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Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it...

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape...

Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of...

Pain is a universal human experience, but we understand very little about the mechanics behind it. We hurt ourselves, we feel...

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering...

On a sunlit evening in l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were...

'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age...

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely...

Busting the Diabetes Myth provides an effective and evidence-based approach to guide people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes...

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped...

From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed ‘the most daring and delightful novelist of his...

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an...

Sport psychologist Dr Josephine Perry spends her life working with exceptional performers. She has identified ten psychological...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry...

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan,...

Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods, climbing trees, collecting bugs, picking wildflowers, running through...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has...

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?

Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented...

Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have...

Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – thought their tanks...

The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few...

When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw a butterfly? All these normal...

In 2016, Isabel Hardman's mind, in her own words, 'stopped working' as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Leading transplant...

Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning...

Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David...