Authors:Susannah Radstone, Katharine Hodgkin,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: memory, narrative, recognition, subjectivity, cultures
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412804841
ISBN-13: 9781412804844
Memory Cultures is an interdisciplinary collection that takes a journey through memory in order to contextualize this current "memory boom." International contributors focus on memories "outside" -in the many fields within which understandings of memory have been produced. The collection focuses less on memory as an object whose inner workings are to be studied, and more on memory as a concept, tracing genealogies of our contemporary Western understandings of memory through studies of the early modern arts of memory. The book also discusses nineteenth-century evolutionary museums, and the mod
Author: Tony Buza
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: memory, third, plume, improving, new, dramatic, perfect, techniques
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1991-01-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0452266068
ISBN-13: 9780452266063
Now in a totally updated edition--the secrets of how to stretch memory skills to the fullest. Buzan has devised an ingenious system for memory improvement, geared to handle each specific memory problem--from everyday names and phone numbers to special programs for card players to showing students how to prepare for and get optimum results on exams.
Authors:Selma Leydesdorff, Luisa Passerini, Paul Thompson,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: memory, narrative, gender
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412804639
ISBN-13: 9781412804639
Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical testimony and narrative, both spoken and written. The fundamental theme is the shaping of memory by gender. The contributors maintain that memories are gendered, and that the gendering of memory makes a strong impact on the shaping of social spaces and expressive forms as the horions of memory move from generation. They argue that in order to understand how memory becomes gendered, we need to travel through the realm
Author: Harry Lorayne
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publisher
Keywords: memory, sharp, mind, razor, prescription, expert, ageless
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1579128246
ISBN-13: 9781579128241
The world’s foremost memory expertand mega-bestselling authorproves that memory CAN get better with age! Diet and exercise are great, but what good is a healthy body if you don’t have the mental capabilities to go with it? Harry Lorayne, who is now 83 years old, has been honing and teaching his foolproof system for sharpening the mind, improving concentration, and attaining a truly "superpower" memory for more than 40 years. Ageless Memory is the culmination of this memory expert’s life’s work. Specifically geared to our needs as we age, his unique memory system can b
Authors:Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: memory, studies, narrative, routledge, contested, politics, pasts
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-05-09
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415286476
ISBN-13: 9780415286473
This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory.
Author: Scott Hagwood
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: memory, master, shows, grand, america, power, develop
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0743272684
ISBN-13: 9780743272681
Good Memory Isn’t a Gift, It’s a Skill You Can Develop. Memory Power Shows You How. Ever forget where you put your car keys? Or forget a name five seconds after meeting someone? Blank in the middle of a presentation or test? Forgetting is normal but it’s not inevitable. Memory Power provides the solution to unleash your inner genius. Scott Hagwood is a four-time National Memory Champion, but he wasn’t born with photographic recall. At age thirty-six he underwent radiation treatment for cancer, which his doctors warned might cause memory loss. Hagwood was det
Authors:Harry Lorayne, Jerry Luca,
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: memory, school, play, work, guide, book, classic, improving
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0345337581
ISBN-13: 9780345337580
Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas’s simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.
