| Description |
341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Hoping to learn more about those he loves by studying the lost civilizations of human history, anthropologist Hank Hannah works at the site of a twelve-thousand-year-old grave and unearths a deadly legacy linked to the Ice Age. |
| Contents |
Picking Up Where Ordinary Memory Leaves Off -- How It Works -- Three Parts of the Engine -- Becoming a Better Thinker -- Testing Your Intelligent Memory -- Attention -- Scratch-Pad Memory -- Memory Storage -- Connections -- Problem Solving -- Mental Mistakes -- Your Score -- Improving Your Intelligent Memory -- Enhancing Attention -- Expanding Scratch-Pad Memory -- Storing More Memories -- Sparking Connections -- Solving Problems -- Working Creatively -- Preventing Mental Mistakes -- Enhancing Attention -- Focusing -- Familiarity Helps -- Attention Lapses -- The Attention Bottleneck -- Automatic Attention -- Expanding Scratch-Pad Memory -- How Good Is Your Scratch-Pad Memory? -- Word Recall Test -- Digit Span Test -- Chunking -- Making Tight Chunks -- Exploring Possible Patterns -- Reassembling for Meaning -- Finding Models -- Storing More Memories -- Limitless Space -- Familiar Company -- Elaboration -- Elaborating for Meaning -- Redundant Locations -- Visualizing and Mnemonics -- Repeating and Rehearsing -- Spaced Practice -- Your Brain's Second Shift -- Sparking Connections -- Do You Make Connections? -- What's So Funny? -- Building Better Connections -- Stretch for Novelty -- Forming a Web with Analogies -- A Long, Loose Chain -- Giant Steps with Brainstorming -- Incubating for Creative Connections -- Solving Problems -- The Nature of Problems -- Looking for Solutions -- Learning from Looking -- Ways of Thinking -- Checking a Solution -- Working Creatively -- Making Great Leaps -- Inside the Artistic Mind. |
| Subject |
Anthropologists -- Fiction.
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Plague -- Fiction.
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Anthropologists. (OCoLC)fst00810184
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Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
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| Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Suspense fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Johnson, Adam, 1967- Parasites like us. New York : Viking, 2003 (OCoLC)607053956 |
| ISBN |
0670032409 (alk. paper) |
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9780670032402 (alk. paper) |
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0670032352 |
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9780670032358 |
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0142004774 |
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9780142004777 |
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