Penguin Books Australia

In this foundational book, Robert Trivers seeks to answer one of the most provocative and consequential questions to face humanity: why do we lie to ourselves? 

'I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers' John von Neumann

How did computers take over the world? In late 1945, a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their ostensible goal was to build a computer that would be instrumental in the US government's...

There are two scientific theories that, taken together, explain the entire universe. The first, which describes the force of gravity, is widely known: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

'It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.'
- Loren Eiseley

Learn what you and your doctor can do today to alter your genetic destiny.

Genetic testing is the most exciting-and groundbreaking-medical development in decades. Outsmart Your Genes is the definitive guide for anyone considering genetic testing or curious about its benefits.

Separating myth from fact, answering the tough questions, and arming you with the information you need to harness the amazing...

'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race'
DAILY MAIL

'Riveting, superb, terrifying'
OBSERVER

From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us.  How could such mighty societies fall?  And could our skyscrapers one day stand derelict and overgrown...

'The history, science, art, literature and everyday applications of all the elements from aluminium to zinc'
The Times
 
Everything in the universe is made of them, including you.
 
Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning.
 

'Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to a wider audience not just the facts of science but its history . . . Just as the legacy of Copernicus and Darwin belongs to all of us, so does that of Ibn Sina and Ibn al-Haytham' Independent 

Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation describes, in the words of the explorers themselves...

'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world . . . I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement

From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate?

10 world-changing revolutions in medicine, and the remarkable discoveries and human stories behind them

What we now know about mobile DNA--and the substantial roles it plays in humans, animals, and plants.

Fascinating, plain-English answers to real science and health questions asked by real people