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Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?

I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying “light reading,” in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. but I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. at first, I attributed the lapses to [...]

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Where Can You Get Free Spanish Learning Books?

I went from almost no Spanish knowledge to living comfortably in Latin America in about two months using Spanish learning books. however, the Spanish learning books I used are not traditional books, and they may surprise you. A bonus: many of them are either cheap or FREE When many kids in the United States learn [...]

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San Francisco Childrens Books Publisher, VidyaBooks, LLC Announces Three Online Creative Writing Contests

Rohnert Park, CA (PRWEB) February 23, 2012 VidyaBooks, LLC, a San Francisco niche publisher that features childrens books, multi-cultural books, textbooks and more, invites creative writers and multimedia enthusiasts to participate in its three online contests for short story writing, poetry writing and multimedia. The contests are open to the public to the 21 and [...]

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The Waldorf way

Charter school organizers emphasize method of learning through arts, nature by Melinda Mawdsley Thursday, January 26, 2012 This isn’t about the right or wrong way to educate children. It’s just a different way. A local group of people are exploring the possibility of opening a Waldorf Method-inspired public charter school for kindergarten through eighth grade [...]

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