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|  | Author: John Medina
Publisher: Pear Press
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 21420
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 301
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0979777704
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.82
EAN: 9780979777707
ASIN: 0979777704
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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 Good info, but now what? July 26, 2009
C. Boudreau (Massachusetts)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are interested in a better understanding of how the brain works, you came to the right place. Through examples and simple explanations, the author explains the functions of the brain.
I was hoping for for some useful ideas on how to leverage this information. Although there were a few good ideas, most of them were aimed at how scientists or the educational system should change. There isn't much most people can do with that.
 Tough Going In the Beginning July 15, 2009
Thomas Bethem (Poolesville, MD United States)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I very much enjoyed the book but at times, particularly the first quarter of the book, it was tough going. Tough in a sense that the author found it necessary to present very detailed explanations of the "mechanics" of the brain, I am sure in an attempt to "help" the reader put the remainder of information in context. That being said the remaining portion was quite interesting. I gave it a 2 because I was very tempted to bail out several times in the start but hung in there for the remaining text.
Not much of it is actually applicable July 13, 2009
Ian
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book does not fulfill its promise to help you "survive and thrive at work, home and school." It is, however, an interesting distillation of some of the latest and most interesting brain research.
Basically the advice in this book is get enough sleep, exercise, don't be boring if you want people to pay attention, and repetition is key to memorization. That all seems like common sense to me.
The rest of the book is interesting but not really applicable to everyday life.
For example, rule #3 is "every brain is wired differently" and rule #11 is "male and female brains are different." There's a lot of interesting information about those two facts but very little about how to apply that those "rules" to your life.
My guess is that the author wanted to write a book about the human mind and his publisher said, OK, but only if you write it in the form of a self help book.
 Improve your productivity with Brain Rules July 7, 2009
Mary Beth Averill (Eugene, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In Brain Rules, Medina considers how exercise, survival, memory, sleep, stress, vision, sensory integration, gender, attention, wiring, and exploration are related to our brains. He really gets it about how people learn. The DVD and website that accompany the book and were developed to be used in conjunction with Brain Rules offer many opportunities for learning reinforcement and they are entertaining.
 Well written, easy to read, puts your brain to work.. July 1, 2009
Juan Mattenet (Waterloo, Belgium)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not the classical book, on how the brain works.
It's written in a language that avoids complexity and jargon, but it will make the concepts strike home.
I'm planning to pass it on to my kids when I'm finish with it.
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