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There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.
Where bees and...

In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate...

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by...

McBride... , Wilson Bob

Two books in one! Combining a revision guide and a full set of practice test papers, this fantastic resource is all you need to...

Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they...

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical...

Gribbin... , Гриббин...

The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin....

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in...

How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI...

Bees continue to fascinate and charm us all – from novice gardeners and nature-lovers to dedicated environmentalists – and today,...

What makes a scientist?

Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the...

A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.
Trees are immensely valuable. They give shape...

From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes...

Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth.

Carbon. It is the building...

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils—industrial, chemical,...

For fans of Charles Duhig, Malcolm Gladwell and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of...

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday...

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the...

Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of...

Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and...

• Where do our thoughts come from?
• How can we manipulate our dreams?
• What is the role of the unconscious?
• How do we make...

Sale... , Michelsen...

This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations.

Early travellers to the...

The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats,...

‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human...

The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock...

From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of...

Barnosky... , Hadly...

What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or...

The ash tree has long been an integral part of the British landscape, its familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and...