Dinosaur In the heart of Papua New Guinea, "The Next Files" team—Jax, Digger, and Doc—embark on a thrilling expedition to uncover the truth behind the legendary creature known as the Migo. Joined by Phil Norton, a local café owner and cryptozoology enthusiast, their adventure takes a perilous turn when their helicopter crashes, stranding them in a land filled with prehistoric predators. Battling crocodiles and encountering the awe-inspiring Ropen, a pterosaur from the Cretaceous, the team faces dangers that test their courage. Phil's unexpected rescue by the empathetic Migo reveals the creature's true nature and sparks a mission to protect it from exploitation. As they document their findings and fight to have the caldera declared a protected heritage site, they navigate international conservation challenges. "Dinosaur" is a gripping tale of exploration, friendship, and the relentless pursuit of truth, set in one of the world's last great wildernesses. Join Jax, Digger, and Doc in this exciting young adult novel. Brain Hack In the small town of Deniliquin, teenage detectives Jax, Digger, and Doc from "The Next Files" TV show investigate a mysterious rock with strange powers. Local high schooler Bella becomes connected to the rock, experiencing lost time and bizarre phenomena. The rock’s ability to control minds and defy gravity captures the teens' attention, especially after discovering a map on Digger's back leading to the Deniliquin crater. As they uncover the rock's secrets, they encounter a spaceman communicating through the rock with Bella. With help from local cop Sam, they learn the rock is part of an ancient asteroid with immense power. The spaceman's messages hint at a cosmic plan, testing humanity’s readiness. Following the map to the crater, the team has a mind-blowing encounter with an alien craft. "Brain Hack" blends mystery, sci-fi, and adventure, as Jax, Digger, and Doc navigate surreal events, delivering a profound message about unity and responsibility.

“Magisterial and uplifting . . . A brilliant, grandscale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course.” —The Denver Post Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate? Praise for Evolution “Spectacular.”—The New York Times Book Review “Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future.”—Times Literary Supplement “A breath of fresh air . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story.”—The Washington Post Book World

"The Next Files IV" teenage investigators Jax Digger and Doc unravel a hidden prehistoric world in Dinosaur and face cosmic mysteries with mindbending revelations in Brain Hack blending adventure sci-fi and suspense in their investigations

How much do you REALLY know about the science that matters? Supergeek: Dinosaurs, Brains and Supertrains features over 300 fun science questions and answers chosen by Glenn Murphy to test your knowledge. Find out all about dinosaurs and prehistoric life, blood and guts, brains, senses and feelings, weather and climate change, natural disasters, trains, planes and transport, and lots more! There are instructions at the back of the book that allow you to 'play' the book too, on your own or in a group. Discover more funny science with Robots and the Whole Technology Story.

Describes what a young dinosaur should do in order to quickly get over being sick.

Witty, sharp and enlightening . . . This book will make you smarter' – Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? In The Genius Within, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam, explores the ground-breaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works – to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent. Sharing his own experiments with revolutionary smart drugs and electrical brain stimulation, he delves into the sinister history of intelligence tests, meets savants and brain hackers and reveals how he boosted his own IQ to cheat his way into Mensa. Are you ready to challenge your perception of intelligence and start your adventure of cognitive expansion? Unmask the genius within you with this compelling dive into cognitive neuroscience and the human mind's immense potential.

SOMETIMES THE MOST UNLIKELY PAIRS MAKE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. A hilarious prehistoric yarn for newly-independent readers from a master of children's animal stories. All pterodactyls know that flying dinosaurs are superior, and all apatosauruses know that any dinosaur with only two legs is surely second-class. Nosy, a pterodactyl, and Banty, an apatosaurus, become great friends even though their parents have forbidden them to play together. With Nosy's fast flying and Banty's smarts, the two take on the biggest predator on the Great Plain, and conquer their parents' prejudices in one great adventure.

The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious.Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen.Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works. Each hack examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up clues about the architecture and design of the brain, learning a little bit more about how the brain is put together.Mind Hacks begins your exploration of the mind with a look inside the brain itself, using hacks such as "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes." Also among the 100 hacks in this book, you'll find: Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions See Movement When All is Still Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty Mold Your Body Schema Test Your Handedness See a Person in Moving Lights Make Events Understandable as Cause-and-Effect Boost Memory by Using Context Understand Detail and the Limits of Attention Steven Johnson, author of "Mind Wide Open" writes in his foreword to the book, "These hacks amaze because they reveal the brain's hidden logic; they shed light on the cheats and shortcuts and latent assumptions our brains make about the world." If you want to know more about what's going on in your head, then Mind Hacks is the key--let yourself play with the interface between you and the world.

A new kid-friendly tour of art history from the Newbolds In this sequel to the tour de force children’s art-history picture book If Picasso Painted a Snowman, Amy Newbold conveys nineteen artists’ styles in a few deft words, while Greg Newbold’s chameleon-like artistry shows us Edgar Degas’ dinosaur ballerinas, Cassius Coolidge’s dinosaurs playing Go Fish, Hokusai’s dinosaurs surfing a giant wave, and dinosaurs smelling flowers in Mary Cassatt’s garden; grazing in Grandma Moses’ green valley; peeking around Diego Rivera's orchids in Frida Kahlo’s portrait; tiptoeing through Baishi’s inky bamboo; and cavorting, stampeding, or hiding in canvases by Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Franz Marc, Harrison Begay, Alma Thomas, Aaron Douglas, Mark Rothko, Lois Mailou Jones, Marguerite Zorach, and Edvard Munch. And, of course, striking a Mona Lisa pose for Leonardo da Vinci. As in If Picasso Painted a Snowman, our guide for this tour is an engaging beret-topped hamster who is joined in the final pages by a tiny dino artist. Thumbnail biographies of the artists identify their iconic works, completing this tour of the creative imagination.

DREAM WEAVER The "Next Files" team battles a vengeful Maori spirit released from an ancient grave, risking their lives to protect descendants of the wronged chief while uncovering a haunting mix of history and supernatural terror. FRACTURED FAIRYTALE The Next Files team faces a deadly challenge when an AI stalker named Bill takes control of a humanoid robot. As the team races against time to stop it before it strikes again, they discover that even erasing Bill's code might not be enough to end the threat.