Author by : Richard Restak, M.D.
Description : Read Now Mozart S Brain And The Fighter Pilot by Richard Restak, M.D. and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. in mozart's brain and the fighter pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author richard restak, m.d., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives. everything we think and everything we choose to do alters our brain and fundamentally changes who we are, a process that continues until the end of our lives. few people think of the brain as being susceptible to change in its actual structure, but in fact we can preselect the kind of brain we will have by continually exposing ourselves to rich and varied life experiences. unlike other organs that eventually wear out with repeated and sustained use, the brain actually improves the more we challenge it. most of us incorporate some kind of physical exercise into our daily lives. we do this to improve our bodies and health and generally make us feel better. why not do the same for the brain? the more we exercise it, the better it performs and the better we feel. think of restak as a personal trainer for your brain—he will help you assess your mental strengths and weaknesses, and his entertaining book will set you to thinking about the world and the people around you in a new light, providing you with improved and varied skills and capabilities. from interacting with colleagues to recognizing your own psychological makeup, from understanding the way you see something to why you're looking at it in the first place, from explaining the cause of panic attacks to warding off performance anxiety, this book will tell you the whys and hows of the brain's workings. packed with practical advice and fascinating examples drawn from history, literature, and science, mozart's brain and the fighter pilot provides twenty-eight informative and realistic steps that we can all take to improve our brainpower. from the hardcover edition.
Description : Read Now Musical Perceptions by Annette Aiello and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. this introduction to the perception and cognition of music has been designed for both psychology and music students. the chapters are prefaced by editorial comments that give readers a background to the research discussed by the contributors.
Description : Read Now The Brain Has A Mind Of Its Own by Richard M. Restak and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. neurologist and best-selling author richard restak puts readers in touch with the latest scientific findings about the most complex and inscrutable object in creation--the human brain. "by all means let richard restak take you on this lively journey to the very roots of our being. along the way you will gain new understanding of consciousness, dreams, drugs, emotions, memory loss, and many kindred subjects."--william warner line drawings.
Description : Read Now The Gifted Adult by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done . . . extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears . . . intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feeling? if these traits sound familiar, then you may be an everyday genius--an ordinary person of unusual vision who breaks the mold and isn't afraid to push progress forward. . . . as thought-provoking as daniel goleman's emotional intelligence, psychologist mary-elaine jacobsen's gifted adults draws on a wide range of groundbreaking research and her own clinical experience to show america's twenty million gifted adults how to identify and free their extraordinary potential. gifted adults presents the first practical tool for rating your evolutionary intelligence quotient through an in-depth personality-type profile. demystifying what it means to be a gifted adult, this book offers practical guidance for eliminating self-sabotage and underachievement, helping everyday geniuses and those who know, love, and work with them to understand and support the exceptional gifts inherent in these unique personality traits.
Description : Read Now I Before E Except After C by Parkinson Judy and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adults. featuring all the mnemonics you?ll ever need to know, this fun little book will bring back all the simple, easy-to-remember rhymes from your childhood?once learned, fix the information in the brain forever?such as learning to count by reciting ?one, two, buckle my shoe, three, four, knock at the door.? packed with clever verses, engaging acronyms, curious?and sometimes hilarious?sayings that can be used to solve a problem or cap an argument. take a trip back to the classroom, and rediscover the assortment of practical memory aids covering a range of different subjects, including spelling, time, mathematics, history, general trivia, and much more. the information is organized in short snippets by category such as: * geographically speaking: remember north east south west by reciting never eat slimy worms or naughty elephants squirt water. * time and the calendar: ?thirty days hath september, april, june, and november; all the rest have 31 excepting february alone; and that has 28 days clear; with 29 in each leap year? * think of a number: know the roman numerals by remembering ?i value xylophones like cows dig milk? * world history: ?in fourteen hundred, ninety-two, columbus sailed the ocean blue, and found this land, land of the free, beloved by you, beloved by me? the clever verses, engaging acronyms, curious sayings are endless. guaranteed to amuse and inform, here is a perfect gift for any language lover?complete with a to/from gift plate.
Description : Read Now Mysteries Of The Mind by Richard M. Restak and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. offers a study of the anatomy, capabilities, and emotive aspects of the human brain, organized into five thematic sections.
Description : Read Now Markets In Profile by James F. Dalton and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. markets in profile explores the confluence of three disparate philosophical frameworks: the market profile, behavioral finance, and neuroeconomics in order to present a unified theory of how markets work. the market profile is an ever-evolving, multidimensional graphic that gives visual form to the market's continuing auction process, revealing the myriad underlying dynamics that influence market activity. behavioral finance posits that investors are driven more by emotional factors and the subjective interpretation of minutia than by "rationality" when making investment decisions. and neuroeconomics is the study of how investor psychology permeates and affects the financial markets. mr. dalton explicates the ways in which irrational human behavior influences the market's natural auction process, creating frequently predictable market structure, which results in opportunities for investors to ameliorate risk. the book will improve investors ability to interpret change in markets, enabling better, more confident investment decisions.
Description : Read Now Autism Is Not A Life Sentence by Claudie Gordon-Pomares and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account.
Description : Read Now Brainscapes by Richard Restak and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. a comprehensive overview of the workings and abilities of the brain covers its structure and components, how it functions consciously and unconsciously, the ways in which brain cells communicate with one another and other parts of the body, and much more. reprint. ab.
Description : Read Now Islands Of Genius by Darold A. Treffert and you can download with pub, pdf, txt, doc, and more file format with free account. in this fascinating book, dr. treffert looks at what we know about savant syndrome, and at new discoveries that raise interesting questions about the hidden brain potential within us all. he looks both at how savant skills can be nurtured, and how they can help the person who has them, particularly if that person is on the autism spectrum.