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How to Take Notes, Read Better, and Retain It All: Master Your Information, Master Your Learning and Performance (Learning how to Learn Book 29)
Information is the key – absorb, utilize, and use it better.
The ability to effectively absorb, retain, and apply knowledge isn’t just valuable—it’s essential. Whether you’re a student facing exams, a professional staying current in your field, or simply someone passionate about lifelong learning, this book provides the research-backed strategies you need to transform your cognitive abilities.
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and proven learning techniques, this comprehensive guide breaks down the art and science of information processing into practical, actionable steps. You’ll discover how to:
- Develop a personalized note-taking system that works with—not against—your natural thinking patterns
- Implement powerful memorization techniques used by world memory champions
- Transform passive reading into an active, engaging process that dramatically improves comprehension
- Create effective study routines that maximize retention while minimizing time investment
- Harness the latest understanding of how your brain builds and strengthens neural pathways
Beyond just theory, this book delivers a complete toolkit of immediately applicable techniques. Each chapter builds upon the last, guiding you through a transformative journey from information overload to cognitive clarity.
What sets this guide apart is its holistic approach. Rather than treating reading, note-taking, and memorization as separate skills, you’ll learn how these processes interconnect and reinforce each other. The result is a seamless learning ecosystem that multiplies your effectiveness across all intellectual pursuits.
Whether you’re struggling with information retention or looking to take your already-strong learning abilities to the next level, this book provides the proven framework to help you learn faster, remember longer, and think more clearly than ever before.
Your journey to cognitive transformation begins now.
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The Later Years: The simple guide to a worry-free existence in the remaining years of life
‘Deeply practical’ The Times
The essential guide to all you need to know and do as you get older and closer to the end of life.
‘Peter Thornton is like a death doula. I’ve already ordered five copies’ Alice Thomson in The Times
It is not difficult to imagine the sense of panic when faced with the sheer administrative hassle of the end of life, despite the fact that it will come to us all sooner or later. As we get older, all that needs to be done can feel alarmingly daunting. The good news is that Sir Peter Thornton KC has rationally organised and prioritised everything we need to know, and presents it in a simple, straightforward way that encourages us to complete all the necessary tasks.
With chapters on what to do before death (such as a will and a Lasting Power of Attorney), money, pensions, inheritance tax, scams, health, home, care, your rights, and what to do after the death of a loved one, this puts all the information in one place, and is as easy to follow as a shopping list.
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Big Panda and Tiny Dragon 2026 Wall Calendar
James Norbury’s Big Panda and Tiny Dragon 2026 Wall Calendar features art and quotes from the story’s companions journeying through the seasons together. Each month’s gorgeous illustrations showcase Big Panda and Tiny Dragon as they explore the thoughts and emotions that connect them. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy and spirituality, this inspirational wall calendar is the perfect gift for all ages.- Moon phases
- Bonus spread for September–December 2025
- Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders
- Includes major official world holidays
- Opens to 12 x 24 inches
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Truck It!: The Drive Around the World That Saved My Life
Join Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog, Red, as they drive from Wigan across the world – and fall in love with life again . . .
When Bobby’s eleven-year relationship broke down, he thought he’d hit rock bottom. Then a bad economic turn and a run of unlucky business deals drove his hard-earned construction company into the ground, and Bobby discovered what it was to lose all purpose in life.
Drowning his sorrows in a pub one day, Bobby boldly declared that he would turn his life around by driving from his hometown of Wigan all the way to Australia. The next day, he sold what was left of his business and spent every penny converting a truck that he would drive and live in with his dog, Red.
A couple of weeks in, fate struck when Bobby met a beautiful woman named Marie while hiking in the South of France and fell head over heels in love. After just two dates she joined him in his truck to see what might happen next. And this was only the start of the adventure . . .
Paying corrupt Russian policemen bribes, digging out mountain passes in Albania with an old spade, getting punched at the Kazakhstan border, having a mountain track collapse in Italy, being interrogated by the Taliban at a dangerous border crossing, or sliding down a snow-covered mountain, ice axe in hand, to rescue his new girlfriend as she fell 200 metres, narrowly avoiding a cliff face . . . it’s one way to fall in love with life again.
Action-packed and completely inspirational Bobby Bolton’s Truck It! is an epic adventure with heart and a good dose of northern humour.
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