Boost your IQ : your brain's personal trainer

One of the most exciting findings from the past five years is that many scientists now believe that it is possible to sharpen and improve your mind through mental exercise.

Although it was previously thought that an individual's entire intelligence is set genetically, it is now a proven fact that you can increase your performance in the key areas of mental achievement.

Professor Adrian Furnham, of University College, London, a leading academic in the field of intelligence, has stated that the key to success in the vital fields of problem-solving, word power, maths and creativity is simple: targeted practice using the right techniques. "Boost Your IQ" is the complete performance workout in a box, providing a programme of effective challenges, tests, tips and games that targets all the key areas of IQ. "Boost Your IQ" contains a book, two card decks of 50 cards each, a workbook, 'Get the Edge' and an IQ test with five copies.

With a detailed explanation of the relationship between IQ and general intelligence, the colour book deals comprehensively but accessibly with the important issues. The programme of proactive, goal-based exercises is the core of the kit, contained in the card decks and Get The Edge workbook.

The timed, structured programme works on the key areas, Word and Creativity Power and Logic and Maths Power, with a deck of cards for each.

Incorporating the latest findings from new research into IQ, Joel Levy and David Smallbone provide 150 challenges including Sudoku-style puzzles, the IQ-booster that millions of devotees use to improve their maths and logic skills.

Joel Levy is a writer with a special interest in science and psychology.

He has written several books including "Boost Your Memory Power" (Cico, 2005), "Boost Your Brain Power" (Cico, 2004); "Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things", and the "K.I.S.S.

Guide to the Unexplained". He lives in North London. Keen on puzzles from early childhood, David Smallbone has a first-class degree in Mathematics from Oxford University.

He lives in North London. This title is packed with 150 tests, puzzles, brain teasers and exercises.

It contains up-to-the-minute scientific information and fascinating facts. It got extracts and features in "Daily Mail", "Independent", "Healthy Magazine", "Prima", "Woman's Weekly", "Take a Break", TV and radio author interviews.