Kindle Deal of the Day – Brain Rules and Personal MBA

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

Price: 7.84$ Pages: 301 Cents/page: 2.60 You saved 7.16$ (48%)

This book is a recommended Personal MBA book by Josh Kaufmann. If you are not familiar with his work, I highly recommend to check it out here.  That’s how I discovered this book years ago.

Josh recently published his findings in an amazing and bestselling book:   This books summarizes and digests Josh’s journey of book recommendations and findings about business over the years in a condensed book form.

I am an MBA myself however I learned more concepts following Josh’s Personal MBA book recommendations over the years. 

Both books are highly recommended.

Product Description for Brain Rules

In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule—what scientists know for sure about how our brains work—and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
Medina’s fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You’ll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You’ll peer over a surgeon’s shoulder as he proves that most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You’ll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can’t tie his own shoes.
You will discover how:
    * Every brain is wired differently
    * Exercise improves cognition
    * We are designed to never stop learning and exploring
    * Memories are volatile
    * Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn
    * Vision trumps all of the other senses
    * Stress changes the way we learn
In the end, you’ll understand how your brain really works—and how to get the most out of it.

About the Author

John J. Medina is a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant. He is director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University. He also teaches at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in its Department of Bioengineering.
 

Product Description for Personal MBA

Are you searching for your next challenge? Are you tempted to go to business school? Before you do, save your money and read The Personal MBA.

Getting an MBA takes two years of your life. And most of it is spent on PowerPoint presentations and outdated financial models, rather than learning what it takes to run a real business.

The Personal MBA distils the most valuable lessons of the finest business schools and the best business books of all time into simple, memorable ideas and tools. It covers concepts such as The Iron Law of the Market, The 12 Forms of Value, The Pricing Uncertainty Principle, and The 4 Methods to Increase Revenue.

This book is all you need to learn the fundamentals of business quickly, and discover exactly how to apply them to transform your career.

About the Author

Josh Kaufman is an independent business educator who helps people develop their business skills, start new ventures, and get ahead in their fields. Before creating PersonalMBA.com, he worked for Procter & Gamble, where he launched major new products and developed P&G’s global online marketing measurement strategy. He lives in Colorado.
www.personalmba.com
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Video-books – A Truly New Genre – Inside Higher Ed

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May 3, 2011 By Alexandra Juhasz

My “video-book,” Learning From YouTube (LFYT), was “published” by the MIT Press in February. With support from the press and many others, I have pushed the media studies monograph, kicking and screaming, fully onto the Internet. “This is not your typical scholarly book (Learning from YouTube can never go to paper),” cautions MIT’s recent press release. “Juhasz writes about social media inside and through it.”

It’s true, unlike most academic e-books — erudite words placed into regulation paragraphs unceremoniously plopped onto a new environment with a few links and illustrations added — my video-book (according to my Glossary) is “large-scale online writing that depends upon video, text, design, and architecture for its meaning making.” That I can’t begin without defining the work itself (like the press’s request that I add a glossary to help readers) demonstrates how common terms of scholarly writing and publishing must be reworked, modified, or scare-quoted to most effectively describe and traverse the “limits of scholarship” of the digital sphere. But what, precisely, gets muddled at these borders and what might we best do about it?

continue reading @ A Truly New Genre – Inside Higher Ed

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Amazon Won’t Update Kindle Without Next-Gen E Ink Display | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

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If you’re holding out until the next-generation Kindle comes out to buy the device, you might be waiting for a while. E Ink isn’t updating its display this year, which means there won’t be many new e-readers until that time.

Sri Peruvemba, chief marketing officer for E Ink, stopped by the PCMag offices last week to talk about the latest technology the company is producing. He said E Ink usually sticks to an update cycle of about two years. The company’s black and white display is currently in its fourth generation, but the next generation won’t be released this year, he said.

E Ink itself isn’t a new phenomenon. The company has been around since 1997. Color E Ink, on the other hand, is much newer, and it’s only a first-generation product. The color display is made possible by a filter that is placed over the original black and white display. While it is a color display, the colors are muted, and not as vibrant as what you would see in an LCD tablet.

Considering the color display is in its early stages and further improvements to the black and white display haven’t been released, consumers probably won’t see a color Kindle, or even an updated Kindle from Amazon anytime soon. In fact, there is mounting evidence that suggests Amazon is readying an Android-based tablet.

continue reading at  Amazon Won’t Update Kindle Without Next-Gen E Ink Display | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

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Free Kindle Book of the Day – Presenting to Win

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30. Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition by Jerry Weissman

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Product Description 

Named by FORTUNE Magazine as a “Must-Read”

 “Jerry Weissman makes the challenge of producing and delivering effective presentations delightfully simple. Read it and benefit!”

Tim Koogle,Founding CEO, Yahoo!

 “A great read for all of us who have ever struggled with any aspect of our public speaking skills. Presenting to Win contains the same timeless techniques that helped me [18] years ago.”

Jeff Raikes, former President, Microsoft Business Division, Microsoft Corporation, and CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 “Jerry is The Man when it comes to making great pitches. If your pitch doesn’t get a whole lot better after reading this book, something is wrong with you.”

Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director and Chairman, Garage Technology Ventures, and bestselling author of The Art of the Start

 “Presenting to Win is the shortest path to applause for any presenter. It will be your bible for the PowerPoint Age. It’s loaded with easy actions and real examples that really work. I’ve used them. I know.”

Scott Cook, Founder, Intuit

Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few will establish the most profound connection, in which presenter and audience understand each other perfectly…discover common ground… and, together, decide to act.

In this fully updated edition, Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 presentation consultant, shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences…and move them to action! He teaches presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all and tell compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for the audience.

Weissman’s techniques have proven themselves with billions of dollars on the line. Thousands of his elite clients have already mastered them. Now it’s your turn!

 •   What you must do to tell your story

     Focus before Flow: identifying your real goals and message

 •   The power of the WIIFY: What’s In It For You

     Staying focused on what your audience really wants

 •   Capture your audience in 90 seconds… and never let go!

     Opening Gambits and compelling linkages

 •   Master the art of online Web conferencing

     Connecting with your invisible audience

 •   From brainstorming through delivery

     Crafting the Power Presentation, one step at a time

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Free Shakespeare Kindle Book of the Day – The Winter’s Tale

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The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

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Play in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1610-11 and published in the First Folio of 1623. One of Shakespeare’s final plays, The Winter’s Tale is a romantic comedy with elements of tragedy and is noted for its use of realism. The plot is based on the play Pandosto (1588) by Robert Greene. Leontes, the king of Sicilia, jealously believes that his faithful wife Hermione has committed adultery with his old friend Polixenes, the king of Bohemia. After various mishaps, all three are ultimately reconciled after the wedding of Florizel (son of Polixenes) and Perdita (daughter of Leontes and Hermione). — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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