This book is suitable for beginners, but even experienced mind-mappers will find something new in its pages. Mind maps eliminate this problem, with an easy, quick, and fun way to organize all kinds of information in one convenient place. You will learn the secrets to great mind maps, and the steps to start with your own mapping journey. By the time that you have finished reading, you might just decide to use mind maps for everything in your life!
A book that explores Mind Mapping methods that Solves Problems Facilitates note taking, text and lectures Makes Presentations, to one person or a large audience, a snap The mechanics are laid out and you will be mind mapping within a few minutes. Illustrations and Mind Maps will give you examples to guide you as you proceed.
What does 'mastery' look like in primary science? How can teachers plan for, assess and evidence it? Have you been feeling frustrated of yourself because you keep forgetting things? Are you not getting your expected productivity during because you can't focus and there too many distractions?
You are not alone. Absentmindedness, mental blocks and forgetfulness are common memory failures that usually cause impairments of performance and productivity. These are memory issues easily addressed by training your memory. Read on and discover how this book gives us all valuable insights to keeping your memory young and fit. Drawing on the latest imaging technology and the expertise of distinguished scientists, Rita Carter explores the geography of the human brain.
Her writing is clear, accessible, witty, and the book's illustrations—most in color—present an illustrated guide to that wondrous, coconut-sized, wrinkled gray mass we carry inside our heads.
Mapping the Mind charts the way human behavior and culture have been molded by the landscape of the brain. Carter shows how our personalities reflect the biological mechanisms underlying thought and emotion and how behavioral eccentricities may be traced to abnormalities in an individual brain. Obsessions and compulsions seem to be caused by a stuck neural switch in a region that monitors the environment for danger.
Addictions stem from dysfunction in the brain's reward system. Even the sense of religious experience has been linked to activity in a certain brain region.
The differences between men and women's brains, the question of a "gay brain," and conditions such as dyslexia, autism, and mania are also explored. Looking inside the brain, writes Carter, we see that actions follow from our perceptions, which are due to brain activity dictated by a neuronal structure formed from the interplay between our genes and the environment.
Without sidestepping the question of free will, Carter suggests that future generations will use our increasing knowledge of the brain to "enhance those mental qualities that give sweetness and meaning to our lives, and to eradicate those that are destructive.
Science Psychology Neuroscience Nonfiction More details. Rita Carter 26 books 49 followers. Search review text. Lewis Weinstein. Author 9 books followers. I am taking a one week course at Oxford July The Brain and the Senses. This is one of the books to read in advance. It is a fascinating journey through what is currently known about the way the brain receives information from the outside world, and how this information is categorized, stored and retrieved.
There are many examples at an individual level to illustrate some of the experimental results. The graphics are brilliant. The book is necessarily stronger on the receipt of information than it is on storage and retrieval. I have many margin notes asking the same question about memory, especially about how a memory is retrieved or, as the book argues, re-constructed.
How is it done? This is the stuff of future research and understanding. I think much of what we think we know on this subject is still in the nature of conjecture, based on research utilizing brain scans to show what part of the brain lights up when various stimuli and tasks are presented. The research field is new and rapidly evolving.
The analysis resumes, taking up the esthetics of environmental time, the proper management of change, and the relation or lack of one between environmental and social change.
A final chapter looks at all these themes from a general perspective. Over one hundred pages longer than the version, this second edition of Site Planning is a completely revised and updated source of information on the art of arranging the external physical environment in all its detail. Much new material has been added, particularly in respect to ecology, psychology analyses, and design methods.
The number of illustrations has grown, and the use or margins as a cross-reference system has been amplified. Perhaps the most important aspect — the original idea of environmental design as a continuous process involving many participants — has been more completely and systematically developed. These are interspersed by technical chapters on site form and ecology, social and psychological analyses, streets and ways, earth-work and utilities, design methods, and costs.
Discussions of housing and of special types of site planning shopping centers and commercial strips, industrial districts, institutions, open space, and renewal conclude the study. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there?
What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.
The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Search Search. Search Advanced Search close Close. Breadcrumb Home contributors Kevin Lynch. City Sense and City Design Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch Kevin Lynch , Tridib Banerjee , and Michael Southworth Kevin Lynch's books are the classic underpinnings of modern urban planning and design, yet they are only a part of his rich legacy of ideas about human purposes and values in built form. Managing the Sense of a Region Kevin Lynch Growing Up in Cities Kevin Lynch
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