Sternberg presents a theory of thinking styles that aims to explain why aptitude tests, school grades, and classroom performance often fail to identify real ability.

A course for 'busy' students who want to learn natural spoken Japanese. This series is prepared by a working group of experienced Japanese language instructors who reviewed and tested the material in a classroom environment.

A comprehensive work on the meaning, practice, and ramifications of learner-centred teaching, this book presents evidence for trying teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to the task of delivering content.

A masterful story of a young girl plucked from her village by the king's ministers in order to learn the skills of a princess. What becomes a familiar story, quickly becomes a dark, powerful allegory of issues being faced by young women

Focusing on learning and organizational politics, this book addresses the key issues of: organizational learning and action science; organizational development and human resource activities; and usable knowledge and how it is inhibited. It is useful for those who needs to understand how organizations work, evolve, and learn.

Contains life hacks that teach you to: use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall. This work also helps you perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin; use effective systems to capture new ideas; and communicate in creative new ways using artificial languages.

Focuses on the importance of critical thinking and the vital role education should play. This work argues that the educator's fundamental role is to train us to think well.

An account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory in studies of cognition. Drawing comparisons with navigation, this study argues that cultural systems have cognitive properties of their own that differ from the cognitive properties of the individuals within them.

Contains the classic chapters that describe the roots and principles of andragogy. This book focuses on the advancements in adult learning and contains a selection of topical readings that advance the theory and will include the HRD style inventory developed by Dr Malcolm Knowles.

The author demonstrates that there exist many human intelligences , common to all cultures - each with its own patterns of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others.

Accelerated learning - the use of the full mind and the whole personality to speed and enhance learning - has impressed trainers and learners worldwide with its effectiveness. This title is a guide to this learning approach. It explains an instructional design methodology and presents hundreds of practical techniques and ideas.

In this text, renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nuez to provide a study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas. They argue that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious.

Combines the features of modern and traditional methods of Latin teaching from first stages to GCSE. This work provides an approach to Latin based on reading of original texts. Parts I-III in it are built around the life of Horace, based on historical sources, which helps students to develop an understanding of the times of Cicero and Augustus.

Learn how you can unleash the remaining 99% of your brain with the power of mind maps in this definitive, full-colour illustrated edition of The Mind Map Book.

The latest edition of a classic Latin textbook offers students forty concise chapters with thorough explanation of Latin grammar and readings, self-tutorial exercises with answer keys, an extensive dictionary of vocabulary, a selection of original Latin readings, etymological aids, and cultural, literary, historical, and mythological maps and backg

Shows the authors passion for knowledge and sense of fun. This work features revealing pieces that spans his lifetime of enthusiasm for discovering what makes the world tick - including tales of early student experiments; safe cracking and outwitting US censors during the Second World War; and his first lecture as a graduate student.

Improve your presentations and increase your impact with 50 powerful, practical, and easy to apply techniques for Powerpoint.

Sophie finds two questions in her mailbox: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? This is the start of her journey through the history of philosophy, guided by a mysterious mentor. To find the truth, we must understand the questions, but the truth is stranger than Sophie can imagine.

A fully revised edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book.

Chess and martial arts champion Josh Waitzkin lays out his battle-tested principles of learning and performance to give readers tools for excellence and success.