It's time for Moorepark Middle School's annual Speak Out Challenge & Billy Broccoli thinks he's got it made. With his best friend Hoover Porterhouse
- the ghost with the most
- by his side Billy's got the competition in the bag. Who wouldn't vote for a demonstration on mind reading?

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The beginners guide to mental magic No rabbits. No wands. Just dozens of first-rate effects illusions & tricks guaranteed to amaze. Mind Magic & Mentalism For Dummies pulls back the curtain & introduces the secret world of mentalism for the first time. With this book & the included DVD budding practitioners have everything they need to master some of the most astounding illusions imaginable from exercising psychic powers & reading minds to harnessing mental energy to control fire & bend metal from across the stage. * Each effect in the book is presented from three perspectives: what the audience sees how the trick is performed & how to present it in a way that thrills spectators making it the comprehensive essential guide to blowing your audience away. * The DVD

Includes:: performances of many of the effects outlined in the book to help readers put the information into action * Provides both introductory-level lessons on the art of performing & a host of great effects that will meet the needs of beginners Mind Magic & Mentalism For Dummies is the essential introduction to this mysterious art that can seemingly provide readers with the powers of clairvoyance mind control divination & precognition. Note
- CD-ROM/DVD & other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file but are available for download after purchase.


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Tony Buzan is the inventor of Mind Maps & The Mind Map Book is the original & best book on how to use them effectively in your own life. Often referred to as 'the Swiss army knife for the brain' Mind Maps are a ground-breaking note-taking technique that have already revolutionised the lives of many millions of people around the world & taken the educational & business world by storm. This practical full-colour book will transform the way you plan & organise your life. At school they're perfect for taking notes revising for exams & planning essays; at work they're great for improving your organisational skills preparing & running meetings & planning strategy; & in your personal life no matter what you're trying to plan be it a wedding a garden or even your own future -- Mind Maps can help. Discover how Mind Maps can boost your memory unlock your creativity improve your concentration revolutionise how you think & learn. Discover today how Mind Maps can change your life. ...

This bite-size version is of one of Tony Buzans most enduring topics; Mind Maps. The Mind Map which has been called the Swiss army knife for the brain is a ground-breaking note-taking technique that is already used by more than 250 million people worldwide & has taken the educational & business worlds by storm. This book offers a swift introduction to Tony Buzans tried tested & very successful techniques. ...

Mind Mapping is a breakthrough system of planning & note-taking that cuts homework time in half & makes schoolwork fun. Mind Maps for Kids is Tony Buzans first book written specially for a younger audience suitable for ages 7 to 14. Tony Buzan has been teaching children all over the world for the past thirty years & has proved that Mind Maps are the magic formula in the classroom: remembering facts & figures is a piece of cake planning is a doddle & getting stuck for an answer is a thing of the past. In Mind Maps for Kids Tony Buzan explains this amazing system using step-by-step examples in every subject across the curriculum. He shows just how easy Mind Mapping is & how it can help kids to * remember things & concentrate better * make clearer & better notes * revise & ace exams! * come up with ideas & unlock the imagination * save time Mind Maps for Kids is a full-colour workbook with the emphasis on having fun. As well as tips for improving memory & concentration the book is packed with jokes cartoons & brainteasers. Mind Mapping is the shortcut to success that puts kids one step (and sometimes miles!) ahead. ...

Paul Davies The Mind of God: Science & the Search for Ultimate Meaning" explores how modern science is beginning to shed light on the mysteries of our existence. Is the universe
- & our place in it
- the result of random chance or is there an ultimate meaning to existence? Where did the laws of nature come from? Were they created by a higher force or can they be explained in some other way? How for example could a mechanism as complex as an eye have evolved without a creator? Paul Davies argues that the achievement of science & mathematics in unlocking the secrets of nature mean that there must be a deep & significant link between the human mind & the organization of the physical world. In this quest for an ultimate explanation of the universe he examines the origin of the cosmos the possibility of other universes & the claim that we inhabit a kind of gigantic computer. The universe is he concludes no mere quirk of fate but a meaningful place for thinking beings. Through science we can truly glimpse the mind of God. " Makes us re-examine the great questions of existence". (" The New York Times"). " The greatest achievement of the book is to provide an insight into the nature of science itself & the uncertainties that lie in the physical realm". (John Gribbin " Sunday Times"). " For those brought up on a diet of Adam & Eve " The Mind of God" will make surprising reading". (" Independent"). Paul Davies is Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science & co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative both at Arizona State University. An internationally-acclaimed physicist writer & broadcaster Davies is the author of some twenty award-winning books including " The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe" " The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?" & " About Time: Einsteins Unfinished Revolution"."

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'A fascinating funny disconcerting & lucid book.' Helen Dunmore Perhaps your brain seems to stumble when faced with the 13 times table or persistently fails to master parallel parking. But you're in control of it right? Sorry. Think again. Dotted with popular explanations of the latest research & fascinating real-life examples psychologist Cordelia Fine tours the less salubrious side of human psychology. She shows that the human brain is in fact stubborn emotional & deceitful teaching you everything you always wanted to know about the brain
- & plenty you probably didn't.
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Is it possible to send thoughts into someone elses brain? Can random number generators predict future events? Why does a placebo work like a drug? Might our minds be components of a universal collective consciousness? Astonishingly the answer to more than one of these questions might be yes. The same goes for many more every bit as fantastical-sounding. Such questions about the human psyche have inspired thinkers in the field of noetics to attempt to understand the individual mind & spirit & the collective consciousness in a remarkable range of new & amazing ways. Even in this age of neurological discovery the mind is still largely uncharted territory. What if there is more to the power of thought than we have yet realised? Do these views represent a paradigm shift? Are we on the verge of a radically new way of looking at the world? Or are noetic scientists no more than charlatans or naifs? This enthralling introduction to a fascinating & relatively new field takes in an extraordinary breadth of topics from well-established phenomena like the placebo effect & brainwashing to the possible effects of a global collective consciousness. Even-handed in its approach it sifts fact from fantasy-and fraud-casting a searching no-nonsense light into some of the most shadowy corners of contemporary thought. Whilst encompassing the ideas of the greatest minds in Western intellectual & scientific history-Aristotle Descartes Newton Einstein & more-it ventures far beyond the confines of that tradition to address Eastern thought & other ways of knowing. Offering a unique tour through the mysteries of the mind as far as they are currently known it also explores some of the enigmas that might conceivably be unlocked in the near future. ...

In clinical trials it's called the placebo effect. But patients treated with placebos don't just feel better. It's not just 'in their heads'. They can heal their bodies by healing their thoughts. For years pioneers in the medical community have been extolling the virtues of the mind's power to heal the body. Their insights into the connection between our thoughts & emotions & our physiological states have long been dismissed as quackery pseudoscience & shams but today there is scientific evidence that we can self-heal
- & in some special cases cure
- illness & disease. Western-trained integrative physician & obstetrics & gynaecology doctor Lissa Rankin pored over hundreds of objectively evaluated peer-reviewed studies from medical journals to find proof that the mind can heal the body. In this book Mind Over Medicine" she shares some of these extraordinary cases as well as stories of hope & spontaneous healing from her own practice. She also guides you through the process of uncovering where things might be out of whack in your life
- spiritually creatively environmentally in your professional & personal relationships
- so that you can create a customised treatment plan aimed at bolstering all of these health-promoting aspects of your life. By expanding your definition of health & healing you can diagnose the real reason you're sick & suffering as well as find new ways to improve your health & boost your vitality."



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A Reading Well: Books on Prescription Title Winner of the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies Book of Merit Award! Ideal for client assignment this guide draws on the authors' extensive experience as clinicians & teachers of cognitive therapy to help clients successfully understand & improve their moods alter their behavior & enhance their relationships. Illustrated with major case examples the book presents in step-by-step fashion the skills for identifying problems setting goals & achieving the desired changes. Accessibly written it also helps therapists augment their sessions by providing clients with instructions & exercises that will reinforce the skills critical to maximizing therapy effectiveness. Clients in therapy mental health professionals wanting their clients to learn cognitive therapy skills & anyone else interested in self-help will be interested in this book. ...