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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...

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...

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....

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...

McKelvey... , Crozier...

Written by an experienced author and teacher team, this print book with Cambridge Elevate edition provides fully-worked solutions...

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...

From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons...

A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of animal communication, where big data and artificial intelligence are...

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...