A Mind to Do Business by Phil Chambers and Elaine Colliar, published 2004 by ECPC, Bucknell, Shropshire.

The book is aimed at business "colleagues" but would work for anyone of almost any age looking to improve their memory. It introduces readers to the amazing techniques that world champion memorisers - like the man who memorized pi to 22,500 places - use to help them in their feats of memory, and shows how to use these in day to day activities such as meetings or memorising names, phone numbers and customer details. It also shows you how to speed read, brainstorm and "file" ideas in your memory using mindmapping, route and body-linked memory techniques, acronyms, symbols and visualisation. The book is straightforward, clear and can be applied immediately. It also shows you how to destress and rest your eyes from information overload. A good basic introduction to learning and memory techniques.

Learning for Life: The foundations for lifelong learning by David Hargreaves, published 2004 by the Policy Press

Learning for Life argues for the crucial role of schools in creating motivated and able lifelong learners and explores what needs to change to enable schools to fulfil this role. The concept of lifelong learning which David Hargreaves uses is precisely the one promoted by the Campaign for Learning, that is not just what happens to some people after their compulsory education finishes. As the author writes: "Lifelong learning should mean what the term plainly says: learning lasts for life - 'cradle to grave' - and so begins when we are born and embark on the adventure we are well programmed to pursue;learning."