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

The puzzles of...

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...

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...

Discover over 500 species of sea shell from around the world with this pocket visual guide!

This comprehensive handbook...

Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Discover the hidden...

See the animal kingdom in all its glory, from jellyfish to polar bears, with up-close details of their unique features from head...

The clearest, most accessible guide to observing the night sky.

Introducing the Handbook of Stars and Planets - the perfect...

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

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...

Inspired by the history of Britain, from the tree under which the first trade union was formed to the branches from which outlaws...

Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...

Hedgerows are one of the richest sources of wildlife in Britain. They have evolved over centuries (18th and 19th centuries...

Lowther... , Crossman...

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