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Train your brain

By Dr. Ryuta Kawashima

Like the body, the brain needs exercise. And Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, world-renowned professor of neuroscience at Tohoku University, has dedicated his life to researching exactly how we can make our brains work better.

Here are his results - set out in a highly rewarding programme of deceptively simple activities, each carefully chosen to stimulate a different part of your brain. Taking just a few minutes a day over two months, you really can boost your brain-power and creativity.

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Lateral thinking: A textbook of creativity

By Edward de Bono

Thinking is a skill, it can be developed and improved if one knows how. This book, now an internationally known bestseller, is a textbook of creativity. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated. The author has worked out special techniques for doing this, in groups or alone, and the result is a triumph of entertaining education.