The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What's on your list? What's holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills - time you don't have and effort you can't spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy?
Over the last several decades, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have investigated the implicit and explicit continuum in language development and use from theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. This book addresses these perspectives in an effort to build connections among them and to draw pedagogical implications when possible.
50: Fifty Ways to Improve your Presentation Skills in English ...without Too Much Effort!
Do you want to feel more secure when delivering professional presentations in English? Do you want to know how to get your message across more clearly to a range of international audiences? Do you want some ideas on how to add impact to your presentations in order to influence more effectively? If the answer to any of these questions is Yes!then this is the book for you! This is a self-help manual for those business people: - who have English as their second language - who use English to give presentations - who want to develop their presentation skills.
In Pulleys, inhabitants of Mammoth Island try to find the best method to lift their mammoths. A young islander, Olive, decides to use a simple machine called a pulley to get the job done. A pulley is a wheel that carries a rope, chain or cable on its rim and can be used to lift a heavy load. And when multiple pulleys work together, they lessen the effort it takes to do work. So, using a ten-pulley system would require one-tenth of the effort of a single pulley to lift a mammoth!
Learn How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles With Little Effort
It seems that these days everyone is enjoying the game of Sudoko wherever they are. The Sudoku puzzle is ideal for whenever you have a few spare minutes and want to indulge in a little bit of thinking power. Sudoku, sometimes spelled “Su Doku”, is a puzzle that originated in Japan. The puzzle is known as a “placement” puzzle. In the United States Sudoku is sometimes called the “Number Place” puzzle.
