Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean
Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us. In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language...
On Course: Study Skills Plus Edition (3rd Edition)
This book empowers you with the tools you need to take charge of your academic and lifelong success. A self-assessment at the beginning of the text helps you identify behaviors and beliefs you may wish to change in order to achieve more of your potential in college and in life. Through short articles and distinctive guided journal entries, the author encourages you to explore and develop eight keys to your success: personal responsibility, self-motivation, self-management, interdependence, self-awareness, lifelong learning, emotional intelligence, and self-esteem...
Our memories are amazing and able to store some 2.5 petabytes of data—about 300 million hours of television programming. But how do we make memories, and why do we forget? What’s our memory like now, with our digital-era brains, and what can we do to build a better memory? All of these questions and more are answered in this new special edition from the editors of TIME, The Science of Memory. Herein, you’ll learn about the Time-Bending Magic of Smell, the Myths of Aging, and Why Sleeping on It Is Key for Memory.
Speed Reading: Strategies to Read Faster for Accelerated Learning in 12 Hours or Less
Would You Like To Get More Out Of Your Studying Sessions?
Have You Tried Several Ways To Help You Speed Up Your Reading?
Do You Want To Be A Fast-Reading Bookworm?
Your reading can improve in 12 hours or less! With this guide, you will discover everything you need to know about reading comprehension.
Learn How To Increase Your Reading Speed By 300%
So many people waste their time reading at a slow pace, using many of the techniques that they learned as children in their reading even when they are adults. This is slowing them down so much, and they are missing out on some of the great things that they could be learning in the process.
Mind Mapping For Dummies explains how mind mapping works, why it's so successful, and the many ways it can be used. It takes you through the wide range of approaches to mind mapping, looks at the available mind mapping software options, and investigates advanced mind mapping techniques for a range of purposes, including studying for exams, improving memory, project management, and maximizing creativity.Suitable for students of all ages and study levelsAn excellent resource for people working on creative projects who wish to use mind mapping to develop their ideasShows businesspeople how to maximize their efficiency, manage projects, and brainstorm effectively.
