Ulrich Boser
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Language
English
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Description
On March 18, 1990, two men dressed as policemen broke into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with a dozen masterpieces worth $500 million. To date, not one painting has been recovered. Before he died, Harold Smith, one of the world's greatest art detectives, believed he was close to cracking the case. After Smith's family gave journalist Ulrich Boser access to his research, Boser explored Smith's unfinished leads.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Memorization: you study facts, dates, and details, burn them into your memory, and then apply that knowledge at opportune times. But Boser demonstrates that how we learn can matter just as much as what we learn. He covers six key steps to help readers "learn how to learn" and makes the case that being smart is not an innate ability-- learning is a skill everyone can master.
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Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We're not supposed to trust others--look at the headlines, read the blogs. It seems that everyone is wary, that everyone is doubtful. But our sense of social trust and togetherness can be restored. In The Leap, author Ulrich Boser shows how the emerging research on trust can improve our lives, rebuild our economy, and strengthen society. Boser visits a radio soap opera in Rwanda that aims to restore the country's broken trust, profiles the man who...
