Penguin Books Australia

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...

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

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

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

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...

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?

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...

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.

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...

Tim Flannery has achieved something never before attempted: a history of the formation of North America as we know it today.

The Eternal Frontier contains an enormous wealth of fascinating details, and Tim Flannery's accessible and writing...

In this bold and groundbreaking book, renowned neuroscientist Sebastian Seung reveals the secrets of the human brain. 

From a renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author comes a book that shows readers how to improve and tone the brain.

Come face to face with our ancestors

Travel back 8 million years with Evolution The Human Story and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.

A monumental and extraordinarily beautiful guide to the Earth's natural wonders

Five years in the making, covering over 5,000 species, The Natural History Book is one-of-a-kind; the only book to offer a complete survey of the Earth's natural history.

Each geological and biological grouping is introduced and explained in an engaging and highly informative way, making it the perfect addition to...

  A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted ideals, examining philosophical and religious wisdom through the lens of modern brain science.

' Quiet is a startling, important and readable page-turner that will make quiet people see themselves in a whole new light.'
Naomi Wolf , author of The Beauty Myth

'Once in a blue moon, a book comes along that gives us startling new insights. Quiet is that book: part page-turner, part cutting-edge science, it will change the way you see yourself, other people, and the world.'
Adam Grant, the Wharton...

Although we all want to help the environment, our knowledge of what are 'green' choices is often so limited that we can do more harm than good. But now a new phenomenon, 'radical transparency', the availability of complete information about all aspects of a product's history, is about to transform the power of consumers and the fate of business.

Ecological Intelligence shows you:

'When it comes to human evolution Chris Stringer is as close to the horse's mouth as it gets . . . The Origin of Our Species should be the one-stop source on the subject. Read it now'   BBC Focus  

Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? When did humans become 'modern' - are...