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Book Cover: The Playful Brain
By Richard Restak & Kim Scott

'Crossword addicts that we are, we were thrilled to learn that out habit is actually juicing our brainpower-or at least one particular brand of brainpower.  The Playful Brain . . . runs through everything from Sudoku to mazes to how pickpockets operate in order to explain the beneficial effects of puzzles on memory, perception, and cognition.'
- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

You're building up your...


'Crossword addicts that we are, we were thrilled to learn that out habit is actually juicing our brainpower-or at least one particular brand of brainpower.  The Playful Brain . . . runs through everything...

Published: 03/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594485459
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
By Philip Hilts
In conjunction with PBS, Philip J. Hilts, longtime New York Times science and health reporter, has travelled the world to visit the sites of both the greatest disease peril – where the threat of runaway outbreaks is most severe – and places in which remarkably powerful new approaches are leading to astonishing success in combating the disease menace.

Reporting on in-depth research and interviews...

In conjunction with PBS, Philip J. Hilts, longtime New York Times science and health reporter, has travelled the world to visit the sites of both the greatest disease peril – where the threat of...
Published: 10/01/2006
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781594200700
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others
By Robert Trivers

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? 

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? 

Published: 14/11/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713998269
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
By George Dyson

'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...

'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...

Published: 04/05/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713997507
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  They Called Me Mad: Genius, Madness, and the Scientists Who Pushed the Outer Limits of Knowledge
By John Monahan

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


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


Published: 10/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425236963
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
By Jared Diamond

'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...



'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...



Published: 07/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958681
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Physics & Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
By Werner Heisenberg
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality and for our total...
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words...
Published: 23/10/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141182155
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
By - Williams Hugh Aldersey

'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.
 




'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...



Published: 27/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141041452
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Pathfinders
By Jim Al-Khalili

'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 

'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...

Published: 07/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141038360
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
Was the 2003 SARS outbreak a warning of deadly epidemics to come? Acclaimed author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld was on the spot when the disease was discovered. China Syndrome takes us on a gripping ride from the bedside of one of the first Chinese victims, via cutting-edge labs where the researchers race to identify the new illness, to conference rooms at the World Health Organization as officials...
Was the 2003 SARS outbreak a warning of deadly epidemics to come? Acclaimed author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld was on the spot when the disease was discovered. China Syndrome takes us on a gripping...
Published: 05/06/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141027531
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Don't You Have Time to Think?
Richard Feynman was one of the most inspirational men of our times. He won the Nobel Prize, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints, cracked safes for fun while working on the atom bomb, upset those in authority, and touched countless lives. He also wrote hundreds of witty, eccentric, and moving letters to his family, friends, critics, colleagues, and devoted fans around the world. Now these letters...
Richard Feynman was one of the most inspirational men of our times. He won the Nobel Prize, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints, cracked safes for fun while working on the atom bomb, upset those...
Published: 03/04/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141021133
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Voyages & Discoveries
By Richard Hakluyt

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...

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...

Published: 01/01/1983
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140430738
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
By John Allen Paulos

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

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

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140251814
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Man & the Natural World
Published: 01/01/1991
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140146868
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries
By Sherry Seethaler

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

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

Published: 19/04/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780137057382
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond
By Sherry Seethaler

More Amazing Science Q&As from the Author of Curious Folks Ask

Why do lizards do pushups?
Does hot water really freeze faster than cold water?
Why does the moon look bigger at the horizon?
Why do some people float and others sink?
What's better, paper or plastic?
Why can't anything go faster than light?
How did oil get there?
How does carbon dating work, and why do scientists trust it?
How much...









More Amazing Science Q&As from the Author of Curious Folks Ask

Why do lizards do pushups?
Does hot water really freeze faster than cold water?
Why does the moon look bigger at the horizon?
Why do some...




Published: 31/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780137057399
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet

You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen?

In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian authorities simply switched off 70% of the country's internet connections in an attempt to quell a revolution. In 2009, a squirrel chewed through...

You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen?

In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670918980
RRP: $27.99
Book Cover:  Imagine
By Jonah Lehrer

Creativity: It's singing the song that has never been sung and solving the problem that seems impossible. It's the free verse poem and the mathematical equation, the abstract painter and the patient inventor. It's the ability to see the world as it is, and then to imagine how it might be.

Jonah Lehrer is on a mission to unlock the mysteries of creativity and invention, starting at the source: inside...

Creativity: It's singing the song that has never been sung and solving the problem that seems impossible. It's the free verse poem and the mathematical equation, the abstract painter and the patient inventor...

Published: 21/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921922107
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Mindsight: change your brain and your life
Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844997
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Pieces of Mind: 21 short walks around the human brain
Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844744
RRP: $19.95

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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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