Use Both Sides of Your Brain by Tony Buzan (also sold as Use Your Head).
Excellent all round book for student wanting to get a grasp of mind mapping and memory. It also gives a brief run down on speed reading. Half the book goes into mind mapping very few illustrations though making it rather wordy. That is it explains mind mapping in some detail. If you got the mind map book by him then this book will be redundant. It gives a brief 'how to' in the memory area. Yet goes into some detail on how long things last in your memory peak recall etc. Devoting 2 chapters to that. Seems only 2 memory techniques are covered in this book.
More about memory is covered in his book Use your Memory This books also has exercises you can play with and it works you through progressively helping you build your skills as you go.
If you're looking for a book on memory I think you'll find Use Both Sides of Your Brain a bit disappointing. Its more about using mind mapping for learning.
A book by Robert Finkel Memory Booster Easy techniques for rapid learning and a better memory 1993 ISBN 0-7499-1160-3 (pbk) has an interesting chapter on memorising chemical structures. Also has a technique for memorising during class so that you don't have to take notes during a class. He also explains memorising a magazine page for page. In effect he doesn't memorise it word for word he learns the content of it, page for page. A technique that could be applied to books.
Another good author of memory books is Harry Loraine. He's taught techniques for memorising scripts and presntations. It looks like he's written a new one for students. I suggest you have a look at amazon.com search his name. Have a look at the content exerpts if they are available.
Alex
