The Learning Skills Handbook: Eagerness to Learn and Knowledge of How to Learn are Far More Important than Ability

by Jay Amberg

The Learning Skills Handbook gives you the keys to success in school and shows you how to take control of your education and become an active learner. It will motivate you to study smart as well as work hard, sharpening your skills in time management, memory improvement, textbook reading, listening, note-taking, and test-taking.

135 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Jay Amberg is the author of twelve books. He received a BA from Georgetown University and a PhD from Northwestern University. He has taught high school and college students since 1972.

His latest book, The Healer’s Daughters, is now available from Amika Press. Amberg has also published Bone Box, Cycle, America’s Fool, Whale Song, and compiled 52 Poems for Men.

Prior to Amika Press, Amberg published thriller novels Doubloon (Forge), Blackbird Singing (Forge) and Deep Gold (Warner Books).

Among his books on teaching are School Smarts and The Study Skills Handbook, published by Good Year. Amberg wrote The Creative Writing Handbook (Good Year) with Mark Henry Larson and Verbal Review and Workbook for the SAT (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) with Robert S Boone.