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From icy polar tundra to lush tropical rainforests, readers can explore the wonders of the planet we call home in this...

Explore the mysteries of the cosmos in this highly visual hardback guide, written by leading NASA astronomer and educator Sten...

This deluxe gift edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is presented with gold-embossed cover design with gilded...

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Cosmology provides you with all the concepts you...

Discover the wonders of the natural world and the animals that inhabit it in this stunningly visual hardback guide.

Nature...

In this highly accessible history, Robert Snedden looks at what has been described as the fundamental science - the one that...

Astronomy traces one of humanity's oldest obsessions. This accessible, fascinating account of discoveries from the times of...

Great advances in human history have often rested on and prompted progress in chemistry.The exploitation of fire, the development...

People have always sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that...

What incredible innovations have changed the course of history?

From rudimentary metalwork to 3-D printing, human ingenuity...

In this engaging and accessible account, Anne Rooney explores the formation of Planet Earth and its lifeforms, featuring stunning...

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...

From the birth of stars to the movements of planetary systems and the galaxies themselves, astrophysics provides us with the...

All matter in the universe - including our own bodies - is made of a relatively small number of basic ingredients known as...

From the behaviour of subatomic particles to the effects of observation to the nature of gravity, quantum physics explains the...

Featuring a giant timeline wallchart, this illustrated guide traces humankind's greatest achievements in mathematics, plotting a...

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...

Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling popular science writer Lawrence Krauss explores cosmology's greatest...

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...

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...

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...

What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? Or smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your...

War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and...

For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake....

Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a...

Hare Brian, Woods...

What is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect… or something much nicer?

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