Science & Medicine

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

Girl Stuff 8–12 is the essential younger girl's guide to puberty and the pre-teen years.

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. 

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

For readers of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.

Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author.

An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change

For far too long, those who are naturally quiet, serious or sensitive have been overlooked. The loudest have taken over - even if they have nothing to say. It's time for everyone to listen. It's time to harness the power of introverts.

Now in spectacular full colour throughout, a special 10th anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling journal that started it all-with more than 7 million copies sold!

The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best selling popular science book of the 21st century.

The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm

The award-winning bestseller that put Australian birds on the world map - nature and science writing at their best.

A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark.

A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character.

Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Mark Zuckerberg has made Better Angels of our Nature his next book club pick.

'There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Benedict Cumberbatch

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

Perfect for sliding in your pocket or stuffing in your bag, Wreck This Journal Everywhere is the ideal creative companion!

The Top Ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe take us on an awe-inspiring journey of scientific exploration.

Dale Bredesen's groundbreaking plan, based on his landmark clinical trials, offers the first real hope of preventing and reversing Alzheimer's

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history.