We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of changemeans: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict whatskills will be useful in ten years time; in most professionsknowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job isforever--so being employable means being flexible and retrainingregularly. Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple butproven plan that delivers the one key skill that every workingperson, every parent and student must master, and every teachershould teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eightmultiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical,visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal,and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard Universityprovides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system tofacilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger,Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on thevalue of emotion and memory on the process of learning.
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At long last, The New Well-Tempered Sentence rescuespunctuation from the perils of boredom, with wholly originalexplanations of the rules of punctuation, whimsical graphics, andutterly unforgettable characters (yes, characters in a grammarbook). Gordon teaches you clearly and simply where to place a commaand how to use an apostrophe. Gradually, as you master the elusiveslashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our mostperplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of abizarre and bemusing comedy of manners. Witty, saucy, and utterlyunforgettable, The New Well-Tempered Sentence is a must-have foranyone who has ever despaired of opening a punctuation handbook butwhose sentences despair without one.
