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The Buzan Study Skills Handbook  The Shortcut to Success in your Studies with Mind Mapping, Speed Reading and Winning Memory Techniques   In Buzan's Study Skills, three of Tony Buzan's most enduring subjects - Memory, Speed Reading and Mind Mapping - are combined in a single guide to enable students to make the most of their studies.   Improve grades, make more effective notes, plan better essays, make associations between different subjects, have at-a-glance notes and records for easy revision, learn how to use effective memory techniques to recall information and increase reading speeds up to 1000 words per minute.   The perfect guide for any student who wants to get more from their studies, improve their brainpower, consolidate their concentration and learn from the master of memory - Tony Buzan   Buy Now!

Age-Proof Your Brain - Sharpen Your Memory in 7 Days by Tony Buzan Tony Buzan, inventor of Mind Maps and leading business consultant, has devised a revolutionary program to keep your mind razor sharp and ahead of every challenge. His unique combination of special mind-flexing techniques, brain fitness questionnaires and cutting-edge research will help you shake your brain's autopilot habits and take you to a new level of mental agility. In 7 days your mind should be noticeably sharper: in 7 weeks you should be as quick as someone 10 years younger. Buy Now!

Buzan Bites - Brilliant Memory - Unlock the Power of Your Mind by Tony Buzan   We all have the ability to remember as much – or as little – as we wish and in this bite-sized book Tony Buzan outlines easy-to-follow techniques so we can all supercharge our memories and make memory problems features of the past. Buy Now!
Buzan Bites - Mind Mapping – Kick-Start Your Creativity and Transform Your Life by Tony Buzan   Created by Tony Buzan during his student days, the Mind Map® is a powerful tool that for faster and smarter brainstorming, problem solving, planning, note taking, revision and much more. In this bite-sized book, designed for busy people, Tony Buzan introduces the principles, techniques and applications of Mind Mapping. Buy Now!
Buzan Bites - Speed Reading – Accelerate Your Speed and Understanding for Success By Tony Buzan   In this bite-sized book, Tony Buzan draws on his trade mark speed reading techniques to enable you to accelerate your reading speed and transform you ability to understand information at work, during study and in your leisure time. Buy Now!
The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps by Tony Buzan   Colour illustrated throughout, this definitive guide is packed full of examples of amazing thinking tools and practical Mind Map examples, including running a meeting, preparing for an interview, starting up a new venture, planning family events, shopping for gifts, designing a garden, getting fit, and writing a speech for a wedding. It can even help you plan your ideal future! Buy Now!

Embracing Change:  Essential Steps to Make Your Future Today by Tony Buzan Change is a feature of our lives. It happens all around us, throughout every millisecond of our lives. Your entire mind body system is designed not only to deal with change - but  to thrive on it. In EMBRACING CHANGE Tony Buzan offers a positive approach, drawing on his highly effective Mind Mapping techniques, to help you understand change and be proactive in handling it. Whatever your circumstances, Tony enables you to develop belief in your ability to live with and manage the effects of change in your personal and working lives by guiding you through the process of recognizing who you are, who you want to be, and what you want to achieve so that through all periods of change you find success. Buy Now!

Mind Maps for Kids: Memory & Concentration show kids how to: - Memorise anything permanently. - Absorb facts, figures and formulas with ease. - Improve concentration and save time. - Learn names, events, poems and lines. - Recall information under pressure. - Grow in self confidence and ability. Book three in the series!  Buy Now!
Mind Maps At Work: How to Be the Best at Your Job and Still Have Time to Play Tony Buzan’s manual to achieving success and satisfaction at work will help you unlock your creative genius and stand out from the best. Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps and his empowering new book shows you how to use this incredible thinking tool to excel in every area of your work. Buy Now!
MIND MAPS FOR KIDS: Study Skills The shortcut to exam success. Cut revision time in half with double the results! Rev Up for Revision will help kids:   ·  Improve memory and concentration ·  Pass exams with flying colours ·  Remember facts and figures with ease    ·  Plan answers calmly during exams ·  Make revision fun and enjoyable    Buy Now!
BRAIN CHILD: How Smart Parents Make Smart Kids With Tony Buzan it’s all brain, no pain! Research shows that the time and energy you dedicate to your child in the first five years pays off dividends for the next ten. With competition for the best schools stiffening, parents having children later and being more aware of the part they must play in their child's education, there is more and more demand for practical resources like Brain Child. Tony Buzan, world-renowned inventor Mind Maps, has written the ultimate 'operations manual' to help parents liberate their child's true brain potential. He explains how the brain develops and the simple things you can do to stimulate your child's multiple intelligences – including social, creative, numerical and physical – and unlock his or her natural genius. Bring out the Leonardo or Einstein in your child Share fun memory games, number skills and Mind Maps Raise your child to be happy and confident Learn new ways of talking to and reading with your child Let your child love numbers as well as words Watch him or her excel at school and succeed in life. All parents who pick up this book will be inspired and empowered by Tony's understanding of their child's brain and what they can do to fulfill their true potential. Book Review     Buy Now!
MIND MAPS FOR KIDS: The Shortcut to Success at School Tony Buzan has been teaching children all over the world for the past thirty years. Mind Maps for Kids is his first book written specially for a younger audience, suitable for ages 7 to 14. Mind Mapping is a breakthrough system of planning and note-taking that cuts homework time in half and makes schoolwork fun. Mind Maps are THE magic formula in the classroom: remembering facts and figures is a piece of cake, planning is a doddle and getting stuck for an answer is a thing of the past. In Mind Maps for Kids, Tony Buzan - the inventor of the Mind Map - explains this amazing system using step-by-step examples in every subject across the curriculum. He shows just how easy Mind Mapping is and how it can help kids to: remember things make clearer and better notes revise come up with ideas unlock the imagination save time concentrate and ace exams! Mind Maps for Kids is a full colour workbook, with the emphasis on having fun. As well as tips for improving memory and concentration, the book is packed with jokes, cartoons and brainteasers. Tony Buzan shows how Mind Maps can be used for all sorts of things outside the classroom - from planning a party to designing a dream bedroom. Mind Mapping is the shortcut to success that puts kids one step (and sometimes miles!) ahead. Click here to explore Mind Maps® for kids Buy Now!

HOW TO MIND MAP: The Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life

Mind Maps are the ultimate thinking tool for maximising your brainpower and radically improving your performance. Mind Mapping is a revolutionary system of planning and note taking that has changed the lives of millions of people all over the world.

How to Mind Map is THE definitive guide to Mind Maps brought to you by their inventor Tony Buzan. This practical pocket guide explains everything you need to know about mind maps and shows how they make it easy to:

• Get started on and plan a project
• Think up brilliant ideas
• Remember things
• Save time
  

The Mind Map Book 

Radiant Thinking, the major evolution in human thought - Tony Buzan and Barry Buzan 

The comprehensive guide to Mind Maps® by the inventor himself.  Beautifully illustrated, exciting new ways to use and improve your memory, concentration and creativity in planning an structuring thought on all levels.

Available in two editions; a standard edition, and a Large colour format.

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Master Your Memory

10 Ways To Tap Into Your Physical Genius
Learn to use Tony's "Self-enhancing Master Memory Matrix" to memorise easily up to a staggering 50,000 pieces of information. Apply this to all you do to improve your general knowledge, self-confidence, creativity and fun!  (Advanced level)


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The Speed Reading Book

A completely new approach based on techniques which use the brain and eyes more effectively to quicken reading speed and increase comprehension, while at the same time expanding your general knowledge.



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Hidden Gold

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Time to produce reports reduced from 8-11 weeks to 11 days. ("Absolutely impossible" - a senior manager said just before the start of the project).

Staff turnover reduced from 59% to 10-12% a year, saving millions.

Expenditure of $2,000,000 for new systems avoided.

Rework reduced from 30% to 5% of total work, in just two weeks.

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Unnecessary expenditure of $5000 a month identified and eliminated in four hours of team work.

Productivity increased by 400 person- hours/day by eliminating unnecessary work with commensurate increase in job satisfaction and decrease in overtime costs.

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