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In today's knowledge-driven economy, the ability to share insight and know-how is essential fordriving innovation and growth. In this groundbreaking volume, scholars from around the worlddemonstrate how communication and information technologies are enabling dynamic projectdesign and management practices that challenge traditional concepts of time, space and behavior.

This innovative textbook is the first to integrate learning and memory, behaviour, and cognition. Itfocuses on fascinating human research in both memory and learning (while also bringing inimportant animal studies) and brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in thesubject. Students are encouraged to think critically: key theories and issues are looked at in detail;descriptions of experiments include why they were done and how examining the method can helpevaluate competing viewpoints. By looking at underlying cognitive processes, students come awaywith a sense of learning and memory being interrelated actions taken by the same human being,rather than two separate activities. Lively and engaging writing is supported by lots of examples ofpractical applications that show the relevance of lab-based research to everyday life. Examplesinclude treatments for phobias and autism, ways to improve eyewitness testimony, and methods of

enhancing study techniques.

The old man isn't just anyone. In fact, professors familiar with previous editions of this book mayconclude that he is related to those extraterrestrials Kongor and Kro, who so successfully guidedstudents through the maze of historic and current theories that help us understand how humanslearn. And, wise as he is, the old man does the job even more effectively than his predecessors inthis Fourth Edition of THEORIES OF HUMAN LEARNING: WHAT THE OLD MAN SAID. Both aserious academic text and a delightful story, this book offers a clear, readable look at a full range oflearning theories?from behavioristic to cognitive?examining memory and motivation, and

concluding with a comprehensive synthesis. Its most apparent strength is its easily accessible style,but its greatest value lies in the clarity of its concepts.

In the age of information overload, this remarkably effective one-week program will teach you toread faster and to retain more of what you read.

The Evelyn Wood speed reading and learning programs have taught thousands of people of allages to more than double their reading speed and increase their comprehension. Here Stanley D.Frank, using a step by step method, outlines and illustrates the reading techniques that are proven

methods of getting more, faster, out of what you read. This book is the surefire way to:

Double your reading speedImprove your comprehensionTake better notesPrepare for deadlines with easeWrite clearly and concisely