Description:
Aimed at teenagers and those who deal with them, this book explores the mystery of our minds and our memory. Readers will discover why memory is powerful but not perfect, and will learn important strategies for improving it.
Brief description: Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. (1942 - 2018), was an award-winning psychologist and author whose 20+ books and pioneering research on the bilateral specialization of the brain have done much to advance our understanding of how we think.
Review Quotes:
"You can remember what boots Captain Kirk wore on episode #14 of Star Trek, but you can't remember where you put your car keys. Me and My Memory: Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others discusses memory and its strange behaviors with the imperfect juggernaut of information that is the human mind. Me and My Memory gives advice on how to soak the important stuff in, and why we remember such meaningless things. Me and My Memory: Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others is a top read for those intrigued by memory. - "Small Press Bookwatch," Entrepreneur
"The book series All About Me should help provide an essential basic education in psychology and social-emotional learning. Engaging, practical and evidence-based, these vital books offer skills for all teens in understanding how and why they see, think and feel." - Kenneth R. Pelletier, Ph.D., M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and author of Change Your Genes, Change Your Life
"This wonderfully written and illustrated book series called All About Me is the preventive antidote teens desperately need to better understand themselves to immunize themselves from negative manipulation and influence that contribute to destabilizing mental health conditions." - Marriage and family therapist Sarah Forni, M.A.
"The book series All About Me offers engaging insights for teens to begin to lay a strong foundation for effective listening and communicating. These skills should be an integral part of what it means to be educated." - Susan Glaser, Ph.D., and Peter Glaser, Ph.D., international communication and leadership consultants, researchers and authors of Be Quiet, Be Heard: The Paradox of Persuasion
"The All About Me book series ... offers hope that we can support a new generation of teens who are able to make better decisions, understand their emotions, communicate more effectively, and defend themselves from harmful influence." - Susan Glaser, Ph.D., and Peter Glaser, Ph.D., international communication and leadership consultants, researchers and authors of Be Quiet, Be Heard: The Paradox of Persuasion
"[The] intelligent and engaging approach of the All About Me book series supports students in developing their own internal compass for understanding their own reactions as they set a thoughtful course through their media-saturated world." - Renee Fadiman, M.F.A., media literacy and SEL Educator, The Girls' Middle School
"Four new and updated editions to the outstanding 'All About Me' series from Hoope Books are exceptionally relevant and recommended for teens and young adults. ... All four of these informative and thoroughly 'kid friendly' titles comprising the 'All About Me' series are especially and unreservedly recommended for middle school, high school, and community library collections for young readers." - Midwest Book Review (U.S.)