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This book will help you to learn Spanish - or the Spanish guitar - faster.

This book will give an athlete the edge to turn Silver into Gold.

This book will give any child the chance to perform better in exams. Full stop.

How We Learn is a landmark book that shakes up everything we thought we knew about how the brain absorbs and retains information. Filled with powerful - and often thrillingly counter-intuitive - wisdom, stories and practical tips, it gets to the very heart of the learning process; and gives us the keys to reach our very fullest potential in every walk of life.

Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown

You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney

You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney

The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Range by David Epstein

Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon

Next of Kin by Roger Fouts

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

The Red Queen by Matt Ridley

How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Barrett

Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf

Sperm Wars by Robin Baker

The Forgetting by David Shenk

The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley