Improve Your Memory [Paperback]

Ron Fry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 2004 | ISBN-10: 140188914X | ISBN-13: 978-1401889142 | Edition: 5

Improve Your Memory, fifth edition, helps you learn the essential principles of memory to increase your ability to retain what you read, perform better on tests, or just remember where you last placed your car keys. This book is targeted towards high school students, college students, or anyone seeking to improve his or her memory power. This edition helps you understand the different kinds of memory and presents the latest techniques and the proven formulas that can boost your memory power. By providing a chapter quiz, you can test your memory and identify areas that require the most improvement.

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Fry's lively style of writing makes these books very useful.

These are must-read guides every family should have in its library.

About the Author

Ron Fry is the best-selling author of 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions and the brand-new edition of Your First Interview, two of the more than 40 books he’s written. He is an acknowledged authority and frequent speaker and seminar leader on a wide variety of job-search topics at schools and associations nationwide.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 5 edition (July 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140188914X
• ISBN-13: 978-1401889142
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ron Fry has written more than 40 books, including the best-selling 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions and 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader on a variety of job-search and hiring topics and the founder and president of Career Press. He lives in New Jersey with his family.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for students I guess, July 16, 2006

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Robert E. Billings III (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Improve Your Memory (Ron Fry's How to Study Program) (Audio Cassette)

I wanted to be able to remember to take the trash out in the morning... this book teaches you how to remember that Lolita was written in 1958. Basically it uses word associations -- things like coming up with a little song ("In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue") or mnemonics (to remember that the elemental symbol for Tin is Sn, picture a tin snake so whenever you think of tin you think of a Snake). Then it teaches how to use this stuff to remember strings of numbers, dates, etc. Probably pretty useful for a schoolkid, but not for me. Also, this book is really better suited to the printed format because it has quizzes and stuff where you're supposed to sit there and study a set of numbers before flipping to the next page and seeing how much you remember -- a lot easier to look up and down the page than it is to rewind the audiobook over and over.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but disappointing, July 25, 2008

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Joao Miguel Oliveira (Portugal) - See all my reviews
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Let me make this clear: Improve Your Memory will help you if you don't know anything about the subject (i.e. about memory), however there are better books with more techniques. It also disappointed me when compared to the others in the series.

It has the advantage of being clearly written (though keeps repeating things that are written in the other books by Fry, which is a fault of all books in the series) and I believe it is a perfect book for high school. But if you already know about association techniques you should find another book.

As for the series, they are very informative, however very repetitive. They could easily be trimmed into a book of approximately the same size as each individual volume. They are cheap, but if instead of many you had to buy only one they would be cheaper.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great book for the price, January 22, 2010

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K. Campbell (Reno, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Improve Your Memory (Ron Fry's How to Study Program) (Paperback)

I can't remember way I bought this book...... No really, it had some useful hints for helping get of my fear of oral examinations (I was working on my Ph.D. at the time and had to suffer through endless exams). It is full of useful tricks and techniques. Plus it was a couple of bucks, used.