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For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way...

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent...

Efetov... , Tarmann...

A revised checklist of the Palaearctic Procridinae is given. The order of tribes, genera and species differs from that published...

What makes a scientist?

Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

A charming, modern miscellany of herbs - for gardeners, cooks and armchair botanists alike

Lovingly cultivated by...

In the 1520s a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus developed a revolutionary theory which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at...

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary...

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

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

Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they...

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing.

'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a...

Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to...

Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears.

With deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft...

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

Lowther... , Crossman...

The CfE Maths series covers all the Experiences and Outcomes within the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence for Maths at Second,...

Efetov... , Tarmann...

In the present work we attempt to provide a complete overview of the contemporary knowledge on Chrysartona Swinhoe, 1892,...

Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into....

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

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

Braungart... , McDonough...

Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological...

Braungart... , McDonough...

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the...

Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.

Creation: The Origin of...

Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

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

Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and...

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...