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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)
1.  Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt
The list author says:
  "Written from a computer programmer's perspective but probably the best thing I've read on the subject. Exhaustively referenced."
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
2.  The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
The list author says:
  "Chess & Tai-Chi but generalised to most things.  One for learners rather that teachers perhaps."
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School [Large Print]
3.  Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School [Large Print] by John Medina
The list author says:
  "Chatty, opinionated and occassionally smug but bang up to date on the neuroscience.  Read this for the real thing rather than all that NLP nonsense."
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Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot
4.  Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot by Richard Restak
The list author says:
  "Heavy on theory but with lots of practical exercises and mercifully broken into easily digestible chunks."
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Learning How to Learn
5.  Learning How to Learn by Jane Butler Kahle
The list author says:
  "ridiculously overpriced and written with all the style you would expect from academic educational theorists...  Important nonetheless"
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The Effective Teaching of Biology (Effective Teacher, The)
6.  The Effective Teaching of Biology (Effective Teacher, The) by Chris Brown
The list author says:
  "OK so I'm biased; this was written by one of the people who trained me.  It is an excellent book and one of very few specifically about biology."
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