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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...

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory the encoding, storage and delayed retrieval of intended actions has attracted much interest, and this is reflected in a rapidly growing body of literature: 350 scientific articles have been published on this topic since the appearance of the first edited book in 1996. In addition to the quantity, the quality and diversity of approaches to research in the field has also developed rapidly.

Prospective Memory provides an accessible, integrated guide to the expanded literature on the topic. While many of the authors also...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers--all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes.

The editors and...

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory (i.e., the encoding, storage and delayed retrieval of intended actions) has attracted much interest, and this is reflected in a rapidly growing body of literature. Approximately 350 scientific articles have been published on this topic after the appearance of the first edited book in 1996. The field is developing rapidly in the quality, quantity, and diversity of approaches to examining prospective remembering. Accordingly, this second edited book gathers contributions of active prospective memory researchers that provide an accessible,...