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How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci: seven steps to genius every day
Author: Michael Gelb
Learn how to approach life like a genius using 7 principles of Leonardo curiosity and continuous learning, learning from experience, sensory awareness, accepting and embracing uncertainty, balancing art and science, or "whole-brain" thinking, physical fitness and ambidexterity and seing the interconnectedness of everything.
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The creative habit: learn it and use it for life: a practical guide
Author: Twyla Tharp
From an accomplished dancer/choreographer this insightful book helps you find and develop a system fro turning an idea into product.
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How to pass exams: accelerate your learning, memorize key facts, revise effectively
Author: Dominic O'Brien
This book will teach you how to exercise your memory. It presents methods for learning memorization techniques of difficult to organise information.
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| Powerful Habits |
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Keys to effective learning: developing powerful habits of mind
Author: Carol Carter
Get ready to learn through self-awareness, goal setting and time management, as well as, critical and creative thinking, targeting success in school through reading and studying, listening and memory. Find out many effective learning techniques.
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Organizing from the inside out for teens: the foolproof system for organizing your room, your time and your life
Author: Julie Morgenstern
This book addresses the crucial subject of organization as it relates to young people. Featuring quizzes, self-tests, anecdotes, advice from other teens, and lively graphics, it proves indispensable to teens.
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The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens
Author: Sean Covey
Provides teens with information to help them make important decisions relating to school, friends, parents, dating, sex and addictions.
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The 7 habits of highly effective teens
Author: Sean Covey
Great guide on how to develop powerful habits for success written especially for teens.
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Where Should I Sit at Lunch?: The Ultimate 24/7 Guide to Surviving the High School Years
Author: Hariet S. Mosatche and Karen Unger
Advice from experts and high school students on how to survive the high school years and deal with issues such as homework, dating, finances and more.
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Research Ate My Brain
Author: Illustrator Martha Newbigging
Publisher: Toronto Public Library
Research survival guide they’ve been looking for. Written in a humorous style, this handy handbook shows students how to master the vast and complex resources that are available. Each chapter breaks the research process down into bite-sized pieces: how to access invaluable library materials (books, journals, newspapers, databases, audio and video); secrets to successful surfing online; how to identify and source reliable research sites; best bets on fact gathering; and, most importantly, evaluating and organizing all that information.
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| Study Skills |
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Beat procrastination and make the grade: the six styles of procrastination and how students can overcome them
Author: Linda Sapadin
Overcoming procrastination is difficult, especially when it seems there are so many tasks in need of accomplishing. But overcoming itm eans becoming a more focused, whole individual who knows what she wants.
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Effective study skills: maximizing your academic potential
Author: Judy Roberts
The book covers time-management, concentration and memory, and critical reading and thinking. Written for people who want to reach their maximum potential in learning and comprehension in any field.
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How to study
Author: Ronald W. Fry
This "A-plus" read includes how to create a work environment, excel in class, use the library, do research online, and more.
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Learning power
Author: Cynthia Johnson
If you are a student who wants at least B average, a student with a part-time job and little spare time, a student who is not living up to your potential, this practical book is for you. Includes tips and examples to reinforce the principles that will help you achieve academic success.
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