The chances are that we are only using about 1% of the power of our brain. Just imagine the amazing results if we could unlock just a fraction of the power of the remaining 99%. With this definitive, classic operations manual for the brain, you can discover how to revolutionise the way you think and learn, wake up your senses and unleash the hidden power of your mind. With this book, you will ...(view full description)

The Children's Writers & Artists' Yearbook holds the key to getting your work published. It contains practical advice and information by well-known children's media experts, as well as being a up-to-date directory of children's media contacts.

Understand Trigonometry is a step-by-step guide which will take you from the basics to an advanced level.

Complete Mathematics is a step-by-step introduction to essential mathematical concepts and techniques.

Ross Gittins argues that happiness is our most important measure of economic success. A different approach by governments - with less emphasis on economic growth and efficiency, and more on preserving the planet and the social fabric - could add to 'national happiness'.

Writing with a combination of humour, humanity and scientific research, Piers Steel explains why we procrastinate - why we knowingly and willingly put off a course of action despite recognising we'll be worse off for it. He shows that despite procrastination making us poorer, fatter and unhappier, we're putting things off like never before.

Essential reading for anyone who needs to transmit news or ideas to the world, or has been thrust into the media spotlight. Rau offers guidance on: whether you have a story; how to put it across in the best possible way; finding the right media outlet; how to prepare for radio, television and print media interviews.

The new edition of this best-selling book tells you how to: Give impressive answers to over 200 interview questions Deal with interview nerves and project total confidence Pass psychometric tests, competency-based questions, and assessment centres Avoid the traps that interviewers lay for unwary job seekers Turn every interview question to your advantage

A guide to the state of consciousness studies. It presents the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and covers the scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. It also introduces readers to zombies, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat.

How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? If our minds are built by selfish genes, why are we so cooperative? These questions are at the centre of a research programme called evolutionary psychology.