How We Learn - The New Science of Education and the Brain

Stanislas Dehaene

'Absorbing, mind-enlarging, studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world results' Sunday TimesHumanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers....

My Book of Stars and Planets: A fact-filled guide to space

DK

A friendly first guide to the wonders of space and the Universe Discover the mysteries of the Universe and journey to galaxies beyond our own in this fact-packed companion to space. From icy worlds and hot, fiery giants to the biggest telescopes and latest spacecraft, this book covers more than 40 profi...

The Opal Miner's Daughter

Fiona McArthur

'A heart-warming story set in the rugged outback about finding out who you really want to be.' Annie Seaton Obstetrician Riley Brand leaves the city behind to go in search of her mother, who's taken leave from her marriage to pursue a passion for opal mining in the dry backblocks of an old mining town. ...