JoyfullyNoisy Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Good morning!This cute book is free today. My kids and my music students enjoy these. http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Composers-Musical-Masters-Palaces-ebook/dp/B00M3PB41O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1429099681&sr=8-2&keywords=desiree+scarambone And this one is new - it's much bigger and full of colorful pictures. I think I'll use it as a history supplement. http://www.amazon.com/Sticks-Stones-Hammers-Bows-Antiquity-ebook/dp/B00W42OLBG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429099681&sr=8-1&keywords=desiree+scarambone 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahlanne Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Thanks so much for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucabird Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 What is funny is I have been wanting things about memory palaces. But I don't have a kindle, and the app wouldn't work on my iPad (my iPad is first generation and very few apps are compatiable with it because I haven't been able to install any updates since it's to old to handle them.) Anyone know of any other way I can get the book? NM -- just saw your edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Never heard of memory palaces. What's the jist of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoyfullyNoisy Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 The intro (complete in the "try it out for free" portion) of the second book mentioned http://www.amazon.com/Sticks-Stones-Hammers-Bows-Antiquity-ebook/dp/B00W42OLBG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429099681&sr=8-1&keywords=desiree+scarambone explains a bit of how and why it works. The jist is that you tap into your brain's highly capable ability to remember spaces and images in order to remember facts and (especially) serial lists like timelines. It's one of the 5 parts of classical rhetoric - usually skipped in rhetoric books. The most complete ancient document that discusses it is the Rhetorica Ad Herennium. Cicero, Aristotle and St. Augustine talked about it too. Other books for reference: Moonwalking with Einstein by Foer and the Art of Memory by Yates These are, respectively, a memoir and a history, not a story that uses one. The composer books basically teach how to use the method by learning the information in the book in that way. You can apply the same method to almost anything. We use it for SOTW, vocabulary, grammar rules, etc. HTH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoyfullyNoisy Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 By the way, for those of you who have used other memory palace type books, do you have any to recommend? I need to stock up on summer reading. :) TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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