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What's a 10-letter word for "A way to have fun and sharpen your mind, too?" As recent studies, including one in the Journal of the American Medical Association, have found, one answer to the above clue is "Crosswords." Not only loads of fun, The New York Times crossword puzzles can also stimulate your mind and improve your vocabulary!

- With special hints and tips from Will Shortz to help solvers boost their crossword solving power-and their brainpower as well
- 75 puzzles arranged from easy to hard: a challenge for all puzzlers from novice to advanced
- Edited and with an introduction by crossword great Will Shortz
- Author bylines allows fans to get to know their favorite constructors
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Bestselling author Jean Carper reveals the astonishing new discoveries that have caused brain researchers to completely revise their ideas about the brain's marvelous capabilities for change through "nutritional neuroscience." In this amazing book you will learn how you can mold your brain to optimize memory, intelligence mental achievement, and mood by eating the right foods and taking specific brain-boosting supplements: from common vitamin E to alpha-lipoic acid, ginkgo biloba, and coenzyme Q10. Here, too, is astounding information on raising your children's IQ before they are born; which vitamins can boost intelligence and memory; how high blood pressure can shrink your brain; what foods to eat to sharpen memory and rejuvenate brain cells, and much more.

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From hitting the weights to putting your job in perspective, the 400-plus-page Men's Health Longevity Program guides you through a wide-ranging, scientifically proven, 12-week course designed to add a decade or more to your life.

Men who want to know how they can slow their body's inevitable deterioration from age will find a wealth of insightful advice, attributed to health professionals from various fields. The editors at Men's Health books are adept at making medical information meaningful and interesting to regular guys. Clear, step-by-step photos show how to flex your way through the exercise routines without reaching for the ice pack.

Each week of the longevity program has its own chapter with a unique theme, from "eating for maximum energy" to "rediscovering your sense of purpose." Within each week, you're assigned six daily tasks. Some are as simple as eating a good breakfast, while others call for a time--and monetary--commitment, such as setting up a home workout area.

The idea is that after three months you'll have sampled "almost every possible thing you can do to improve and lengthen your life," but only by turning many of these tasks into habits will you earn the bonus years of good health. --Bryan Berry.
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Witt reveals simple yet effective techniques that will help readers understand the hidden meanings behind what people say, recall whole books of information in seconds, master new skills immediately, and more..
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Most people use less than 5 percent of their overall brain potential A Brilliant Mind helps readers tap into the other 95 percent through the mental exercise of vocabulary building and memorization. With the exercises in this book, readers can improve test scores, increase IQ, memorize more information, communicate more effectively, and excel in work and interactions with other people. Developed from Dr. Minirth's vast experience as a psychiatrist, A Brilliant Mind contains dozens of word lists to memorize, a process that will not only increase vocabulary but also change and grow the brain itself. The book also reveals eight time-proven memory techniques, encourages Scripture memorization, and offers insights into language that will open new doors for any reader. A Brilliant Mind will be especially helpful to baby boomers looking for mental exercises to sharpen their minds and improve their memories..
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One of the greatest challenges facing any business today is the gap between its balance sheet and its market valuation This gap, representing the bulk of a company's true value, consists of indirect assets -- organizational knowledge, customer satisfaction, product innovation, employee morale, patents, and trademarks -- that never appear in its financial reports.

Only in the last few years have companies and academics around the world tackled the challenge of measuring this "Intellectual Capital." And no company has taken IC measurement as far as the Swedish financial services company Skandia, which in 1995 published the world's first IC annual report. The executive who led the team, the first-ever director of Intellectual Capital, was Leif Edvinsson.

Now Edvinsson has teamed up with noted business author Michael S. Malone to write the first book that explains the workings of IC measurement and its usefulness to the modern corporation. Intellectual Capital is also the first book ever to present a universal IC measurement and reporting system.

And that's only the beginning. The authors also show how IC measurement can be used in any organization, including government agencies and nonprofit institutions; they present a simple new measure as a yardstick to compare the IC value and efficiency of different organizations; and finally, they propose a new kind of IC "stock market" exchange.

Intellectual Capital will transform the nature of doing business by establishing the real value of enterprises for those who manage them, work in them, and invest in them. The result will be a revolutionary transformation of the modern economy.

Highly readable and engaging, Intellectual Capital will prove to be one of the landmark business books of this decade.

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The human brain consists of more than 100 billion nerve cells (neurons), which die off as people age. Until recently it was believed that these cells did not regenerate, but new scientific findings in the late nineties proved that, to the contrary, the brain has nerve cells capable of dividing and becoming healthy new cells-in fact, regenerating. This astonishing breakthrough has changed the entire landscape of brain research and treatment. And it is this newly discovered ability of the brain to restore, renew, and regenerate that Dr. Jordan K. Davis examines in "The Brainpower Plan." A neuroureon who has studied the brain and has treated its dysfunctions for more than thirty years, Dr. Davis puts all the valuable information he has gleaned into this book in order to help the reader avoid the all-too-prevalent, disastrous choices that can diminish the brain's power and, with it, the quality of life. He begins by outlining the brain's structure and the different functions of each part, then discusses the three primary neurological diseases that can befall the brain: strokes, which he calls brain attacks, Alzheimer's and other memory-impairment diseases, and Parkinson's disease. He shows how these are not the unavoidable genetic consequences of the aging process they were previously thought to be, but are, in most cases, treatable and avoidable. Dr. Davis details all the risk factors for these and other diseases and then presents his super strategies for brain health. The doctor is emphatic that optimum nutrition creates a favorable environment for the body to boost its immune system and hereby help prevent degenerative diseases of the internal organs, most critically the brain. By developing this beneficial environment, he says, people can improve not just their overall good health, but also their concentration, their energy level, their cognitive ability, their focus and awareness, and their general feeling of well-being. Justifiably convinced of the efficacy of his Brainpower plan, Dr. Jordan tells readers that, if they take the information and follow his advice, they will see the same improvement many of his patients have already seen within three weeks..
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