The book covers several memory improvement principles such as Interest, Selection, Attention, Understanding...(11 principles). Several memory systems are explained in the book : Observation, Concentration, Visualisation/Imaging.. (7 systems). The book also covers a system for remembering names and numbers. I thought the names section was quite good. I decided not to learn the number system, but as it says in the book, it is not for everybody. More...The book is not about complicated memory systems.
Reveals the confusion that results from misleading popular names of plants and points out the advantages of a sound, scientific approach. These few chapters cover virtually every aspect of the subject of how plants get their names and what those names signify. 11 illustrations.
2007 - 2008 Basic and Clinical Science Course Section 1: Update on General Medicine
Informs ophthalmologists about the medical conditions most likely to affect their patients, such as infectious, metabolic, and cardiovascular diseases; cancer; and rheumatologic disorders. Includes a discussion of geriatrics and an extensively revised chapter on statistics. Contains numerous updated references as well as helpful tables listing the names, indications, and side effects of antiobiotic, antihypertensive, and anticancer drugs.
This new type of geographical dictionary lists past and present alternate names of more than 7,000 places. It focuses particularly on placenames with official or semiofficial status rather than nicknames or colloquial abbreviations. Alternate placenames are important for historical and geographical reasons, and although they predominate in countries that have undergone wars and invasions, such alternate names can equally well result from political or administrative changes.
This book is intended for young teenage students of English as a foreign language.
A winter's night. Thick snow. A small hotel in the middle of nowhere. Janey has just checked in when the mysterious 'Mr Todd' arrives. Janey does not know his name, but his face is familiar.
