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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

From the bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests – and an inspiring...

This is not a book of facts; it’s a book of ‘facts’. Should you finish it believing we became the planet’s dominant species...

In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is...

The traces of much of human history - and that which preceded it - lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often...

How did a piece of gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms?
What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery...

The Trespasser's Companion is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it:...

The Book of Trespass. Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

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

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

You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to...

At the scale of atoms and molecules, things quite often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don't just matter at...

For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with...

For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or...

Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was first suggested in the 1850s? Climate change books are...

Elegant design combined with beautiful images to explore and explain Earth's natural riches.

This is an informative, visually...

Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe…

The Universe...

In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using...