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‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is...

Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in...

This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician...

A brand-new edition of this bestselling Gem, featuring individual charts for all 88 constellations, a star atlas of the entire...

Richard Fortey is one of Britain's leading popular scientists. Life: An Unauthorised Biography, was short-listed for the Rhone...

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent...

North... , Abel Paul

The Solar System – so what is it?

We've all learned the basics at school but how much can you remember? Expert astronomers and...

A solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time? - with ground-breaking implications for the origin of...

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing.

'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a...

Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, a love letter to the diversity of...

Our relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.

Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English...

There is no place like home.

The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our...

Shine a light into the unknown

There are still dark corners of our planet that are yet to be explored. In this remarkable...

Do you know where you came from?

Who Do You Think You Are? has been a BBC hit since its first series in 2004, which ignited an...

Pippa Mattinson, dog-training specialist, tells you everything you need to know about training and caring for your...

Braungart... , McDonough...

Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.

Under the guiding...

Why are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?

If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a...

'Warmly entertaining... an endearing account of the search for rare bees' Guardian

A hunt for the world's most elusive bees...

Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of...

‘A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny...

We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned,...

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies...

Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the...

A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature writers.

The British love their...

From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and...

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative,...

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the...