Benedict Carey

A leading neuroscientist presents an exploration of what is known about learning and memory that considers how to adapt such negative characteristics as ignorance and laziness to expand learning potential.

The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and why it Happens

How We Learn

Como Aprendemos

Ne Zaman, Nerede Neden Oldugu Hakkinda Sasirtici Gercek

Nasil Ögreniriz

Murder in the lab! The famous forensic scientist Dr. Ramachandran is stone-cold dead, and Ruby Rose’s father is the prime suspect. It’s one more reason for Ruby to hate the Gardens, the funky urban neighborhood to which she has been transplanted. Wise but shy, artistic but an outsider, Ruby must marshal everything and everyone she can to help solve the mystery and prove her father didn’t poison his boss. Everyone? The list isn’t too long: there’s T. Rex, Ruby’s big, goofy but goodhearted friend; maybe those other two weird kids from class; and that mysterious old lady in the apartment upstairs, who seems to know a lot about chemistry . . . which could come in very handy. Praise for Poison Most Vial “Carey mixes toxic chemistry and logic problems in his second middle-grade mystery to good, if not great effect. Budding chemists and crime-scene investigators will especially enjoy this science whodunit.” —Kirkus Reviews Awards VOYA Top Shelf for Middle School Readers 2012 list

A Mystery

Poison Most Vial

Barbara Oakley

Henry L. Roediger

David Didau

Aaron S. Benjamin

Nicholas C. Soderstrom

Francis J. Pirozzolo

Alan D. Castel

Daniel Wellingham

Study Smart will show you in clear, simple terms how you can use breakthroughs from the science of learning to study smarter for the SAT/ACT-or anything else, for that matter. Backed by decades of research from university learning labs, the techniques in Study Smart are surprising, counterintuitive, and best of all, have been shown to really work. Study Smart will help you learn the fundamentals of how to study for the SAT/ACT and change the way you study forever.

10 Ways to Master the SAT/ACT Using the Science of Learning

Study Smart

We all know the singular torture of cramming for exams at school or for the big presentation at work: staying up later and later, forcing yourself to read through increasingly blurred lists of facts, foreign vocabulary, equations or facts about 'ox-bow lakes'. The good news is that it doesn't have to be that way. Brain scientists are aiming to transform education. For more than a century they toiled in their own world, in labs, working out the minutiae of memory while teachers and tutors followed their own instincts. That is beginning to change. Cutting edge experiments into how our brains retain information have proved that the standard advice for learning has been flawed and in some cases, flat out wrong. Based on new research in cognitive science, education and psychology, we learn that some children are visual learners while others are auditory; some left brain, others right brain. The brain is sensitive to mood, timing, circadian rhythm, even location. In short, it’s an eccentric, adaptive learning machine. Studybreak is both a game-changing report from the frontline of educational research, and a call to arms. It tells us how the brain operates on a cellular level, how memory storage and retrieval are related and even how sleep factors in optimal memory and learning. This book is not about how to be a genius. It’s about something far grander: how to get the most out of tonight’s homework.

The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens

Ram Charan

Michael Useem

De tudo o que se segue, eis o ponto mais importante: os CEOs devem dirigir a empresa, mas os conselheiros também são encarregados de liderar a organização nas questões mais cruciais. O monitoramento continua sendo importante. A governança ainda é relevante. Mas chegou a hora de os conselhos de administração reequilibrarem suas responsabilidades. Os conselheiros precisam saber quando assumir o comando, quando atuar em parceria e quando ficar fora do caminho. Reguladores, investidores e colaboradores estão pressionando os conselhos a cumprir suas responsabilidades e garantir os resultados da empresa. Isso requer várias decisões que só o conselho pode tomar: a decisão de selecionar, reter ou afastar o CEO; de estabelecer uma cultura de ética e integridade; de definir metas e incentivos para a equipe executiva; e de avaliar a ideia central da empresa, seu apetite para o risco e sua estrutura de capital. Por que a liderança do conselho é importante? Porque, com muita frequência, o destino de empresas, colaboradores e acionistas depende disso. Apresentamos relatos da Ford Motor Company americana, da BHP Billiton australiana, do Grupo RBS brasileiro, da GlaxoSmithKline britânica, da Bharti Airtel indiana, da Lenovo chinesa, entre outras organizações, nos quais você encontrará exemplos de conselheiros que mudaram o destino da empresa. Para ver como alguns conselhos também podem deixar a empresa e seus stakeholders à deriva, analisaremos empresas que fracassaram, incluindo várias que caíram no abismo. A liderança de um conselho de administração pode criar valor e sua ausência pode destruir o valor. Com base em práticas que estão surgindo em uma série de empresas, este livro oferece recomendações práticas para conselhos que ambicionam fazer uma grande diferença na liderança.

As Vantagens de uma Liderança Compartilhada entre Conselheiros e Executivos

Governança Ativa

When people start vanishing from a godforsaken trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, two eleven-year-olds investigate using mathematical clues that were hastily planted by their friend Mrs. Clarke before she disappeared.

The Unknowns

This gripping mystery, spiked with math clues, follows quirky outcasts Lady Di and Tom Jones as they try to save their woebegone island community. In their trailer park next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish, and no one seems to care. At first the kids barely notice the disappearances themselves—until their beloved math tutor, Mrs. Clarke, is abducted too. Mrs. Clarke has left them clues to her whereabouts in the form of equations that lead them all over the trailer park, through hidden tunnels under nearby “Mount Trashmore,” and into the Folsom Energy Plant itself, where Lady Di and Tom Jones and a gang of other misfits uncover the sordid truth about what’s really happening on their island. Readers “will be swept up in the fast talk and exciting action” (Booklist) of this “inheritor of The Westing Game” (Kirkus) that is sure to make math lovers of even the most determined number-phobes.

Island of the Unknowns

Die Wissenschaft hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten vieles über den Haufen geworfen, was wir darüber zu wissen glaubten, wie das Gehirn Informationen aufnimmt und verarbeitet. Fest steht: Wir lernen von Geburt an schnell, effizient und automatisch. Weil wir diesen Vorgang unbedingt systematisieren wollen, betrachten wir Vergessen, Schlafen und Tagträumen als hinderlich. Dabei sind sie wertvolle Hilfsmittel, die den Eigenarten unseres Gehirns Rechnung tragen. Benedict Carey erklärt, mit welchen Methoden wir uns Stoffe leichter einprägen und unser problemlösendes Denken verbessern können und wie wir die Potenziale des Unbewussten möglichst effizient nutzen – lernen, ohne nachzudenken. Nebenbei erfahren wir, dass Ablenkung zu Unrecht verteufelt wird, Wiederholung keineswegs immer weiterhilft und es sinnvoll ist, sich zu Themen testen zu lassen, über die man noch gar nichts weiß. Ein äußerst unterhaltsam geschriebenes Buch voller überraschender Erkenntnisse, das zeigt: Lernen muss keine Qual sein.

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