a normal guy who learned a system Q: What is the most names you have memorized?A: 128 names in 15 minutes at the USA Memory Championships. As a veteran of the military and war in Afghanistan I also memorized all the fallen heroes from the us military. Itis over 2,300 names and took me about 10 months. Q: How many names could the average person remember?A: How about this: Set a goal for yourself to meet and remember 100 new names this year. Sounds like a lot but it is only 2 a week but just imagine how knowing 100 new people would change your relationships. If I can do 128 names in 15 minutes you can do 100 in 12 months. Oh, for the record you can do 128 in 15 minutes too but you don't believe me now. Get the book and then you will believe me.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522864349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This is THE book on how to memorize names and faces. It's the only name memory book written by a 2 time USA Memory Champion. Using these techniques Ron White has memorized 128 names in 15 minutes at the 2011 USA Memory Championship. What if you could just learn 128 new names this year? You can. What would it do for your friendships and business if you developed a great memory for names and faces? This is the ONLY memory book that has images for 1600 world wide names! No other book offers that.This will save you MONTHS off your learning curve. In this book you will learn:The 5 step simple process to remember names and facesThis is stopping your memory from working and how to fix it in secondsHow to focus your brain instantlyHow I memorized a room full of names on National Geographic show Brain GamesMeet 30 people in 30 minutes and recall all their namesI promise you this book will eliminate you being from embarrassed by not remembering names!This is the only book on how to remember names written by a 2 time USA Memory Champion! What is the hardest part of remembering names? It's turning the names into pictures. This is the only book on name memory with 1600 names turned into pictures for YOU!! This book will save you months or work in developing pictures for names. Get better at remembering names faster with these 1600 images than any other book This is the only book you will ever need for remembering names and faces. Q & A with Ron White Q: Can anyone improve their memory?A: Yes, I have taught these techniques to a 6 year old and watched her memorize the names of the 44 presidents of the USA literally in just 90 minutes. I have also taught a World War II veteran and he was the star of the class. Some people will learn the techniques and become memory champions. Others will just get better at remembering anes Q: How long does it take to get good at remembering names?A: It depends but what takes the longest is turning names into pictures and getting pictures in your head for common names. It could take a year to turn 500 names into a picture. But this book does that work for you turning 1600 names into pictures Q: What is it like to compete in the USA Memory Championship and World Memory Championship?A: It is a TON of fun. I wish more people would start doing these tournaments. They are such incredible fun and the people you meet who are pushing their memories are just incredible. Q: When did you realize you had this special ability?A: I don't have a special ability. Anyone can learn this system. I'm a normal guy who learned a system Q: What is the most names you have memorized?A: 128 names in 15 minutes at the USA Memory Championships. As a veteran of the military and war in Afghanistan I also memorized all the fallen heroes from the us military. Itis over 2,300 names and took me about 10 months. Q: How many names could the average person remember?A: How about this: Set a goal for yourself to meet and remember 100 new names this year. Sounds like a lot but it is only 2 a week but just imagine how knowing 100 new people would change your relationships. If I can do 128 names in 15 minutes you can do 100 in 12 months. Oh, for the record you can do 128 in 15 minutes too but you don't believe me now. Get the book and then you will believe me.
Never Forget to Laugh
Author: Carol Howe
Publisher: Carol Howe
ISBN: 1889642223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Publisher: Carol Howe
ISBN: 1889642223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Moonwalking with Einstein
Author: Joshua Foer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475978
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475978
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
All Our Names
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385349998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart—one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385349998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart—one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
My Journey with Maya
Author: Tavis Smiley
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316341738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music, love, purpose, and -- more than anything -- courage. Courage to be open, to follow dreams, to believe in oneself. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley recalls a joyful friendship filled to the brim with sparkling conversation -- in Angelou's gardens surrounded by her caged birds, before lectures, sharing meals, and on breaks from it all, they sought each other out for comfort, advice, and above all else, friendship. It began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, was invited to join the revered writer on a sojourn to Africa. He would be handling her bags, but Maya didn't let that stop a friendship waiting to happen. Angelou was generous, challenging, and inspirational. Like a mother to him, she was selfless. Here Tavis Smiley shares his personal memories of Maya Angelou, of a decades-long friendship with one of history's most fascinating women, one who left as indelible an imprint on American culture as she did on him.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316341738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music, love, purpose, and -- more than anything -- courage. Courage to be open, to follow dreams, to believe in oneself. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley recalls a joyful friendship filled to the brim with sparkling conversation -- in Angelou's gardens surrounded by her caged birds, before lectures, sharing meals, and on breaks from it all, they sought each other out for comfort, advice, and above all else, friendship. It began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, was invited to join the revered writer on a sojourn to Africa. He would be handling her bags, but Maya didn't let that stop a friendship waiting to happen. Angelou was generous, challenging, and inspirational. Like a mother to him, she was selfless. Here Tavis Smiley shares his personal memories of Maya Angelou, of a decades-long friendship with one of history's most fascinating women, one who left as indelible an imprint on American culture as she did on him.
The Woman Who Can't Forget
Author: Jill Price
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847376010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took place, as long as she heard about it that day. Her memories are like scenes from home movies, constantly playing in her head, backward and forward, through the years; not only does she make no effort to call her memories to mind, she cannot stop them. The Woman Who Can't Forgetis the beautifully written and moving story of Jill's quest to come to terms with her extraordinary memory, living with a condition that no one understood, including her, until the scientific team who studied her finally charted the extraordinary terrain of her abilities. As we learn of Jill's struggles first to realize how unusual her memory is and then to contend, as she grows up, with the unique challenges of not being able to forget -- remembering both the good times and the bad, the joyous and the devastating, in such vivid and insistent detail -- the way her memory works is contrasted to a wealth of discoveries about the workings of normal human memory and normal human forgetting. Intriguing light is shed on the vital role of what's called "motivated forgetting"; as well as theories about childhood amnesia, the loss of memory for the first two to three years of our lives; the emotional content of memories; and the way in which autobiographical memories are normally crafted into an ever-evolving and empowering life story.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847376010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world event or cultural happening that took place, as long as she heard about it that day. Her memories are like scenes from home movies, constantly playing in her head, backward and forward, through the years; not only does she make no effort to call her memories to mind, she cannot stop them. The Woman Who Can't Forgetis the beautifully written and moving story of Jill's quest to come to terms with her extraordinary memory, living with a condition that no one understood, including her, until the scientific team who studied her finally charted the extraordinary terrain of her abilities. As we learn of Jill's struggles first to realize how unusual her memory is and then to contend, as she grows up, with the unique challenges of not being able to forget -- remembering both the good times and the bad, the joyous and the devastating, in such vivid and insistent detail -- the way her memory works is contrasted to a wealth of discoveries about the workings of normal human memory and normal human forgetting. Intriguing light is shed on the vital role of what's called "motivated forgetting"; as well as theories about childhood amnesia, the loss of memory for the first two to three years of our lives; the emotional content of memories; and the way in which autobiographical memories are normally crafted into an ever-evolving and empowering life story.