The Science Magpie - Fascinating facts, stories, poems,...
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams...
Accelerate - The Science of Lean Software and Devops: B...
Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace. H...
The Science for Conservators Series: Volume 3: Adhesive...
The Science for Conservators Series: Volume 3: Adhesives and...
The Brain That Changes Itself - Stories of Personal Tri...
Fascinating. Doidge s book is a remarkable and hopeful portr...
Before They Were Giants: First Works From Science Ficti...
See how it all began! In Before They Were Giants, editor Jam...
Before They Were Giants: First Works From Science Ficti...
See how it all began! In Before They Were Giants, editor Jam...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories: Global Edi...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories continues to rev...
All About Japan - Stories, Songs, Crafts and More
The Tuttle All About Asia series offers a journey to a new p...
Making the Monster - The Science Behind Mary Shelley's ...
The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influen...
For Keeps - A Treasury of Stories, Poems and Plays Cele...
Jump into this collection of literary gems. Discover some of...
All About Indonesia - Stories, Songs, Crafts and Games ...
All About Indonesia is a book for children that takes them o...
Happy Money - The Science of Happier Spending
Two professors combine their fascinating and cutting-edge re...
The Science Magpie - Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams
The Happy Sleeper - The Science-backed Guide to Helping your Babyget a Good night's sleep - Newborn to School age
A research-based guide to helping children do what comes naturally sleep through the night. Many parents feel pressured to train babies and young children to sleep. Sometimes hours are spent rocking, singing, and coaxing. But kids dont need to be trained theyre built to sleep. Over time, all that cajoling can have the opposite effect to what is desir...
Harry Potter - The Ultimate Book of Facts
Are you a huge fan of Harry Potter? You have probably read every book and seen every film many times over. But how much do you really know? This excellent book has more than two hundred facts that will surprise and amaze you in equal measure. Sections include: Harry Potter and Daniel Radcliffe Quidditch Hermione Granger and Emma Watson The Ministry of Magic The Triwizard Tournament ...
Don`t Look; Don`t Touch; Don`t Eat: The Science Behind
Every flu season; sneezing; coughing; and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as farâand as quicklyâaway from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively; humans recoil from objects that they view as dirty and even struggle to overcome feelings of discomfort once the offending item has been clea...
My Italians - True Stories of Crime and Courage
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system, and millions work tirelessly for a better future. Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courag...
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? - And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies sold Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers answers to the questions in the Last Word column of New Scientist, the worlds best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful Why Dont Penguins Feet Freeze? (...
Collins Fascinating Facts - Science
Fascinating Facts: Science is an exciting introduction to some of the greatest feats in science; with fascinating facts about humans; technology; the Earth and energies.From atoms to lightening; children will learn all about the secrets of science and about some of the world's greatest scientific discoveries. ⢠This colourful and engaging Science book offers hours of fun learning and is also ...
The Science Magpie - Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams and even jokes across the scientific disciplines and from sciences bejewelled history. Science, humankinds greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unu...
Yes! - 60 secrets from the science of persuasion
Since its publication in 2007, Yes! has shown how small changes can make a big difference to everyones powers of persuasion both at work and at home. Every day, we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Based on decades of research into the psychology of persuasion, this book reveals many remarkable insights that will he...
The Science of Getting Rich - Attracting Financial Success Through Creative Thought
In his bestselling book, Wallace D. Wattles explains that universal mind underlies and permeates all creation. Through the process of visualization we can engage the law of attractionimpressing our thoughts upon formless substance and bringing the desired object or circumstances into material form. The author emphasizes the critical importance of attitude: only by aligning ourselves with...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravitys Rainbow, it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adve...
Run! - 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss
Running with Karnazes is like setting up ones easel next to Monet or Picasso. The New York Times In his follow-up to the bestselling Ultramarathon Man, Dean Karnazes is back with more mind-blowing tales of how he pushes his mind and body to limits which are inconceivable to most of us. In Run! Dean shares the pleasure and considerable pain of some of his most memorable adventures, i...
The Right Way, The Wrong Way and the Railway - Great Victorian Rail Stories
The Right Way, the Wrong Way and the Railway takes a real warts and all look at the Victorian Railways. Eight years in the making, this book abounds in history, humour, railway stuff-ups and the typical stupidity which often went with The Job. From the mysteries of safeworking to suburban shenanigans, from close shaves to the downright bizarre, this book has it all right across the state ...
Stick with It - The Science of Lasting Behaviour
Learn how to make real, lasting changes in your life We all have bad habits whether its a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction or a lack of exercise. But change is hard. Forty percent of dieters quit within a week. Eighty percent of New Years resolutions dont last beyond January. How can we kick bad habits and stick with it? According to psychologist and behaviour researche...
How to Perform Under Pressure - The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
The New York Times bestseller that draws on research from over 12,000 individuals to explain what makes people choke under pressure and show you how to develop nerves of steel An unusually sharp account of work and performing under pressure Financial Times Nobody performs better under pressure. The reality is that pressure only makes you do worse. But there are things you can do to dimin...
New Kinds of Smart - How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education
New Kinds of Smart is an intelligent book about intelligence, the many things that go into it, and how educators can help students to get more of the cornucopia.Professor David Perkins, Harvard University, USAThis is an important and welcome book. It cuts through the hype about what the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience can, and more important, cannot tell us, and provides a compr...
Fragile Lives - A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENTS AWARD 2017An incredible memoir from one of the worlds most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases hes worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeons shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.The balance between life and death is so delica...
Great Australian Stories - Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales
Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseters Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters are ready to tell their stories. From the foreword by Warren Fahey Australia has a rich tradi...
Scale - The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, ...
From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term complexity can be misle...
Cure - A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
A rigorous, sceptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the minds extraordinary ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partners voice? If so, then youve experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your...
The Brain's Way of Healing - Remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity,
The phenomenon of neuroplasticity the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience is the most important development in our understanding of the brain and mind since the beginning of modern science. Here, Doidge shows how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing really works. When it is understood, it is often possible to radically ...
Save Wisely, Spend Happily - Real Stories About Money and How to Thrive From Trusted Advisors
As a CPA, you know that understanding personal finances can seem like an overwhelming task to your clients. Yet it doesnt have to be especially if they have the guidance of a trusted advisor. Published in honor of the AICPAs 125th Anniversary and edited by best-selling financial author and CPA Sharon Lechter, this collection of CPAs advice gives your clients the information and tools the...