Books with author John O'Brien

Hardcover; Very Good; No Dust Jacket; Unpaginated, frontis, photographs. This is a scarce salesman's sample of this book. A very good + unmarked copy, containing chapter excerpts and numerous photographs of Will Rogers and friends. The eventual book had an appreciation by Lowell Thomas and would be 300 pages long with over 30 photographs. It would give the life of Will Rogers.

Danny Wilde and his teammates are finding the Under-14s Division tough going. They’ve lost one of their best goal-scorers to injury and it looks like they’ll have no chance of winning the County Féile!Could Todd, the new Australian kid, be the answer to their prayers? Todd's an Aussie Rules player – tough and skilful – but can he become a real GAA player in time?It’s all to play for in the second book about GAA player Danny Wilde.

The former are revealed as both physiological and psychological, the latter as both complex and various. Each has its lessons for the guidance of the teacher; and each exalts the importance of reading as a school subject. Reading processes on their psychological side are essentially associative associative of impressions with meanings and of meanings with each other. In the latter sense they are frequently identified with study. I ndeed, silent reading of the reflective type differs in no practical sense from study. The fact that in study we repeat and recapitulate adds but little of a qualitative nature to the reading act. Processes on the physiological side consist in large part of eye-movements. Thenumber, length groupings-andprogressive or recessive character of these movements, are-atonce symptomsand conditions of reading efficiency. Moreover, they take place according to patterns whicn are peculiar to each individual, being the product of original nature and of practice.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

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Excerpt from Silent Reading: With Special Reference to Methods, for Developing Speed, a Study in the Psychology and Pedagogy of ReadingThe processes and purposes involved in silent reading have lately been subjected to searching analysis. The former are revealed as both physiological and psycho logical, the latter as both complex and various. Each has its lessons for the guidance of the teacher; and each exalts the importance of reading as a school subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.