Consigue una memoria asombrosa
Consigue una memoria asombrosa

Author: Dominic O'Brien

Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 8449326575

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Dominic O’Brien campeón mundial de memoria en ocho ocasiones, te revela los métodos que él mismo ha inventado para lograr una memoria prodigiosa. En este libro, nos explica cómo descubrió y desarrolló su propio método para mejorar la memoria y obtener resultados insospechados. De forma sencilla y detallada O’Brien nos expone paso a paso cómo cambiar nuestra vida ampliando y agudizando nuestra memoria mediante la aplicación de técnicas infalibles para memorizar números, listas, conferencias, cumpleaños, cartas, datos, nombres y rostros. Siguiendo a Dominic O’Brien en su viaje de perfeccionamiento, este libro ofrece ejercicios mnemotécnicos que ayudarán al lector a desarrollar su memoria y a medir sus progresos, a su propio ritmo, hasta alcanzar niveles de campeón. Dominic O’Brien es ya una leyenda por haber ganado el campeonato mundial de memoria en ocho ocasiones y por haber «burlado» a los casinos de Las Vegas y haber ganado una fortuna en el blackjack. En 2002 ganó una mención en el Libro Guinness de los récords por recordar una secuencia aleatoria de 2.808 cartas (54 barajas) después de ver cada carta una sola vez. Su éxito se basa en brillantes técnicas que ha desarrollado y perfeccionado a lo largo de los años, entre las que destacan el Método del viaje y el Sistema Dominic.

A World for Julius
A World for Julius

Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780299196745

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Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius's expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. In this postmodern novel Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. Winner of the Outstanding Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association and the Columbia University Translation Center Award.

The Distance Between Us
The Distance Between Us

Author: Reyna Grande

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1451661800

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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.

You Can Have an Amazing Memory
You Can Have an Amazing Memory

Author: Dominic O'Brien

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1780282060

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The 8-time winner of the World Memory Championship shares his life-changing techniques for boosting your own memory power! A Grandmaster of Memory reveals the methods that have brought him success in 8 World Memory Championships. Follow him on his memory journey—and improve your own memory by plugging into his life-changing systems. Inside you’ll learn how to: • Enhance your life by expanding and sharpening your memory • Memorize numbers, lists, speeches, birthdays, cards, facts, names, and faces • Perform targeted memory exercises and measure your progress • Learn how to build your memory to championship level—all at your own pace • Use improved memory to achieve new success in all areas of your life How much easier would your life be if you had a fantastic memory? Make forgetting birthdays, anniversaries, jokes and facts a thing of the past—and have any information you want at your fingertips!

How to Pass Exams
How to Pass Exams

Author: Dominic O'Brien

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1848991665

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Ace any test that comes your way with this exam prep guide for students looking to elevate their study skills—including memory improvement, speed reading, and notetaking—from the winningest World Memory Champion Dominic O’Brien, eight-times World Memory Champion, outlines in simple language the steps you can take to increase your memory power and pass your exams with flying colors. Whether you are at school studying a foreign language or at university revising for an examination toward a degree, How to Pass Exams shows you the easy way to accelerated learning and help you achieve top grades in any subject. Full of practical and accessible advice, Dominic gives you the secret of his amazing talents and offers you the key to success in your studies.

Ideas que pegan
Ideas que pegan

Author: Chip Heath

Publisher: Editorial Almuzara

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 8483566184

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Chip Heath y Dan Heath explican por qué algunas ideas sobreviven y otras mueren.

Never Forget a Name Or Face
Never Forget a Name Or Face

Author: Dominic O'Brien

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780811836340

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World Memory Champion an unprecedented eight times, Dominic OBrien shows how anyone can improve their memory with this fun and colorful palm-sized book. For just under $5-and just in time for those holiday parties-this essential helpmate reveals the secrets to remembering names and faces. OBrien, author of the best-selling Learn to Remember, packs this quick-reference book with fun and easy tips for recall know-how geared toward real-life situations. Simple visualization tools, brainpower boosters, and advice on focusing the mind will help turn forgetfulness into a thing of the past. This tiny volume is perfect as a stocking stuffers or not-so-subtle gift for forgetful friends. For anyone whos ever introduced Susan as Stephanie (or worse), Never Forget gives those memory muscles a much-needed workout.

Before They Are Hanged
Before They Are Hanged

Author: Joe Abercrombie

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0316387347

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The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run -- if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem -- he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world. And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters -- if they didn't hate each other quite so much. Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven -- but not before they are hanged. First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself Before They Are Hanged Last Argument of Kings For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out: Novels in the First Law world Best Served Cold The Heroes Red Country

Exhalation
Exhalation

Author: Ted Chiang

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 110194790X

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.