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  HowExpert Guide to Study Skills...

  HowExpert, Sarah Fantinel

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  If you want to learn how to study effectively, improve your grades, and become a better student, then check out HowExpert Guide to Study Skills. 
  Students are under more pressure than ever to perform well in the classroom, write flawless papers, and excel during testing. Sadly, many students struggle in school because they do not know how to succeed in the academic environment. 
  This book seeks to give students the tools they need to succeed. Written by an experienced tutor, this book examines 101 lessons every student needs to be successful. Academic success is not just about taking the right classes; it’s also about using the right skills and structures to organize and streamline your learning process. 
  This book examines every aspect of student life, taking you from the beginning of the class through your final special projects. Students are encouraged to get a planner and are taught how to use it to increase their productivity and success significantly. They are also taught how to take an active part in their education with lessons on the T-zone in classrooms and on nine study skills proven effective through experience. Readers are then taught how to write and speak effectively by managing their information and organizational structures, and they learn key test-taking strategies and tips for managing test anxiety. This book delves into the specifics that every student needs to succeed in their academic ventures, giving them the tools and the support they need to be truly successful. 
  Check out HowExpert Guide to Study Skills now! 
  About the Expert 
  Sarah Fantinel has been a tutor of all ages for five years. She enjoys helping students discover their academic potential and has helped many students improve their grades and pass various standardized tests, including the ACT and the teacher test. 
  HowExpert publishes quick ‘how to’ guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  The Art of Civilized...

  Margaret Shepherd, Sharon Hogan

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  In our fast-paced, electronic society, the most basic social interaction—talking face-to-face—can be a challenge for even the most educated and self-assured individuals. And yet making conversation is a highly practical skill: those who do it well shine at networking parties, interviews, and business lunches. Good conversation also opens doors to a happier love life, warmer friendships, and more rewarding time with family. 
  In The Art of Civilized Conversation, author Margaret Shepherd offers opening lines, graceful apologies, thoughtful questions, and, ultimately, the confidence to take conversations beyond hello.From the basics—first impressions, appropriate subject matter, and graceful exits—to finding the right words for difficult situations and an insightful discussion of body language, Shepherd uses her skilled eye and humorous anecdotes to teach listeners how to turn a plain conversation into an engaging encounter. 
  Filled with common sense and fresh insight, The Art of Civilized Conversation is the perfect inspiration not only for what to say but for how to say it with style.

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  Literary Executions - Capital...

  John Cyril Barton

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  “Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser.” —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan 
   
  Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty. 
   
  Barton focuses on several canonical figures—James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser—and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers—particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard—whose work helped shape or was shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. 
   
  By engaging the politics and poetics of capital punishment, Literary Executions contends that the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States should be seen as an important part of the context that brought about the flowering of the American Renaissance during the antebellum period and that influenced literature later in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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  How to Think Differently: 7 Easy...

  Troye Bates

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  Do you wish you could think differently and develop better problem-solving skills for those crucial moments when you need it most? 
    
  The ability to think differently is one of the most valuable assets any individual could possess, yet it remains one of our most underdeveloped abilities. 
    
  If you are ready to be that one person who sees the world from a different perspective, this easy to follow 7-step solution to master mental models to make better decisions is the essential guide you need. 
    
  YOU WILL LEARN: 
  • How to become the master of your choices. 
  • How to develop your critical thinking abilities. 
  • How to think logically and reasonably. 
  • How to learn to see the bigger picture. 
  • How to become a master strategist by thinking like one. 
  • Understanding the abundance and scarcity mindset. 
  • Why reflection before action matters. 
    
  7-Steps is all you need to start bringing about a shift in your mindset for the better. Begin your journey now!

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  Acid Revival - The Psychedelic...

  Danielle Giffort

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  Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction. In Acid Revival, Danielle Giffort examines how this new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine.As this team of researchers and mental health professionals revive the field of psychedelic science, they are haunted by the past and by one person in particular: psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with people working on scientific psychedelia, Giffort shows how today's researchers tell stories about Leary as an "impure" scientist and perform his antithesis to address a series of lingering dilemmas that threaten to rupture their budding legitimacy. Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science.

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  Cowboys And Indian - A Doctor's...

  Sandip V. Mathur

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  A heartfelt, honest and witty account of a young doctor's first year of practice, filled with unforgettable characters and surprising events. Dr. Mathur is thrown in the deep end by a rural Texas hospital. He arrives to find that the hospital is bankrupt and has almost no resources. He faces opposition from the other two doctors, suspicion from the people, and the challenges of being an immigrant in the Bible Belt. He is also a husband and father of two curious and lively little girls. In the course of that fateful first year, his frustrating, terrifying and often hilarious encounters in the hospital are interwoven with moving stories about his wife and children. In the ER, he treats emergencies like cardiac arrests, collapsed lungs, and impaled limbs, and at home, he works to create a calm and peaceful refuge. In the course of that momentous year, he gradually wins the confidence of the townspeople by his skills, sincerity, and compassion. He tries to spend time with his family, but often ends up rushing back to care for a patient. This poignant memoir takes the reader into a doctor's life at an intimate level. It shows that the harsh demands of a medical life can be tempered with laughter, sincerity, and humility, to create a life that is truly rewarding and inspiring.

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