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| Memories Are Made of This | |
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| 28 Chapters to a Better Memory | |
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| Of Bonaparte And Roosevelt | |
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| Napoleon Remembered | |
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| Roosevelt Cribbed | |
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| Did They Have Superior Brains? | |
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| Remember It Well | |
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| What Is Memory, Anyhow? | |
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| At the Beginning | |
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| Who Could It Be? | |
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| Your Senses and You | |
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| The Eyes Have It | |
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| Is It All Just Electricity? | |
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| The Fatal Moment | |
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| I Know I Know It, But | |
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| How Important Is This, Anyway? | |
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| Improving Your Memory | |
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| Just a Matter of Concentration? | |
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| Remembering Your Lines | |
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| Sense Memory Makes Sense | |
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| Tuned to the Neural Network | |
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| Meeting Your Date | |
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| Meeting Your Elusive Memory | |
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| Use It or Lose It | |
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| To Live Is to Remember | |
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| The Man Without a Memory | |
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| His Event-Memory Retention Was Gone | |
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| His Motor Memory Remained | |
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| Do Trees Really Remember? | |
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| But Do They Remember? | |
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| Then How Did They Learn This Stuff in the First Place? | |
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| Don't Mess with Your DNA | |
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| Who Has a Soft Memory? | |
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| Androcles' Lion, Konrad Lorenz's Goose, and Your Dog | |
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| Remembering with Your Body | |
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| Birds Do It, Bees Do It | |
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| Bilateral Symmetry | |
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| The Ability to Think | |
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| It's in the Hands | |
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| Or Is It? | |
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| The Eyes Have It | |
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| A Deadly Game of Tag | |
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| It Takes Brains to Survive | |
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| In and Out of the Light | |
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| Some Animals Will Eat Anything | |
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| Bee My, Bee My Bay Bee! | |
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| Some Birds Aren't So Stupid After All | |
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| Some Problem-Solving Birds | |
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| Even Educated PCs Do It | |
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| Just Another War Story | |
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| Needed: Firing Tables | |
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| Needed: An Electronic Machine | |
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| How Computers Remember | |
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| Architects Design More Than Houses | |
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| Why, That's a Lot Like Me! | |
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| What's the Latest Update on Your Software? | |
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| Who Was the Second President? | |
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| What's the Story? | |
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| What's the Difference Between a Computer, a Spider, and a Genius? | |
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| Body and Soul | |
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| The Brain and Why You Have One | |
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| A Digression on Memory | |
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| Let's Get Physical | |
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| The Brain Stem | |
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| Medulla | |
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| Pons and Midbrain | |
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| Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia | |
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| The Limbic System | |
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| The Cerebrum | |
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| The Seat of the Soul | |
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| Brain Is Mind Is Brain | |
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| Cutting Away the Will | |
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| Broca's Area | |
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| Wernicke's Area | |
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| Where the Action Is | |
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| A Hole in the Head | |
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| The Misfortune of Phineas Gage | |
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| Personality Impaired | |
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| Gage's Tragedy, Neuroscience's Good Fortune | |
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| Chimps Lead the Way | |
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| HM Revisited | |
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| Drill, Spatulas, and a Silver Straw | |
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| Hidden Memory | |
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| Over the Long Term | |
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| ZAP! It's a Summer Day, and I'm Five Years Old | |
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| That Reminds Me of the Time | |
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| The Smell of Past Loves | |
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| The Perturbing Power of Stress | |
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| In Sickness and in Health | |
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| Our Well-Protected Brains | |
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| Serious Memory Slippage Is Not Natural | |
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| All Is Forgotten | |
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| Dr. Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Epidemic Among the Aging | |
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| Symptoms | |
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| Second Stage | |
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| Third Stage | |
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| Treatments for Alzheimer's | |
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| Other Diseases That Affect Memory | |
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| Brain Tumors | |
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| Strokes | |
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| Other Possibilities | |
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| Reversible Dementia | |
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| Short-Term to Long-Term | |
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| How Many Memories Do You Really Have? | |
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| Lessons Learned from Damaged Brains | |
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| Three Is a Very Fine Number | |
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| What Do I Do with This Stuff? | |
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| I Really, Really Want to Remember This! | |
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| Why Those Different Figures? | |
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| Which Long-Term Memory Were You Talking About? | |
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| Stimulus/Response Memory | |
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| Event Memory | |
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| Abstract Memory | |
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| One or the Other--Or Both! | |
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| A Slice of Pingerberry Pie | |
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| How Many? | |
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| Get Out Your Exam Books, Students! | |
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| Remembering What's Important | |
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| How Do You Get It Back? | |
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| Nutrition and Memory | |
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| Eat, Drink, and Remember | |
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| A Sound Body | |
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| Now a Few Don'ts | |
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| Basic Brain Food | |
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| The Vitamin Story | |
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| The B Vitamins | |
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| Vitamin C | |
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| Vitamin E | |
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| Antioxidants | |
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| Other Nutrients | |
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| Choline and Lecithin | |
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| The Enhancers | |
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| Ginkgo Biloba | |
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| Dosage | |
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| Side Effects | |
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| DHEA | |
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| Dosage | |
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| Some Others We've Seen | |
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| No Cures Yet | |
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| Of Truth and Memory | |
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| I Saw the Whole Thing | |
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| The Tragedy of the McMartin School | |
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| Dr. Varendonck | |
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| "Number Four, Step Forward and Sneer" | |
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| "Prosecutors Hid Evidence, Sending 67 to Death Row" | |
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| Tune in Tomorrow! | |
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| Ivan the Terrible | |
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| Now Just a Minute! | |
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| Whatta Ya Know for Sure? | |
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| "He Came Straight at Me, I'll Never Forget That Moment" | |
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| The Case of the Flying Man | |
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| When You Wake Up You Will Remember | |
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| Created Memories | |
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| Childhood's Golden Memories | |
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| Dr. Loftus Remembers | |
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| Get Off the Bus | |
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| Sleep ... Sleep ... Sleep | |
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| Grayish-Colored Beings | |
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| Close Encounters of Two Distinct Kinds | |
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| The Self-Deluded | |
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| Secret Life | |
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| But We Regress | |
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| Now I Remember--My Daddy Raped Me | |
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| Ah Yes, I Remember It Well | |
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| Very Special Memories | |
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| A Bullet in the Brain | |
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| The Nearsighted Conductor | |
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| Haydn, Sousa, and Buddy Bolden | |
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| I Really Need This Job! | |
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| Get It Now, While the Getting's Good! | |
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| "I Thought Everybody Could Do That" | |
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| Let's Look at Your Memory | |
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| Test A | |
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| Name That Thing--Beginnings | |
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| Name That Thing--Endings | |
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| Words, Words, Words | |
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| And Yet More Words | |
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| We've Got a Little List | |
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| The Same Sort of List Rearranged | |
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| What Do We Know About Those We Love? | |
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| Visual or Auditory | |
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| Test B | |
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| Numbers, Numbers, Numbers | |
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| SrebmuN, SrebmuN, SrebmuN | |
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| The Lady with the Axe | |
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| What Does It Mean? | |
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| The Little List | |
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| Pencils Down! | |
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| Numbers, Numbers, Numbers | |
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| SrebmuN, SrebmuN, SrebmuN | |
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| The Lady with the Axe | |
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| What Does It Mean? | |
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| The Little List | |
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| Try to Remember | |
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| Hear It, Say It, Write It, Remember It | |
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| The Chain-Link Method | |
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| The Game of Tell-a-Story | |
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| Our Game | |
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| The Case with a Dozen Clues | |
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| The Hook and Peg Systems | |
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| Do It with Rhymes | |
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| Finally, a Use for the Alphabet | |
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| A Face in the Crowd | |
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| Say, Haven't We Met Before? | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| The Lesson in Triplicate | |
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| Repeating the Name | |
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| Trying It In | |
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| Of Course I Remember You, How Could I Forget That Face? | |
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| Al Berman | |
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| Estelle Parker | |
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| W.A. Towers | |
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| Frances Hilton | |
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| Shigeo Takagi | |
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| Harmony Hummingbird | |
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| Francis Xavier McCabe | |
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| A. W. Sanders | |
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| Claude Lincoln | |
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| Maria diMarco | |
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| Willem van der Zee | |
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| Kinesha Foster | |
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| The Sillier the Better | |
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| I've Got Your Number | |
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| Remembering Numbers | |
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| Take a Number | |
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| Clump It Up | |
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| If It Were Only That Easy | |
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| Now for Your Reward | |
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| The Number Alphabet | |
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| But What Does It All Mean? | |
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| So Let's See How It Works, Already! | |
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| Four Naked Acrobats Jumped Out of a Cake | |
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| A Number or Two | |
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| A Few to Practice On | |
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| Some Possible Results | |
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| "First Sunday" List Revisited | |
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| He's Making a List | |
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| The List | |
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| Shopping for Groceries | |
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| An Indian Memory Expert | |
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| A Moment to Review, Maestro! | |
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| Another Example, Just for Practice | |
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| Moving Beyond Ten! | |
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| Multiple Lists | |
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| Every Good Boy Deserves Favor | |
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| Remember to Remember | |
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| Mind Magic with Professor Mento! | |
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| What's the Matter with Mnemonics? | |
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| "It Isn't Less to Learn, It's More to Learn!" | |
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| "Memorizing Isn't the Same as Understanding" | |
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| "But It's Just a Trick" | |
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| "It Only Works for Lists of Things" | |
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| "But What About Abstractions?" | |
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| Some Favorite Acronyms | |
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| The Rainbow | |
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| The Atmosphere | |
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| The Solar System | |
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| Zoology | |
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| British Nobility | |
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| The Resistor Code | |
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| Pi | |
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| Cranial Nerves | |
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| Onward! | |
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| Using Memory to Improve Your Skills | |
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| Something About Numbers | |
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| So Who's Counting Anyway? | |
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| A Quick Visit to Ancient Rome | |
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| Other Number Systems | |
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| ENIAC and All That Again | |
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| Back to Good Old Decimal | |
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| Some Lengths and Heights | |
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| Rivers | |
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| Mountains | |
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| It's in the Cards | |
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| We've Got a System | |
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| Hat, Hen, Ham | |
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| The Story Line | |
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| The Whole Deck | |
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| Puppy Biscuit | |
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| Honey, I Forgot the Tickets | |
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| Placing One Thing with Another | |
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| The String Method | |
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| The Knot Method | |
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| The Visualization Method | |
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| Taking Clues from Nature | |
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| The Power of Concentration | |
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| Wait a Minute, Fellas! | |
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| A Good, Hard Hit on the Head | |
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| You Needn't Hit Your Own Head | |
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| More Help for Hildegarde | |
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| Is It Magic? | |
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| I'd Like to Thank the Committee | |
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| Pick, Gather, Sort, Order, Expand | |
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| Four Ways to Make a Speech | |
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| "You Caught Me By Surprise, But..." | |
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| "I Prepared a Speech Tonight..." | |
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| The Eyes Have It | |
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| Speaking from Notes | |
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| May I Have the Next Card Please? | |
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| Go to Mars | |
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| Lenny Bruce's Chinese Box | |
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| "I Dreamt I Went to Carnegie Hall in My..." | |
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| Foci on the Loci | |
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| Location, Location, Location | |
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| Where Am I? | |
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| For All You Sports Fans Out There | |
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| Playing By the Numbers | |
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| Our Baseball List | |
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| As Many Lists As You Need | |
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| Double, Double, Toil and Trouble | |
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| Home Again, Home Again, Joggity-Jig! | |
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| Talk Begins at Home | |
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| Four at a Time | |
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| Walking Through the House | |
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| On the Job | |
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| To Whom Am I Speaking, Please? | |
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| Shoes? I Wear Shoes! | |
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| "Welcome Aboard, Happy to Have You on the Team!" | |
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| Just One More Thing | |
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| The Curtain Rises | |
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| Born in a Trunk | |
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| The Play's the Thing | |
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| Long Speeches | |
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| Pygmalion | |
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| Whatever the Speech | |
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| As I Look Around This Great Hall | |
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| Remembering and Forgetting | |
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| Trina's Room | |
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| Trina's Room | |
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| The MOMA Method | |
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| Major | |
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| Order | |
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| Minor | |
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| How Many Was That? | |
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| What's This Good for, Anyhow? | |
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| But What Is It Good For? | |
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| An Eye for Detail | |
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| The More Details the Better | |
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| The Distant Sound of Silvery Horns | |
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| I've Got a Little List | |
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| Lucky Seven | |
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| Short People | |
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| The Seven Wonders | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| Bill O'Rights Town | |
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| Freedom in Action | |
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| The Waters of Lethe | |
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| "I Took a Step and Then I Took Another Step" | |
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| All Those Little Cubby Holes | |
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| "I Know I Know It!" | |
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| Learning and Relearning | |
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| "But I Want to Forget This!" | |
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| "Yes, Yes, That's Called a..." | |
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| The Last Roundup | |
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| A Little Review, a Little That's New | |
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| Pop Quiz Time | |
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| The Test | |
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| Some Thoughts About Test-Taking | |
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| And in Closing | |
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| Our Favorite Saint Meets a Warrior Queen | |
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| I Hear a Rhapsody | |
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| As You Leave These Hallowed Halls | |
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| A Modern Shereshevsky | |
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| Ladies and Gentlemen, the Presidents of the United States! | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Glossary | |
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| A Mnemonic Word List to 100 | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |