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Building Baby's Brain Power: Hundreds of One-minute Brain Stimulating Activities for Baby's First Years
Noreen Darragh Lantry, Katherine Hummel
Beta Center, 2007
"Building Baby's Brain Power" offers hundreds of simple one-minute tips to help boost your baby's brain power. These activities turn simple household items - like an orange or a mirror - into creative learning tools. Created by BETA - a non-profit organisation devoted to helping at-risk teenage mothers - the book was written by two child ...
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The Consultant's Toolkit: High-Impact Questionnaires, Activities and How-to Guides for Diagnosing and Solving ...
Mel Silberman
McGraw-Hill, 2000
Valuable Book
This is a wonderful book that combines the expertise of a wide range of experts in the consulting field. Due to the different styles of the authors, the reader is bound to find several that really address their concerns.
The book is a useful toolkit as it has ...
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Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World
Fm-2030.
Warner Books, 1989
this book is way ahead of its time...
This book is too far ahead of its time, it makes one ache with nostalgia for the future. The book might confound you with its 1980s political correctness, yet once you get past that you'll be surprised at the humanism in this book-- and the transhumanism.
Main fault: ...
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Performance Management
Robert Bacal
McGraw-Hill, 1998
One of the better ones
There are probably a dozen or so books on this subject that are equally good, and I'm not sure that any book is significantly better than the others in that grouping. I happen to like this book, and use it in my HR work and in my company. Its length and to-the-point ...
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Design Synectics: Stimulating Creativity in Design
Nicholas Roukes
Davis Pubns, 1988
An invaluable resource for understanding Synectics!
This excellent book illustrates beautifully the analogy building aspect of the powerful Synectic problem solving process, from the standpoint of design. It is also a great companion to Art Synectics by the same author. Both of them never cease to amaze me, as I often ...
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Adorable Photographs of Our Baby: Meaningful, Mind Stimulating Activities and More for the Memory Challenged, ...
Susan Berg
Ideas Press, 2006
Practical Information
This book has excellent information on helping those with Alzheimer's disease to exercise their brains and maintain their cognitive abilities beyond what might be expected. I have used this book and it's idea's with my mother, who is in a nursing home and suffers from ...
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Where's Dildo?: And 99 Other Mind-Stimulating Puzzles
Nerve.com
Chronicle Books, 2008
Very amusing
Good for leaving around for the amusement of adult guests, but worth removing if the maiden aunt or the parish priest is visiting.
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Optical Illusions Playing Cards
U.S. Games Systems, 1998
Look twice: sometimes what you think you're seeing isn't there at all. This deck of 55 cards is an eye-catching collection of optical illusions that fool the eye and delight the imagination. Created by Pentagram, based on the best-selling book Pentamagic (Simon & Schuster).
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ESL Teacher's Activities Kit: Over 160 Stimulating, easy-to-use games and activities to enhance language ...
Elizabeth Claire
Prentice Hall, 1987
Great Book
This book is perfect for those looking for a comprehensive ESOL teaching book. It is organized by levels and subjects. In addition it gives you ideas that are interesting and use the newest methods for teaching ESOL. This book is not for people who are old ...
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Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft (Pharmako Volii)
Dale Pendell
Mercury House, 2002
Stimulating plants....
Since my own interests include gardening, herbs, plant poisons, and natural pharmaceuticals such as caffeine, I quickly decided Dale Pendell's PHARMAKO-DYNAMIS and PHARMAKO-POEIA were must-read books for me. These books are also for historians, drug counselors, people ...
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Common Thyroid Disease Complications
James M. Lowrance, 2008
Patients with thyroid diseases can experience complications despite being treated for their thyroid disorders. Some complications may be related to inadequate treatment that is in need of being better optimized while other complications arise due to the disease itself and must be treated as a seperate health disorder. In this 10,307 word e-book I ...
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The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group
Chicago Review Press, 2000
3rd edition out, amazon does not have yet
.... "It has seventeen new essays and 37 new book lists added to the second edition mentioned here. Forty six essays describe how individual groups are organized and portray thier strengths, weaknesses, and unique characters. Special-interest groups, groups with ...
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Mathematical Quickies: 270 Stimulating Problems with Solutions (Dover Books on Mathematical and Word ...
Charles W. Trigg
Dover Publications, 1985
Problems with easy, quick solutions if you approach it right
The best problems conform to the following pattern: 1) Easy to state and understand. 2) Appear difficult to solve and in fact are hard to solve if the approach is wrong. 3) Easy to solve if the proper techniques are applied. All 270 problems in this ...
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Snibbles: REALLY Creative Problem Solving Lessons and Mind-Stimulating Exercises for Gifted Students and ...
Judy Micheletti
Gifted Education Pr, 2005
I LOVE SNIBBLES!!!
I got this book for Christmas and I take it with me everytime I babysit. The kids love it and it keeps them out of trouble.
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DUST BOWL: THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IN THE 1930S "...An exciting, provocative and stimulating ...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1979
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