Day 264: It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shi…
Would you like to enhance your mental performance? Improve your memory? Develop your concentration? With the fun and challenging exercises in Brain-Boosting Challenges, you can control the natural cognitive power of your brain and improve your memory at any age. The exercises get progressively tougher throughout the book so you can plot your progress and see how you are improving. As well as th…
Children should not just read about history, they should live it. In The Story of Civilization, the ancient stories that have shaped humanity come alive like never before. Author Phillip Campbell uses his historical expertise and story-telling ability together in tandem to present the content in a fresh and thrilling way. The Story of Civilization reflects a new emphasis in presenting th…