Why Reading Matters

Speaking is already in our genes. But reading is not. Until about 100 years ago most people didn't do it all. When we read fiction especially, we create new pathways in our brain. Reading 30 pages of fiction every night, gets the pathways thicker and thicker. Our brain needs a workout just like our body...

The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind [Audiobook

A leading science writer examines how the brain's capacity reaches its peak in middle age. For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time and its dying cells led to memory slips, fuzzy logic, negative thinking, and even depression. But new research from neuroscientists and psychologists suggests that, in fact, the brain reorganizes, improves in important functions, and even helps us adopt a more optimistic outlook in middle age.  

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POOH GOES VISITING AND POOH AND PIGLET NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE. A Pooh & Piglet Book.2

         Pooh Goes Visiting

         and Pooh and Piglet

        Nearly Catch a Woozle

 

In which Pooh discovers he has been Foolish and Deluded and is a Bear of No Brain at All…

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted

The key to a better body is a healthy brain. Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amen’s two decades of clinical practice at the renowned Amen Clinics, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body shows you how to take the very best care of your brain. With fifteen practical, easy-to-implement solutions Dr. Amen shows you how to:

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Word Games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English

This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English language and with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed.