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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...

Discover the wonders of the natural world and the animals that inhabit it in this stunningly visual hardback guide.

Nature...

What incredible innovations have changed the course of history?

From rudimentary metalwork to 3-D printing, human ingenuity...

In this engaging and accessible account, Anne Rooney explores the formation of Planet Earth and its lifeforms, featuring stunning...

The universe is everything we know — all time and all space.

At least 93 billion light years across, and possibly much larger,...

From early humans carving notches in bones to the discovery of quantum mechanics, mathematics has certainly come a long...

All matter in the universe - including our own bodies - is made of a relatively small number of basic ingredients known as...

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering provides you...

From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human...

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

Have you ever...

Tree... , Burrell...

The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever make a...

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

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...

Ronald Blythe lived at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border...

In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe...

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

Hare Brian, Вудс...

What is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect… or something much nicer?

From...

A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and back twice over - and then once...

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she...

Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry...

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...

How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature’s...

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

Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.

The puzzles of...

A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.

In public estimation, sloths have...

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