To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners. Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

"Describes how to make duct tape projects in a step-by-step format"--Provided by publisher.

Discover just how much fun these seemingly boring squares of coloured paper can truly be! Post-it notes are found in offices and homes all over the world and they are much more versatile than you may first think. In Stick It! Bridget Dove offers the latest take on the increasingly popular paper-craft trend - which taps into the theme for mindful craft - in this fabulously innovative book. The projects are divided into three categories - Wall Art, Origami and Decorations - and with 40 imaginative ideas ranging from a colourful lampshade to a beautiful scene of a tree with falling `leaves', and from sticky origami flowers and boxes to a graphic table runner, there is something to suit everyone. Bridget gives clear, easy instructions and with step-by-step illustrations, you can indulge your creativity, whatever your ability.

Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life—and now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin to support him on tour, taught John Bonham to play drums (and helped Fred Astaire too), and took part in Zeppelin's infamous deflowering of a groupie with a mud shark. After enrolling in Rod Stewart's infamous Sex Police, he hung out with Kojak, accidentally shared a house with Prince, was blood brothers with Ozzy Osbourne and was fired by Sharon. He formed an all-blond hair-metal band, jammed with John McEnroe and Steven Seagal, got married five times, slept with 4,500 groupies—and, along the way, became a rock legend by single-handedly reinventing hard rock and heavy metal drumming. His memoir, Stick It!, is one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll books of the early twenty-first century.

Finally, a brilliant guide to outwitting and outplaying the lopsided world of the law and power. Lemon computer? Learn how to make them take it back and give you a brand new, better, faster computer instead. Got a speeding ticket? Learn how to get out, fast. Tired of fighting with the cable company over incorrect charges on your bills? Learn how to get them to reverse all the charges in question . . . and get additional credits, instead. Big box stores seem like big busts? How to get the most from them. Want to screw the airlines—just like they've been screwing you for years? And much, much more. Don't bother fastening your seatbelt—that law is for girly-men—but hold on for this exciting read!

For women who struggle with infertility, the process of conceiving and carrying a baby is fraught with physical, emotional and spiritual anguish. Renowned acupuncturist and fertility expert Danica Thornberry has guided thousands of women along a journey back to themselves to reclaim their fertility - and their lives. In Stick It to Me, Baby! Danica weaves together the wisdom of Chinese medicine and the insights from her own pilgrimage to baby into a tapestry of inspirational stories collected within the walls of her practice. She reveals how changing our attitude about infertility can lead to profound healing - turning the quest for baby into a powerful and transformative journey toward wholeness and love.

In this third volume of Memoirs, Robert Bowman again draws on Events and Experiences from his interesting International Legal and Commercial Consultancy career which has spanned over 4 decades. In so doing, he inexorably draws the reader into the highs and lows of working internationally at ‘the sharp end’ – where nothing is quite what it seems and every day throws up new challenges........... In this exciting volume of ‘Dispatches from the Coal Face of Life’, the reader experiences 20 Tales of Survival – whether from the pastel confines of a Hospital ward or the exotic surrounds of an Indian Wedding to the ghosts of the bloody battlefields of Waterloo, Gettysburg and The Little Big Horn. In this new stimulating volume of hard hitting historic writing, the reader will feel the heat of a multi-million dollar football transfer deal and the pressure of a multi-million dollar ship auction to facing overwhelming odds in courageous battles for survival. From the first Chapter to the last, the reader is taken again on a memorable and sometimes poignant journey and emerges at the end somehow strengthened by the experience.