Жанр "Научная литература"

An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.

Old English is the...

A groundbreaking and controversial new theory about how we talk.
Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or...

The science behind James Bond's exploits – armaments, tactics, plots and enemy tech.

The adventures of James Bond have...

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea...

Immerse yourself in this beautiful, absorbing guide to the marine world. Earth owes its identity as the blue planet to the vast...

Delve into the fascinating world of birds through astonishing photography and clear explanations, in this absorbing global...

The ultimate nature book for children, this plant encyclopedia has everything from cacti and carnivorous plants to trees,...

Watch the Greek hero Theseus fight the minotaur, explore the nine worlds in the branches of the Norse tree Yggdrasil, and set...

WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?

And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist...

From ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, this book tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth's...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024

AI is changing what it means to be human. This is the unrivalled...

From shark attack survivor to the shark’s biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need...

Grinin... , Коротаев...

The present Yearbook is subtitled Entropy and Destabilization. It is the tenth in the series. The study of the forms and causes...

From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of...

Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears.

With deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft...

Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in...

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental...

We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the...

Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to...

It was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the...

Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the universe.

Perhaps the biggest...

For those fascinated by neurology and for fans of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a powerful exploration of the mind...

This account of the planets and other mysterious objects in our solar system tells the story of planetary exploration, from...

Why does E=mc2? If Einstein was right, was Newton wrong? Can we really find a theory of everything?

Think Like Einstein will...

From the serious and practical to the quirky and bizarre, Think Like a Scientist answers these questions in an easy-to-understand...

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Cosmology provides you with all the concepts you...

Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or...

For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake....

In the monograph offered to the attention of readers, for the first time in the world literature, both the theoretical...

In Feral, George Monbiot, one of the world's most celebrated radical thinkers offers a riveting tale of possibility and travel in...