How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

How We Learn

The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

By
Benedict Carey
Benedict Carey
2001 • 274 pages

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11 books

Brain Science

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Lory
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Invisible Gorilla
Into the Magic Shop
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

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257 books

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FetesandFika
Amanda
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Poor Economics
10% Less Democracy
Zoom
Starquake
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
La Fee Carabine

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34 books

Cognitive Science

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Amanda
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Why We Believe
Nudge: The Final Edition
Think Again
The Quiet Before
Being Wrong
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

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434 books

Faction

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Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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237 books

Leseliste

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Year of the Monkey
The Ongoing Moment
The Communist Manifesto
A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier

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5 books

Motivation

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James
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
The Alter Ego Effect
The Chimp Paradox
Tiny Habits
Applied Positive Psychology: Integrated Positive Practice

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168 books

Atbr

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M
13 Little Blue Envelopes
A Clash of Kings
A Game of Thrones
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
From Blood and Ash
The ​Crown of Gilded Bones
The War of Two Queens

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417 books

High Priority

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Volenord
Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box
The Selfish Gene

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19 books

Cog Sci

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Volenord
The human brain book
Affective Neuroscience
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior
Incognito
Consciousness: An Introduction
Thinking and Deciding
The psychopathology of everyday life

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30 books

Science

Volenord
Volenord
Infinity and the Mind
Relativity
Ideas and Opinions
The World As I See It
The Meaning of Relativity
Feynman
La fisica dei supereroi

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41 books

2016 Reads

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Binti
Lost in Translation
Nimona
The Thing Around Your Neck
Illuminae

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Self Help

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Becca
Fear Less
Fast Asleep: How to Get a Really Good Night's Rest
Dollars and Sense
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut
Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?

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209 books

Popular Science

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Becca
Islands of Abandonment
What We Cannot Know
The Music of the Primes
Fast Asleep: How to Get a Really Good Night's Rest
Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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0 books

Owned

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
A Clash of Kings
Simply Jesus
168 Hours
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50 books

Non Fiction

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The Art of Neighboring
The Monuments Men
13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
The Joy of x
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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113 books

Non Fiction

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Vitor
Melhor do Que Antes: O Que Aprendi Sobre Criar e Abandonar Hábitos
O Andar do Bêbado: Como o Acaso Determina Nossas Vidas
The Happiness Project
Cosmos
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Origins

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52 books

Teaching

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Deb Nance
Tales from the Teachers' Lounge
Eleven Rings
Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America's 45,000* Failing Public Schools
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Rain School
There Are No Shortcuts
Real Talk for Real Teachers: Advice for Teachers from Rookies to Veterans: "No Retreat, No Surrender!"

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98 books

Schools

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Deb Nance
Columbine
Into That Good Night
Play
The teachers' night before Christmas
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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78 books

Learning

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Deb Nance
Disrupting Class
From Where You Dream
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Play
Work Hard. Be Nice.

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17,813 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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30 books

Stalled

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The Name of the Rose
Ever Since Darwin
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Gai-Jin

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557 books

Non Fiction

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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
The Selfish Gene
How to Enjoy your life and your job
How to Read a Book
Rework
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Age of Spiritual Machines

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17 books

Psychology

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Art of Strategy
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Feeling Good

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36 books

Science

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Ryan Linton
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
Darwin's Theorem
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understandng Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States
The Box

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26 books

Self Help

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How to Read a Book
How to Enjoy your life and your job
The First 20 Hours
Moonwalking with Einstein
Influence
Thinking, Fast and Slow