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Embrace all things Irish with these 200 interesting, important, and fun Irish words and phrases—as well as what each teaches us...

Welcome to the delightful and fascinating world of Old English animals

'Invaluable - and hugely entertaining ... It is an...

The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.
It's not...

From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.

In this...

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...

Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, this is the perfect introduction to the blueprint of life for those who are...

Understanding AI has never been easier. Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, this new edition of Simply...

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

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

Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Britain, and you are sure to see many wild species...

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...

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...

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...

The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious...

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...

Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.

Have you ever...

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

If we can save the salmon, we can save the world.
Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an...

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as...

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...

The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth...

Humanity’s embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange – whether it’s goods, ideas or...

Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion...