Use your head - Tony Buzzan

Since its first publication in 1974, Use Your Head has acquired the status of a classic. Translated into twelve languages, with worldwide sales well in excess of 250,000, Tony Buzan`s book has helped scores of people to understand the true capacity of the human brain and realise and develop many of the abilities that normally lie dormant. Now in a new and revised edition of his classic bestseller, Tony Buzan explains the latest discoveries about the brain and helps you to understand more clearly how your mind works. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, with tests and exercises designed to improve your reading power and memory, Use Your Head will help you to study more effectively, solve problems more readily and develop your own ways of thinking. Tony Buzan has produced a wide range of books and television programmes on the brain, learning, memory, time management and associated fields. His current activities are devoted to furthering our knowledge in these rapidly evolving areas. He is at the moment preparing books on the brain`s creative potential, the intelligence and consciousness of animals, the family as a learning unit, human aging, and the education of the baby. He has recently produced an award-winning video package consisting of a six-hour tape with manual, which is being widely distributed throughout Europe to the business world. In addition to writing a number of volumes of poetry, he has also completed a programme enabling instructors to teach others how to learn, and is working on national and multinational educational programmes. Cover illustration by Stuart Hughes Photograph of the author by Studio Tranan AB (HakanMalback) CN 9046 USE YOUR HEAD Tony Buzan GUILD PUBLISHING LONDON Other books by Tony Buzan: Speed Memory Speed Reading Spore One Advanced Learning and Reading - Manual (with Bernard Chibnall) The Evolving Brain (with Terry Dixon) Make the Most of Your Mind Videotapes: Business Brain Audiotapes: The Brain/Memory Based on Use Your Head -a BBC series of ten television programmes produced by Nancy Thomas. Acknowledgement: the Illustration on page 12 is from `The organisation of the brain` (page 102) by Walle J. H. Nauta and Michael Feirtag, copyright © September 1979 by SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Inc. All rights reserved. The Illustrations on pages 12,14 and 97-100 were drawn by Lorraine Gill. © Tony Buzan 1974,1982,1984 First published 1974 This edition published 1984 by Book Club Associates by arrangement with BBC Publications Set in Ehrhardt 10/12 by Phoenix Photosetting Printed in England by Mackays of Chatham Ltd ... - tailieumienphi.vn