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Book Cover:  Outsmart Your Genes: How Understanding Your DNA Will Empower You to Protect Yourself Against Cancer, Alzheimer's Heart Disease, Obesity, and Many Other Conditions
By MD Brandon Colby

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...

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...

Published: 06/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399536380
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Chemistry of Life
Published: 08/11/1999
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140272734
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World
By Jon Queijo

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

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

Published: 14/05/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137137480
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk
By Haig Kazazian

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

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

Published: 14/06/2011
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137070626
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Brains: How They Seem to Work
By Dale Purves

A powerful, personal guide to the history and future of neuroscience, from one of the field's leading researchers

A powerful, personal guide to the history and future of neuroscience, from one of the field's leading researchers

Published: 11/06/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137055098
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria
By Anne Maczulak

How bacteria keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together more successfully .

How bacteria keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together more successfully .

Published: 06/09/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137015467
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  AIDS: Taking a Long-Term View
By Aids2031 Consortium The

The definitive report on the AIDS pandemic: where it stands, where it's headed, what we know, and the choices we face

The definitive report on the AIDS pandemic: where it stands, where it's headed, what we know, and the choices we face

Published: 09/12/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780132172592
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Nanotechnlgy: Gentle Intro to Next Big Idea
Published: 08/11/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780131014008
RRP: $52.95
Book Cover:  Bioinformatics Computing
Published: 19/11/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780131008250
RRP: $97.95
Book Cover:  Understanding Biotechnology
Published: 17/01/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780131010116
RRP: $74.95
Book Cover:  Understanding the Brain: Complete Idiot's Guide
Published: 10/07/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780028643106
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  What a Plant Knows
By Daniel Chamovitz
Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844874
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover:  Brain Rules: 12 principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School
By John Medina

A New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller.

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like that physical activity boosts your brain power.

How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and...



A New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller.

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should...

Published: 30/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844041
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
By Susan Freinkel

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realise it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and...

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realise it's not...

Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758485
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Super Cooperators: Evolution, altruism and human behaviour (or why we need each other to succeed)
By Martin Nowak & Roger Highfield

Darwin's theory of evolution is infamous but it has one major chink. If life is all about survival of the fittest, then why do people risk their lives to save strangers? And what about charity and fairness? Why do we cooperate?

Darwin's theory of evolution is infamous but it has one major chink. If life is all about survival of the fittest, then why do people risk their lives to save strangers? And what about charity and fairness?...

Published: 30/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758294
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
By Elisabeth Tova Bailey

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail.

While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that...

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a...

Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758126
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Proust was a Neuroscientist
By Jonah Lehrer

Is science the only path to knowledge?

In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment , explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first.  Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how artists have discovered truths about the human mind - real, tangible truths - that science is only now rediscovering...

Is science the only path to knowledge?

In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment , explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. ...

Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921758140
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
By Stuart Brown & Christopher Vaughan

We've all seen the happiness in the face of a child while playing in the schoolyard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing with glee across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless and all-consuming. And, most important, it's fun.

We've all seen the happiness in the face of a child while playing in the schoolyard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing with glee across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition...

Published: 28/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640537
RRP: $27.95
Book Cover: The Brain that Changes Itself
By Norman Doidge

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age.

Psychiatrist and rersearcher Norman Doidge, M.D., travelled around the United States to meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, and the people whose...

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure...

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372742
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Last Whale
By Chris Pash

A timely reminder of how far we've come since the days of routine slaughter, of how hard conservationists fought to bring it to an end, and how vigilant we must be in making sure that the dark days of whaling are behind us forever.' - Tim Winton

A timely reminder of how far we've come since the days of routine slaughter, of how hard conservationists fought to bring it to an end, and how vigilant we must be in making sure that the dark days of...

Published: 29/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921361326
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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