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Product Description: A detailed and critical treatment of research in sustained attention or vigilance by specialists in each sub-area. Provides a thorough overview of the area with many suggestions for future research. Extensively reviews the difficult problems in real-world applications in areas such as quality control, air-traffic control, and nuclear power plant regulation...read more

Product Description: For undergraduate and graduate level introductory courses in psychological and educational measurement. In this new edition of one of the best-known texts in the field, Thorndike once again provides all of the information future professionals need to know in order to develop the skills to use test information wisely, incorporating standard measurement concepts as they apply to both educational and psychological assessments his classic introduction to educational and psychological measurement provides a technically rigorous treatment of the core issues in measurement in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand presentation...read more

This basic reading text covers all the necessary topics for reading mastery and comprehension, including SQ3R, test preparation and test taking, math and logic problems, maps and graphs, recreational reading, and timed reading sections. It features a whole language approach and teaches strategies in context, fostering critical thinking and promoting active involvement in the reading process. (view table of contents)

This text uses the right triangle approach to college algebra. A graphical perspective, with graphs and coordinates developed in Chapter 2, gives students a visual understanding of concepts. The text may be be used with any graphing utility, or with none at all, with equal ease. Modeling provides students with real-world connections to the problems. Some exercises use real data from the fields of biology, demographics, economics, and ecology. The author is known for his clear writing style and numerous quality exercises and applications.

Product Description: In the Age of Distraction (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Attention and Implicit Learning provides a comprehensive overview of the research conducted in this area. The book is conceived as a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the question of whether implicit learning may be depicted as a process that runs independently of attention...read more

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Product Description: In a world of constant distractions, we all need help to find our focus. From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded with information. With so little time to concentrate, our performance levels are far from what they should be. FOCUS: The Power of Targeted Thinkingis set to change your world...read more

Product Description: The ability to attend, to listen and to look are prerequisites to all forms of learning. By facilitating children's attention and listening skills, we are able to give them a better chance of achieving their potential in communication, speech and language, and therefore learning skills...read more

Product Description: Against the general neglect of attention phenomena in linguistics, this study, anchored in Cognitive Semantics, offers a first systematic adaptation of Leonard Talmy’s groundbreaking model of linguistic attention, applied to Webbased data of English from an emerging lexical network of emo(tion)...read more

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Product Description: Sometimes we can lose touch with ourselves so much that we don't even know we have done so, until suddenly we realize with a start that we have just been going through the motions, without really experiencing our lives. The simple fact is that in today's world, we spend so much time looking forward, rushing on to the next thing, or looking backwards, stressing and worrying about our perceived mistakes, that we rarely still ourselves and our minds enough to truly be in the present moment...read more

Product Description: There's an intangible and invisible market place within our lives today where the products traded are four fold: attention, distraction, data and meaning. The stories and examples within Consider demonstrate that the best decisions, insights, ideas and outcomes result when we make sufficient time to think and reflect...read more

Product Description: Stay Calm and Focused, No Matter What Most people don't start mindfulness meditation to become saints or gurus. They re just tired of feeling stressed and are looking for effective ways to get a grip on their emotions and, quite simply, to calm down...read more

Product Description: When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to every member of the incoming freshman class in 2003, they didn’t expect the uproar that followed. Critics called it a waste: what educational value could a music player have for college kids? Yet by the end of the year, Duke students had found academic uses for the new devices in virtually every discipline...read more

When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to every member of the incoming freshman class in 2003, they didn’t expect the uproar that followed. Critics called it a waste: what educational value could a music player have for college kids? Yet by the end of the year, Duke students had found academic uses for the new devices in virtually every discipline. The iPod experiment proved to be a classic example of the power of disruption―a way of refocusing attention to illuminate unseen possibilities.Using cutting-edge research on the brain, Davidson shows how the phenomenon of “attention blindness” shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment: although we blog, tweet, and text as if by instinct, far too many of us still toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one we live in. To change this, we must ask ourselves critical questions: How can we redesign our schools to prepare our kids for the challenges they’ll face as adults? What will the workers and workplaces of the future look like? And how can we learn to adapt to life changes that seem almost too revolutionary to contemplate?Davidson takes us on a tour of the future of work and education, introducing us to visionaries whose groundbreaking ideas will soon affect us all. Now You See It opens a window onto the possibilities of a world in which the rigid ideas of the twentieth century have been wiped away and replaced with the flowing, collaborative spirit built into the very design of the Internet.

Product Description: Using the garden as metaphor, The Seeds of Love offers a process for creating mindfulness.From a Buddhist perspective, everything affects our consciousness and enters metaphorically as a seed. Through the development of the practice of mindfulness, and using its tools to maintain a state of awareness and openness to self and others...read more