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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and...

Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet

In forty years, the population of the...

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

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

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